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Love Is Awakea written, rather than spoken, message / channeland was the first thing that I wrote after completing my first book, The Messiah Seed.

Though I experience profound floods of inspiration whilstdeep in writing, it still had not occurred to me that I couldexperience those revelatory moments while speaking in front

of an audience public speaking was a very real fear I had back at this time. The realization to spontaneously speak whatI felt inside would not come until several months later when Ispoke The Embodiment of Freedomin my first public channel inSanta Fe (July 2005). Love Is Awakeis therefore the last piece ofwriting I produced when I believed that writing would be myprimary form of communication.

Along with its companion piece, The Power to Choose Joy (included here), these early texts show how central the

realization of love and self-empowerment are as key messagesthroughout all my work, as love is the ultimate energy that can bridge any two states of consciousness.

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The Bridge of Consciousness Love Is Awake + The Power to Choose Joy

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IntroductionYou are awakening in this very moment. You chose to be here at this time in your history toexperience what you are calling awakening. Know that you not only chose to be here at thistime, but that you are the creator of this time, and you created Now to be the time of awakening.And now you are here, living in your creation, at the time of awakening, and even though youmay not as yet have let the feeling into your heart, I tell you that this is the beginning of the timefor which you have strived. You are here, in the Now, and you are awakening. It is the time forcelebration.

The celebration starts now and will live on eternally in the joys of being that have birthed fromyour journey. What has been achieved is real. It has touched All That Is. The very nature of beingis expanded, all life is enhanced, and it is your collective energy that has made it so. Throughyou, the love that has always been, that from which all life births, has awoken in a new way. Andso I call this energy, this expansion of being that has birthed from your heart, the Love That IsAwake. It is the very energy of what you call awakening and it is experienced as the opening ofthe heart to universal, unconditional, awakened love.

And now, just as you have always had unlimited access to the love of God, you also all haveunlimited access to the Love That Is Awake; for it is yours. It is of your creation. It is that whichhas birthed from the beingness of your world. The fruits of your labor are now available to youwithin the reality from which you birthed them. Awaken to the love that you have awakened.That is to say, be the Love That Is Awake, embody the Love That Is Awake. Awaken. Awaken tothe love that you are.

You are an expression of All That Is (the Tao / God / Life). You chose to come to a reality where,when you enter, you forget that you are All That Is. This forgetting is what allows the completefreedom of will that you wish to experience. By connecting to your spirit, the limitless part of you

that continues to exist outside of physical reality, you are now coming to remember that you areGod, experiencing itself in a unique chosen individuated way. This process of remembering(awakening to) what you are, not only re-connects you to All That You Are, but has also awokenAll That Is to experience itself in a new and freeing way. This is to say that through yourcollective beingness on Earth you have enhanced the beingness of God and you, as a living self-aware expression of God, now have access to that expanded state of being. It is a state of beingthat allows you to experience and ground your infinite godhood, your limitlessness, withinphysical reality. It is to awaken the loving energy of the God that you are into your Now. You

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have always been All That Is, and now you can experience that godhood in the wakefulness ofyour life. You are awakening the love that you are. It is time to experience, be, and express theLove That Is Awake, for that is what you are.

The Love that is AwakeAt the heart of awakening is love, the Love That Is Awake. To experience this universal,unconditional, unrestrained, awakened love is to feel a living energy whose only volition is toempower you to be All That You Are. It is felt as a gentle uplifting motion towards completefreedom of being, moving with you to best support you in whatever you choose to do. It is therealization of your limitlessness made manifest in the unfolding of your journey to where youwant to be.

This feeling, this joy, is what you are. It is the energy beneath all of your layers of definition, yourcloaks, your disguises. Underneath your fascinating stories, your linear time, and yourphysicality, is the freedom of what you are, your limitless being, your Godhood, the Love That IsAwake. To experience this love is to realize that there is nothing that you need to do except let goand enjoy the journey that awakened love carries you on. It unleashes the knowing that life isawake to All That You Are and will take you to where you want to be. Love That Is Awake willempower you to be whatever you want to be. It is the solution to any problem, the key to anycage, the fuel to any engine. It is that which utterly and sublimely affirms and accepts your being.It is to know that you are God. To know you are God is to know you are love. To know you arelove is to be awake to love. It is to be awakened love, Love That Is Awake.

