August 18, 2015
All that is real is Love. No exceptions. Anything that is not Love is not real. Love is our essence. Love is our desire. So why do we seek Love when we are Love. We decided to split from Love and try to make our own love apart from Love. Does that sound insane? The Course would say yes, but we tried anyway. The Course tells us:
Do you really believe that you can kill your real Self? The One has hidden us safely within Oneness, and kept us far away from our destructive thoughts, but we know neither the One nor our real Self because of our destructive thoughts. We attack the real world every day and every hour and every minute, and yet we are surprised that we cannot see the real world. If we seek love in order to attack it, you will never find it. 5 For if love is sharing, how can we find it except through itself? Offer love and love will come to you, because it is drawn to itself – love. But offer attack and love will remain hidden, for love can live only in peace. T-12.VIII.1.1-7
What do we want? Love! When do we want it? Uh…there’s a cheer in there somewhere. It’s our choice when we decide we want love enough to let go of our attempt to find it outside ourselves and instead look within to the guidance of Spirit. When we chose to align with the egoic thought system – the split mind – we separated ourselves from the awareness of Love within us. We separated ourselves from the awareness of who we really are. We could not possibly be aware of who we really are and align with our egoic thought system at the same time for that would be so conflicting we could not bear the conflict. The two are irreconcilable. The One holds our real Self-awareness protected in Oneness in readiness for our willingness to remember who we really are.
How beautiful is that Love? We are given free will to create, even in error, but our real Self is held for us unchanged and undamaged by whatever crazy mixed up “reality” we try to create for ourselves. One world is visible to us at any given time. The world we chose to see is the one visible to us. The other world becomes invisible. Even though the real world becomes invisible to us when we choose to align with our split mind – outside ourselves, it never leaves us. It is always held within us in Oneness for our return. Yet, when we choose to align with the real world within us, the temporal world we made up fades away into nothingness. This is the promise of salvation we have misunderstood. When we realize that we are not finding the Love we are seeking, we can turn from looking without to looking within and there see clearly with the Vision of Spirit held so close for us. Be just a little willing to let go of what we have made outside of us and look within to the Love that is already there. Love will come rushing to you for you are Love and you attract Love. There is no mistake about it.
I am reminded of a metaphor rom the theatre. The Course talks of a veil we have pulled over our sight blocking our awareness of the real world. In the theatre world there is a device called a scrim used to hide the part of the stage behind it. As long as there is no light behind the scrim, the audience cannot see what is behind it. They see only what is in front of it. But the instant light shines behind the scrim, the scrim seems to disappear and what has always been behind the scrim is fully visible. Our true Self is behind that veil, that scrim. It has always been and always will be there. We control the turning on of the lights. When we choose to let light shine on what is behind the veil, the scrim, we will see the Love that is within us, and all the Love there is will come to us and join us in the abundance of Love. What are we waiting for? Look within and let your light shine on the real world within you. There you will find all you have been seeking and more in its abundance.
The At-One-ment is but the way back to what was never lost. The One could not cease to love Us. T-12.VIII.1.8-9
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