Take Note of the Parallel
Love is the energy that permeates and powers all creation. It is our source and our irrevocable essence. It is our heart, the point of connection where instinct, love, and light reside.
Imagine this energy as the sun and each of us as a ray of light. The sun’s energy, a loving force, is our true identity and connects us all. As rays of light, we are never separated from our source. We rely on it for our existence. We have no life without it. Sharing the same energy, we communicate, expand, and create peace and joy.
As we venture out as rays of light into the world of form, we lose a sense of connection to the loving energy we share. We confuse our bodies with ourselves and attach to the individual viewpoint we form. Instead of extending the loving energy we are, we develop a separate mindset that mistakenly believes we are independent and isolated from our shared light.
Our minds become filled with thoughts that protect, defend, and uphold this perceived separate self. We attach to the flurry of ideas flooding our minds. The thoughts obscure the light in us, clouding our recognition of oneness. We no longer rely on our hearts to direct us. We allow our fear-filled thoughts to lead us.
We must undo all we perceive through our seemingly disconnected minds. We must recognize our oneness and creative power to expand our loving energy. We must release the cloud cover we form to protect this false sense of self and accept our one illuminated heart as our guide. Only as we learn to overlook all of the judgment, defensiveness, and despair our separated selves attach to will we be free to experience peace and joy.
Each moment, we choose between unity and separateness, light and darkness, love and fear. We recognize our purpose by completely undoing all that clouds our recognition of the light in and around us. We are one energy that expands as we align with the love we share rather than the thoughts that separate. When we live from the heart, we recognize the unclouded path to peace and joy.
Take Note of the Principles
Take Note of the Source
Love is the prolific, objective, enlightening energy that permeates and powers all creation. It is the heart of all existence. Nothing exists without this energy, and everything is instilled with love. We are extensions of this energy and assume a physical form to expand love. We enlighten the neutral world through our passion, affection, and excitement and broaden the love in our hearts.
Take Note of the Oneness
The source of all is love. Love is the unconditionally supportive, accepting, and nourishing energy in everything. We are not only part of love; we are love. We are eternally connected to this loving energy and one another. The essence of each of us, our hearts, contains the same loving energy which created us. No personality or seemingly separate self changes the truth that we possess one heart, energy, and light.
Take Note of the Neutrality
In this world of form, all things are wholly neutral. We impose our perceptions upon all we see, hear, feel, touch, and taste, judging everything we sense. Each determination we make is filtered through our seemingly separate minds, which elicit fear or are enlightened by love, creating peace and joy. We need only to be aware of the source of our perception and the inspiration of our actions.
Take Note of the Separation
As we seek to expand our loving energy through our unique perspective, our seeming separation confuses us. Instead of extending the love we share, we develop a separate mind that mistakenly believes we are independent and apart from each other. This separate self is subjective, defensive, opinionated, judgmental, mistrusting, anxious, and negative, perceiving the world through this limited viewpoint. Our heads become filled with thoughts, clouding our perception, obscuring the light in us, and tainting our creative power. We learn to identify with the head and not the heart.
Take Note of the Reflection
The energy of our thoughts has an attractive power, which allows us to create our experience. Everything we think or feel with conviction comes into our experience. Our fear-filled thoughts give rise to fear-filled experiences, while our loving thoughts engender love. Each moment creates the next. As we learn to take note of the thoughts we engage in, we may choose notions that reflect the energy of love we share. The creation is within our power, and each moment offers the choice between the head or the heart, darkness or light, fear or love.
Take Note of the Conditions
In each moment, we hold one thought which establishes the condition of our mind. The idea may be positive or negative, loving or fearful, light or dark. Awareness of our state of mind is comparable to assessing the conditions of the environment. We may think with brightness and optimism or clouds and despair. Recognizing our guiding energy from our head or heart, forgiving the thoughts that do not serve us, and accepting enlightened ideas leads us to peace and joy.
Take Note of the Undoing
With forgiveness as our function, the undoing of fear-filled thoughts is our goal. As we learn to overlook all of the judgment and despair our separated selves attach to, we will be free to experience peace and joy. The fearful mind attempts to interject itself into every situation. It wants to entangle us in its clouds of conflict. But the choice is ours. We may ignore the blocks to love by overlooking them, shining light on them, or waiting patiently. The clouds will pass us by if we let them go without attachment or investment. Through forgiveness, the restoration of our shared love guides the way to peace and joy.
Take Note of the Freedom
Forgiveness is the focus of our attention. Recognizing and releasing thoughts derived from our separated minds is the gift we give to everyone with whom we come into contact. It is how we are disentangled from the nonsense of this world and return to the love that is always present. When we can recognize a thought as evolving from a defensive, subjective, and fearful stance, we can disengage from it. We may acknowledge and release the fearful thoughts in favor of loving thoughts. This liberation brings us peace and joy and enlightens our minds to love.