To be awake is to live in the conscious realization that this Love That Is Awake is not separatefrom you in any way. It is not a destination to which you must travel. It is not a secret that youmust discover. It is not a reward that you must earn. There is no must. The Love That Is Awake isyou; it is life, the seed of your very beingness, the limitless energy field from which you createyour reality in each and every moment. Being awake is a complete opening of the self to All ThatIs. You are love. You are awakening. You are awakening to what love is. The love that you are isawakening to itself within your beingness. You are awakening to the realization that All ThatYou Are is love and now your love is awake. You are a unique, self-aware, self-determiningexpression of the Love That Is Awake. To touch this state of beingness is to experience the unity

of all life. You are it and it is you. You are one. You are the Love That Is Awake.The love that you are is awake and is calling to you from within your heart. The calling that youfeel is you calling you. What you are awakening to is your Self. To be awake is to consciouslyexperience your connection to All That Is. You are connected to All That Is through theexperience of the Love That Is Awake. To experience it is to be it. To be it is to be All That YouAre. Realize that all things are one thing, and this one thing is infinitely expressing, infinitelyexploring, and infinitely loving itself. In this is the realization of the sheer perfection of theorchestration of life.


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In the experience of the universal love is the experience of the wakefulness of that love. Thiswakefulness is experienced in many ways usually including feelings of unity, complete self-validation, appreciation for the perfection of life, seeing through the illusion of separation, totalacceptance of everything, the release of duality, and, of course, love. In this state people who stillconceive of God as being external often experience themselves, their very beingness, as the love

of their God. To experience your Self as the love of God is to experience the origin of what youare without cloaking it in the differentiation of matter and judgment.

From this explosion of experience, that reveals the illusion of separation, comes many startlinginsights. Concepts such as right and wrong, linear time, and the separation of Self and other fallaway. In the absence of division, in the absence of any of the ideas with which you limit your being, is the realization that everything that you are is exactly what you are choosing it to be. It isto realize the Self as being that which chooses the state of being that you experience as yourreality.

Love That Is Awake is love that knows that it chooses itself. You are the choice. The Love That IsAwake is the energy that manifests your choice into the experience of what you are. You are ThatWhich Chooses. The wakefulness of the love that you are is a reflection of how consciously youare choosing your reality. You are the Love That Is Awake choosing. Choose to awaken your loveinto the conscious reality that you know as your Self. Be All That You Are. To love your Self is achoice, a choice that only you can make. Make the choice to awaken the love that you are. Toawaken is to realize that all realities are a choice, and you are the creator of that choice. Choose tolove your Self. Awaken your love by choosing with love.

Know your Self You are not a part of God, not a sub-set. You are all that God is, and you, as God, are expressingyourself as you. You are choosing, from an infinite array of choices, what it is that you want to bein every moment, and currently you are choosing to experience an incarnate life and thatincludes every aspect of it. You are God choosing to be you.

The Love That Is Awake is your connection point to your being in limitlessness, your soul if youprefer. The choice to experience, and therefore be, awakened love is the choice to experience AllThat You Are. To be the Love That Is Awake is to experience your Self directly withoutcamouflage, without distortion. It is therefore the choice to truly know your Self. One definitionfor awakening can therefore be said to be coming to know your Self and for all beings this is tosay, coming to know that you are love, you are awake, and you are God. You are the Love That IsAwake.

To know that you are love, to know that you are God, is to come to know your Self; for what youare is love, is God. This is so important and so elusively simple that it bears re-stating. If youwant to awaken, if you want to experience what it is to experience your beingness as being God,


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then come to know your Self as you are in the Now. There is nothing no thing that you needto learn. There are no physical actions that you must take. There is no book you must read, noteacher you must meet. THERE IS NOTHING YOU NEED BECOME.

You do not become God by realizing that you are God. You are God now whether youconsciously realize it or not, so there is nothing to do to become God. You are God. What is beingspoken of here is remembering that you are. To make the choice to remember that you are AllThat Is is to make the choice to see your Self clearly, that is to say without the learning which toldyou that you are limited, which told you that you are less than. To come to awaken, to come toknow that you are God, is to come to know your Self. Your Self is who you are in the Now, andthat includes everything that you are, including what you believe are your imperfections.

