It's like, Sylvia, when you were talking yesterday,
and you were just pouring your heart out about
this stuck-point that you have with this neighbor.
And how you really
know that there's a lesson there.
You know that there's a forgiveness lesson,
but the temptation to blame,
the temptation to find this neighbor wrong,
was like this huge call!
What that temptation to blame that neighbor is
is this insidious belief in attack!
The belief that attack is real.
The Holy Spirit knows there is no such thing.
The mind cannot attack.
You can't attack God.
You can't separate from God.
The Holy Spirit and Jesus know that attack is absolutely impossible!
That's what you're praying for.
You're praying: "Reach me! Show me!
Help me! I need to know this."
But this insidious...
It's like a little gnat or a little fly that's in your face,
and you're just like,
"Get away! This is not my purpose!"
But it just keeps coming and coming like a little gnat.
It wants to land on your eyebrow.
It's on your lip. It's up your nose!
This little gnat,
You're trying to get it away, but it just keeps coming back.
That is what
this call for love is about.
We have to learn
to join with the Holy Spirit and Jesus
to see past the behaviors,
see past the voice of this neighbor when she called you on the phone.
To see past all the appearances
of everything she said, or her tone of voice,
and all those nuances
that the ego is grabbing on to
build its case in attack.
You have to realize that
you're doing a great thing for you and for the whole universe
to connect, to find that purpose,
of forgiveness.
You're doing this for everyone and everything in all of history!
This isn't just about Sylvia. This is for everyone!
To find this purpose, you have to be willing
to either be right or happy.
I'm going to put it in a context.
I'm not talking about personally right.
I'm not talking about Sylvia being right.
You either have to be right
about the way the ego set up this dark-night world,
this whole, dark world of time and space.
You either have to be right about the way the ego set it all up,
or happy that it's not true.
That it could never be true.
That it has no reality whatsoever.
God did not create it.
It could never even have a semblance of anything.
There is no gnat!
That gnat that seems to not go away,
was not created by God.
God is a God of Love.
Pure Love!
So, here's the key.
This is going to be the key.
My key of the morning is:
When we talk about this world,
and how the ego is the death wish that generated this world,
here's what Jesus says.
He says: What you believe...
You know how Frances talked about beliefs,
how powerful the mind is with beliefs.
What you believe you did,
you now believe it's being done to you in the world.
In other words, whatever you believe you did in your mind,
that attack, that separation from God,
is now acted out.
The ego has generated an hallucination.
Except, now what you think you did,
is being done to you.
The thing that your neighbor
is acting out in your perception,
if you roll it back to the mind,
you first have to believe you did it,
before they can seem to do it.
The ego doesn't want you to see that.
The ego is going to say,
"Nope, they're just plain wrong!"
"They're disrespectful!"
"They're not loving."
"They're arrogant. They're snobbish."
It's going to fling all kinds of justifications to try to
make you think that they're the cause of the upset.
That they're to blame. That they're actually to blame!
But what Jesus is doing with all of us,
he's calling us back into that movie theater,
and he's saying "No, no, come back.
What you think you did, you didn't do."
And what is that but the belief in separation.
He is a wayshower.
The reason Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Light
is because he had a total realization
that the separation from God was impossible.
And he didn't even mind if it cost him the whole world!
He would rather
remember the Kingdom of Heaven.
He would rather remember the Divine Love
of our Creator,
than futz around with a bunch of images!
He wasn't concerned about
the disappearance of the universe.
He wasn't concerned about leaving this world behind,
because he found the Truth!
And that's what it says in The Bible:
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."
That's where we come back to free will.
We see our will and God's Will are the same.
We see that Love is part of our Divine Will,
not attack, justifying blame, justifying guilt, and those things.
Every one of you
that has been speaking up on this profound weekend,
has been offering a gift!
Because as Frances told you, Sylvia,
just by you sharing it,
just by you offering that up,
just by you opening up,
you gave your gift.
And you showed all of us that we can do the same.
We don't have to hide these secret, private thoughts.
We don't have to hide these issues.
I love everything that you're sharing,
because you're pouring your heart out!
You're not leaving anything back.
You're pouring it all on the table.
You're just saying, here's what's going on.
Here's what I'm experiencing.
Here's what I'm facing.
Here's what I'm feeling.
I'm going to be transparent.
I'm not going to hide anything.
I'm not going to pretend that things are good.
If I don't feel good, I'm going to speak it up.
I'm not going to hide anything!
And that is a key to the healing.
The transparency is the key,
because that transparency is basically saying:
Holy Spirit/Jesus, I'm not going to hide anything from you.
I'm not going to play a game,
and try to pretend something.
This is it!
Sometimes it's raw,
but this is what I am experiencing.
And I have a prayer.
I have a prayer to let go.