thegoldendolphin

“Why are you afraid? Why are you afraid that what is unreal will attack you? How can what is unreal attack you?

“If I find myself afraid, thinking that what I’ve detected as loveless or unreal still has the power to overthrow me, I can be sure I have condemned myself (or identified with a thought that condemns itself). I have given away emotional responsibility for how I think and feel to what seems to be external to me.

“Now what seems to be external to me now has emotional responsibility – now is responsible for how bad I think I am. In essence, I have asked to be attacked because I think I deserve it.

“So, if I recognize my emotional responsibility to myself, which is innate, – simply that I am responsible for how I think – it’s a given that if I am emotionally responsible for myself, then all that I am must be Good, must be Love; must be uncondemned.

“And if that is true then there’s no fear. Because the fear is congruous only, only, when I believe I deserve to be attacked or have asked for it.

“And recognizing this, I recognize it in my neighbour too. And they have no authority over me as much as I have authority over them. I see that they are part of me – that they are emotionally responsible, equally, for their Good, Love; uncondemnded.

“And as for asking for them to attack – I let it go, and ask them, silently, within myself that they go with God as I recall the One Self that we are in the eternal now.”

spring nh ’24