Most feel that awakening involves becoming something. This is a statement of not being awake.To believe that awakening involves becoming something that you currently are not is to be indenial that you are God. You do not become God by having abundance, by having a degree, by

having a job you enjoy, by having children, or by being in a loving relationship. You cannot become God. How can you become something that you already are? Everything in your life is anexpression of your Godhood. All that you perceive as not being Godly is a part of your powerthat you are rejecting. The reason you reject it points to the part of your Self that you are rejecting.

So awakening is not becoming God, it is remembering that you are God. This is an importantdistinction as it removes all external criteria. All that is left is your own internal state of knowingwhat it is you are. There is nothing that needs to happen externally for you to awaken. If you arelocked in a prison cell you need not be freed to know you are God. If you feel trapped in an

abusive marriage you need not obtain a divorce to know you are the Love That Is Awake. If youare starving you do not need food to know that you are All That Is.

So if nothing external needs to happen for you to awaken, then what is it that you need do? Theanswer is: know your Self, know what you are, know your beingness. But how do you do this?The answer is: however you choose. There are an infinite number of paths to knowing your Self,to living your passion. Some may find the realization of their godhood in being a parent or ateacher; others may awaken through meditation or prayer; some through sky-diving or surfing;some through a partnership, whether it be with another person, an animal, nature, or anideology; others through a religion, a cult, or a drug. Any and every vessel of experience has thepotential to unfold your wakefulness. Any and every experience does unfold your wakefulness.You are awakening, right now.

For many however it is still not felt. You think, how can I be God when I still hate? Realize youare God experiencing what it is to hate. How can I be God when I still fear? Realize you are Godexperiencing what fear feels like. How can I be God when I am unhappy? Realize you are Godexperiencing your sadness. To realize something is to be open to it changing you. This is a formof vulnerability made possible through developing an inner trust in the unfolding of your beingness, an inner trust in your Self. You are the unfolding of your beingness.


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To awaken is to realize that, whatever it is you are experiencing, you are God choosing thatexperience and, what is more, a totally meaningful reason exists from which you are constantlymaking the choice to experience the reality that you are experiencing. No exceptions. Whateversuffering you are choosing in your life, you are choosing it with good reason, and uponawakening you will know and agree with that reason, for it is you that is choosing it. This gives

us a clearer picture of what it is to know your Self and therefore what it is to awaken. To awakenis to know that it is you that is choosing your reality. To know that it is you that chooses yourreality is to know why you are making the choices that you are making. To know why you aremaking those choices is to see that your reality is exactly the way it is so that it may best lead youto awaken to the fact that you are God.

Now, in the moment of this realization, that you are choosing both all the joys and all thesuffering in your life, you will discover the power of your choice, the power of a total freewill, thepower of your godhood. To awaken, to remember who you are, is to step into your power. It is to

become awake at the level from which you choose your reality. It is to awaken to the realizationthat what has fueled all your choices has been Gods love for you, your love for your Self, andthat you are now awake to that love. In this moment you are experiencing the Love That IsAwake.

Re-ChoosingThere is little doubt that in this moment of awakening you will re-choose many aspects of yourlife. To realize that suffering is a choice is to choose to let go of suffering and know that it will beso. To realize that joy is a choice is to choose to live in joy: this is manifest as seeing with claritywhat it is that truly brings you joy which is often discovered to be a pleasure that you deemednot impressive enough. This re-choosing is your being consciously exercising its limitlessnessand is as it should be. However, please understand that, though you will make changes to yourlife when you awaken, that this does not imply in any way that what you were previouslychoosing was anything less totally and utterly perfect. How could it not be so? It was from thisstate that you awoke, and to awaken is glorious.

Many have a concept of an ideal Self; what it is that they would like to be. To awaken is torealize that what you are Now is, in this moment, your ideal Self. Whatever imperfections you

have are perfect, and though, upon awakening, you may transform your reality into somethingcloser to your dream of an ideal Self, this does not change the fact that you already were ideal.So the gap between who you perceive your Self to be in the Now and your perceived ideal Selfis a measure of your lack of acceptance and love for your being. You will always have the powerto change and transform your Self, but know that the greatest powers of transformation arewielded by those whom wholly, completely, and utterly love and accept their own being as it is.The route to becoming anything lies in first accepting what you are in the Now.


