It is becoming increasingly clear to me just how important love is. We all need love - but not the love of others to support what we are - but the love of God to correct what we are.
In simple terms, God sends His light - which we know as conscience or what we know in our heart - which shines a light on us. If we are willing to become still and sit still for this light, it will totally disabuse us of any illusions about ourselves. It will show you, in the clear light of truth, just what a fallen creature you are, and selfish and phony to boot.
Of course, this does not sound like love. But if you think about it, this light makes us aware of truth. It is also not supportive or reinforcing of the hateful, deceitful, selfish thing we have become. Instead it is like a wet blanket. Were this light to judge, resent or hate us, we would have an excuse to resent it back. Or to fee hurt . But since it is impartial but honest, we have no excuse to hate it.
Were you to identify with this light from God, and no longer reject the truth, but accept it willingly (not resentfully). Then you would be shriven of error, cleaved from the error, you would cling to the Light.
It's like choosing sides. There are those rare moments in life when we chose between two people, two differing ways, or two paths. You either go with one or go with the other. You either accept one or accept the other.
So it is if you are blessed to become still enough to see that there really is a Truth, and that this Truth does not hate you, but shows yo the truth about yourself. If you believe this Truth (this light of Truth with a big T), you are rejecting the lies. And when you reject the lies, you are thereby believing and accepting the truth.
You have made the choice. The dye is cast. You have moved or inclined toward God and His Truth, and turned away from the lies and the evil source of these lies.
When you were prideful and egotistical (wanting to be proud) you believed the lies and wanted to believe the lies that supported your pride. Even the lie that God does not exist supports the ego in its lonely struggle in which it takes pride and subtly blames God or fate.
But when you no longer want to be proud, but jut want to be honest, then you are compatible with the truth. Now, step by step, you will begin to reject every lie that you ever believed. It will no longer be a matter of choosing, but simply of seeing, in the Light, the lie as the lie and the Truth as the Truth. The Truth shines a light on the lie so you can see it for what it is and shrink away.
Because our faulty personality was built upon millions of lies and layer upon layer of denials, you new personality will be composed of believing rightly and then acting rightly.
Right action is easy. When you see a wrong course, one that leads to tragedy, it is simple to simply not go that way.
The exercise of right decisions because of right beliefs will lead to a new personalty and a new way of life founded in Truth. It is all so simple.
