Living in today’s world, death seems inescapable. Many have even accepted it for themselves and look forward to approaching that day at a future time.

However, many have not accepted it for their loved ones. When a death occurs, it can feel like nothing makes sense and that the world is unfair.

If you are a follower of this blog or my music, you know that I don’t believe in death in the way that many others do.

The intent of this article is not to change your beliefs regarding death. That’s what There Is No Death, No Pain, and No Evil is for.

This article is to show how you can be alright at this moment when the thoughts of loss seem too great.

There may be some things in this article that seem to strike a nerve, but continue to read it in its entirety. This will help you.

Let’s get into the 5 ways to easily get over the death of a loved one.

1. It’s All About You

This is going to come as a shocker, but know that I am saying this with love.

When someone dies, it’s not about you.

That person supposedly lost their life, but you didn’t lose anything.

So if you’re going to feel sad, don’t feel sad for yourself. You’re still here and get to live it up.

Instead, feel sad that they won’t get to live it up, which has nothing to do with you. And then, remember that you don’t need to feel sad at all.

I’m not suggesting that you hold back your feelings. Let them out in a huge cry if you need to.

But then celebrate and honor your memory of them by feeling good that you crossed paths and that the best parts of them are with you always.

2. A Loved One’s Purpose

There is a belief that people exist in this world only for your will. I know, it’s a hidden belief.

You lay claim to these people through your words, i.e. your friends, your family, your this, your that, etc.

Within this belief, you think you know what’s best for them all. You know their highest capabilities and even their incapabilities.

Additionally, you know that whenever you call them, it’s best for them to fulfill your request. That request could be to entertain you, make you feel better, be good company, whatever.

But do you really know this? Do you even know that you think you know this?

Everything and everyone that exists has a purpose or else they would not be here.

In terms of items, when you no longer have a purpose for one, you either throw it away or give it away to be repurposed.

Many of us still don’t even know our own purpose, let alone the purpose of another.

How To Discover Your Purpose

What does this mean?

When you perceive a person’s death, you don’t know if their purpose was fulfilled or not.

You also don’t know if the circumstances surrounding their death were a manifestation of their commonly repeated thoughts.

The person may have gotten exactly what he or she wanted out of life and was ready to transition to something else.

Again, you don’t know.

There’s no sense in being mad or sad over something that you don’t know.

Furthermore, for those that believe in God, as I do. Do you really believe that God’s Will could not be done? Trust It. Trust Him.

He knows what’s best for you and He wants to give it to you. But it’s hard to receive something when you’re denying it.

3. Closing Off Yourself From New Experiences

When you’re a kid, everything is exciting because it’s all-new.

Everything is also exciting because it stays new.

No moment is like the previous one nor do you try to make it that way.

But as you get older, you try to recreate past moments that you felt were great. You deny this moment in favor of one that already happened.

You no longer trust that exciting experiences will be brought to you so you invest in what could never be, the past.

When you live in the past, you try to hold on to everything and everyone exactly as they were in that moment.

Yet you know as well as anyone that people’s thoughts, feelings, and bodies change every second of the day.

This means that by holding on, you are essentially setting yourself up to remain disappointed at all times.

It’s almost like your thoughts of choice are, “I want what I could never again have because I know everything about the world including that everything else would suck in comparison.”

If your thoughts, feelings, and body is changing all the time, that means that what you would enjoy changes all the time as well. God and the universe are always wanting to give to you that which you would enjoy.

But by holding onto one tiny moment that happened infinity moments ago, you are choosing littleness instead of abundance.

In doing this, the only thing that can make you happy is that which could never be.

Let go of the past so that you can experience all that the present has to offer in its glory.

This is not to say to forget about your loved one. This is to say to live now for you both.

4. Communicating with Your Loved One

The loved one is still with you now. Who you are is a combination of yourself and their influences over you. So literally, you are no longer just yourself.

In addition to that, you can actually communicate with your loved ones now as if they are here because, in reality, they are.

Here’s how.

Sit in a comfortable position. Relax completely being fully grounded in the present. Feel your toes touch the floor or your shoes. Let go of any past thoughts or experiences. Make only this moment your focus.

Close your eyes and think of the love shared between you and your loved one. Now say what you would say to them either out loud or to yourself.

Listen to what you receive back from them. It may not be heard with the body’s ears, but it’s definitely felt.

