Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The All and The Everything

I am coming to know myself now as I truly am. I am truly Infinity, Eternity, Love, Compassion, Peace, Serenity, Contentment, Joy. There is nothing that I am not: I am Everything!

I just wish that everyone could read these words and repeat them with me - without shame or fear, without unnecessary modesty, without arrogance:

There is nothing that I am not: I am Everything!

You are. You really are. And if you could just remember this, if each of us could just recall who we really are, our world would change completely in that instant. If we know this statement to be true, then we see the God in ourselves and the God in everyone else and we know not what separation is anymore.

I know you may not know this yet, and I know I am still in the process (and I will always be, thank God) of fully remembering who I am and what I am doing here, but everything I have experienced in my life has led me to this moment to declare that I am the All and the Everything. I say this with only Love even as many of you would hate the "over-confidence" of the declaration. I do not, however, limit being "the All and the Everything" to just me. Everyone of us are the All and the Everything for it is not possible for there to be anything that is apart from "the All and the Everything."

When I look at each of you as you rush past me in your cars, when I see you running anxiously to catch your flights in the airports, when I observe you working so hard to make another person look bad, when I notice the misery in your hearts over the delusions in which you believe, when I watch you hate and destroy each other and our world, I see only God. I stare right at every human being, and I see God - another aspect of God - God being God in His/Her/Its myriad forms.

Yet, I also understand something else when I observe you doing everything you can to defeat yourself: I understand that the God I see does not know that he/she is God.

The only thing I want to convey here is that Now (and only Now) is the perfect time to remember the Divine Stuff of which you are made. There is nothing hindering you. There is nothing binding you. There is nothing enslaving you. There is no situation that is greater than Who You Are. All of these excuses that you make for not knowing, for not becoming awake to Reality, are as transparent as the wind. Unless you choose for them to be as unconquerable as the universe itself. For God cannot be bound by anything except by what He/She/It chooses to be bound by.

This means that you are deciding in each moment, albeit unconsciously, to wallow in the futility of believing that what you see with your human eyes can somehow contain the Force that You Really Are. Nothing can impose anything upon you without your choosing for it to be so. And you choose to be defeated, limited, and tortured each time you believe you are at the mercy of forces greater than yourself.

So all I hope to do here, both for myself and for everyone, is to remind each of us that it is impossible for us to be victimized in this life. Everything we experience, we have chosen to experience. This is the greatest secret on earth, and it is filled with all of the Love that is God. Why would this be the most wonderful wisdom for all the world to understand? Because, if all we have chosen to experience thus far has brought us nothing but suffering, we can now see that we have the power to call forth a new experience without being constrained by any of the perceived limitations that we once believed held us back.

We cannot be stopped accept by our own willingness to be. There is great Power in that. There is great Beauty in that. There is great Love in that. There is great Truth in that. Remember this in every moment you can, and you will trust, as I now do, that You are God and God is You.

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