You are not alone

Never imagine for a moment that you are alone. As you walk your path through life know that many forces are with you and support you on your journey. This is not magical thinking. This is the truth about the interconnectedness of all things. You are in the habit of looking only to the material for proof of support. But the material is the least of the energies that are at play in this dance of life. You are connected with all things. Not only all things but with all that exists in the non-corporeal realms also.

Q. How can this understanding help us in our lives?

A. When you know yourself to be the very tip of the great wave of life, when you understand that this form with which you identify is the smallest eyelash on the face of the whole, then you can understand the eternal nature of existence. Then fear is assuaged. What can there possibly be to fear when there is no death, when all pain is temporary, when the illusion of self hood is seen for what it is? When you understand that the nature of life, be it pain or pleasure, heaven or hell, is only a divine play, then there is nothing to fear and nothing to want. Have you never gone to a war movie, a horror movie, a suspense movie? Comedy, romance, science fiction? These are the movies that Spirit plays on the planet earth. You each are the characters in the movie. Thus it is said that the story is already known. It was written long ago, before the moment of incarnation. The dramas were delineated, the roles chosen. Chosen, you understand, as play. When you know this the struggle that you call life transforms into story.

Q. Do we have no choice, then?

A. You have many choices, within the parameters that have been chosen. Always the choice to resist or accept, the choice to trust or fear, the choice of how you relate to the stage on which you perform and the role you have taken. In details and in attitudes you have choice. But the rest is already chosen. When you say "This is just the way I am," you should be saying "This is whom I have chosen to be". Thus choice of setting, of story, of role has already been chosen long ago. It is as though you act in an unscripted play, do you understand? You can move in many directions but the outline is in place.

Q. What, then, is the meaning of life?

A. The meaning of life is play, is joy, is experience. The meaning of life is the great dance of spirit, the cycle of wholeness, the dance of love. The meaning of your life and the lives of many of the planet is the unfolding into love, the witnessing of the expansion of matter into dimensions of awakening to spirit. Understand that meaning changes according to perspective. From the point of view of spirit all is perfection. The dance of life is a great symphony of color and harmony. From the point of view of the small self life is the journey towards spirit, the unfolding of the embodiment of spirit in form. This unfolding is enacted through the willingness to experience everything; to know that all is held in a container of love no matter how hard, how harsh, it may seem; to understand that death is not an ending but a transition, that life itself is a transition; to know at a deep level that no harm can come to you. When this is understood life, even a hard life, can be lived in joy.

Q. Why, then, are so many people in despair?

A. Because you have forgotten the truths of which we speak. Because there are no institutions in your culture which lead you in the direction of which we speak. This is why we are telling you these things. Know that it is possible to live happily in poverty. Know that is is possible to live unhappily in wealth. Look to where you focus your attention in the struggle towards love and joy. You will not achieve your goal if you worship false gods, do you understand? The capacity to be happy, to experience joy, to expand, to love, these are all inner. Nothing outside you will help. A momentary romance, a brief victory at work, at war, these will pass in the night. Cultivate your awareness of your connectedness with all things. Know that you are carried by the wave of life, surrounded by whole communities of support. Let yourself be held by the universal energies of which you are an integral part.