Think of liquid flowing one way or the other–toward healing or toward chaos. That liquid seems to solidify into form. You are in charge of the direction in which the liquid (entirely metaphorical, only to help you see something) flows. In fact, this is the only thing you do control. Once you have decided on the liquid’s direction, the rest of the process is given up to either chaos or healing. The value in seeing that you are in the habit of deciding to allow the liquid to flow toward chaos is in seeing that you can just as easily choose to allow it to flow the other way. Either way, once you have made your decision, you have given up control to what you have chosen.
Think of ego thoughts as thoughts of abuse. Now think of yourself, in your confusion, wanting to see abuse out there in the world. There’s no one to abuse, yet the ego demands a framework in which abuse and ultimately death can be seen. See how unnecessary this is, how it completely contradicts everything real. And now see the need for everything to be made clear and obvious again. The framework originally intended for something totally unreal can now be handed over to the real to remind you and all of what you are together.
If you’re busy figuring someone else out, your attention has strayed away from the thought you believed, from you as the believer and seer of that thought, and from ego as the provider of that thought. There is no one separate to figure out. What is that one prior to and beyond any thought the ego ever sent you about them? That is what they are now. Form can be used harmoniously to reflect this back to you in symbols. Who are you really all together? Form can tell you and restore your memory to you through experience.
Ego insists that a form will make you happy, while Spirit shows you form that doesn’t contradict the loveliness of what you are with all. No matter what form seems to appear, you are always the same one innocent, holy thing with all, and nothing can ever change that. If nothing can ever change what all of you are together, there is no need for form to do gymnastics in order to convince you all that you are what you are not and can never be. Just as easily, form can be used to restore memory of your actual identity. You can see it swinging in the direction of contradicting the truth of you, or you can see it swinging in the direction of reaffirming and reinforcing the memory that is returning to you. What form does is up to you.
You can see through any form. The form doesn’t hold any meaning. The only way form has meaning is if the meaningful is being allowed to use it to communicate. Ego, dedicated to dominance, to separate achievement, to judgment, to competition, chaos, and death, is the meaningless. Spirit, what you all are together, is where all meaning rests. Allow the meaningful to use form, and you have no reason for fear.
We rest here with you in formlessness, watching as you understand how gentle and helpful form can be when placed in the right hands.
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