2-63. Everything that happens in this world is either Love, which Expands, or not love, which has no effect at all. Because of this, Love is the answer to all questions.
It would seem, at least to your ego, that a great deal occurs in this world that has a wide variety of effects. Anger arises and is either expressed, hurting both the object of your ire as well as you in equal and terrible measure, or perhaps anger is repressed, floating back to the surface of your mind now transmogrified into expressions of sadness which you may have no way of understanding. Joy is felt here too, but this joy can be limited if it is derived from expectations now fulfilled rather than simple appreciation given with no thought of return. Goals may be met, or you may fall short, believing perhaps that you have failed simply because you have not achieved any particular victory at the time and in the way that you expected or anticipated its arrival in your life. All of these events, situations, feelings and thoughts can appear to be either causative or derivative, depending on your particular point of view at any time. However… are they really? Do these moments in time really need to be given the apparent ability to affect your state of mind, removing you from peace and casting you downwards into despair, frustration or despondency? Are you yet ready to recognize that it has always been but your choice to interpret any particular event as having a specific connotation, a reason for occurring or a definitive meaning that has allowed you to create a world in which you feel compelled to react, even when acceptance and the desire to simply observe would clearly serve you much better? You did not come to this world to suffer, dearest and most precious Child of God. You came here to expand. To grow beyond all beliefs in limits, impossibilities, requirement or justifications in any form. Not all of the events in this world are random, but a great many are. Not every moment of your life involves any particular degree of intervention, guidance or presence of the Divine, but some most certainly do. What are you to make of these moments? Are they to be relegated to a pile in your mind labeled “peculiar coincidences”? Is that truly how you wish to view these gateways of choice, these opportunities that are presented in which you can move forward to higher levels of awareness and consciousness, or in which you can demonstrate that you wish to remain the same, still dwelling in restricted frames of mind, believing that you are somehow limited by the form in which your body finds its composition and structure within this world? These choices will always rest firmly with you, Child of God. They will not be made for you. You will not be forced to expand when you are not yet ready to become more than you are now, which is truly to say that you are asked simply to Remember how magnificent and amazing you actually are, a simple Truth that your ego will never be able to see. Expansion certainly can appear to be painful, and at times it is indeed. Of course it is easier and perhaps - from the perspective of the ego - safer to remain the same forever, never venturing forth into the wilds of your mind, walking away from the familiar trails and paths that are now so well worn from your constant passage over their comfortable patterns of thought and belief. But do you truly wish this for yourself? Are you truly willing to remain the same as you have apparently always been, comfortably ensconced in similarity and routine, never varying your pace or direction as you tread down routes now so familiar that you need not even be consciously aware of your steps upon them? Perhaps you are, and that is absolutely acceptable. It is not required of you to expand. You can remain the same for as long as you feel that continuing as such suits you in some manner that expansion will not offer. But when you are ready, there will come a time in which you will not longer be satisfied with the banal offerings of complacency and routine. You will want more, and this expansion will be offered to you in just the manner that is best for you to accept. You may not be familiar with what it holds out to you, for it will be new, different and likely quite unfamiliar to what you have experienced previously. This is of no consequence. That it is offered is quite enough. Take up its new challenge, accepting it gladly, for it offers opportunities for growth that have not been available to you in the past when you were so determined to remain huddled within the safety of the known corners of your mind. You came here, to this world, at this time and in this manner, to expand. By expanding your consciousness, by bravely forging new paths and at times truly stumbling forward with abject blindness as to your final destination, you literally expand the consciousness that you are, becoming increasingly more able to apply Faith where before only certainty would be acceptable to you. Love will always be your Guide on these journeys into the deeper and more foreign aspects of your mind, salving your wounds when you are cut by the strange brambles and thorns of new situations. Love stands, already Complete and Total, as a set of unchangeable and completely inalterable guideposts that will forever Light the Path that you are asked to walk, providing comfort in the long and dark nights that you will spend within places in your mind that are amazingly distant from where you started your journey towards Truth. You will likely have a great many inquiries, questions for which no ready answers arise, desires that you do not yet understand and decisions to be made that have no obvious solutions. These inquests into the deepest mysteries of your mind will be fulfilled when you are ready for their resolution, but never before you are fully able to accept all that will be offered. You do not and will not always need simple explanations to all that will arise as you venture forth. You need only accept that you cannot fail in this Journey, for Love Knows your heart in an manner and to an extent that can never be explained with mere words, for all language, symbols, expressions and ideas will fall before the Experiences that will rush towards you as you demonstrate an ever increasing capacity for Faith above reason and logic. What you are to Experience is the totality of Truth, which can be partially summarized as the realization and then acceptance that there has never been anything at all that has ever actually separated you from God. But your ego cannot fathom or imagine this Truth, for the ego is the literal definition of a belief in separation now made apparently real in this world. All that you will ever need to Know will come in time and with patience, Child of God. All of the answers to the questions that have ever arisen, and especially to the questions that you do not yet realize that you have, will be provided when you are ready to accept them in the place of the ego’s mad justifications as to why you should continue to believe that you are somehow a singular being, a mind unto yourself and that you exist in a world that has no real connection to your heart. None of these lies of the ego are True. But they appear most horrifically and unalterably real when the ego is accepted. Release your ego’s lessons in separation, Child of God. They serve you no longer. You are not a contracted little bit of awareness, adrift in a sea of consciousness, floating alone in an ocean of awareness, an island of mind that has no connection to any other life within this world. You are here, in this world, to release all that ailed you, to move beyond all beliefs in limitations and to rejoin with the Majesty of God and to become One with Love, so that you can finally lay down your chosen isolation in favor of the beautiful Truth that Love will forever Guide you Home, answering all inquiries with but the most elegantly simple of refrains - because you are Loved, you are Love Itself.