Love's Beginning

You can come to a place where you’re happy to recognize that you feel irritated. When you make the purpose of each day, of each hour, of each moment the same purpose, then it is no problem to feel something that you call negative. You are simply bumping up against the problem, and when you have made the purpose of every day accepting the help that is always here for all, you know that it is only because you focused away from this help that you feel anything amiss. With practice, you will learn to value what is Real, and your focus will not stray.

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There is always a piano tuner standing by, waiting to assist you. Whenever you feel out of tune in any way, whenever you sense any discord, whether it seems to be within or without, remember the presence of this holy tuner, standing by, delighted to serve you completely and fully. This holy tuner cannot ever leave you, so you can never be alone. This holy tuner awaits your permission to begin work.

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Whenever you feel disquiet in any situation, feel into that hard nugget, that mind tangle, that blockage to the awareness of Love’s presence. We do not ask you to get stuck here or to look for reasons in the world for this disturbance. We only ask you to acknowledge the feeling and to look at it without distracting away from it. Pause and look. This is an opportunity to accept your freedom. Give thanks for the opportunity. That which has been hidden or underground is exposed in the sunlight now. Allow it to be exposed.

Ego can, for a limited time, blot out your sense that you feel lost. Ego can give you a temporary sense of satisfaction from identifying as something specific, but that’s going to necessarily mean that you are going to identify perceived others as the opposite. After the temporary satisfaction from a particular identification has worn off, you’re also going to identify as an opposite to a desired identification. In other words, you can’t push all of the water to only one side of a container, the side you label as desirable. After you see the opposite of your desired identification in others, you’re eventually going to experience it in yourself.

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Everyone is the formless. Think about this whenever you are looking at a form and believing that it is something. It is a representation. It has something to teach you. But you are not form, and neither is anyone else. Allow, then, all of the forms you seem to see and experience to teach you. This is how you accept your own teaching function.

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Look at the constellation of characters all around you in the drama you are experiencing. This drama is a means to return you Home, so consider it a journey. On this journey, you will recognize that you value separate aspects of each character. You will learn to stop requesting or relying upon what you think of as the “good points” of each character, thereby freeing them up to show up for you in any way at all. When you free them, you free yourself. When you don’t rely upon specific gifts coming from specific characters, you open up the conduits for all gifts to flow to all. That includes you.

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Imagine you are in an elevator, descending through layers of tension in the egoic identity structure. On each floor, ease and pause and allow the tension to be undone. After you have allowed the false thought of this layer to drain away, you descend to the next floor. It seems that the undoing that happens on each successive floor is thicker, more viscous, more challenging, but the undoing completed on each floor of your descent into the foundation of your Being–the Being of all–is inevitable.

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Hey, everyone. Nice to be back here! Today I have a guided meditation for easing into sleep that assists in spiritual awakening 💚

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While you did make the ego, the ego is not real, and its thoughts are not yours. Whenever you become aware of fear, remember that what the ego made is not real. There is no need to fear anything unreal, no matter how real it seems. Find your willingness to be shown how to distinguish the unreal from the Real. If it can change or end, it is not Real.

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Ego sends thoughts to give you a consistent self-concept to carry with you from experience to experience. This is a self-concept you do not need. You do not need to be particularly this or particularly that when the One Self has all of the qualities that the One Self has always had. This fantasy about different beings with different qualities can be seen through, and when it is seen through, you grant the same gifts to all without exception.

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