Do you want someone to tell you it’s alright?
The most reassuring and compelling voice you will ever hear is the one inside your heart. It won’t lie to you – but will give you the full and total truth. It will show you the entire picture.
As we start from the beginning (and there is nothing but the beginning) we must be clear that in Reality, there is no you that needs to or could, break through.
However…
It does appear that within the allness of Infinity, we must use and include the finite, time and space, for the delineation of Reality, In other words, the does-not-really-exist is what serves the purpose of allowing the What-Does-Really-Exist to be clear as ALL that is present.
Awareness is God’s Self-perception going on.
Awareness and experience are one activity, inseparable… directed, Self-directed, maintained, and sustained by the Love that moves, primordially, all of its expression.
Your breakthrough, is first in ceasing the belief that you have awareness, that you own awareness, that there is a “me” sense, a personal sense that can possess awareness. And then, when you start knowing that the awareness you are, looks out from… not just kindness, or compassion, but looks out at the world through the eyes of purity, neutrality… and Singularity. “God’s eyes are too pure to behold iniquity” is what that means.
The moment you do this, that is the moment of your breakthrough. You have broken through.
The inevitability of the already-ness of your perfection, is not in some fictitious future, it is literally here now. it is in every here now, that ever is.
It is in every here now that dares to present its fullness, its totality, its harmony, its light, its eternal life… its unlimitedness, its uninhibitedness, its infinity.
Our breakthrough comes when we TAKE IT…when we are willing to let go, the sticky flypaper of illusion that we have stuck to us, pretending to ourselves that we needed it, that it was necessary, that all of our cherished beliefs of not being good enough were serving some… vaunted purpose, some exalted stature that allowed us to live with some semblance of dignity in this world (we thought).
But we don’t live in this world, do we? No. The world lives in us, as a reflection, as a teacher, as a spiritual barometer, just simply letting us know how we are doing… that’s all.
Happiness, peace, tranquility, comes with the surrender of the words, not the piling on of the tomes of truth that we stuff into our Consciousness, year after year.
Presence is simple.
Look at it… not the word, but how it makes you feel, what it makes you see, what it allows you to know.
Presence… Awareness (absolute synonyms) is Light and Light is completion and perfection… and so available, that even when we are not consciously taking it, it is ours.
But make no mistake, Light is an eternal mystery to the one who is seeking to know it, to the one who believes he is separate from it.
The I must be Single. The I that you are right here and now, wants no instruction on how to be what it is and is certainly not waiting to become itself. Like a child, it is running freely from one new joy to the next.
Childlikeness discovers the beginning and stays there, in eagerness and innocence, in the wonder of playfulness, and the trust of an eternal Sustainer.
You are never meant to grow up. you are meant to live in the newness of the land that time forgot.
The Child talks to Infinity through the flower on the mountainside… not the visible image, but the invisible, intangible Light behind… that present silent force that shows forth as the visible flower, the crashing wave, the song of a nightbird or the roar of a dragon.
And lest we think we can or indeed are supposed to, stay on top of that mountain forever, the landslide does bring us down…
Anguish only happens in the midst of the storm if you think you are back where you started from.
Your glimmers of Light are permanent, your baptism of invisible water, comes with the surrender of the thought that thinks it is responsible for another life.
You fall into the stream, and the stream carries you…
Awareness has infinite ways of showing us the Truth we are looking for… not just within our own body and affairs, but within any person, place or thing that appears within that Awareness.
You may ask in earnest, where is my perpetual peace? Why don’t I experience it all the time? Who says you don’t? Who are you identifying as, my dear?
If Infinite Awareness is Infinite Awareness, isn’t it everywhere? If you accept this as true, isn’t “another’s” joy, peace and success, yours?
When you leave alone, the suggestive thoughts of a personal sense of self, very often you’re shown deep abiding peace in “someone else’s” body or affairs: the illness that changed to wholeness for a stranger you saw online, the abundance that came to a friend who was going to have to move away, or the hidden talent that was discovered by one who was called into action during a crisis.
What determines your capacity to Know your Self as the Pure Awareness of God that you are?
Can you sit alone in the dark and be comfortable, expectant, at peace… with the unknown, the unformed? Can you see that everything you are aware of, is included as an aspect of what you are aware as? Can you be a child again, but this time, a Child, innocent, not immature… guided by that present silent force that is free to roam Infinity without the straightjacket of fear?
The Absolute Truth cannot be explained to something that wants to innerstand it.
The breakthrough does not belong to a me, it belongs to Awareness only, in the silence of recognition.
Recognition of what? Your capacity to LIVE your faith and trust in a divine, unutterable Isness, by allowing it to flow into Action.
The experiences of joy, of light, of love, large or small, taken as evidence that God is Here, establishes Self-perpetuation. It is Known, not as your experience, but as the fact of the allness of Being, being itself. And as you do this with the little things, more and greater things are given unto you.
The hue-man body is where the two become One – making the inside as the outside and the outside as the inside. What is above reflects what is below and what is below reflects what is above… one perfect synergy.
What an astounding, magnificent privilege this Identity is!
Will you take it? Will you consciously know, and let the words take you beyond their limits and rest in the Kingdom of Now?
Nothing is ever as it seems. Trust that infinite force of Singleness that carries on no matter what you think, say or do, for it is the only power that releases you to be the recipient and the giver of unconditional Love.
(Now read this piece again, in the stillness and tender openness of a willing heart, without the reasoning, critical cry that wants it all to make sense, and hear your own Voice echoing back to you what you already know, what you already are.)