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If you do not love your Self as a slave then you will not be able to love your Self as a King. If youdo not love your Self when you are poor, then you will not love your Self when you are rich. Toawaken you cannot escape having to love and accept your Self. You can convince your Self thatany number of external factors are the cause of your lack of experiencing your Godhood, butthose external factors are merely symbols of how you are internally experiencing your own

beingness.So what is being said, is that though you may upon awakening change many aspects of yourreality, you will also realize that your current reality, your Now, is perfect. This gives a greatinsight, a great tool, into the process of awakening. As what it says is that anything that youexperience in your reality as being wrong, a mistake, imperfect, less than, or something thatyou would not choose for your Self, is a manifestation of a way in which you are in denial of yourgodhood. Anything that you do not accept about your reality is a part of your godhood yourpower that you are choosing to separate your Self from.

Why would you choose not to experience all your power? The answer is fear. Fear is your denialof a part of the love that you are. Fear is your rejection of your own limitlessness, usually out ofthe refusal to believe that you are infinite, out of a lack of Self-worth. All fear is therefore a sign-post to your awakening. It is a signal as to where you are rejecting a part of your power. Followand face your fears to reclaim the power that you have given away. Awaken your wholeness.

To awaken is to know your Self. To know your Self is to see your Self clearly. To see your Selfclearly is to see your Self without fear. To see your Self without fear is to see yourself with lovefor love is All That Is (even when it is disguised as fear). To see your Self with love is to be love,

for to love your Self is to love and be loved simultaneously. To consciously be love is to be lovethat is awake. It is to awaken your love. It is to be God. To be God is to know that you are theLove That Is Awake. It is a circle of affirmation that can only be broken by not accepting itsmessage of love, and that means not accepting your Self. Know that you are a message of the loveof the God that you are. You are a messenger. You are an angel.

To be awake is therefore to know your Self and to truly know your Self is to love your Self. Tolove your Self is to accept your Self. It is to completely accept what you are, all that you have been, and all that you will be. To completely accept what you are is to completely accept that youhave chosen, with love, every aspect of your reality. Your reality is an expression of your being, itis a part of your beingness, and you cannot reject it whilst being accepting of your Self. Yourreality is a direct reflection of you and is, as such, a tool with which you can see how you trulyfeel about your Self. How you feel about your reality is how you feel about your Self. If you donot love your reality then you do not love your Self. The more you love your reality the moreawake to your godhood you are; the more awake your love is. Be awake to make the choice tolove your life. Awaken your love for life.

The route to God is not through a rejection of your Self or your world. It is not in sacrifice ordeprivation. It is not in shame, fear, or guilt. It is in the complete love and acceptance of All That


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Is and you are an expression of All That Is. To come to love your Self is to come to loveeverything. It is to directly experience your unity with all life.

Loving EverythingComing to love your Self is, simply put, coming to love. With how you experience the world being a reflection of your own being, coming to love your Self is coming to love the world and allit contains. To know your Self as love is to know all as love. It is to realize that all are of unifiedorigin. All are of the love of All That Is. All are of what you are. All others are equal expressionsof the God that you are.

To come fully to love is therefore to love everything that is manifest in your world. To realizewhat this means is to see with clarity what love is. Universal awakened love does not mean thatyou must choose as that which you love chooses. It does not even mean that you must associatewith what you are loving. It is not about any form of romantic love, which often includes both

conditions and attachments. Let us look at war as an example.To love everything is to love war. If you hate war then you are hating a part of your Self, for donot doubt that you have had many lives and have participated in war, in killing, in violation. Thepart of you that did this is still a part of you. It cannot, nor should not, be removed. It is a part ofAll That You Are. When you have participated in war you did it with great wisdom. You wagedwar to experience something that you wanted to experience. It was perfect that you killed whoyou killed when you killed them, and it was perfect when you experienced being killed. You areGod experiencing the unique experience of being human, and a part of life is death. Through

