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Only what is imperfect in us wants to punish (the) imperfections that it sees in someone else.

What else are the untold number of lies -- "large and small" -- that we tell ourselves, or others, if not a trap we build in the now... only to be caught in it later?

Whenever we will do the best we can -- give the very most that we have to give -- even though our action may be very far from "perfect" -- nevertheless, that action is our part of entering into a celestial perfection to be realized in no other way. It is only by consciously enduring our own imperfections that we are given eyes to see that, all along, Love itself has been our guide and master.

A battle wages on
In the deep of me,
An epic struggle
'Tween sand and sea,
Where one resists
The other, so free...
Yet, no loss or gain
Marks Eternity.

Part 1

When, before our inner eyes, we always have someplace better to be, or a feeling that who we are just isn't good enough, we are blinded to the presence of two great truths: First, all imagined destinations are dreams whose promised fulfillment fades the nearer we draw to them... And secondly, that where and who we are in each moment is, in fact, a field of possibilities whose powers are ours to gradually incarnate and perfect.

Part 2

Only what is in balance can reveal what is not, while whatever is imbalanced is powerless to restore balance to itself.

Nothing in reality is fixed; the illusion of being unable to transcend some unchanging nature within you is the work of unseen resistance to the ceaseless transformation that is the matrix of Real Life.

You cannot make yourself whole anymore than a wave can make an ocean. But, you can rise above the waves of frustration, that tempest of anger whose soul-eroding pain would have you believe that you are more than you can be in any given moment.

1. The most gracious
2. The most merciful
3. The king
4. The holy
5. The peace
6. The grantor of security
7. The controller
8. The powerful
9. The strong
10. The supreme
11. The creator
12. The evolver, the maker
13. The fastener, the shaper, the designer
14. The repeatedly forgiving
15. The subduer
16. The bestower
17. The provider, the sustainer
18. The opener, the victory giver
19. The knowing
20. The restrainer, the straightener
21. The extender - expander
22. The abaser, the humiliate, the downgrader
23. The exulter, the upgrader
24. The giver of honor
25. The giver of dishonor
26. The hearing
27. The all-seeing
28. The judge, the arbitrator
29. The just
30. The gentle, the subtlety kind
31. The all-aware
32. The forbearing, the indulgent
33. The great, the magnificent
34. The much-forgiving
35. The grateful
36. A sublime
37. The great
38. The preserver
39. The nourisher
40. The bringer of judgment
41. The Majestic, the exalted
42. The bountiful, the generous
43. The watchful
44. The responsive, the answerer
45. The vast, the all embracing, the omnipresent and boundless
46. The wise
47. The affectionate
48. The all glorious
49. The resurrector
50. The witness
51. The truth, the reality
52. The trustee, the dependable, the advocate
53. The strong
54. The firm, the steadfast
55. The friend, helper
56. The all praiseworthy
57. The accounter, the numbered of all
58. The originator, the producer, the initiator
59. The restorer, the reinstater who brings back all
60. The giver of life
61. The bringer of death
62. A living
63. The subsisting, the independent
64. The perceiver, the finder, the unfailing
65. The illustrious
66. The unique, the single
67. The one, the indivisible
68. The eternal, the absolute, the self-sufficient
69. The all-powerful - he who is able to do everything
70. The determiner, the dominant
71. The expediter, he who brings forward
72. The delayer, he who puts far away
73. The first, the beginning-less
74. The last, the endless
75. The manifest, the evident, the outer
76. The hidden, the un-manifest, the inner
77. The patron, the protecting friend, the friendly Lord
78. The supremely exalted, the most high
79. The good, the beneficent
80. The ever returning, ever relenting
81. The avenger
82. The partner, the Effacer, forgiver
83. The kind, the pitying
84. The owner of all sovereignty
85. The owner, Lord of majesty and honor
86. The equitable, the requiter
87. The gatherer, the unifier
88. The rich, the independent
89. The Enricher, the emancipator
90. The withholder, the shielder, the defender
91. The distressor, the Harmer, the afflictor
92. The propitious, the benefactor, the source of good
93. The light
94. The guide, the way
95. The originator, the incomparable, the unattainable, the beautiful
96. The immutable, the infinite, the everlasting
97. The heir, the inheritor of all
98. The guide to the right path
99. The timeless, the patient

The power to incarnate, to be a living expression of any Celestial Character begins with our realizing its temporary absence within us. Real action is instrumenting its return, whatever the cost.