Q: How can I tell the difference from old ego habits of feeling and feelings which need to be felt to completion?

A: First, beloved friend, is there a difference? Your experience is always of and in the present, for what arises is not past, it is now. Is it an old ego pattern? Perhaps. If there is a sense of constriction, a sense of resistance, a sense of judgment of self or another, rest assured that what has arisen to temporarily dominate your attention is an egoic pattern, since the ego is, by definition, the constriction away from Love. And therefore, the loss of peace is its result.

Look well, then, and simply recognize, What is arising in this moment? Am I willing to look upon it, to feel it, to embrace it? And as we would perceive and observe, you are beginning to recognize, Am I willing, yet, to breathe? For to breathe is Life!

Feel, then, what you are truly feeling. Observe what is truly present within the mind. In this way, you take your hands and cup them around whatever that is. And when you have done that, then recognize this great Truth: I can choose again and I can choose peace instead of this. Now, the "this" is not so much the picture or what you might call a memory, or a feeling, or something that's coming up. The "this" speaks to your judgment, your perception of what is arising. You can choose peace instead of the perception that steals your peace. And that is the place of infinite and perfect power to literally transform your Life!

Beloved friend, the past does not exist at any moment. If the mind is causing, bringing forth, a picture or a thought that seems to be reminiscent of the past by your own decree, rest assured that it is arising in this present moment which is the only place creation and experience occur. The past, then, can exist for you only if you recreate it. Now, this recreation does not mean that an image or a picture cannot arise in the mind, what you call memory, although it is a very present experience. We are speaking here of the experience you created when that same picture appeared in your experience in a different time frame. Your experience is never caused by what arises in the field of your awareness. Your experience - listen well - your experience is how you have chosen to react in the emotional and mental field to a neutral event that has arisen. All events are neutral. The reaction to them is what generates experience.

When nails were driven through my hands, that was an entirely neutral event Although, by the way, many friends scurried about. It didn't appear to be so neutral, but it was neutral for me. Therefore, understand beloved friend, that whatever events have ever unfolded in the realm of your experience, each and every one of them was perfectly neutral, until you responded with the reaction that you were choosing in order to create an experience in the emotional body, in order to create a learning experience about the potentials of your own consciousness. Forgiveness, healing, peace, and awakening are equally potentials within your own mind. Equal to and, indeed, even greater than anything that you have experienced heretofore.

Therefore, understand, beloved friend: Nothing has been caused by anything or anyone outside yourself, What arises is always present experience. Embrace it, look upon it, claim it, own it, feel it, breathe through it, and then recognize that you are free to choose again.

Herein lies the straight and narrow path that leads to Life! And you have a friend, currently without a body, who wants nothing more than to witness your true Living. And you have countless friends, with bodies, that share the same desire.

Be you, therefore, that which you are! And live from the power given unto you, from the freedom in which you abide always as the Love that you are!

Q: What is the difference between that which needs to be healed and just being the perfect being we are?

A: There is no difference. When you are, in Truth, being the perfect being that you are, you will find that there is an absence of resistance. The mind that seeks to try to understand what must be healed, or the mind that says, Well, this is coming up and I really don't think that's who and what I am anyway, so why don't I just abide in some spiritual realm? That mind is in resistance. It has lost its humility. It has lost its perfect trust that the Father of all things knows how to guide you home. And home is merely back to a place where you become willing to allow something to be extended through you.

Let me share with all of you something that's rather important that has not truly been brought out as clearly as it needs to be. Often, when something comes up for healing, it is an energy - listen well, especially my dear friend from Washington who asked a question earlier - although you seem to associate it with some memory or experience that you think is within your very private realm of experience, what is actually coming up to be healed is an energy that is involved and is controlling the life of another soul. It's being presented to your consciousness because you are at a place where you have the power and the clarity to understand that it can be healed.

And that is why when you choose healing, when you don't resist what comes up, when you realize that Love trusts all things, embraces all things, allows all things and transcends all things, when you realize that you are merely the bringer of Love, then it doesn't matter what comes up! Oh! This needs healing.

And you heal it from an impersonal level. You don't identify with it, even if you think it's linked somehow to something you are quite certain has been part of your past experience.

Sometimes you can't even remember where you put your car keys. How do you know for sure it's from your past? Just heal it. Because when you do that, you are being the perfection of the beingness you are. You are being Christ that is saying, "Come and lay your sins upon the altar of my Heart, and I will heal it for you."

It doesn't matter where it came from. It doesn't matter who caused it. All that matters is the healing. If it comes up and you recognize there's an obstacle, something that requires healing from the perfection of your being, wrap the Love of Christ around it and heal it. And when you do that, you uplift a brother or sister who you may never physically meet.

If your commitment is to Christ, your commitment is to the healing of anything that is unlike Love. It's mere entertainment to try to figure out whether its your stuff or somebody else's. Does it matter? And is there a separation between you and all of your brothers and sisters? To assist another to heal is to heal yourself. To heal yourself is to uplift another. There is only Love and fear. Ultimately, you are really just healing fear by bringing Love to it.

There seem to be many minds and individuals through which Love and fear seem to battle for ascendancy. That is like the waves on top of the ocean. In this realm of experience, you believe that there are many separate minds. Ultimately you are all but an aspect of one another. And there is only one Child of God that exists. Heal what is presented to your consciousness, and stop identifying it as yours. There is Love. There is fear. There is the need to heal, which is the bridge between the two. Will you choose to identify as fear and, therefore, deny Love? Or will you identify yourself as Love and get on with it? If you are abiding in the perfection of your being, I believe the answer becomes self evident.

So! There are so many that come and ask me questions, but I never get to ask one. So I'm going to ask a question. Will you, you who hear these words, will you be willing to be the Light that lights this world, by fully becoming committed, in each moment and with each breath, to the choice for healing through Love and forgiveness? Just something to think about from time to time. Peace be with you, then.

And those of you that are listening to this tape, or hearing these words and are near the time when you are to lay the body down and get the precious “beauty sleep” you need, will you rest your head upon the pillow this evening and give me just a moment of your time by acknowledging that you know that there is no distance between us at all, save the width of a thought you would choose to think? Think, therefore, and know that I am with you. And we will, indeed, journey together while the body slumbers.

Peace be with you always. Amen.


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