experiencing death you have affirmed your realization of the choice for life.This does not mean that in the Now you should wage war. You can choose not to war now butstill honor the part of you that did wage war. You can choose peace for your Self in the Now andstill honor those that still want to experience war just as you once did. Just as you had yourperfect reason back then, so those that war now have their perfect reasons. Honor your choices byhonoring theirs. It can be seen here that awakened love is not necessarily even about likingsomething; it is about honoring its right to exist and express itself as it chooses. Awakened love isabout giving complete unconditional allowance. You personally may choose not to do something.But when you do not honor the rights of others to do it you step on your own right to exerciseyour will freely, and that is to say you limit your being.

To attempt to limit the freedom of another is to limit your own Self, for to attempt to limit is tostate a belief in limitation. You will then live inside of that belief which will manifest as your ownfreedom being restricted. This is the basis of what has been called Karma, which literally meansaction. There is no system of retribution for your actions. There is no God that says what you doto others will be done to you. What karma means is that your actions, your choices, create thereality you live in. You will live within what you have chosen. If you believe in using violence,


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then you will live within a personal world that is reflective of violence. This is not as apunishment; it is simply you living within the reflection of your own beingness, the good news being that by choosing joy so will you come to live in a world that reflects that joy to you.

Another way of phrasing this is that you are the creator, the architect, of your own being. Youractions, your choices, are the blueprints of that reality. As you implement choices so your realitychanges. The implementation of choice is the tool of creation and it is a tool that makes you aunique expression of God. Your freewill is what defines you, or more accurately, your freewill isthe tool with which you define your Self. Know that your will is yours alone to do with as youplease. It is a God given right, and you are the God who gave it to you.

You define your Self by choosing. You define your reality by choosing your Self. Your reality is adirect reflection of your choices. By changing your choices so you change your reality. To changeyour choices you must know that it is you that originally chose what it is that you wish tochange. To know why you chose something is to appreciate the choice you made that brought it

into being. To appreciate the choice is to understand it and that means to love and accept it; theconclusion being that to change an aspect of your reality you must first come to love and acceptit. You cannot be freed from a pain that you do not allow your Self to feel within your being. Youcannot change what you do not accept that you originated.

This realization reflects back to the idea that to awaken is not to become something other thanwhat you are but is to remember all that you already are. To awaken you must love your Self asyou are Now. Many people simply keep on transmuting what they hate. One war (internally orexternally) may end but it will keep on reappearing in different forms until it is integrated. To be

integrated it must be accepted. This is in the same way that you cannot escape what you rejectabout your Self. For example, you may not like the anger you often feel at a friend. One seemingsolution would be to end the friendship, but this would then cause the manifestation of that sideof you to reappear in another form. Whatever is on the plate of your life is there to be dealt with,so, though it is valid to change its form if you choose, know that you will eventually deal with itin one form or another. You cannot escape your Self. You can become anything but you cannotescape that your external reality will always reflect your internal reality. To become anythingexternally you must become it internally. To discover the choice for joy choose to be joyful as youare in the Now, perceived warts and all.

No HierarchyYou are God. All are God. To love your Self can therefore be seen as universally loving everyone.There is no hierarchy in Unity. To love everyone is to see that though they may be makingchoices that you are not (such as going to war), they are God Selves just as you are and theirchoices are as valid as your own. They are you in a different situation, in a different belief system,in a different personal reality, and within their own context their right of choice is as inviolate


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and wise as your own. You cannot know better than they what is right for them. To love your Selfis to honor their choice as you would like your own to be honored. They are God. You are God.

Within this context of acknowledging the origin of all as being of the One, the concepts ofhierarchy and spiritual competition are redundant. To want to fix or save others is either a way toavoid looking at your Self or, more typically, is working on your own issues in the externalizedform of another. There is nothing wrong with this, but the buffer of the externalization meansyou are working in a less direct manner and this can bring out separation through a perspectiveof superiority / inferiority.

