If you perceive pushiness coming from what seems to be outside of you, remember that what you are is never pushy. Pushiness is an illusion. The state of mind that seems reactive to the illusion of pushiness is also an illusion. When you learn to step back and look, you will see why there is no reason to react. When you can stay out of reaction, you are open to guidance. Ego cannot understand the world and provide loving guidance, but loving guidance is always available to you when you are able to look away from ego and all its ways of seeing and interpreting.
Think of sleep as a time when rigidities can wash out of your mind, leaving you free and open. Everything you made for the purpose of proving that you are what you aren’t–all of this can be used on your behalf and on the behalf of all you call other. The ego is not able to understand or manage any of this. Your job is to remain in presence and to follow as you are led. To think that you, as a separate self, can understand anything or can manage or control anything–this is always a mistake. Take the burden off of the idea of your separate self, and see and experience what is here for you and all.
Think of floating, relaxing. This is the state you can stay in as you follow guidance. You remain receptive, open, confident that help comes to you as it is needed. You are equally confident that help comes to all as it is needed. Your confidence does far more “work” than you think. Your confidence in how all you call other are supported allows a reflection of their true Self to beam back at you. You see things working out for everyone because you allowed it, because you believed in your fellow beings and their goodness and worthiness.
Think of the experience of feeling agitation as a mistaken attempt to try to claw your way out of where you actually are. When you feel agitation, it’s because ego has delivered an illusion of a separate you getting stirred up because of something that isn’t even really there. You have every reason for calm and rest, if only for a moment. All that is necessary is for you to realize where you actually are, and allow reflections of that to be delivered to you and all. You never have to worry about the details, but very specific thoughts will enter your mind that guide you right out of the experience of agitation that you made for yourself.
The more you allow the peace shining behind everything to step forward, the more you remember what peace is. Peace is always here. When this seems to be the furthest thing from the truth, it is because you have invited illusion to block the sight of truth. Remember that truth is here, feel your willingness to allow truth to beam forth, and that is what you will experience.
We rest here in the powerful stillness that is prior to and beyond all illusion. You rest here with us.
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