Love's Beginning

Allowing the senses to be used by the inner light 💚

You are an instrument in an orchestra. Your joy is in allowing yourself to be played. When you feel any disquiet, the cause is trying to act out of accord, trying to act as a separate one. A separate one you are not. When you are trying to act out of accord, you are attempting what cannot be done--what has never actually been done. In an illusion, yes, you believe that there are separate ones who have actually acted in discord, but this is not possible. That is why we call this experience an illusion. You witness to that which is not possible, and you feel discord because it is not possible.

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What you want is the purity of the message. There is always a message available for you, whenever you need it. Ego makes the same offer, along with the drug of a bewildering constellation of emotions that make separate-you and separate-other feel very real. If you try to run away and hide from ego’s offer without reaching through to the real message available to you at all times, you remain bewildered.

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You don’t need any evaluation from the world. All have already been evaluated, and they have been found equal. Nothing can change this evaluation. You can, by choice, obscure it. Whenever you have a feeling of disquiet, this is what it tells you: You have chosen to cover up the reassurance of our shining equality with an illusion. You can choose again. Our shining equality is also your safety. That feeling of disquiet means that you have chosen to cover up the truth of your safety with an illusion. Just ask to see it differently, and you will be shown.  

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It looks as if those others out there elicit different responses from you. You can get distracted by how this one seems to need you, how this one seems to have something you can get, how the other one is capable of hurting you in some way, how this one seems to have more of something, how that one seems to have less. Each one seems to have a certain kind of behavior, always remembered from the past, and you expect that behavior to repeat. You believe you can judge and analyze each character in a way that is self-protective. You believe that you can decide which characters offer a safe invitation to draw near, which characters send you the signal to move far, far away.

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As you go further into allowing Spirit to control everything you perceive, you can hit what seems like an immense wall of terror. This is a trick. It is not an immense wall at all. Think of a projector shooting out a huge and real-seeming terrifying image. Looking at the image and believing it has meaning, you may react. You may recoil. Turning around to look at the projector, there is nothing threatening there. You know it is just a machine projecting an image. There is no threat here.

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Manipulation is a cloud covering inspiration. More accurately, the perception of manipulation is a cloud covering up inspiration. The idea that you are a separate self manipulating separate components goes along with the idea that there are other separate selves that manipulate separate components. When you believe this to be true, you believe your world is real, has weight and value, and is a place where harm is likely. The perception of separate selves means the perception of separate autonomies.

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When you are judging something you are judging a thing, separated and cut off from the whole. When you place a high priority on how you feel, you can feel judgment. That feeling simply says, “Stop. Go within.” Whatever answer or resolution you were seeking from the activity of judgment, it is available from within. It flows from within.

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Not knowing is a divine opening. Think of the open-heartedness of not knowing. See how you have flung wide the doors. When you don’t know, you are not putting any substitute in front of what Spirit knows. You are completely dependent upon Spirit, and this is a safe place to be.

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