After enlightenment, there will be days where you feel God so strongly that all of the "rules" the saints have laid down -- how to eat, how to sleep, how to pray -- will come forth from you naturally. The reason why is because God is the balance in all things. When one is connected to its source, it demands balance, and brings the body into alignment with the spirit in all things. Drink without sugar, eat without salt, pray from your heart with each breath from your lungs.
Today I shall write about the nature of this world and what we live in.
First, we must realize that everyone and everything in this world is interconnected and consciously interacting with us. But do not forget that God is not just a force -- God has as much a personality as any man or woman, if you take away the bad traits and just leave the good. Humor, wisdom, and love -- these are God's traits. When you ask for a sign, God will decide when to give you that sign, not because God is incapable of giving it, but because often we are incapable of recognizing it. God will wait for a time that we are paying attention, which may not be the time we want, to deliver to us our message. Something like this happened just a few days ago that ended up knocking me off my feet. God is always listening. It hears everything you ask for. It will give you all that you ask for, but do remember that we underestimate the power of our own destructive tendencies. Why do bad things happen to good people? Besides the whole "learning" part (which is the point of life, mind you), it is because most people are not good people. They are just people. We cause our own suffering as surely as we cause the suffering of others. We must flood ourselves with love -- this is difficult because many do not feel they deserve love, or have been emotionally crippled to the point where they need a helping hand to show them what love is. That's why I'm here. Please be gentle with yourselves. God loves all of you as much as a universe could love, and it's a lot. Enlightenment comes, however, when you love God the same that God loves you. When a soul loves God, a soul sees God in everything, and thus loves everything. This does not mean one is removed from suffering. In fact, many times a loving soul will suffer pain very deeply. But an Enlightened soul knows how to release that pain without causing any harmful backlash to others.
The World as a Reflection
This world is a direct reflection of ourselves; each and every one of us lives both in the same world and in their own separate worlds, where their perceptions of reality, truth, and morality are drastically different. When we are in conflict with ourselves, struggling against loss, hate, betrayal, and other negativity, the world around us reflects that. It comes down to the simple analogy of seeing the glass half full or half empty. If one sees only the good, then one aligns themselves with only the good, and the world around us aligns itself too. When we move through life not pushing or pulling, not demanding or forcing, but rather asking, bowing, and confidently obeying the eternal rhythm in all things, then life opens for us in ways that are far more than coincidence. God speaks to us through everything, but we turn our eyes away and shut our ears. We pass things off as coincidence. There is no coincidence. Everything, even things that do not seem like coincidence, are interconnected and weaving the tapestry of our lives. When one moves in harmony with oneself, one moves in harmony with the world. When one is at discord with oneself, then one is discordant with the world. Stop seeing this reality as something purely external. We contain this reality inside of us as much as we are contained in it. We cannot control it, but we can harmonize with it. A disciplined soul controls his or her urges. An Enlightened soul harmonizes and floats over them, with no struggle, placing all in the heart of God and releasing it. Let go. God owes you nothing but love -- and when was the last time you loved yourself? Or anyone else, for that matter, in an unselfish way? Love is its own reward.
On Letting Go
We must remember that nothing in life is permanent. We must remember that when we die, we take nothing with us. We must remember that when others wrong us, it is all just a projection of their own hate and pain, and that by releasing our pain in a nonviolent manner, it causes no resounding ripples of negativity. The cycle of pain ends. To find God, we must give everything freely, including ourselves. We must trust our path in this world. We must love.
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