October 31, 2017
We began this journey by believing we are limited. Our belief in limited love was the idea of separation’s origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. Think not that this is merely allegorical, for it was made by us to limit us. The manifestation of this belief in limitation is the body – the symbol of separation. The identification as our body is a constant reinforcement of our belief in separation. We also constantly reinforce the idea of separation by believing that anything worthwhile is outside of us. We have even given the idea of God a body similar to ours and placed it outside ourselves. Every thought and lesson we have learned during our lives has been perceived to support the idea that we are limited and separate. Is it possible to find something better?
While we limit our awareness to the limited senses of the body, we cannot be aware of the grandeur that surrounds us. The idea of limitless love cannot enter the body, nor can anything so grand enter the idea of a body which sees itself so small. We resist even seeing ourselves joined with our brothers and sisters, let alone being One in Oneness with all Creation. We often find ourselves lost in this grand and beautiful universe rather than sensing our own limitless connection with all of it.
The body is a tiny fence around a little part of a glorious and complete idea. It draws a circle, infinitely small, around a very little segment of Heaven, splintered from the whole, proclaiming that within it is your realm, where the One can enter not. T-18. VIII.2:5-6
We have become so focused on our “domain,” wanting to protect it from any outside influence. As a result, we have denied ourselves the unlimited love and peace that are ours. Our true nature is within us, recognizable only when we look within and release our attachment to the world we have made – our past. In the awareness of our Oneness will we discover that we are really whole, that we are really complete, that we are love and peace in an unlimited world. In our little fenced garden we forget that the sun’s rays that shine on our little garden shine from the same sun that shines on all. We also forget that the rain that falls on our little plot falls from a greater source that falls on all. No matter how hard we try, we cannot limit our little world to any physical boundaries. Like the sunbeam and the rain, we cannot be separate from the whole. We are One with all of Creation. Even if we don’t believe or recognize our connection – our Oneness – we remain One, waiting to rise in our consciousness to the awareness of our limitless love and wholeness.
Such is the strange position in which those in a world inhabited by bodies seem to be. Each body seems to house a separate mind, a disconnected thought, living alone and in no way joined to the Thought by which it was created. Each tiny fragment seems to be self-contained, needing another for some things, but by no means totally dependent on its one Creator for everything; needing the whole to give it any meaning, for by itself it does mean nothing. Nor has it any life apart and by itself. T-18. VIII.5:1-4
Today we can begin to allow ourselves to see ourselves differently, to allow ourselves to connect with the Oneness we are. Love, joy and peace will well up within us and we will begin to see our world in a different light. Isn’t this what we really want?
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