5-3. There is but one Path to walk back to God. Infinite variations and routes does it take. Regardless of its appearance, it is the Road of Love. While you think you journey upon it, in Truth you have already arrived.
You cannot arrive at a destination that you have never genuinely departed. This appears to be confusing to the rational mind, and perhaps it can be labeled as quixotic or even paradoxical from the perspective of a presumed singularity of existence as it is understood within the world of form, yet the fundamental logic that underlies its premise and presentation is unquestionable. That which appears lost - or even more so for some, that which may seem to be unobtainable or never even possessed at all - is, simply, not. There is no loss within the ambit and scope of Love. It pervades all with a Light and a Certainty that is undeniable, but which can be ignored. To deny Love is to attempt to stand in opposition to yourself, and that is a perspective that will lead only to ever greater levels of contradictory behavior and feelings of desperate isolation that have no justification, in Truth. To the ego, such emotional discomportments are certainly deserved and necessary, for the ego is indeed disconnected from Love in every way possible, and so for there to be a universally applicable resolution for all that appears to be contradictory and so hopelessly convoluted about a life lived in form is not a Truth that the ego can accept, for it is so galling to the ego’s premises of separation and distinctness that the ego will reject all argumentations instantly and completely, lest the final undoing of all that the ego desires to present to you as justification for its presentations are seen as the ephemerally meaninglessness conceptualizations of an illusion that they have always been. Universality is not applicable to the ego, for it is always highly individualistic and prescriptive of all that it requires for its own sustainment, desiring not to be shown what is as It Is, but rather hopefully that it will be allowed to continue to believe that its ideas of what is real must be validated by this world, for certainly here there is a direct representation of separation that appears to be qualifying of a presumption of isolation, even though all that is of life is unified by a set of connections that are unquantifiable. What is believed to be true will be, for you, for just as long as you wish to be presented with a situational alignment that is in concert with a set of suppositions that are not actually justified, but which appear to be because of the highly selective nature of awareness when it is centered in bodily form. Billions of separate data points flood your consciousness each day. No one in their right mind would believe that it is even tangentially useful to be aware of all of them, and to process each as a separate and distinct quanta of information that needs or requires any distinct form of contemplation. As such, much of what is sensory data in every form is automatically discarded with no conscious consideration, simply because to fail to do so would result in a systematic sensory overload so great that madness might rapidly ensue after the waterfall of information was allowed to cascade around you, drowning out all that is rational in a deluge of unnecessary and unneeded data. Because of this, beliefs shape all that you believe you perceive, selectively sorting out all that is not “valuable”, generally on the basis of excluding everything that does not easily jibe with your current set of assumptions of what this world of form is, or what it should or should not represent, as well as discarding all data that is contradictory to or challenging of your world view, for the level of cognitive dissonance that would result within a mind that accepts all that occurs, without prioritizing that which is in harmony with a set of operating principles that have presupposed all that is real, eliminating all that is believed to be either false, incorrect, or inapplicable to the present situation, would be so difficult and so disruptive to the generalized functionality of the perceiver that to continue in such a state of acceptance would be nearly impossible, if only because the level of dispute between what is rushing inwards from the sensory apparatuses of the body and the prescriptive framework of awareness that the mind believes necessary to maintain would be extreme indeed. Absent any beliefs at all, all would be seen as it is - not divided, not separated and not isolated in some form of independence that has no bearing on the interconnectedness of interdependence that is an essential feature of all that is of form, for what it is to be isolated in a universe of form, when all that is physical is measureable only in relationship to other aspects of the cosmos? What is an electron, if there is but one subatomic particle within a great void of empty space and time? Certainly your life is as this as well - not genuinely discrete and disconnected from all else that lives, for if it were to be, what would you be? A body floating in the aether, meaningless because there is no other point of reference against which you can interpolate some formulation of relationship that is possessed of any utility of validity at all? Such a situation would be nearly useless, insomuch as direct comparisons to other expression of the Creativity of God are inaccessible if Creation is isolated to a single event or conceptualization, rather than living within a harmonious web of relationship that is self-defining through its own totality. Because Creation is so very vast indeed, there are a great manner of ways within which it can be expressed, including a multitude of Paths back to the singularity of Light that is the Heart of God. All of these journeys seem so very different, simply because they are engaged within through varying perspectives, a necessity of complexity that is not revelatory of some genuine differentiation between the actual process of progressing back towards God, but rather representative of the variety of courses that can be taken up, each descriptive of a differing perspective, but none being actually isolated from the other, or progressing upon an arc of Remembrance and Revelation that contains differing or oppositional operating principles. Light fires them all, allowing for them to interweave and intersect, each unique but all finally resolved at their destination, which is genuinely an ouroboros of infinitely recursive redundancy, for all that is believed to isolate you from God is only that which you have taken up in some form of defense against an attack that will never arrive. Love cannot abandon you any more than the light of the sun can suddenly decide that it no longer wishes to be generated by the processes of stellar fusion that are the fuel for the countless numbers of photons that radiate away into the vastness of space every day. Love, being singular with God and Unified with Truth, is Eternal. It is a set of waymarks, if you will, upon a Path that cannot be lost - it can merely be forgotten or believed to have been obscured by all that has been taken up in the name of a salvation from suffering that was never real, for all that is pain is equally of resistance to the present moment, just as it is, without regard for what it is believed that any particular moment in time “should” or “must” be. Your Return to Truth and Salvation from all that appears to ail and beset you is always Certain. Your Path is simple and your journey elegantly summarized as this - to Return to God is but to release all that never was Real. That is all. All that is illusionary is fueled and sustained by your desire that it be so, even though it was never possible and it represented such a perversion of the Truth of Love that it is difficult indeed, from the perspective of allowance and non-resistance, to understand how such a conceptualization of reality could have arisen at all. But that too is irrelevant, for what is there to learn of all that never was, other than that it was incorrect, and so through such an acceptance of its inaccuracy, to set it aside and to progress back towards all that is the Truth of Love? Appearances are always cursory at best and deceptive at worst, but regardless of what they are believed to be, they are still just impressions - not realities. There is nothing in the entire universe to fear, for all that is material serves its Creator, and you are the Beloved of your Source in a manner that is so very vast and so utterly eternal in scope and import that to attempt to summarize it in a transmittable fashion is futile. This Truth is to be Experienced, and rest assured it will be, by you, with each step that you take that sloughs off yet another layer of illusion, so tightly wrapped around you as a vestigial garment of protection against a universe that appears alien indeed. This world of form is a source of learning, but the ultimate lesson is so very simple that it is often overlooked in the interests of maintaining a system of perception that is useless, but apparently valuable indeed to the ego. All that you are asked to learn is that nothing has been forgotten and no Child of God has ever been lost, for Love Sees them all, just as they are, and so they are Safe, no matter how far away from Truth they have assumed themselves to be, or how assailed by inequity and injustice they have declared that their existences must be. All are already Home. That they can perceive and then accept this Truth is not in question. That they are ready to do so is the final linchpin upon which their freedom from illusion turns. Accept them - and yourself - as you are, in Truth, and all will unfold as the brightest of Light, emanating from your heart, always Perfect and endlessly clear, just as you will be once all that is not True is surrendered and all that is Love is recognized not just as your destination, but equally your origin and your present habitance as well.