5-2. All of Perfection unfolds before you, a Light so unalterably bright that to think you can not find the way is but inconsequential folly. Love is your Guide. Peace is your Home. You can never fail.
The concept of failure is endemic to the ego. It pervades everything with the mystique of “success” and the horrific consequences of “failure”, as if being something or someone that you are not is some form of disappointment, some betrayal of your True Nature and some crime that must be punished by the universe, for surely you have strayed from the Path that is forever open to you, and so you are in violation of some form of requirement that has no reflection in Love. Note the implied emphasis on the word concept. All that is failure is as this - a concept, never a reality. What is there to unconditional and universal love that is conditional? What is it to fail, when All That Is is equally all that you are, eternally and perfectly? How do you “sin” against God, when God is Love and that Love is applicable to all situations, all events and with relation to all conceptualizations of the Path that leads only ever higher and ever homewards? What is there of the Love of God that is predicated upon the completion of some curricula that is perhaps disseminated tangentially or referentially, but that is certainly not distributed in a clear and concise manner that is readily accessible to all? What is there that you continue to wish to hold against God, believing your Creator to be anything at all save for universally beneficent and utterly unwilling to See All That Is as anything less that its Totality, a perspective and a systematically applied eternity of Awareness that knows no error and accepts no bounds, for All That Is runs through the perfect center of your heart, an awareness that you have not forgotten - you have simply believed that it might be possible for you to be deceived by the ego, and so you have manifested a world that reflects just such deceit, even though no such error is actually present at all. Failure is a concept because you are already Perfect, just as you were Created. That does not imply that all actions can be undertaken in the Name of Love and be understood by God as being genuine reflections of such a Perfection of Spirit, for causing harm to others or yourself is hardly becoming of an Awakened Child of God. But you do not fail when you do not quite manage to manifest absolute acceptance and complete Grace in all instances, perhaps straying from the Path of Light that allows All That Is to be as It Is, for it is quite commonplace during a process of Awakening that you will “backslide” as it were, reverting to prior and previous tendencies to judge and to attempt to evaluate the actions and utterances of others from a perspective that dictates that you must be able to be certain of their exact intentionality during the time of their actions, when in truth, you can never be possessed of such an exacting certainty. That much occurs that is incorrect or ineffective is certain. This world is a confusing place, and much that transpires here is hardly directly reflective of the Love of God. But is that a failure on your part or on the part of any other sleeping Child of God, that you or they might engage within behavioral sets that are not particularly revealing of a countenance and constitution that is wholly oriented upon the Face of God and the Love that subsumes all that is error within a Grace and a Forgiveness that is universal and applicable to absolutely everything that occurs? Certainly it is not, but the ego is most certain indeed that it wishes to never entertain such ideas, for they are the beginning of the undoing of the ego’s ironclad grasp upon your intention and awareness, transforming the ego’s rationale for upset and frustration into yet another opportunity to forgive and to release all attachment to situations that are not - at least apparently and obviously - in alignment with what is in your best interest. All ideas of failure stem from but one misconceptualization, a very simple error that is nearly universally accepted and so infrequently questioned that it is not at all surprising that it is applied so easily to so many situations, when its import is wholly illogical in the extreme. When you “fail” - are you a “failure”? Does the child that commits an error equally an “error” themselves? When you choose the wrong path, only to redirect yourself at some later date when you realize that you’ve gone awry, are you in some manner fundamentally altered by your misdirected election? Is error forgivable, or is it a permanent imprint and impinging stain upon your heart, now besmirched by incorrect choices and befuddled endlessly by what was chosen that turned out to be less than ideal? Surely from any perspective of rationality, this is seen as a great conflation of the action and the individual, attempting to meld them together into one singular formulation, as if the Child of God that does not immediately Return to God after discovering that no separation from Love was ever possible has “failed” in some manner to immediately recognize that they took but one simple step away from the Truth that the Light of Love never dimmed - it was merely your willingness to take up a belief that it might be possible to be separated from God that resulted in you regarding the world of form as definitive, when it is only a consequence of a necessity of learning that was best answered by the Creation of a universe that could embody the logical conclusion of what was proposed, all without altering the structure and constancy of Love in any way at all. All that is your Return to Truth and your relinquishment of anything at all that seems to be able to represent “failure” to you, or a “failing” on the part of any of the other Children of God that you encounter during your time within this world, is but a Path of Light that is so readily obvious and so elegantly transparent that it is not hidden in the slightest - it is only your willingness to uphold the principles of the ego, and to disdain the simplest of logical understandings that makes the route forward seem opaque and dissimilar from your own best interests and deepestly held desires. You cannot fail to Remember what you are - a Child of God, Loved eternally and Perfectly just as you were Created to be. The ego can certainly attempt to obfuscate this Truth, plying your mind with reasons for anger and justifications for condemnation - primarily of yourself of course, as the ego frequently attempts to belittle you in an effort of distraction, hoping in vain that you will not ever awaken to realize that the litany of complaints and register of suffering that the ego holds out as a permanent record of your time within this world is but the prevarications of an illusion, so desperate for its own continuance that it will employ any method possible to convince you that you are anything less than Love Itself, for if you are not Perfect, then surely the ego has a toehold that it can use as it attempts to scale to the lofty peaks of your highest and most refined consciousness, desiring to topple your tower of understanding with grappling hooks affixed to the smallest of gouges that the prior beliefs in imperfection, which perhaps you engaged with with vigor and acceptance, have left on the facade of separation that you employ to hide away from God and from yourself. Turn inwards in condemnation no longer, blessed and bountiful Child of God, for no failure has ever marred your soul. You are One with Love, Perfect and Eternal, just as you were Created. All of the guidance, instruction and direction that you will ever require to release all that is of illusion, and its mutated associate “failure”, are already present and available within your heart. You deny their Light when you believe that “sin” is Real or that God is capable of anything at all other than Love and infinite Forgiveness in the face of any and all error. Carry these burdens no longer, for they assist you not and simply drain away your energetic resonances in a vampiric relationship that saps your vitality without replenishing you in any manner at all. All that is of God was Created to be the highest and most Perfect expression of Love in whatever manner is best for it to express. Failure is not a part of that process. There can be only progress back towards God, or the recalcitrant obstination of a mind that has elected to believe that it is deserving of condemnation. You are not, for you are integral with Love and so you cannot fail - you can merely extend the time that you remain with your consciousness centered in materiality, whilst you continue to look outwards for a justification for your existence that is already fully and wholly present within. Because you are Love, you never fail - you simply discover yet another reason why the ego is nothing at all, because Truth is All and you are able to recognize this blessing and then enact it in form to just the extent that you believe you are capable of manifesting, all transpiring to exactly the degree that your Trust in your own heart becomes so certain and so complete that no conceptualization of error remains at all.