When you experience physical or emotional discomfort, think of it as moving away from your center, where you are connected to and with everything. There is a place to return your focus, and in this place nothing has gone wrong. In the place where nothing has gone wrong, what is real steps forward for you to see and experience, and the memory of what could never be fades away.
Think of actual friendliness being something you feel because you recognize the harmlessness in someone’s being. Ego’s friendliness is based on trying to get, joining in suffering, and on magnifying a separate identity. Back to actual friendliness, it is rooted in something real, in recognition of the love that can extend to and from everyone and everything. This is why there is nothing to fear. And now looking upon ego’s friendliness, it is based in the notion that there is someone separate from you who is a body. Ego says your separate identity can benefit from association with this one you are seeing as other. Perhaps association with this body will enlarge or enhance your separate identity. Perhaps association with this personality will bring worldly gifts to you–money, time, attention. Actual friendship is completely absent of any getting mechanism because there is a recognition that all beings already have what they need.
Ego sprays a fear facade upon those you call other. You can find this fear facade attractive or repulsive, as long as you remain caught in analysis of opposites. If you treat this fear facade as real, you will invest it with value and fail to look beyond it for what is really here. This is why feeling is a good guide. Whenever you feel a lack of peace, this is your indicator that you can always see past a facade you think is real. Remind yourself of this often, and you will begin to see and experience in accordance with what is real.
God never punishes and always brings rewards. Ego has you look into a world and find ones and things from which punishing circumstances and results will issue. The reward of what shines behind all surfaces stays hidden as long as ego can convince you that there are particular things to worry about, to try to control or manage. You do not have to struggle against fear. It is enough to acknowledge its seeming presence and to remember that what lies beyond it can shine forth to you. When you can go ahead without fear, that is the time to go ahead. Otherwise, it is time to question and look at the fear.
You can live in such a way that you demonstrate and share the rewards of God. Why can you live in this way? Because all can. You do not experience the rewards of God because you are a better separate entity. You experience and therefore share the rewards of God because you are willing to see and experience them. It is that simple. You hold no guilt and fear in the way, at least for a moment.
We celebrate your willingness to allow what is here for all of you to be made clear.
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