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No one is obligated to “love thy neighbor as thyself”, let alone to seek and find one’s place in the Great Circle of Life; yet, “it is written” in the stars themselves: all must eventually pay for what they have done against themselves, or others. For Justice through balance is Divine Law, enforced by its tireless, unfailing love... whose final consolation is a pure heart no longer capable of inflicting pain upon another, or itself.

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There are no enemies without someone, or something to blame for our pain; whereas, when we will be consciously aware of our suffering -- without resisting it -- then, is humility born; and where there is this order of humility there abides within it a love that will bear no enemy.

Part 2

If we want to know the extent to which our spiritual development has been arrested, we need only measure the resistance we have to being tested by the appearance of any unwanted moment.

The majority of would-be aspirants believe the “heaven” they imagine is the same as being in the presence of an unimaginable level of Self. And when -- as it must happen -- they are “rudely” awakened from their dreams, they do what comes naturally: they go back to sleep, hoping to find the comfort of another new shelter, in yet another make-believe world.

Part 1

Having no real direction of its own in this life... a wandering mind is incapable of recognizing the difference between finding the promise of (another) false purpose to live for, and the pit into which it falls... as its tempted to reach for the treasure it imagines it has found there.

Part 2

What is not does not exist without having first imagined what should be, while what is neither requires, nor needs to leave anything to imagination.

Psychological suffering is born of an unseen, “mechanical” resistance to life; it is the dark offspring of an unconscious nature that believes its painful experience of any unwanted moment is somehow separate and apart from the way it sees, and then reacts to it, accordingly.

One of the ways the unconscious, divided mind hides the pain inherent in its conflicted nature -- not to mention its inability to bring an end to its suffering -- is by repeatedly condemning itself for doing, repeatedly, the very thing it keeps telling itself it doesn’t want to do again.

Negative reactions -- in fact any form of painful resistance -- prevail only when we fail to remember it is -- at once -- our Divine right, and our work to transform, and transcend them.

Our greatest strength lies in our ability to realize that whatever may be the nature of some immediate worry or fear, it can be proven false... that is, providing we are willing to prove it so by walking into and through it, and to test this truth time and time again.