4-44. Shadows do not cast shadows. All the darkness you have imagined has been nothing more than the places where your ego has stood between you and the Light of Love which God sends towards you.
All that is of the darkness of misperception is illusionary. This Truth is not to be known, for it is so much more than simply an abstract statement that can be held in the mind but never genuinely interacted with on the level of visceral and present-moment reality. But this manifest illusion will appear tempting indeed, if it is assumed that it contains anything at all that you genuinely wish to be in possession of, or more obliquely, possessed by. That is the sticking point of unawareness that so many of the blessed Children of God find themselves encumbered with, for they believe that the darkness of desperate isolation from Love is of some form of benefit to them, and so they uphold it, determined to find its value and to extoll its virtues to others, when no such madness could be created by anything other than the ego and its desire to maintain itself as the sole arbiter of your reality and your devoted affections. Love asks for nothing at all, yet offers All That Is in return for your willingness to surrender to the Truth of Unity, a turning away from the ego that is generally accomplished in gradients and stages, even though it is always possible to set aside all that is illusionary and to re-embrace the Light at any time, without hesitation, and with nothing at all lost in the process of releasing all that never was Real in any manner at all. The ego wishes for none of this, for while the ego understands on some level that it must dissipate, it is not at all interested in participating in any process that will hasten along that most ill-fated day, at least as far as the ego regards the inevitability of its own demise. For loss is the cornerstone of the ego’s house of ill fitting cobblestones of denigration of your own valuation unto the Sight of God, and so it wishes to construct for you a castle of sand and to call it the mightiest of fortresses that could ever possibly throw up stanchions and bulwarks against the Return of the Light to your healing mind. The ego wishes to be worshiped, for it offers nothing and demands everything for your allegiance to its blind pronouncements of what is a valid object of your attention and that which the ego believes to be so diffuse and vacillatingly intemperate - even though it is the veritable definition of patience itself - that it cannot possibly be of any utility to you at all. The ego is of action, desiring constant alteration and seeking out altercations so that it might juxtapose your seemingly inviolate isolation from another Child of God as some form of a rationale as to why you should be in conflict with them, for all that is the conceptualization of the ego is a zero-sum game of loss and strife, endless thrift in the name of acquisition and a perspective so thwarted in its desire to see that it looks to the darkness of the nothingness that is the belief in separation from God and attempts to rip, wholesale and without any justification, an apportionment of appropriateness from that which is merely an error of the greatest and most laughable magnitude indeed. The ego knows nothing of its own darkness, for what shadow can know that it is a phantasm of absence, when it is actually nothing at all? That which is nothing is not at all able to oppose All That Is. That is a simple enough statement to utter, but its implications - when it is fully accepted and allowed to take root within your healing mind - carry with its own healing waters a flood of Truth that will obliterate all that is believed to be separation within your own conceptualization of your existence, and more importantly - of your purpose within the world of form. For if you are not alone, and if you are present in this world as a unique and utterly irreplaceable aspect of the Love of God now occupying a form that is in no way restrictive, then what is it that you are here to do, or to say, or to be? These are the inquiries of the heart indeed, and they are not easily sought out by the weak or cowardly, for they require a level of introspection and bravely forged determination to uncover the remaining remnants of deliberation that seek to abscond with your peace of mind, interjecting your contemplations with reasons to doubt, when in Truth, no such justification for fear is ever valid at all. Such is the nature and ambit of fear - to strike terror into the hearts of its followers, so that they will forever cower before its might and covet the seeming relief that acceptance of the necessity of fear will engender within any mind that is willing to believe that physical death represents anything at all that is Real, permanent or Eternal. It does not. All that is of God is of Love and of the Infinity of Creation that is all that will forever be Real; always Known, forever Safe, and dwelling within the Light that is the Heart of God. There are no shadows in Heaven. Nothing is unknown, nothing is lost, nothing is forgotten and nothing is inaccessible. There is no fear in Heaven, for Love rules and the terror of a belief in separation from God is forgotten, as if it had never arisen at all, for in Truth, it has not. It was and is a manifest creation of an ideation of separation that has no justification, and so it is not Real. All that is not Real is not Eternal, and so you are Safe within the arms of God, never to be lost in any way at all. That the ego has lost its way is true, but that does not quite summarize the situation in a manner that is useful. The ego, being a most minuscule error of perception, has never had any way, or path, at all. It is a rambling and responsive rote behavioral patterning that is based upon an assumption of destruction that is simply untrue and unreal in every manner that such designations can possibly imply. Because the ego, and the fear of death, and the presumption of loss that is inherent and endemic within a desire to hold out temporariness as the foundational aspect of any portion of Creation, all in aggregate and in summation of their disparate fashionings, are not all representative of anything at all. Rather, they are but shadows of a mistake that are continuously attempting to cast yet another derivative and intradependent shadow across the vast acreage of your mind, as if that which is not at all Real can genuinely influence All That Is to become something that it never was and never will be. All that is darkness is not Real. It is merely the lingering aspects of your awareness that you believe you can withhold from the Sight and the Light of God, so that they might be pitiful little remnants of a pattern of conditioning and a conditionality that is dependent upon some error in Creation that has no validity at all. You can set these moments of doubt aside. You can transform the seeing of the mind into the Seeing of the soul, effected through the perfect mechanism and channel of your heart, at any time and with any situation at all, no matter what you might initially believe the import of its presentations might genuinely entail. Nothing that is not Real can affect all that is the majesty and Peace of God. You are a part of All That Is. All that is Eternal and Infinite flows through you, constantly and effortlessly. There is nothing that you need to, or say, or be, to be worthy of the Love of God. It is forever Given, and you are forever able to receive its infinitely healing Light. Turn back again, Child of God, and you will see that nothing was ever lost whilst you dwelled in a hell of your own creation, for all that is of Love is Unitary with God, and so from this infinite Grace, you are contiguous and unified with God in every manner that such a reassurance and promise could possibly imply, all of which can be imparted to your Awakening mind just as soon as you are willing to begin setting aside all that is of darkness, knowing its nature not at all, for it was never Real, whereas God always was and always will be - perfectly, effortlessly and Completely.