| BkI:5.II.4 | Sisters and brothers in Christ, accepting the truth about yourself is accepting all that you are here, now, and always—including your circumstances. This means, of course, lovingly accepting who your sisters and brothers are in Christ. And lovingly accepting every circumstance in every moment of existence. This means embracing everything that comes up inside you, making you one with everything. It also means that everything you perceive as external to you must be embraced by the love that you are. This was impossible to do completely before the ego was gone. Now we live a new time. You are a new self. Now anything that comes near to you will be but boats that sail in darkness, approaching you to meet the presence of love. They are no longer the old ghosts that frightened the sons and daughters of God when they were identified with the ego. That is over. It will never come back. |