February 7, 2017
Real Love is not an illusion. It is eternal. It is unconditional. It has no opposites. It is all encompassing. Nothing can destroy this love. It is always with us, even when we think we can’t see or feel it. The worst we can do is block it from our awareness. But, it will always be within us waiting below the surface for us to release the blocks we have made that hide it from our awareness. Are we willing to look within and see the barriers we have made in our minds that block our awareness of the incredible love within is? This love within us is limitless, complete and peaceful. It is a love we can rest in, knowing it will never let us down and that it will heal our minds as we let go of all the illusions of special love and hate relationships we thought would protect and save us. Real love need never triumph, for there is nothing real to triumph over. We may believe that “special love” will triumph over “special hate”, but both are illusions and therefore not real. Love just is, and what an is love is.
As long as the illusion of hatred lasts in our minds, love will be an illusion to us. The only choice remaining possible is which illusion we prefer. However, there is no conflict in the choice between truth and illusion. Seen in these terms, we would hesitate. But conflict enters our minds the instant the choice seems to be one between illusions. But this choice does not matter. Where one choice is as dangerous as the other, the decision must be one of despair. We have another choice. We can choose to release our belief in these contrasting illusions. We can choose to see our choice differently. The Course tells us what our task is.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false. Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion into another must fail. If you seek love outside yourself you can be certain that you perceive hatred within, and are afraid of it. Yet peace will never come from the illusion of love, but only from its reality. T-16.IV.6:1-6
We must recognize the following, for it is true, and truth must be recognized if it is to be distinguished from illusion: The special love relationship is an attempt to bring love into separation. And, as such, it is nothing more than an attempt to bring love into fear, and make it real in fear. The belief in fear – the idea that we have anything real to fear – is a sure way to block our awareness of the truth of real love within us.
Heaven waits silently, and your creations are holding out their hands to help you cross and welcome them. For it is they you seek. You seek but for your own completion, and it is they who render you complete. The special love relationship is but a shabby substitute for what makes you whole in truth, not in illusion. Your relationship with them is without guilt, and this enables you to look on all your sisters and brothers with gratitude, because your creations were created in union with them. Acceptance of your creations is the acceptance of the Oneness of creation, without which you could never be complete. No specialness can offer you what the One has given, and what you are joined with the One in giving. T-16.IV.8:1-6
Be willing to look within and release your attachment to the barriers you have placed in your mind to your awareness of the eternal love within you. Allow yourself to approach the bridge in your mind to the union of Oneness. Reach for the hands reaching out to you to help you cross. It is the bridge to the awareness of your completeness, your wholeness and the awareness of love and peace. It is the bridge to the awareness of who you really are in Oneness. This is our holy Will, to join with all Creation in the awareness of our Oneness. Wait no longer and step up to that bridge. This is what you have always been seeking. Choose it now.
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