You can do this any time of any day for any length of time. So have at it. Enjoy a full dialogue.

A quote from one of my favorite books A Course In Miracles (ACIM) perfectly sums up why you are able to do this.

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.“

And in case you want a bible quote, check out Luke 20:38.

“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.“

5. Holding Onto Form Weakens You

As I mentioned above, you are choosing littleness instead of abundance.

You already accept that your thoughts, beliefs, and body are endlessly changing. And throughout all of these changes, you’ve still always been you.

So what version of your loved one are you trying to hold? And why would you want them to be stuck in a changeless form for your benefit?

There are so many people in your physical awareness right now that would love for you to enjoy them.

But it’s impossible to experience both loss and abundance. Each denies the other and so only one can be true.

If loss was real, then you would be happy to receive it. However, since abundance is real, even the illusion of loss can be.

To believe that your loved ones are only a body is to believe that you are an insignificant speck incapable of anything real.

This is not true. You are the light of the world. Your rays extend beyond any and everything ever-flowing for eternity.

In Conclusion

In conclusion, your loved ones didn’t die. Only your perception of who they were, died.

Let go of this perception so that you can LIVE with them always.

Enjoy this beautiful selection from, IAMNOBODY, IAMSOMEONE.

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Focus on the good. This seems like great advice. Since what you focus on expands, all you have to do is focus on the good to increase it, right?

Not so much.

There’s a fatal flaw in this logic. This flaw will be the basis of this article. The “good” thing is that by the end of it, you’ll have a better understanding of what is stopping you from being happy all the time.

Focusing on the good is a decent starting point in turning things around in your life, but I want you to be totally happy and remain that way no matter what.

So let’s get into it.

What’s Good?

Take a moment to think about what’s good in your life.

Feel free to grab a journal or open a text document and list out everything you can think of.

Just so you won’t take the easy way out, list at least 20 things.

You will be happy you did. Most people don’t realize that there are so many things in the world they are grateful for.

This exercise is your chance to see them all in one place.

It could be something as simple as popcorn or something like a rapper that made a classic healing album. Yes, that was a shameless plug. But focus.

Make your list.

With your list made, pay attention to how you feel right now.

That is genuine gratitude that you are feeling. See, you have more reasons to be happy about than you realize.

So how could focusing on these things ever be bad?

What Happens When You Focus On The Good Only

Look at your list again now think about each item’s opposite, if applicable.

For example, you may have on your list that all your bills are paid for this month. Its opposite would be, you have bills that you are unable to pay.

Another example would be that you’re thankful for a loved one in your life. Its opposite would be that the loved one is no longer in your life.

Would you consider these opposites bad?

Most would.

The problem is that by focusing on what you consider good, you’ve created the exact circumstances that will make you unhappy.

If your list has opposites, then if one or more of the opposites were to occur, you would no longer be in a gracious state.

This is because your faith lies in what’s on your list and many other things that exist outside of you.

What To Do Instead of Focusing Only on What’s Good

Since you are the one that continuously gives power to these things, then this power is yours to remove or give to something else.

Certain questions come to mind.

1. How did I give power to these things and how do I stop?
2. Where does this source of power even come from?
3. What should I give this power to?

Let’s answer each of these.

1. How did I give power to these things and how do I stop?

In short, it’s based on your judgments. By judging something as good, you’ve inadvertently judged the opposite as bad. Else there would be no reason to judge it is good. It would just be.

I go into much more detail about the mistakes of judging in these articles:

• Why It’s Hard To Make Friends As An Adult, The Math
• Law of Attraction Mistakes That Undo Your Progress
• The Painting: A Modern-Day Parable

The important thing to remember is that you shouldn’t judge anything. In order to accurately judge something, you would have to know EVERYTHING about it including its past and future.

For example, a person may have judged that it’s hard to make a lot of money. Another may have judged that’s it’s easy to make a lot of money. Who’s right when they both are successfully making money according to how they choose to work?

They both are correct. Each one is bound to the rules he or she has set through judgment.

Yet another person may have not judged anything about this at all. He or she is free to make money or not make money, work hard or not work hard. Regardless, this person will remain at peace about what he or she is doing.

2. Where does this source of power even come from?

This is an excellent question. Before we answer together, you should try to answer yourself.

Where does your power come from?

Possible answers you may have said are yourself, God, the food you eat, the exercise that you do, all of the above, etc.

