3-53. If you think you must do, you need not. If you think you must go, you don't. Perfection finds its home in your heart. Look there and know you already have all you will ever need.
To do anything at all, no matter if it is efficacious or not, is endemic to the ego, yet it is not of value in a direct sense. Growth or alteration through doing something - actually, anything at all - is tantamount to a statement to the universe that just to be - to be centered, calm, aware but utterly nonreactive, is not enough. Yet it is. It always has been and it will always will be. This is a contradiction to the ego, but not to God at all. The ego desires alteration because it cannot ever be quiet and still. The ego desires distraction because it is eternally discontent. The ego desires accumulation because it knows, on some level that the ego refuses to regard but that can be quite obvious to you, if you are willing to be completely honest with yourself, that the ego is empty - a great hollowness of absence and loss, a proposition of incompleteness that is not at all correct, but that wishes to be because the alternative - that the ego might not actually exist in any manner at all that might be said to be Real - is much too frightening to be considered by the ego. The ego does not wish to be undone, and yet even in that the ego is manifestly incorrect, for what illusion can be countered if it is not at all Real? What is there to undo of an error, other than to recognize that it was incorrect and then to release it as being the nothingness that it has always been? The concepts of advancement through progress, transformation through growth and abundance through accumulation are inherent to the ego, but they share no reflection within the Truth of Love. There is nothing that you need to do to be worthy of the Love of God. That is antithetical to the ego, for the ego must always strive for more and more, knowing that it is empty and so looking outwards for a fulfillment that will never satiate its madness and temerity. The longing for greater advancement through earning qualifications of value, presentations of utility or usefulness through ability all find their root causes in the ego’s illusions, for what is there to be achieved if you are already Perfect, just as you are? There is much to undo, certainly, for you have sought out some final prize of seemingly vast value, yet you were consistently deceived by the ego into thinking that something outside of yourself was the determinant of your value to God, and that was but error. You were Created to expand the universe of knowledge and Love that is the central repository of all that is of God, yet you need not become something or someone more than you are - right at this very instant - to be able to complete this process. That is the inflection point of the ego’s endless distractions - that you are not perfect, and so you must push forward for something other than whatever it is that you are, in Truth, for surely you are not enough, and surely there must be more that you could be that would finally satisfy God and qualify you for entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. All of these are the lies of the ego, and they are legion indeed. None of them are at all accurate reflections of Love, for they are all based upon a presentation that lacks a foundation in Truth. You do not need to do, to be. You do not need to strive, to be. You do not need to accomplish, to be. The acceptance of this Truth is crucial for your acceptance of yourself, for as long as you set yourself at odds with your own Nature, all of the universe will be perceived through a lens of conflict and opposition, and that is not a manner of perception that is at all of value to you. That is the insanity of the ego, manifest within a delusion of separation, and it will not carry you anywhere at all. In the same vein, to go somewhere other than where you are now is equally useless, for you need not traverse some obstacle course of challenge and adversity to prove to God that you are worthy of Love. All of the concepts of difficulty as being necessary to undo what the ego has attempted to teach you of the Nature of God are unnecessary and incorrect. It is not hard to be at Peace. It is not difficult to Experience the Joy of Union with God. All ideas of struggle are born out of an original conflict, but it was not a war with God that you waged - it was a declaration of incompleteness that you levied against your own heart that instigated this most futile of armaments, inciting a dislocation from centrality within the Peace of Heaven that cast you into a world of misunderstanding and derisive disunity, creating exactly what you believed possible - that you could be forgotten by God. That has never occurred. You have perhaps, and so very temporarily, forgotten the Origin of your Soul, but God has not. As such, what was relegated to the furthest corners of your mind was not lost, it was merely rejected as being impossible. It was not. Nothing is impossible for God. How could the Creator of Creation be fallible? Can you yet see that that is an impossibility of such a ludicrous order that it is pointless to even ponder? And once accepted, how can you attempt to hold yourself out as imperfect, if you are genuinely willing to accept that God is Perfect, and all that God Creates is Perfect as well? These beliefs about the nature of Love cannot stand in the face of rationality, yet the ego is the exact opposite of rational consideration in every form, and so it becomes a simple matter to understand why it might be that that the ego would wish for you to take up its illusions, for without them, the ego cannot stand in the Light at all. To go somewhere other than wherever you might be is to believe that there could be locations within the physical universe, or allegorically within your own heart, that might contain “less” or “more” of God. That God somehow awaits your journey to a promised land of abundance and peace, abandoning some parts of Creation, or some of the Children of God, as unworthy of attention. Madness, all of this. The madness of a concept hellbent on distracting you endlessly so that you might continue to fuel its illusionary existence. Cease this game of hiding from God and from yourself. No one can win such a tug of war with themselves. All that expires is time that would otherwise be far more wisely spent contemplating why it might be that you would have ever formulated such a concept, and then seeing directly through all that it stands for so that you can release its beliefs and accept in their place conceptualizations of Truth that will lead you ever farther back towards Peace and Joy. All that was Created was for you, as well as for all else that was Created. You were not Created to suffer in any way at all. That you believe you might deserve to is but a testament to the ego’s illusions - never a flaw in Creation. The Home of the Perfection of God is your heart. Everything is already present and available. Everything that is unreal is just that - an illusion that is sustained simply because you desire to believe that it offers something that you can use to salve your self-inflicted wounds. Stop this insanity. It is meaningless to God, and with the necessary amount of time and dedication to present your own heart with the inquiries that you desire to be answered, you will see for yourself just how meaningless it has always been for you as well. All that you need, require, desire or wish to acquire is Peace. Yet you already are possessed of the Peace of God. It will be Remembered once all that is an illusion of separation, and its faithless companion fear, are relinquished as the illusionary conceptualizations of a belief in unworthiness that found its origin within your own assumption that you could possibly be imperfect. All that you are asked to release is not to be lost, for it was never Real. All that you are asked to take up was neither lost as well, for you were never without your heart, and so you were never devoid of God at all.