2-49. Be attached to nothing, so that you can remember Everything.
Attachment is intractably adhesive. It will capture your mind, dragging you ever farther downwards into a pit of horrors from which there may seem to be no escape. This is not actually True. There is a way and a method with which you can become ever more clear and free of the abysmal pit that will accompany your desire to attach to anything at all. This process is accomplished through a constant practice of release. Release all that you desire to become enraptured with, desirous of or fixated upon. Do not allow your ego to dictate that which it believes you should desire. You do not have any need for desire in any form, for all that you actually have any need of in any way has already been Given to you by God. It was Given in your Creation and it remains with you to this very day, never to be lost, stolen, relinquished or squandered for the Gifts of God are Absolute and they can only be forgotten - they can never be given away and they can never be taken from you. No force in this world has the power to strip you of the Gifts of God, for the Will of God is Complete and as such, all that you will ever need to remember the Peace of God and to be free of all that occupies your present moment awareness will forever be available to you just as soon as you are ready to accept its Grace. But this is not to imply that the adhesive nature of attachment will simply drop away after your first or even your thousandth session of practicing the art of release. There is no reason that it cannot be dispelled instantly and without effort, but this is a rare event and it will likely to continue to be highly uncommon for a great deal of time yet to come. It is rare because the nature of the ego is to attach and the ego is a very stubborn entity, even though it is not actually Real at all. The ego desires attachment and distraction for in each moment that you focus your attention outwards, away from the ego’s hollow center, you flagrantly dispose of a moment in which you could have instead found another instant of respite from the ego’s constantly jabbering insanity. This should not be viewed as wasted time, even if it is time that is spent occupied with outwardly focused awareness, for how are you ever to find the source of the misery that the ego will cause if you do not spend copious amounts of time dwelling in the dissatisfaction that a belief in the ego’s false reality must bring? Do not regret that which has already come to pass, Child of God, for without all of the moments in which you did not release the ego in favor of the Light of God, you would likely never have had the opportunity to recognize the futility and complete uselessness of attachment. For each Child of God, the time that they will require to become ever more consciousness of the pointlessness of the ego will vary, sometimes wildly and without any apparent reason. None of this has any consequence, for there is only God and all that is not God is not Real. The Love that God holds for you is Complete. The time you will require to first accept and then Experience the overwhelming Totality of this Love is absolutely irrelevant to your personal Path back to God. That is because time, as it is understood within the framework of this world, is not sufficiently vast enough to encompass or contain the Infinity that is God in any manner that is at all meaningful. From another perspective, it is wholly accurate to state that you will have, and indeed that you already do have, all of the time in the world to find your own way back to God and to Truth. This process of release begins with a conscious choice. It is the choice to release attachment whenever it arises so that new levels of awareness and peace can arise in the place of the morass of attachment that the ego desires to foist upon you as being both necessary and requisite components of your present moment consciousness. They are not. There is no need for attachment, there is no compunction that necessitates your attachment to anything at all and there is no value to be found in attachment. Acceptance instead of attachment will allow for ever greater levels of peaceful awareness to begin to form in your mind. At first, these instants of Peace will be brief, perhaps even so brief that you will not be consciously aware that they are occurring. That is of no consequence. That they have transpired at all is a great and joyous event, signaling the beginning of the end of the ego’s death-like grip upon your awareness. Slowly, but with increasing certainty and possessed of a constantly evolving power to alter your unconscious desire to attach to anything at all at every moment, ever greater instants of time will pass during which you will enter what will be, at first, a very unfamiliar state of consciousness. This level of consciousness is one in which all that is occurring, as well as all that is not occurring, is accepted just as it is. This may appear to be frightening. It is not and it should not be regarded as such. It brings with it an illusion of fear because it stands utterly unopposed by the ego - it is a place of universal awareness and complete acceptance that is devoid of any belief that it is even possible to become attached. The ego will not actually be aware that these brief respites from attachment-based awareness are actually occurring, for the ego is attachment itself and the ego cannot travel into any space of awareness in which all that Is becomes accepted just as it Is. Be not afraid, Child of God, for the ego cannot hound you until the end of your days, forever chasing you through the darkened forest of illusions and constantly blotting out the Light of Love that will always Guide you down your own Path to God. The ego is powerless for God is All and there is nothing that is Real that is not God. To remember Everything is merely to release all that is not Real, allowing it to fall behind you, a darkness now lifted and a world of powerless attachment now released. Everything that is Real is Love and there is nothing more that this that you will ever need to find your way Home to God and to Love. To attach is to attempt to create a world outside of the Universe of Love that is the Heart of God. What can you hope to find in this world that you desire to create, a world of suffering in which you lie quaking, shivering in the cold night and forever frightful that if you do not receive that which you desire, you must suffer horribly for its lack in your life? This is not the Way, Child of God. All that you Need is already present in your heart. Have Faith in God and release all that the ego desires to present as necessary or vital in any manner. Nothing can threaten your Soul for it is already Complete. Everything that is Real is already just as it Is and there is no need for you to do anything to be forever worthy of the Love of God. The ego knows nothing of this simple but transformational Truth, for the ego desires only to grasp at all that it sees, gathering together ever more vast accumulations of material possessions and insisting that if others were to change their behavior, then - and only then - could you finally be happy. This is not the Way. Happiness, Peace, Love and Light are already accessible in every moment. They are Remember and then Experienced when attachment is surrendered and the Love of God is accepted in its place. Release your desire for anything to be in any way different that it is right now so that you might Remember that you are already Home, and that because you are Home, forever Safe within the Heart of God, your Freedom is absolutely Perfect.