I am willing to see the truth

All of the grief you think you see in the world is actually a reflection of all the pain you’ve been holding onto. It seems very real, but the pain and the grief can never be more real than love. They are that which covers up ever-present love, and it is good to feel them because that means you have noticed your attachment to them. When you have noticed your attachment to pain and grief, you can take responsibility for this attachment.

Never do you have to perceive yourself as the victim of time and space circumstances. Never do you need to see yourself as a separate self at the mercy of any other self you call separate. There is an alternative you can reach toward whenever you feel pain and grief. Celebrate how fortunate you are that you are able to feel, to detect your attachment to what is not and can never be real, and reach beyond for what is here and real at all times.

You hold onto pain because you think it’s protective. Pain preserves the perception of separate identities that you can judge. Pain preserves an idea of a separate you walking through the world, making your own decisions on your own behalf, protecting separate interests called yours, and in charge of a separate experience. Because you call this autonomy positive, you continue to rely upon the memory of past pain, intentionally reproducing this tension in what you call the present, focusing on the unreal instead of what is Real and Here now.

Once you can see that whenever you experience emotional or physical pain, it’s an indicator that you find reproduction of past pain useful, you can respond to the experience of pain in a helpful way. If you believe that the pain has come to you from something real outside of what you are, you remain playing the role of victim to pain. This role is always optional. You can always take 100% responsibility for what you feel without blaming a separate entity you call you. After all, you cannot be separate, so there is no one to blame.

You believe pain is protective because you seek to preserve the separate identities ego has made for you and all you call other. These identities are constructed out of pain. Because you find these identities real and useful, you continue to preserve the perception of past pain. All pain is in the past. You cannot experience pain without intentionally reproducing it through fearful thinking. You only reproduce pain intentionally when you believe it’s essential to sustain your identity. As you begin to see that your identity is with all, joined with all forever, there is no need to reproduce the perception of pain.

Take a moment to notice all the ways in which you believe that pain comes to you because of real and separate things outside of you. And then remember that nothing is outside of what you Are. Remember that you make experience with the thoughts you believe. These thoughts reinforce the belief in separate entities in conflict, and then that is what you experience. Thought is the foundation, not circumstance. Thought makes circumstance.

You seek to preserve pain because you think it’s safe. Because you believe that the separate entity is your identity, you seek to find a special safety for it, a special love for it, a special security for it. The problem with this is that all true safety is shared. All true love is shared eternally. All true security is simply here now and is not procured. Because you know this deep in your heart, you cannot shake the uneasy feeling that comes with the effort to chase instabilities made out of illusion. Rest in your awareness of what is truly here, and the uneasiness fades. Life automatically takes a form that carries you through helpful lessons, and you are relieved of the burden of deciding what lessons are most helpful for you now.

When you feel emotional or physical tension, this is your attachment to pain–the belief that it is practical and helpful–coming into the light. Allow this belief to rest in the light, and it dissolves. You can say this to yourself: I believed that pain was practical, but I am willing to see the truth. The truth is that love is always here, ever-present and ever-helpful to all, and you can allow it to take charge of your experience.

We rejoice to see you becoming aware of the option to flow in love and to allow all decisions to be made for you. We always support you in letting go of the idea that pain keeps you safe, and we see clearly the rest and ease that are available for you now.