Which answers are the truth, if any?

First, let’s determine if any of these power sources are limited in any way.

Food is obviously limited. It has to be grown or prepared, which depends on many outside factors.

We should be able to agree that exercise is limited as well because nobody exercises 24 hours a day every day.

What about God?

There’s a lot of debate about who or what God is. So let’s come back to this later.

What about yourself?

Those that believe in themselves seem to be pretty confident and happy. Those that do not believe in themselves seem to either be sad at, mad at, or scared of the world.

We can almost conclude that the source of your power is yourself or the belief in yourself.

There’s just one problem, you didn’t create yourself. Or did you?

“JClay, this is getting too deep. I’m not ready for this.” Stick with me, even though I don’t know where this is going either.

We’re taught that our parents made us and that their parents made them. Well, who or what made our parent’s parent’s parent’s parent’s parent’ssssssss?

Some may say science, but science does not create. Science attempts to explain what already happened.

So we’re brought back to God. Well, who is God? Who created God? Did He create Himself? If so, does that mean another God can create Him or Herself at any moment?

These are a lot of tough questions that won’t be answered right now in this article.

One question for you that can be answered is that if you can’t answer the above, how can you know with all certainty what is good and what is not?

It’s best to leave the judging to whatever force did the supposed creating, because He, She, or It obviously knows more than you.

And this brings us to our last question.

3. What should I give this power to?

Life is giving and so is your identity.

You are the thoughts you give/share with others. For example, if you’re always speaking about music, you see yourself as a musician or a music lover.

It’s the same with the stories you share of your perception of your past. These are the things you are currently giving power to and identifying as.

Humans are very reciprocatory beings.

Give people compliments and they’ll respond with one of their own or even a smile-inducing smile. On the other hand, give people a harsh criticism and they’ll give a painful look or another criticism in return.

You are only giving power to the things outside of yourself that you think give you power (you’re reciprocating).

This is why some really focus on what they eat while others may focus on what they read. The possibilities are endless.

Yet the original question answers itself.

If what you give power to seems to be limited, yet you seem to always have more power to give even when you change the object of what you’ve given power to, then you must be powerful.

*please read that sentence again*

How else could you consistently receive power from what’s limited while endlessly giving it away?

You can’t unless you’re already full of power.

But again, you acknowledge that you don’t believe you created yourself. You also acknowledge that your parents don’t seem to be unlimited.

Then there must be something else supplying your power that you can return the favor to.

Let me know in the comments who or what that is for you.

The Important Things To Remember

The first thing to remember is don’t make any new judgments.

Every judgment creates a split in reality where only half of it will make you happy.

Why have half happiness when you can have complete happiness?

The second thing to remember is to forgive all of your previous judgments.

This opens your world and allows you to experience peace and happiness despite what seems to be happening in the world.

When you stop giving your power/focus away to other people and things, it remains with you. You then get to be a reflection of power to others so that they may do the same.

You may also enjoy: Make Your Words So Powerful That They Manifest Instantly.

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It is my honor to do a review of A Course In Miracles (ACIM).

This book is the most life-changing-est truth-telling-est healing book ever, well, at least from the books I’ve read so far.

A Course In Miracles is on my MUST-READ LIST OF BOOKS.

This book filled in all the gaps of every question I couldn’t answer about life. Like:

• What is our purpose for living?
• How can I perform miracles?
• Why does evil exist?
• Why do people die?

A Course In Miracles (ACIM) provides definite answers to these questions and more.

The information given in this book is so transformative that readers love to recall how they came to know about the book.

If you haven’t realized yet, you aren’t reading this post on accident.

About the Book

In short, A Course In Miracles (ACIM) is a self-study spiritual course.

The version that I’m linking to is the combined version, which includes:

• The Text
• The Workbook for Students
• The Manual for Teachers
• The Clarification of Terms

The Text introduces and explains the concepts of performing miracles in great detail (699 pages).

The Workbook for Students is based on The Text but allows for practical application of these concepts. This 488-page workbook contains 365 lessons, one for each day.

The book urges you not to attempt more than one lesson per day. In some instances, you may want to repeat a lesson for several days before moving forward.

The Manual for Teachers (92 pages), answers many of the questions that may have seemed unanswered by the Text and the Workbook.

Finally, there is the Clarification of Terms.

