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Once Upon a Dream

Once upon a time- I had a thought: “what if I was separate from All That Is?”  It was an impossible idea yet I could not lay it down. I became obsessed with it and in so doing I retreated, or withdrew my mind from Oneness of Love, thinking that singularity was real or true. My one Reality became unreal to me, seeming only a dream, until I “saw” only fantasy in Its place.

Thoughts of separation, only cause fear in me and in the Sonship or all of Love‘s children. Separation thoughts caused the pain and illusion of being incomplete, alone, defenseless and at the mercy of outside forces, events, and circumstance. “What did I ever do to deserve this?” asks the separated mind. For it still believes that what occurred in dreaming is still its reality. Because the mind has all the energy of creation in it, this energy maintains the dream and its world appears solid, with the physical being the one thing that can be certain and depended on.

The separated mind believes its story is the only story and is ever diligent of keeping out any thoughts and ideas that may say otherwise. For if “I” would stop all the running and doing that seems to occupy my life, I would enter the calm center of my Authentic mind, my Holy Self, that never ceased being in the Oneness, never left its Source- All That Is.

What do I do to wake from dream of separation? I need to practice (more and more times, till practice becomes habit) asking for Help to see differently, hear differently, think differently. As the links are undone with Holy Self’s interpretation, all things will shine in the mind connected with Love.

Love is eternal, therefore, loving thoughts must be eternal. What is given to Love is never lost. It is part of the perfection of Oneness, All That Is.
What is forever true is never lost. It can be hidden, or dropped, or forgotten, but it remains forever and without limit of any kind in the Whole Mind of Love.
All That Is extends endlessly without omission, in complete tranquility, or peace. In Its whole mind, all thoughts are as One, Its extension is whole, complete and without end.
Your Holy Self knows all this and so it holds no fear, no unloving thoughts of separation. It holds the knowledge of Truth for you, till you are available to receive it.

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Fear of Waking

Dearest child,
Yes, you are afraid of waking, but do not punish yourself for this “failure.” Only when you are ready, will you step towards the dark, seeming solid wall of doubt and guilt, and with Love beside you, you will see the Light and the dawning of Truth will free you of all fear thoughts.
When you let or allow the smallest sliver of light into your mind, you are making   room for the shift in perception and the healing of some ancient thought that has no place in your holy mind.

Remember always, that Holy Spirit never engenders fear. If you feel any thing other than peace or happiness, you have chosen the wrong voice to listen to. Simply choose again, as many times as it may take to silence the inane chatter or desperate shriek of the wrong mind. Truly, you have control of which voice you choose to hear or feel or intuit. Tell the insane voice that you are not interested in its tale.

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Carefully Constructed Dream

What if my carefully constructed ideas came tumbling- -no crashing down? Little mind would be overwhelmed and fraught with fear for it deeply believes in what it has built, and yet is equally fearful that it will be discovered as the Huxter,the fraud, the manipulator of the dream.
Yes!! I am the dreamer of the dream. I have chosen what I see, hear, feel. I have played the innocent bystander unaware of what I make. I have made others appear as untrustworthy, takers, and users. I made up my story so I could wear the face of innocence and not look within to see the hidden insane thoughts I made to keep me “safe” from truth.
Oh indeed! “Oh, what a triangle web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”* What started as a tiny mad idea soon became the all encompassing game of the little mind; to keep itself, cloaked in innocence and to keep me believing that “it” was me. This story has run since its shadow first crossed the garden of the mind.
I find that I am playing in the little mind’s dream. I feel fear from becoming a Teacher of God. And fear waking from the dream. Yet, at least I am now aware of the unkind, unloving thoughts that pop into my mind. If I choose in that moment to be more awake and less asleep, I seek the Holy Spirit’s aid in releasing the guilt laid thought and welcome or accept the loving thought instead.  I am reminded “That thought is not you.” When I can step back, see with Love’s eyes, I free myself and my neighbor, friend, or brother. When I free him or her from my projection, my sick thought, I am freed as well.
My thoughts can be healed. When I truly relinquish my hold or belief in them, they disappear. They disappear because the power of the thought is all encompassing. The power or energy of my thoughts have made what my sick mind wanted to perceive. When I no longer value what I made in error, my mind can shift, returning it to what lays beyond perceptions or dreams.

*quote from Sir Walter Scott, 1808.
Poem: Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field

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What Is Not From Love

These thoughts were given to me recently.
You mistook a mad idea as being real, as if it had really occurred.
God knows not of your tiny mad idea, He sees only that His Son sleeps. You, who sleep, cannot be aware of the truth which surrounds and in dwells you is reality. You have mistaken that the dream is reality.

“Loss is not loss when properly perceived.”  When you choose to give up the illusions of the dream, then you will perceive truly. How can loss of illusion
be regarded as anything other than freedom? When you understand that you cannot lose anything that is part of Love, you will no longer fear loss.
Anything that is not part of Love has no meaning, no value.
It is always a mistaken thought or idea, and one the Holy Spirit will correct for you, freeing you from continuing “mistakes.”

I also found this helpful, from
David Hoffmeister.
  “It is important to
  remember that the
  giving up of illusion
  has no cost or sacrifice.”

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This World Is Meaningless

These thoughts came to me recently.

The insanity of the world will stop when I stop the insane thinking in my mind.
The ego denies that my thoughts can actually ‘do’ anything. But thoughts I have had made the world I “see.” This world is meaningless because the thoughts that I had, made this world based on fear and there is no fear in reality.

All fear is based on a false idea. It makes no difference how many minds believe in the idea for that belief will never make it Reality. It is only real to the mind that is dreaming it.

As long as I believe, or value something, then it exists for me. I must be valuing the separation idea, thinking it gives me something I want. Do I see “power” in autonomy? Strength in unloving thoughts? Do I want to wash my hands of the world, then I can be “free” to do what I like? These kind of beliefs give energy to the tiny separated sliver of mind that thinks it is separate. Yet this thought of separation will never be real, for what never happened can have no meaning or effects.

My meaningless ideas show me a meaningless world.
Is this what I really want?

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