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Once Upon a Dream

Once upon a time- I had a thought: “what if I was separate from All That Is?”  It was an impossible idea yet I could not lay it down. I became obsessed with it and in so doing I retreated, or withdrew my mind from Oneness of Love, thinking that singularity was real or true. My one Reality became unreal to me, seeming only a dream, until I “saw” only fantasy in Its place.

Thoughts of separation, only cause fear in me and in the Sonship or all of Love‘s children. Separation thoughts caused the pain and illusion of being incomplete, alone, defenseless and at the mercy of outside forces, events, and circumstance. “What did I ever do to deserve this?” asks the separated mind. For it still believes that what occurred in dreaming is still its reality. Because the mind has all the energy of creation in it, this energy maintains the dream and its world appears solid, with the physical being the one thing that can be certain and depended on.

The separated mind believes its story is the only story and is ever diligent of keeping out any thoughts and ideas that may say otherwise. For if “I” would stop all the running and doing that seems to occupy my life, I would enter the calm center of my Authentic mind, my Holy Self, that never ceased being in the Oneness, never left its Source- All That Is.

What do I do to wake from dream of separation? I need to practice (more and more times, till practice becomes habit) asking for Help to see differently, hear differently, think differently. As the links are undone with Holy Self’s interpretation, all things will shine in the mind connected with Love.

Love is eternal, therefore, loving thoughts must be eternal. What is given to Love is never lost. It is part of the perfection of Oneness, All That Is.
What is forever true is never lost. It can be hidden, or dropped, or forgotten, but it remains forever and without limit of any kind in the Whole Mind of Love.
All That Is extends endlessly without omission, in complete tranquility, or peace. In Its whole mind, all thoughts are as One, Its extension is whole, complete and without end.
Your Holy Self knows all this and so it holds no fear, no unloving thoughts of separation. It holds the knowledge of Truth for you, till you are available to receive it.

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