The Clarification of Terms is just that. So that there is little confusion, A Course In Miracles (ACIM) explains certain terms even further such as true perception, the ego, forgiveness, etc.

It’s important to note that the course is not about learning from the course but learning to listen to your own Internal Teacher.

How To Read for Free

Holybooks.com offers a free PDF version of ACIM that you can download.

You can also read A Course In Miracles online for free via ACIM Now.

• Preface
• Text
• Workbook for Students
• Manual for Teachers
• Clarification of Terms

The History of A Course In Miracles

You can read all about ACIM’s origins here, but here are the cliff notes.

The first official copy was released in 1976 by the Foundation for Inner Peace.

It is said that the book had been dictated to Schucman, word for word, via “inner dictation” from Christ.^[1]

Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City came together to find a better way than being angry and aggressive all the time in life.

Shortly after, Schucman began receiving downloads of information that was the foundation of the course. Thetford was there to encourage and help her sort out the information.

The entire process took about seven years, 1965 to 1972.

Who Is This Book For

As the book states in its introduction…

“This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.”

This book is for everyone from every background.

I’ve personally shared ACIM’s concepts with atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hinduists, and Jewish people both young and old. I shouldn’t be amazed, but I’m amazed at how easily and quickly it is accepted.

The reason is that the truth is undeniable. What’s special about the truth is that it’s simple and kind.

My song Let Go was directly inspired by what the course has helped me to see. Not only did I receive praise for the song by rap fans, but many people have messaged me saying, “I don’t even listen to rap and I would listen to you all day.”

This is a testament to the truth. No matter the form it appears, it is accepted unless you choose to hide from it.

In case you have not realized it, the truth is God. God is Love. Love is truth. All are the same. All are real.

My Experience with ACIM

I found out about A Course In Miracles from another book that was a channeled writing called Jesus: My Autobiography.

The title had me like, WHAAT..but what I read in that book was profound. I even tried to poke holes in its theories to test its truthfulness, but could not.

In that book, it said something like, “And this is why I wrote A Course In Miracles.”

I looked up the course, saw that the writers and publishers were different from those of Jesus: My Autobiography, and ordered ACIM immediately. According to Amazon, I ordered it on May 24, 2018.

Upon reading the first couple of chapters, everything changed.

Even though it was a tough read, I couldn’t put A Course In Miracles down. It answered EVERYTHING I ever wanted to know.

I was telling everybody that they NEED TO READ THIS BOOK. Friends and family believed me, but they had their own things they were doing.

The Practice

At the time, I was in a couple of Mastermind Groups where we would help each other achieve goals.

In it, I started to recognize the self-sabotaging habits as outlined in the course among those in my mastermind.

I wanted to offer them this newfound wisdom but feared how it would be received. Learning of fear’s illusionary nature through the course helped me to proceed.

And to both my surprise and our benefit, most of the members accepted it. Those that didn’t still did in a way, but I won’t go into that here. Message me, if you have questions about that.

With this humble confidence, people in all areas of my life felt open enough to share their perceived problems with me. Each time, I would end up giving them divine expert advice that helped tremendously (it helped me too).

One could say I was performing miracles.

Years later I’m still amazed by this.

To this day I don’t think anyone in my Mastermind Groups has ever gotten sick since. I’m going to verify that and update this post.

Anyway, my world continued to change even more. Things that mattered didn’t and things that didn’t did.

The Impact on My Music

The biggest change was the music I wrote. I could no longer write certain types of songs as they added to the illusions of the world.

There’s no way I could make illusions for others and not be affected by them.

So I started making a few songs using these concepts and I was excited because these songs weren’t corny at all. In fact, they jam!

Hearing God’s Voice

I never shared this part publicly before, but this is around the time I heard God’s Voice.

I’ve never heard something more clear than this statement, “Just finish the album.”

Naturally, I had many questions. “Well, what if…”

“Just finish the album.”

“Can’t I just…”

“Just finish the album.”

“I don’t know how to …”

“Just finish the album.”

Ok, God. I got You.

By the way, that album is finished and available for streaming/purchase here.

Who would’ve ever guessed it?

I’m now a spiritual teacher and rap artist that has helped at least tens of thousands to overcome mental illness and see the light that lives within them.

Best of all, there has been no resistance throughout this process. Somehow, everything I’ve been doing including my living expenses has been taken care of.

It’s like it’s a miracle.

