No gulf exists between your life and God's life, except for your awareness of yourself. No time, no space exists between you and God's life -- only the level of awareness from which you live determines whether you understand this unity or not. That means the task is not to try to change things in time and space, but to bring yourself back into the moment where the possibility of this relationship already exists, and where your realization of it changes everything and everyone involved.
Awareness of the whole of yourself changes the whole of yourself in the instant of that awareness. In that moment, all that you were and ever will be with any other relationship, has found a new path. You don't know what will happen to you if you don't express some negative state. You don't know what will happen to you if you let go of caring how others might see you if you don't have the last word. Instead, you go ahead with what you know is true instead of trying to protect what you sense is false. You've come to that point in the path where you cannot see beyond the unfolding moment, but where you are aware that you can no longer be the kind of human being who acts from what is unkind towards anyone at all. Knowing what you can no longer be, you step into the whole of something, because you have stepped out of yourself.
Then, it doesn't matter where you go, it doesn't matter what you have to do, the things that weigh don't matter -- all of that simply changes, because now you're not sitting outside of life trying to figure out who you should be and what you have to do to keep your life in place. You have grown up spiritually. You have decided on the life that the Whole, that God wants to give you.
Five Ways to Expand Your Consciousness by Growing Your Conscience
1. I believe the more I comfort and fill myself with thoughts of a "brighter tomorrow," the better off I am, but I can see... all discontentment belongs to an inconsolable level of self that doesn't exist without seeking something to complete itself. So I will no longer identify with its sense of emptiness.
2. I may be convinced that you're responsible for my angry state, and all the heat I feel burning me up, but I can see... that there's a fiery part of me throwing logs onto the fire as fast as it can so that it can dance in the flames! So I will refuse to blame you for any flames I feel.
3. I may loathe the idea of having to go through some kind of difficulty in life, and find it easier to run from it, but I can see... that trying to avoid these difficult moments only ensures they will come around again, so I will choose the "hard way" instead.
4. I may be filled with a certainty that rushing to get something done will release me from the anxiety I feel, but I can see... that rushing to, or through anything does nothing but drive me nowhere faster, so I will deliberately slow myself down.
5. I may be convinced my pain is the product of some inconsiderate act on your part, and that you should be punished accordingly for trying to hurt me, but I can see... because I've seen it in myself... that it's your pain that makes you mean, so I refuse to add to your suffering even the smallest measure of my own.
