Daily Reminder # 65

OK.... I've got nothing original tonight, so I thought I'd call on Emmanuel's Book once again. Much of the book is responses to questions, in this case:

What is enlightenment?

Everything and nothing

Let me see if I can find another way to put this.

If I say to you: "Enlightenment is all-knowing,"

then I limit enlightenment.

If I say, "enlightenment is all-loving,"

I limit love.

There can be no beginning and no end

and your human vocabulary is rife with limitation.

So let us say enlightenment

is being in the moment through eternity

without the intellect

but with the consciousness of all things.

It is absolute peace

without the awareness of non-peace.

It is absolute love

without the awareness of hate.

It is all things without end

having forgotten the illusion of ending.

All things are of God

and all consciousness

eventually knows

its oneness with God

The natural flow of consciousness

is towards Light

The only resistance to Oneness

is within your own consciousness.

Here is the struggle.

As awareness expands, it cannot contract.

It can be distorted, but it cannot contract.

Once one has known a human consciousness

there would be little use

in being a blad of grass again,

for the karmic structure of the human being

is far more complex and aware.

Experiences manifested in your life

by the resistance you still possess

are there in the interest of both truth and Light.

They show you the pain of these obstructions

so you will move through them.

In the faith of knowing that all things

are moving towards God

the obstructions take on

a different meaning and form.

They are there at the human level

to obstruct

but at the ultimate level

to instruct.

Whether temporal or infinite,

all things are beautiful

Some of you want to see

only what is already lighted,

hoping to avoid

what is still in darkness in your world.

Life does not have to be white-washed

in order to be beautiful.

If you were to dissect a human being

and break him up into all his components

there would be no need to apologize

for any of the parts.

Some things I'm grateful for today:

• Netflix
• Punny Monday
• Isabel Allende
• my back yard
• paper towels
• my therapist
• the ability to change
• Emmanuel's Book

HAVE AN INSPIRED DAY

MAY ALL YOUR SHADOWS REVEAL THEIR SECRETS