To believe that you are superior to another is to deny your shared Godhood. If what you feel asawakening is making you perceive your Self to be more and more superior then I suggest thatwhat you are in fact doing is creating a barrier between your Self and the part of your Self thatyou are rejecting as being inferior. Look at the labels you are using to segregate other Selves

from your Self and you will discover how it is you that feels inferior. Superiority is always amask for a feeling of inferiority, an excuse to be distanced. Awakening to your Self yourGodhood, your power is to step into the Unity of life and this is to be intimately embraced bythe experience of love.

Remember that what makes your beingness unique is your choices. Though you are all one,though you are all God, you are unique in your beingness through the choices you have made.You will naturally look at others and have a preference to associate with people who makechoices that resonate with your own. There is nothing wrong with preference. Having a desire for

certain things over others is a part of all beingness in a physically expressed (differentiated)reality. Realize however that you can have a preference for one thing over another withoutlabeling your choice as being superior, and the choices of others who choose differently asinferior. That is not preference, it is separatism.

Competition, the questing for superiority, flows from a lack of Self-worth (inferiority) and a fearof intimacy. The desire to show others that you are better is the desire to show your Self that youare worthy because you do not feel worthy and, though winning the competition may providetemporary relief to the painful feeling of inadequacy, it will not end it. To try and gain feelings ofSelf-worth through competition can become an addiction, because as feelings of Self-worth become associated only with winning in competition the quality of life becomes dependent onthe outcome of seemingly external uncontrollable events.

Having external events govern how you feel about your Self is a common condition in yourreality. To have your happiness be dependent on what is happening outside of you is to be at themercy of power that you have externalized. In this state life often feels to be a rather scaryrollercoaster ride as you have essentially externalized your controls. In this condition you haveliterally given away (temporarily) your ability to consciously choose your reality. To regain thatcontrol is to step into your power and that means facing the fear or vulnerability that caused you


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to externalize the power in the first place. At the heart of pain is always a vulnerability that youhave not yet allowed your Self to fully process, as it was deemed at the time to be too much tohandle. To allow the pain to then be expressed is for you to show it the Love That Is Awake. It isa re-integration of All That You Are. Do not fear letting go of this pain. It will empower you, nothurt you. As you take the power you externalized back into your Self, so you will let go of the

fear it manifested and your being will be freer, for all cages are unresolved fear. Do not fear yourpower. You will use it wisely.

To stand in your power is to re-integrate all the power that you have externalized. A personstood in their power has no need of competition to bolster themselves. Freed from the cage ofcompetition they are then free to choose their reality according to their joy rather than out of theexpression of insecurity (competition). Until you leave competition is it difficult to see just howmany of your choices it determines and how few of those choices have any correlation to livingyour joy.

To step out from competition is to step into co-creation. Many fear leaving competition as they believe that without its sense of motivation they will have no spark for life. This is simply because they do not yet know what they are stepping into. The power of co-creation to manifestyour choices is far greater than that of competition. To work collectively with others of sharedintent is to wield the energy of the Love That Is Awake.

You are all co-creators, and now as you move into the realization of your Godhood you moveinto the power to create whatever you desire. You are the Love That Is Awake and it is up to youhow you choose to express your energy. There is no right or wrong in this. There is no best path.

There is no secret. You are here as creators. You are the creator of your life. If there is any judgment in how you live your life, it will only ever come from your Self. Create a life such thatwhen you leave physicality you will look back at your life and be joyful of it. Create theexperience of joy by choosing what your heart finds joyful. There is only one time you can do thisand that is in the Now.

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Stand in Your Power

To come to your power to choose joy is to realize that you are the determinant of your being.Taking ownership of your state of being is coming to stand in your own power. This is referringto inner power; external power being an illusion. To come to stand in your power is to take back,into your Self, any power that you have externalized. Your innate power is not a reward to beearned; to experience it you simply need to stop giving it away through having limited beliefsabout who and what you are.

When you do not stand in your power, that part which you are denying is projected outwardsand is then perceived as being external. This is what creates the illusion that there are forcesoutside of your Self which have the power to control your choices - your choices being themechanism through which you shape your reality. To see your Self as not being accountable foryour state of being is to live within a belief in external forces that have control over you. This can be manifest in such forms as a controlling person, governmental laws, or a lack of abundance; basically symbols of perceived limitation. This births the ability to blame. To blame is an attemptto hold this externalized aspect of your power responsible for your state of being, instead of being fully responsible for your Self. Re-assimilating this externalized power is a part of the journey to being All That You Are. To take back that power is to come to the realization that allpower over your being is yours alone. It is to realize, within your Self, the absolute power ofchoice over your being.

