5-1. When presented with Truth, the ego will scream in fear and the heart will sing with joy. Which of these diametrically opposed voices you wish to hear is forever within your power to choose.
Because the ego is the veritable definition of a fear that could not possibly ever be Real, now manifest in form but utterly unable to alter the Truth of Love in any way at all, when the ego is confronted with anything at all that clearly is inexplicable from the horrifically narrow lens that is the ego’s eternal perspective, it will shudder with terror and run away from what confronts it, just as rapidly as your will allows the ego to abscond with your focus and attention. The heart is not as this. The heart welcomes home all that is of God, rejoicing endlessly as it recognizes its core constitution reflected within an example, situation or interaction with another Child of God who is sufficiently open to proceeded through an interaction with you in a manner that is becoming of an Awakened Light, reflective of your own generous and intimate nature, each refracting their personal understanding of the Light of Truth and sharing, in a fashion that has no characterization with the loss that is involved in the physical world, what it is to them to be aware of the Love that sustains All That Is as It Is. This process of recognition and reflection is effortless, overjoying and infinitely peaceful, but the ego will have none of it at all. The ego cannot possibly withstand any challenge, for it is so very fragile that it knows that its final resolution must be a complete collapse and disintegration back into the nothingness from which it was first imagined, a belief in separation that could never be Real and an assumption of unworthiness that has no basis in anything at all that is actually True. The ego cowers in fear of all that is seemingly oppositional to its nature, for the ego has no flexibility, no resiliency and no ability to integrate anything at all that does not jibe with its perspective, instead rejecting such occurrences out of hand and demanding that it be divested at once of all that ails it, lest it become even more disheartened and dissolute than it already is, as if that which has never existed could discover some way to become less than nothing at all. Openness of the heart requires bravery and a surrender to the Light that is innate and ever-present, but it will seem difficult if you are not yet familiar with such a process of allowance and acceptance, for you may encounter feelings of resistance and even an inexplicable desire to reject that which is presented, fearing that such a level of connection to another - or in the most egregious cases, to yourself - will somehow injury or damage you, requiring some manner of allowance that will result in a loss on your part. Loss, taking, destruction and alteration are all conceptualizations of the ego - they have no reflection in Love. All that is to be taken is nothing at all, for you have no need of illusions when the Light of Truth is so bright and so very clear indeed. But to the ego, it will seem that something must be lost, never to be known again, if you are willing to open yourself to the heart of another and to be vulnerable to them, allowing them access to your innermost emotional resonances and being in a state of intimacy with them, for certainly to the ego, to be guarded and protected seems justified indeed, if not absolutely necessary at all times and with regard to all others that the ego encounters, for they are not you, and so they must have as their core constituency a desire to take from you whatever it is that they believe to be valuable. Nothing can be removed that does not exist, and all that is the illusionary beliefs of the ego do not constitute anything at all that is actually Real. As such, all that is feared is but the release of all that never existed at all, allowing for a much vaster space of intimate and integrative allowance and acceptance to arise in the place of the ego’s desperation and denigration of the intentionality of any other Child of God, for surely from the perspective of the ego, they wish only for what is “best” for them, with no regard for your own interests, for why would they - you are not them, and so you are not at all important. All of these feelings, which can arise and be experienced in tangential form, and are oftentimes not directly perceived on a conscious level, serve only the interests of maintaining an illusion of separation when the Experience of Unity would serve so much better. Your heart is not afraid. It is not capable of experiencing anything at all that is unknown to God, and so fear does not dwell within the purest and deepest reaches of your heart, so very Certain of its Connection to God that no manner of experience or tribulation, no matter how grevious, can possibly convince your heart that this world is anything other than a testing ground for all that is not, or perhaps a proving ground for All That Is - a method of experience that can be perceived as discrete and isolated, but which must at its final resolution be recognized as an illusionary distinction of form that was never genuinely reflected in the Truth of Love. Acceptance of yourself as a Child of God is a necessary prerequisite for Remembering the state of Grace that was your Creation, so that you can finally look so far within that you see that that Grace was not lost when you poured your awareness into form - you merely believed that it might be possible to be separated from God, and so was a world created that could be representative of such an error, solely so that you could experience it and then conclude that it was never justificatory of your fears in any way at all. All that is of Truth is so very simple, even though its forms of expression can be amazingly creative in their manners of expression. All that is Love is Unitary. All that is Unitary is God. All that God Creates is Unitary with Truth. Created as a divine Light, you and God are One Love. That is all that there is to accept, and even that does not have to be acknowledged so much as you need only allow all that is not of Truth to fade away, no longer sustained by your willingness to invest yourself in illusions and their barrenly desolate offspring - fears in all of their forms. Choice delineates all that can be for you, separating what it is that you wish to experience and encounter into two seemingly different groups, although one is Real and the other just an illusion to be dispelled whenever you’d like. Choose fear, along with its twisted cousins rejection and isolation, and you will imagine a world that reflects such an election to you, for you will select out all that is representative of what you believe the world to be from all that it is, painting your own image in form and then believing that to be sufficient evidence of an error in Creation that has never been Real. Choose again with Love and your heart will arise again as the appropriate channel through which Truth can transform all that appears to be distinct into what it is, Eternally - merely a great panoply of the expressions of Creation, all believing themselves to be experiencing this world in a distinct fashion, leading lives that are only partially conjoined, while in Truth, all that God Creates is Unitary though Love. Acceptance of this Truth liberates the mind from further pursuit of the vagrities of experience that are illusionary, returning Peace to your windswept and wave-battered mind, allowing you to settle back into a state of observation and enjoyment that accompanies a realization that no matter how different any part of Creation might appear to be, there is a thread of infinite and perfect Love that joins it with your own heart, and through that tapestry of endless beauty, nothing is a threat at all, for with Love as your Light, you will be able to See the Purity of the hearts of all whom you meet, and through that corrected Sight, the Heart of God will be seen, shining back at you, always and forever, just as Creation Is and will always be.