3-57. Despite what this world may teach you, Peace is your original mind. Cast off the layers of illusions you have placed over Peace and vast, endless Joy will return.
For a great many who reside within form in this world, if not for most, little about this world could possibly be said to be innately peaceful. Perhaps time spent in nature or involved within enjoyable pastimes could engender feelings of solace or contentedness, but those situations are often rarely experienced as we hussle through our frequently overburdened lives, constantly beset by the reminders and requirements of modern life, so infrequently able to pause for even a moment to recollect upon how it might be that we have become so encumbered and determined to take on more that what is genuinely necessary. All of these aspects of modern life are affectations of the ego - for the vast majority of us, it would indeed it possible to eliminate as much as half of our daily activities without any direct and unavoidably detrimental effects upon ourselves or our families. And yet we do not, in most cases, attempt to simplify our requirements so that we might not be spending so much time rushing headlong towards our inevitable demise, living lives that are filled with activities and relationships that often do little to assist us to transcend all beliefs in limitations. And the ego revels in all of this - never doubt that it does to its utmost. The ego in general, and most definitely specifically your ego, has no interest in allowing you one meager moment of rest, for what would the ego gain from a singular instant taken away from its endless imperatives, so determined to distract us endlessly so that we cannot possibly fathom what it might be to be still and at rest, unconcerned with the vast array of possible future outcomes and willing to relent for just a little while - to allow All That Is to be as It Is, rather than constantly attempting in vain to impose a structure and order upon the universe that most fits what we believe to be appropriate and just, when none of use are readily equipped to determine what it is that might actually be best, or even to take some modicum of time to allow life to proceed apace, without our constant interference and the imposition of our interpretations of all that occurs as consistently having relevance and import upon our own lives, when so frequently it is truly the case that the vicissitudes of life are far from personal indeed. This world, so clearly modeled after the ego’s own delusions, will not naturally or easily teach you of all the Peace and Joy that awaits but your surrender to the flow of life and the natural rhythms of existence, for what would this world gain from a workforce that is far less concerned about the profitability and utility of any larger structure than the extent to which they are invested within their own health and wellbeing? Nothing would shrink profit margins faster than a populace that is no longer enamored with endless satisfaction through acquisition of yet another material plaything, focusing instead on their own tendencies to believe that it is possible for anything that is material - and thusly, external to themselves and their awareness - to be able to provide even the most bare measure of peace and satisfaction, when in Truth, all that is contentment and the endlessly allowing nature of the flow of life is discovered solely within, without ever having any regard for external and material conditions or the lack thereof. This is a contradiction to the ego, but it is the bridge than connects the truth of this world to the Truth of the Love of God, for God is unconcerned with minor alterations to form, when it has always been only the substrate and substance of any particular Child of God’s life and awareness that has been possessed of the ability to alter their own life, and by extension and when they are ready, the lives of so many others that they can influence once they are ready to begin teaching what it is that they have learned for themselves, lessons that are always imparted from the heart unto a mind that is willing to be open to learning and growth. Peace is not, at least directly, part and parcel with this world, for this is a place of what appears to be inherent separation and loss, although none of those lessons in desperate and unbridgeable separation are actually reflective of the Truth of Love at all. Regardless of this world’s ability to apparently function as an adequate stand-in for all that is Real, it fails miserably at such a task. That is why Joy returns from within first - never from without. All that is experienced within this world that is directly in alignment with God and with Love is a flow that emerges from the heart and reaches ever outwards, finding synchronous alignments with situations that are accurate reflections of the Unity of All That Is, oftentimes experienced within transcendent moments of unification with the universe, which are of course easier to experience when one is disconnected from the artificiality and artifice of this modern world and its endless material grubbing for more, more and ever more. Peace is the Mind of God and Peace is your original, fundamental and inalterable baseline state of awareness and consciousness, for what can assail a mind that is immaterial? How can assault occur when there is no body to strike, no emotional disturbances to be effected and no loss that can actually occur? What is it to be at Peace, unless it is a state within which all of the Unity of Creation is not just recognized, but equally accepted as being wholly reflective of your own Unity with All That Is as well? What other proposition could possibly lead to endless and everlasting Joy, save to finally shed all that you have carried for so long, believing yourself beset by this world and perhaps, in a most grievous error indeed, belittled by God and ejected from Heaven for some imagined crime or, at its most outrageous extension, some “sin” that was so unforgivable that you are now a pariah from Creation, a wanderer in a hell of your own imagining, destitute of Love and forgotten by God? What madness is this? What fervent perversion of Truth must be wrought to create such a situation that could never actually transpire, but that serves the interests of the ego in such form that the ego will uphold even this insanity has having some possibility of being verifiable, when it could not ever be correct at all? All of this is madness and supplication to a throne of pain, a desire for spiritual disincorporation that cannot be answered by God, for God will not respond to entreaties that are based upon illusion. God is Real and Love is the only evidence that you could ever possibly request of God as justification for all of Creation, for because of Love did God Create All That Is, and that is all that is good, and there need be no other summary of the Unity of Creation that what is contained within just what this statement presents. Acceptance of your innate Divinity is a prerequisite of the re-arising of Peace and Joy, for both of these experiences were not conditional or dependent upon your corrected awareness - it was your choice to reject them, either partially or utterly, that cast you downwards into a spiral of forgetting and isolation that has resulted in your current state of consciousness and that is equally the single greatest rationale and reason for the state of the world as it currently exists. Yet this need continue no longer, for each and every instant of time is just as useful and suffused with all of the possibility of the release of all illusions as any other moment. Nothing binds you to this world of form or all that it would teach you of truth, for you can release all illusions and Remember that Peace was your original and sacrosanct mind - your first consciousness as it were - and that while you have languished in what seems to be an oblivion of desolation and desperation, denied joy at every turn and beleaguered indeed by this world and all of its requirements, none of these effects have been causative at all. You are the sole determiner of all that you experience - while you are not possessed of the ability to dictate all that occurs, you can absolutely decide how it is that you will react to anything and everything that transpires, and that ability to choose contains all of the freedom you have ever sought within all of the material escapades and offerings of this world of form. You need nothing to Remember your original mind, for you have not genuinely forgotten it - you have simply dreamt of a world that might be, in any way at all, absent of God and of Love, and in doing so, you created just such a world. Yet then did you believe that what has always been an effect must, in a frightfully inverted manner, be equally a cause of all that you surveil, and so did this world become seemingly deterministic when it has never been possessed of such a power. What an inversion of Truth this was, but it is irrelevant how it occurred. Recognize that you have errored and all of the effects of such a mistake will be undone, instantly and effortlessly. Accept that it is possible to release all allegiance to illusion, and you will do so. All that is lost never was. All that is Remembered is All That Is. All that is of God is of Peace. This Peace is yours as well. Accept that you, a perfect Creation of God, are deserving of all of the Joy that has ever been known, and all of your self-erected barriers will fall, just as soon as you are wholly willing to release them unto the endless void of nothingness that you first employed to fabricate them from the field of possibilities that is the universal imagination of all of the Children of God.