To experience your power of choice is to realize that you are the one that possesses the power tochoose joy for your Self. When you realize joy as being a choice you will realize that all states,including suffering, must equally be a choice. Through this you will see that to take responsibilityfor your own suffering is to empower your Self to be able to choose joy. A part of the journey to joy is therefore to take ownership and responsibility for your own suffering. To do this release all

sense of 'blaming others'. Realize that this will be a gradually unfolding process.

Releasing the Idea of MistakesWith the taking of responsibility for your suffering comes the realization that it is not a mistake tosuffer. This does not mean that you 'like' suffering. It is the realization that not only did you notdo anything 'wrong' to suffer, but that you chose your suffering with a purpose. This is therelease of the idea that you can make mistakes. The reason I use the word 'mistake' is that though

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you may have released the idea that you did not do anything 'morally wrong', many people stillfeel that if they are suffering then they must have made mistakes in their choices. The idea beingthat a mistake must have been made that has caused the state of suffering. This allows for aninteresting example of the rippling effect of beliefs.

If you believe that to suffer is a mistake then you believe in the existence of mistakes. If you believe in mistakes then you live in a world where your power of choice, instead of being amoment of empowerment, is a moment when you can fall. This is to live in a reality where thereis jeopardy, and that is to live in a world where you do not feel safe. To not feel safe is to be livingin fear. To live in fear is to be suffering. The conclusion being that if you judge suffering to be amistake then you will live within that judgment and that is to be in suffering. That which you judge, you end up holding to you. There is no concept of the traditional view of karma here,simply the living out of your beliefs. Karma actually means 'your action'; meaning how youchoose shapes your future.

To live in joy, accept that suffering is not a mistake. This is the letting go of the cross of sufferingand it is a cross that humanity has been carrying for a long, long time. To see suffering as amistake is to dis-acknowledge states of being that you chose, with infinite wisdom, to be. Realizethat you do not need to see suffering as a mistake in order to stop choosing it. You do not need to'reject' that which you no longer wish to choose. Simply stop choosing it. The suggestion being,that only when we stop judging suffering to be a mistake, can we finally release it from our lives.

Your power to choose joy is the power of choice. It is your free will, the point from which youcreate your reality. Realize the ways in which you may fear the full realization that you create

your own reality. Fear of this realization is why many give away their power of choice. Though itmay seem strange, the fundamental fear in this reality is the fear of our own power; and that isthe realization that we are limitless. We fear the realization of Self as God.

You Are GodYou will experience joy when you free your Self from fear of your power, fear of yourlimitlessness. Realize the perspective from which it can be said that all fear is fear of your power.Acknowledge that there is level at which you are terrified of the complete realization that you arethe architect of your being. It is the ultimate responsibility to your Self. Many people feel nakedwhen stripped of the ability to blame, for they have come to partially define themselves throughit. Beyond your fear is you in limitlessness. Without fear you are free to act, free to choose, free tocreate. Without fear you are free. It is to realize the limitlessness of your being. It is to step intoyour Godhood. Many people, predominantly through organized religion, have externalized God,and to step into their power is to internalize and be the God that they once externalized. ReallyGod is neither external nor internal. God is everything, everywhere. God is holographic, witheach aspect containing a complete imprint of the whole. God is All That Is.


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If you went out and asked people, Who do you think has the power to bestow joy and sufferingon a person? the most common answer you would receive is God. The 'father' God of organizedreligion has become a symbol of how many have externalized their power. This has become soacute that some have completely rejected any notion of their divinity, instead choosing to believeof themselves as an accident of atoms that perishes at death. The middle ground being trodden

by many at this time is the reclamation of All as God, divinity expressed from within. Somepeople fear that to realize God as being within would somehow be the loss of God when, inactuality, it is the discovery of God. There is a God and you are a living self-determiningexpression of it.