I speak more about it in this interview by Miracles Tribe.

The Impact of A Course In Miracles on the World

Since it went on sale in 1976, A Course In Miracles has been distributed globally and translated into 22 languages.

It’s difficult to gauge the direct impact of A Course In Miracles because many may have not realized they’ve been affected by it.

For example, if you’ve read anything on this site, you’ve been directly impacted by A Course In Miracles.

Combined, there are over a million pieces of content dedicated to spreading its message of forgiveness and leading with love always via books, videos, songs, quotes, study groups (I currently belong to two), conversations, and more.

My Recommendations

Order A Course In Miracles immediately.

There is an audiobook, but I highly recommend that you get a physical copy.

ACIM is not a simple read. You may find yourself re-reading the same line more than once to really understand it.

If you were listening with the audiobook, you would always be rewinding.

Although you can go at your own pace on any of the sections, I recommend reading at least the first two chapters of the Text before starting the Workbook Lessons.

The reasoning behind this is that some of the workbook lessons may seem uncomfortable, silly, or even unbelievable.

By reading the first couple of chapters of the Text, you will understand why your perception of the Workbook is skewed. You will also recognize the truth of the Text thus removing doubt of its validity.

Are you ready to consciously perform miracles?

Then let’s get it!

A Course In Miracles (ACIM)

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Understanding how to pray and how to manifest are one and the same. One cannot exist without the other similar to that of giving & receiving, teaching & learning, and forgiving & forgetting.

To be able to truly learn a subject, you must know it well enough to teach. In order to truly teach a subject, you must have learned all about it.

The same relationship exists between prayer and its manifestations. In order to know how to manifest properly, you must pray in the correct way. In order to know how to pray in the correct manner, you must master how to manifest.

This is not to say that you can’t manifest without knowing how to pray, and you can’t pray without knowing how to manifest. This is to say that in order to do it consciously and effectively, you must understand the relationship between both.

The Law of Attraction

We’ve all heard of the law of attraction. The law of attraction centers around the idea that whatever you focus on expands within your life.

For example, if you spend most of your time writing music, listening to music, and performing music, you are likely to attract other musicians, supporters of your music, and a deeper understanding of music into your life.

What’s special about the law of attraction is that it appears to be constant. By thinking any thought at any time, you start to attract its physical counterpart.

This realizing (manifesting) can be instant or it can take many years. It all depends on how focused the mind is that thinks the thought.

This explains why it’s important to keep your mind clear and fill it with thoughts aligned with the lifestyle you want.

The law of attraction is always at work. The more aligned your thoughts are, the quicker it is to attract or manifest that which you want.

How To Pray

Prayer is the first step to manifesting.

It comes from a French word preiere that means to ask sincerely or earnestly.

Prayer starts with a question. The answering (manifestation) of that question depends on:

• who the question is directed toward
• how capable you feel the directed source is at answering the question
• if you feel the question can even be answered
• why you think it hasn’t been answered already.

That’s a lot to “think” about.

Let’s break this down with some examples.

Example 1 – How can I be rich?

First, who is this question directed toward? Possible answers could be God, Jesus, Google, quora, yourself, a person that seems to have achieved the goal you want, or a person that hasn’t achieved this goal.

Second, how capable is this source at answering your question? Do you fully trust Google’s answer? Do you fully trust God? This can only be answered by the amount of faith you place in the source you’ve chosen.

Third, do you truly believe this question can be answered? If you do, it can be. If you don’t, there will never be an answer that satisfies you.

Fourth, why don’t you believe you’re rich already? This contains so many answers in itself. You’ve just created the separation between you and the object of your desire.

All of these questions come into play because they reveal the things that split your focus. The more singular your focus, the more time it saves in bringing you what you want.

Referring to the 4 items above, to ask a question of a source that you don’t have total faith in is to ask unanswerable questions. An unanswerable question is as purposeless as hateful love or peaceful war. These are all things that cannot be because they make no sense.

To ask an unanswerable question is to be in a state of purposelessness. Since everything that exists has a purpose and you are choosing not to have one at that moment, you’re contradicting the nature of your own existence in a way.

This is a source of great pain for many. So the question of how to pray is a question of how to manifest.

How to manifest

Many don’t realize (real eyes), but all thoughts are prayers, and all prayers are thoughts. You’re praying all day.

