Take Note of the Start

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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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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 lead us to peace and joy. 

With forgiveness as our function, the undoing of illusions 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.

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.