To exercise the power to choose joy you must come to know that it is you that possesses thatpower. You must come to view your Self as being that which has the power to, with your freewill, manifest joy in your life. This comes through both coming to not live in fear and coming tolove your Self. Coming to love your Self is coming to not live in fear. You are love and the only

thing that separates you from the experience of your Self as pure love is both your fear of yourSelf, and your attachment to the idea of exactly what love is. Love is limitlessness; the desire forall beings, including your Self, to experience complete freedom to be whatever they choose to be.To realize your Self as being an unlimited self-determining expression of God is to realize withinyour being the power to choose joy.

The Choice for JoyComing to choose joy for your Self is an ever unfolding process of coming to release your beingfurther and further into limitlessness. Bringing joy into your life is like cultivating flowers in agarden. See the allowance of time in this idea. Realize the ways in which you can give joy to yourSelf. Seriously think about it. Ask your Self, What can I do that will bring joy into my life? Thisis, surprisingly, a question that people rarely ask themselves. Choose one of your answers andgive it your energy. Know it as a seed and, as you nourish it, so it will come to blossom into joy; aflower that will then offer many more seeds, each of which carries the potential for the continual blossoming of your joy. Look at yesterday and see where you sowed seeds of joy and where youmerely sowed seeds to 'not suffer'. Realize joy to be far more than 'not suffering'. Don't seek to'not suffer'; seek to be joyful.

Every day you have the choice to give joy to your Self and yet you rarely do. Somehow, in themoment, other things seem more important. You ask for a field of sun flowers to miraculouslyappear, but you do not plant seeds by giving your Self moments devoted to your joy. Many haveforgotten how to play. Without play all the money in the world will not bring you joy. Somethink to themselves that they will learn to play when they have the money to do it with. That issimply to live in delay; that is to delay abundance. It is to give away power to the idea of money.Learn to play without money, and money will come to you because it wants to be played with!


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Joy and MoneyNow let us talk of joy and money, two things we love to mentally connect. Many of us are socaught up in our own suffering, or the suffering of others, that we make no space-time for play.We do not want to hear that love and joy are all around. We say to the Universe, Pay my billsfirst and then I will look for love and joy. We believe that to refuse to be joyful before the

Universe gives us its riches will somehow push the Universe into giving us what we want. Wefear that if we have too much fun when we are poor then the Universe will say See you didn'tneed any money after all! The Universe does not decide these things, we do. Money is not areward bestowed by some external entity. The power for the choice for money is ours just as thechoice for joy is ours.

As long as you believe that money will make you happy, as long as you make money thedeterminant of your happiness, then you will not find either happiness or 'enough' money. Thereare many who you may perceive of as being rich, who are miserable in their chase to have even

more money. They never feel that what they have is enough. The feeling of having 'enough' isfeeling a state of completeness in your Self. No external condition can give this to you. When youcome to joy inside of your Self then money will come to you as your personal symbol of that joy.As long as you believe that what separates you from happiness is money then money willseparate you from your happiness. And that is to say you will come to live in the experience ofyour belief until such a time as you change that belief. Reality is a mirror of our beliefs. A feelingof lack will only ever draw lack to you.

Joy is something that people tend to think will come to them through some external force, insteadof believing that it is something they can create from within. There is no external force that canthrust joy upon you in this way; that would be an invalidation of free will. The power, the choice,for your joy is within you. To live in joy you must give joy to your Self. To do this you must standin your power such as to realize that it is within your power to do this. Let us look more at theidea of how judgment of suffering can separate us from our power.

Judgment of SufferingTo not see being in suffering as a mistake requires extreme non-judgmentalism of your state of being. We tend to label suffering as being 'a problem'. We see it as something that must be fixed.

This is in essence a belief that we are damaged. In doing this, of all the seeds around us, weeffectively choose the ugliest looking one and give it all our energy. We try to make what is (oursuffering), come to not be; instead of making what is not (our joy), come to be. This is fed fromthe judgment of suffering. Judgment acts as an energy that binds us to our suffering in order toresolve the Self-limitation that it represents.

If we truly want to let go of the concept of right and wrong then we cannot believe that it iswrong to suffer. Again, this is talking of wrong beyond the idea of just morality. I am talking ofthe idea that whatever choices you have made, that you perceive as having led to your suffering,


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