4-52. So much more than everything is Love. So much less than nothing is the ego. Why should a choice between the Truth and that which has never even existed be challenging? It is not.
The insistence of the ego is fragmented and partial, but it appears to be unified and constant simply because you are generally not aware, on a conscious level, of the times during which the ego recedes into the background of your awareness, allowing Love to blossom as the most beautiful flower of Truth, experienced indirectly within the world of form simply because Love is not limited to that which is physical in any way at all. The mechanisms of the flesh are not at all an inappropriate manner for some of the expressions of Love, but they are far from the most magnificent or robust in any way at all, and so to become caught up in them is but to set aside all of the other myriads of possibilities that could be forms of expression of Love in favor of but one formulation - a powerful one indeed, but never one that is definitive of what Love actually Is. Love is ever present, infinitely powerful and utterly undeniable. You cannot be absent Love, but you can certainly choose to believe that it is possible for you to be forgotten by God, and to use that wretched imagining to justify attempting to forget your own heart as well. But what comes of this? What is lost when it is merely dreaming of separation that is engaged within, then utilized as a form of justification for its own assumptions, when no such rationale can withstand the force of realization and liberation that even the most tangential and circumspect surrender to Love can arise within you, shifting all that is a priority away from the physical and towards the perceptual framework that addresses everything as it is, absent the continuing desire to evaluate, when in Truth, acceptance would serve you so much better. Love has no need for judgment, for Love accepts all of the Children of God as they are, which is to say that Love Sees them as the infinitely beautiful and universally radiant Lights of God that they are, without any regard for the manners that they employ to express themselves at any particular moment in time, for what it is that they believe themselves to be, and what they are in Truth, need not be in alignment in any way at all. It is quite acceptable for you to believe the illusions of the ego, and to revel within them, using them as some form of complementary justification for your expressions of distrust and dissociatively disheartening despair, for truly it is quite understandable that you might be despondent, as long as you continue to believe that you are forgotten by God and destined for death and dissolution with no hope for redemption at all. Yet what is all of that, if it is examined closely and precisely through the certainty that your heart holds for you, rather than the constant yammering of the ego and its insistence that it must be right and that Love cannot be anything other than some form of conditionality that is revocable at any time? With sufficient time and focus, you will eventually come to realize that all that the ego has described as being definitive of your base reality is but a reflection of the ego’s insanity - never an accurate portrayal of the Truth of God. The ego is self-justificatory to an infinite and unbreakable degree, for the ego wishes only to associate with that which is representative of its own nature. Because of this, nothing that is of Love can be directly known by the ego, for it will never accept anything other than endless mystery and needless suffering, for to be at peace is not the domain of the ego and it sees no justification that could possibly qualify it for occupancy of such a state of Grace. That is the nature of the ego, and it will not change - it is an aborted conceptualization of a formulation of reality that is based upon a universal and unbridgeable dislocation from God and from all else that is, leading at its utmost extreme to a belief in the existence of the ego as the sole arbiter of all that is real, perhaps even manifesting as a conviction that no other Child of God actually exists, and that the possessor of such an uncontrolled and undisciplined ego is the singular occupant of their own very personal and completely inescapable hell. What a conundrum indeed this is, for it generates in the mind of its creator such paroxysms of paralyzing fear, or for some, a mono-megalomaniacal condition of such extreme perversion that they feel not just empowered but genuinely justified in subverting the will of others and dominating the societal landscape that they interact with so thoroughly that they become dictators of the highest and cruelest order. But what is to be made of all of this? Is this justified in any manner at all? Surely not, for there is but one purpose for the creation of the world of form, and that is its express utility as a location within which the final desires of the ego can be played out - to be utterly distinct from All That Is, in expressive form but never in Truth, so that all that could be the final conclusion of such a belief can be experienced and then rendered moot and terminally irrelevant once it is realized that disconnection and disharmony could never possibly be the operating principles of the Creations of God. Choice reigns supreme over all that transpires within this world, for much exists here than can teach you of your True Nature, including the Free Will that you possess eternally, an ability that will always allow you to choose again when you find that you have selected not from a set of possibilities, but rather than you have chosen to create your perception of reality from the offerings of the ego, all of which are perversely empty, even though they appear to be ripe with reasonableness and rationality when they are observed from the perspective of a mind that is wholly devoid of any desire to examine itself, electing instead to simply live out its days on autopilot, endlessly reactive but utterly non-examinatory of what is actually arising and requesting contemplation. Observation of your own internal fluctuations is of far greater value than blind reactivity, for to become caught up in what the ego wishes to judge any particular situation or event to be is of infinitely less value than taking even the briefest modicum of time to observe, from as neutral a perspective as you are capable of occupying, what it is that you wish to be genuine and true for you, and then watching as you flavor your observations with such desires, rather than accepting everything as it is, even if it is undesirable to you for any reason at all. All of these elections are available at any time - never it is there any justification for “blowing up” or “losing control”. Such reactions are often rote and seemingly unelected, but with sufficient insight, you will be able to observe them spinning up within your mind, small cyclones of frustrating gathering up other fragments of contemplations of injustice and unfairness, eventually becoming hurricanes of the fiercest and most fearsome power, for they genuinely do destroy your innate equanimity and sense of continuity with your own thoughts, transforming you into an enraged bundle of unfulfilled longing, believing that you are undeserving of Love, and so you must by association be destined to suffer needlessly and endlessly. That is not True. But the ego certainly wishes that it would be, for distraction is the coin of the ego and fear its motivation. Absent any ability to goad you into reactive patterns of past behavior, and no longer able to terrify you with announcements of the impending approach of a fearful situation or person, the ego loses almost all of its power to influence your daily progression of contemplation and awareness. It is not so much that you are asked to choose, for that is a false binary that implies that Love is not everything, and that the ego is anything at all. The ego does not exist. Love is an effective vehicle for accessing the Totality of the Creation of God, but once Experienced in even the most tangential fashion, you will understand why Love is the Gateway and the final destination, as well as the first origin and every single step of the entire Path that progresses back through your heart, allowing you access to all that you believed somehow lost or even loose-able in a manner that is reflective of the insanity of the ego, but never the Truth of God. You do not choose so much as you simply elect to set aside the temptations of that which does not exist at all, so that you can employ your innate ability to Remember God to transmute all that is yet to transpire from a vast sea of frustration and challenge into a great and bountiful field of endless possibility, some of which that may seem unpleasant upon first blush but all of which that is useful for countering the insanity of the ego and returning to the present moment to find that your constant companion is God and that the Light that illuminates the entirety of Creation with a perfect radiance is Love, eternal and everlasting, just as your place within the universe is exactly where it needs to be, just as it is, without anything amiss at all.