A New Way to See

Folly of Pretense

I just finished re-reading “Her Fearful Symmetry.” To me, it’s about the folly of thinking you know what you want. Or what makes you happy.

I guess there’s that part of my mind that doesn’t want to give up the idea that it can know and decide what it wants. It wants to keep “trying” till it finds that happy thing. It searches for what it is and has already in reality.

The folly of pretending to be something you’re not. I’m pretending to separate from my source, so I made up a world and a body that I could hide in, for attacking my Creator (Father). A definition of folly: •lack of good sense; foolishness; • a foolish act, idea, or practice. When I am foolish, it does not make me sinful, only in need of assistance or correction. But I need to ask for help!
Salvation lies in the fact that all my pretending has not changed me or Love one iota.

“Why do I insist on hating my self and punishing myself?”

“You are merely asked to take small steps to ask for Help more increasingly so that true emotional healing can begin.”

“First, realize that if you are ill you have somehow asked for its form to help you return to Love. The dark emotions you are repressing are what make you physically ill.”

“It [the body] is your idea of some form of replacement for love. It cannot last, for it is not love, but a shabby deception to keep you from the real experience of Love God has always kept for you.”

Quotations from “The Book On .... and Jesus Answers” by Joel Wright,©2009.

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