Illumination 13
Conflict has existed among beings since the onset of individuated life. Yet in reality, there cannot be conflict. Because of this, there cannot be solutions either. What there can be is creative flow.
If the wild river, flowing freely and spontaneously, did not have its ever-altering obstacle course, its very nature would be compromised. It would no longer be a river, but a predictable canal. It is the newly fallen tree that alters the river’s course that provides the spontaneous change in its shape.
Let us embrace the illumination that no two beings exist. All lives within us as part of the eternal symphony, orchestrated by the Infinite.
Illumination 14
Empathically resonating with the hardship of others can be an added perceived burden for those who are sensitive. When a note is played on a piano, careful observation will show every similar note in every octave vibrating in empathic resonance.
We only empathically resonate with what is already within our own lives, else we would not recognize, nor take on the emotions of another. The empath is therefore more sensitive than most in seeing the areas where illusion lingers within their own perception causing distortion of emotion.
This too is in perfection. But when someone before us strikes a discordant note that resonates within us, it is time to move beyond it. We are not picking up someone else’s debris – there is only one being: oneself.
Illumination 15
In the moment, we contain all that is. Overwhelm cannot exist because in the moment, infinite resources are accessed. It is when our workload is assessed linearly that we try to carry the accomplishments of many moments in the moment of the now. It is when work is seen in chunks that we cut ourselves off from cosmic resources and the load becomes heavy.
Are we overwhelmed by the grandeur of our vision, of eternal joy flowing through our hearts? The outlets for such strong feelings that threaten to engulf us are laughter, song, tears, physical exercise or dance. The grandeur of the Infinite feels overwhelming only when we see ourselves as separate from It. The truth is that we are to dissolve ourselves into and become one with It.
Illumination 16
Power is released when a lower order changes to a higher order. For either order to exist implies that there are moments when the exuberant flow of Infinite life is contained and static, that a matrix can in reality exist and that life is less than spontaneous.
Power is not only the effect of change but seen as necessary to effect change. What could we possibly want to change if all beings are acting, not of their volition, but as part of the orchestrated perfection of the whole? If opposition is merely a signal from the One Life to change direction, how can it be seen as something to remove? In a cosmos of perfection, there is nothing to change; there is nothing for which power is needed. The One Life supports us.
Illumination 17
Comparison implies relationship and attempts to define something by what it is not. This type of definition mistakenly leads us to believe that we understand the essence of something because we can see what it is not. Yet this reveals nothing of what it is.
If comparison is done to determine value, we are using the old illusory tool of intelligence and imposing non-existent, past experiential knowledge and value systems on the newness of the moment.
There are times when the tiny tack is needed. There are times when the big bolt is exactly right. Each is perfect for a unique function.
There is no way we can determine value other than by what is applicable for this moment. Choices can only be deemed as accurate or not, moment by moment, as life dances on its way.
Illumination 18
Energy is the result of the movement of something between two parts, or the dispersal of energy – the result of movement away from a point of origin.
If we had freedom of choice, we would be in a separate space within the Infinite’s Being. We would also be artificial intelligence and unreal. But as part of the limitless Being of One Life, we are real and no longer have a separate movement from the whole. We move as the Infinite moves, in limitless Oneness.
We have become directionless movement without points of origin or reference points. Like the ocean, we have become all resources and they no longer exist separate from us. Energy has no real existence.
Illumination 19
Life-force has been defined as that which enlivens. It is inherent within the creation of the Infinite, rather than the artificial sub-creations of man. It is one of the building blocks of existence and, like all others, an illusion.
Does the table or the chair man has made truly exist? No, for within the One Life only one Self-Creator exists. In fluidity, the Infinite self-creates moment by moment. There is no place for rigid structure and, as man sees through the illusions, the sub-creations will begin to disappear. The physical body will fluidly change moment by moment as we do. In spaceless space it is a fluid part of the dance, no longer a rigid reference point in the vastness of our Being.
Illumination 20
Life affirming joyousness of the Self is the quality of the true reality of life. There is no possibility that self-destructiveness can exist. Life dances in joyous innovation. There is no place for structure.
Attempts to create controlled structure bring stagnation, decay and self-destructiveness. These things are illusions.
When mind created structures, it also invented the concept that growth was necessary. This replaced the illusion of destructiveness with the illusion of the need to strive in order to grow. As programs to strive kept us from being self-destructive, we became trapped in their illusions and others, like linear becoming. There is only life spontaneously lived.
Illumination 21
Indulging an illusion as part of personality, or by letting it become an identity, retains the illusion that we have that personality or identity. Personality either forms as a result of personal history or as a partial expression of all the traits of the One Life within us. In reality, there is no past, no memory of personal history. Everything lives within us and can be expressed. Illusion bars us from full expression and illusion cannot exist within the One Life.
It is not ‘holy’ or ‘enlightened’ to cling to separation-based views. That does not serve life. Let all fractures be gone – let wholeness reign.
Illumination 22
We have used suffering to stay contracted when we have encountered the limitless vastness of our being. Focusing on suffering allows us to avoid seeing our true self.
Suffering is an illusion born of the illusion that loss can occur, that we can be alone, that imperfection or injustice can exist within the perfection of The One Being. We allow this even as the fullness of life moves through us.
But within the vastness of life, neither contraction nor expansion can exist because there is no direction, nor is there a focal point. We are all things, filling the vastness of existence with our unique presence.
Illumination 23
Seeing flaws in others occurs when we do not want to see the same flaw in our self. The judgment is inflexible once intelligence pronounces it. The self-censure this brings is painful because of the misplaced trust we have given to the self-appointed authority of the intellect. If we are irrevocably branded as bad or flawed, we believe we do not deserve good things in life.
The missing perception is that creations of the Infinite cannot be flawed. All beings play roles that form the kaleidoscope of changing life within the One Being. All are therefore innocent participants in the joyous pageantry of existence.
Illumination 24
It is easier to see the support of the tribe than the support of the Oneness of Life. However, the individual cannot trust the illusion of relationship – in this case with the tribe – for support. The only support there is, is the self-support of the One Life.
The tribe traps with demands of conformity. It demands that the individual behave according to the tribe’s ideas of what is normal; that bright lights be dimmed in exchange for the sense of false security which the tribe offers.
Instead we must adopt the absolute conviction that our being is our sustenance and that the One Life, of which we are an integral part, is our passage to freedom from ensnarement by the tribe’s illusory promises of acceptance and support.
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