Love's Beginning

"Mother and Child Reunion," Paul Simon

Allow all of your thoughts to go into the sorting basket 💚

You’re going to be given opportunities today to lay down your defenses. Remember that every situation in which you find yourself is an opportunity to move forward without defense. Every situation in which you find yourself is an opportunity to see all you call other as needing no defense. Everyone has and is Truth, and Truth is enough. Truth unites all. In the face of this, what defense do you need?

If you see another through a negative screen (more accurately, a screen of fear), you see yourself through a negative screen. If you see another through a negative screen, you see yourself (and all things, and all events, and all ideas) through a negative screen. We use the word negative because you associate it with density and that which is pain-inducing. We actually mean the fearful, although it is more effective to use the word negative right now. By the fearful we mean the relative positive and negative–that which seems to need the other to have existence.

When you ask Spirit to show you one you see as other as they truly Are, you will always be shown the same thing. You will be shown a beautiful being, healed and whole and shining, joyful and at peace. Is there any reason not to see this one now? Are you willing to be guided in such a way that brings the sight of this whole and perfect one into being?

Every situation you experience is for healing. You are accustomed to putting other goals first. You are accustomed to believing that it is you, separately, who achieves or doesn’t achieve these goals. You are accustomed to believing that it is you, separately, who controls the steps on the way to the goal perceived. Whether the goal seems to be cleaning a bathtub or making someone feel loved, you believe you are in charge. This separate sense of you-ness is pain (and also pleasure), but there is a belief in place that it is necessary to cling to it and to control it in order to bring rewards that will make life tolerable.

Look to the avenue Home present and alive in everyone and everything.

Make this most important.

When you feel disquiet, you have made something not-real more important than the avenue Home.

Remember the avenue Home. It is present and still and alive in everyone and everything. Focus. Be still. Find your willingness.

All is Here for you.

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If somebody or something comes in to disturb the peace, it only disturbs the fake surface of peace to which you cling. This fake surface is tension and fear. Real peace has never been disturbed, and real peace is always accessible to all.

You have to walk with Spirit through the really sludgy and resistant parts of your mind to set the concepts free. You know you have entered the sludge when you feel a strong reactivity. You can get lost in the story of it, the seeming reason why you react, but that is just a distraction. The celebration here is that you are looking upon a sludgy part of mind, and this is your opportunity to ask for help and to allow light to shine upon, dissolve, and shine through the sludge.

Rejoice in the effortless motivation from Spirit 💚