4-25. The most treacherous divide separating you from your innate peace is the belief that the actions of others must engender a reaction from you. Tranquility is a choice, not an effect.
Peace is not to be obtained, for you have never been without its Grace. Peace is not to be granted to some and withheld from others, for it is not conditional. Peace is not an object that can be gathered around and admired, nor it is a prize to be obtained through struggle or strife. All of these conceptualizations of the nature of Peace are of the ego, and so they will all fail. However it may be quite a long time before you become willing to shed these misconceptualizations, for they are attractive indeed to the ego. They present a condundrumous problem that cannot be easily rectified, for almost all that occurs within the world of form is predicated upon a singular presumption that is rarely questioned - the belief that anything that transpires must be able to affect your state of mind. That is not at all true. In Truth, it is a wholesale reversal of the Love of God and the Nature of Creation, effected through such a structure of presumptive idolatry of the mechanisms of materiality. It is not the case that the material world can alter your perceptive framework - rather, and in a manner that is so very revolutionary that it must be experienced to be believed, your ability to alter the seemingly random conditionality of this world is unopposed by all that is of form. But what does all of this imply? What lessons are we to gather from such a reversal of genuineness and lightness as has been effected against us all, for at least as long as we remain willing to believe that it might be possible for anything that occurs outside of our own consciousness to be determinant of what we elect to perceive or accept as valuable? In the immediate term, it is helpful to release all that is attachment to the behavior of others, including the massive amounts of unconscious patterning that they have likely ingested from all that transpired during their earliest years upon this Earth. At first, attempt to do so in a manner that allows you to understand that while you may now be ready to See much more Light than they are willing to - as of yet - accept as being Real, that in no way determines their value to God or to you. Simply because they sleep, dreaming of limitations and littleness, does not mean that they do not possess all of the potentiality of unlimitedness. Their participation in their own liberation from beliefs in unworthiness in any form is voluntary and cannot be coerced from them, save until the moment when they are ready to be lead away from darkness and back to the Light that was their origin and that must be their final destination. In the interim, they may behave in manners that are confusing, if not downright aggravating to any practitioner of directed awareness and self-referential responsibility, as you will become to exactly the degree that you are willing to acknowledge the obviousness of the Truth that you are singular in awareness and unlimited in scope, functioning as a perfect Reflection of the Love of God and the Perfection of Creation within this world of form. All forms of attachment to the learning processes of others, including a desire - no matter how genuinely and deeply held - that they should be able to effect some form of causative alteration to their baseline mentality at a point in their own development that is not supportive of that goal, serve neither you nor they, for both are lost when any wish for another to be ready for that which they do not yet believe themselves ready to See is held. That is not your purpose here, nor has it ever been the divinity of Purpose in any form that it can possibly be understood, for any Child of God to force another to Return to God - which must, perforce, entail a Return to and through their own heart - before the exact instant during which they turn inwards to regard all that they thought lost, only to find that it has never been lacking. They were simply looking in exact opposition to their own heart’s desires, seeking outwards what can - and has always - lain only with. Whatever it is that transpires, you are not a victim of cruel fates or a merciless deity of fragmentary intentionality. All of that is of the ego, and it is a great play of sadness and loss, a tragedy of immense proportions that the ego wishes to perform for you endlessly and without even the most temporary intermission. All that you become so enamored with, within such a mockery of Truth, is a presumptive ideation that can grow to monstrous proportions. It can become a world-eating scourge of seemingly unstoppable rage and ferociousness, for it is fueled by your desire to believe that you are beset upon by this world, rather than being an accurate aspect of the simple Truth that you are in complete control of your elections and all that you perceive to be of value, as well as all that you wish to cast aside as meaningless and without any utility to you at all. These are your choices - they are not of this world, and you are able to elect them when you so desire, effortlessly and endlessly. The divide that seems to separate you from all of the Peace that is your right to Remember again in place of the madness of this world of form is bridgeable with a single footfall, a brief striding across a seemingly limitless cravase of infinite depth, one that must be able to forever limit you from reaching the beneficent shores of the Lands of God that seem to be inaccessible to you whilst you still reside in form. They are not separate from you, just as you are not divided from this world of form as some strange outlander who resides here but who does not interact with all that they surveil. Both of these twin perspectives are extraordinarily inaccurate, for one decrees that you must remain forever limited by form, while the other determines that you must be wholly of Spirit, and such all that is of this world is inconsequential to your Path of Light that will end when you give all that you are to God in celebration for the Infinity of Love that is your Home. If there was no value to a temporary residence within a world of materiality, it would not exist. If there was nothing to learn here, you would not be present within these seemingly vast walls of flesh and form that you may continue to believe are possessed of some intrinsic ability to separate you from your own True Nature. No such Creation of God would be designed to be anything other than valuable and useful for you to find your way Home, for with Love as the overarching principle of Creation and Creativity in all forms, there can be nothing other than value to be found in all that transpires within every level of reality, often with a much greater emphasis placed accurately upon all that you find to be upsetting and capable of generating consternation within your mind, for indeed it is these roughest of points that have the greatest value by allowing you to question what it is that you presume to be of import or importance to you, and then to untangle those knots of presumption that afflict you still. All that is of God is Eternal. Peace is of God, and so Peace is ever-present. It is not found, for it was never lost. It is not partial, for all that is of God is Infinite in both scope and power. It is not affected by anything that you have cast against it as being evidence of why you cannot be at Peace at all times, for Peace is equally as Perfect as God and so it abides all assaults, knowing its own Nature to be Complete, just as you are, too. All of this is to be accepted, not railed against as some formulation of a madman who ignores the slights and insults of this world. It is not a question of being unaware or uncaring regarding the inequities that seem so very inherent to the world of form. It is simply a realization that any attempt to determine a predication of internality upon all that is external to your own consciousness is the first and most fundamental error that must be corrected, for after it is resolved, all else that is transitory and temporary is released in favor of the Peace that accompanies a level of acceptance and equanimity that is radical indeed, at least for the world of form as it is currently experienced by almost all of the now incarnate Children of God. To reverse the errors of perception that are innate within any schema of awareness that demands that the subtle Grace of God could be affected by mere materiality is a revolution that roils inwardly at first, erasing all that was held with dedication as a necessity of infatuation with slights and insults that has never been of any value at all. After such a wave of transformative consciousness has performed all of the Miracles within your own mind that are necessary to untangle you from you own desire to be assailable, it will reverse course and begin to expand outwards in a great enveloping tide of Love and acceptance for all that you perceive, undoing all error and allowing the Light of God to shine through all that is of the surface of this world. All that appears divided will be rejoined, for nothing separates you from Peace or from God other than you desire to continue to believe that it might be possible for all that is Infinite to not be present and absolutely accessible to you at all times, in all places and within any mental or emotional state, no matter how terrifically challenging they may appear to be. Magnanimous equanimity is your right. It is not unavailable to you. It is merely hidden under all of the layerings of presumption that you have previously utilized to effectively render some form of judgment against yourself and others, all of which was but an affectation of the ego - never a reflection of your soul. The Light appears dim to those who believe themselves undeserving of Its infinitely healing Peace. Look again with the eyes of Love that your heart has never forgotten and you will See that all that transpires is not only forgivable - it is already Forgiven.