The flaw in thinking is that it’s the opposite of knowledge. What you know, you don’t have to think about. It’s instant and automatic.

Yet if you must pray, do it purposefully toward truth.

Example 2 – How do I realize my wealth?

This question is a more honest and answerable question than before. In it lies its answer; a fact that all questions share.

To even ask this, you are recognizing that you are of value even though you may not be conscious of it at this moment. And aligning with that value is easier than having to find and possess it, as the case with the previous question.

Yet the person you ask this question to is in a position to succeed at answering because they will also see you as valuable.

Learning how to manifest is more about learning to pray better, or ask better questions.

How To Pray & Manifest Better

There is a step beyond asking better questions.

As was stated above, “thinking” is the opposite of knowledge.

But what if your questions contained knowledge? This renders the question useless because its answer is no longer needed. You will have aligned with truth.

You now go from being a questioner to being an answerer, or from being a person that prays to a person that manifests.

These are still one and the same, except for a small shift in focus.

Naturally what follows is that you help others in their manifesting because that is your new focus. The more you help others, the more you realize your own ability to do the same for yourself.

This knowledge of ability affects how you pray. No longer will you pray from a place of separateness, you will pray from a place of belief in whom you pray to because you also believe in your self.

If you haven’t noticed by now, knowledge is total. It’s impossible to believe in another without first having belief in yourself. You are the one that gives the power (belief) to all.

Common Mistakes When Praying & Trying to Manifest

There are two common mistakes that people make when learning how to pray and how to manifest.

Contradicting Prayers

The first is contradicting prayer requests. For example, you may pray for another to “get what he or she deserves” meant in a negative way.

Remember, all things are total. To wish harm on another is to accept harm for yourself. You are giving harm power over others so it begins having power over you. Harm then becomes something for you to look out for. By looking out for it, you are focusing on it. And whatever you focus on will expand in your world.

This small action of wishing harm on another will result in you attracting harm to yourself by way of the law of attraction.

A better prayer would be to pray that this person gets the love that he or she wants. In doing so, you will too. You may even get it from each other.

Not Giving When Asked

The second common mistake people make when trying to manifest is that they don’t give when asked.

Why is this important?

Miracles and blessings don’t happen alone. There are always others involved. “Think” about it. Would you really want to have all the money in the world if you were the only person on earth? No, because it wouldn’t matter.

Everything seems to matter only because of others.

With this in mind, whenever someone asks something of you, this is your chance to be this person’s savior. You can be the answer to his or her earnest request.

I’m not saying that you have to comply each time. Just at least consider it.

Each time you give others what they ask, you believe more and more that asking will always lead to receiving.

This is great because whenever you ask for something from anyone, you will know without a doubt that your request will be fulfilled. A prayer manifested will be as sure as a prayer asked, which is how you should properly pray.

Pray without any doubt. Know that it will be answered in the way it should every time.

The Absence of Prayer

There is a higher level beyond prayer and manifestation, the absence of it.

You’re probably like … “What?”

Again, the truth is total. Praying is the same as manifesting (answering prayers).

Yet for you to focus on what was once not there and then make it real (realize), you must exist beyond what you realized.

By tapping into your self that exists beyond all things, you will remember that you were never without anything. There is no need for praying or manifesting. You have all and you are all.

Would a happy person go around telling everyone that he’s happy? Would he go around asking for happiness?

No.

He is happiness. It would be apparent. No words would be needed to see and experience his happiness.

Whatever you feel you are without, be it. Don’t pray for it and don’t try to manifest it. Be it right now.

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Your mind controls what your body sees, hears, and experiences. It can lead you to a world of abundance or one of scarcity.

A tool cannot exceed the wisdom of its wielder. In other words, learn to use your tool properly so you can wield a world worth living.

Your mind is here to help you.

1. Focus Only/Fully On The Task At Hand

A split focus is similar to one person’s eyes going in two different directions. Yes, it happens, but you can’t really see as clearly as when both eyes are focused on the same thing.

Each time you attempt to juggle two tasks at once, you lose more focus than just half of each.

Let’s say that 100% represents your total focus at any given moment. When you split this focus among two things, each thing does not get an equal 50% of your focus. There is another percentage placed on juggling the two.

It would look more like:

• 45% on Task 1
• 45% on Task 2
• 10% on juggling the two tasks

You may be thinking that 10% isn’t a big deal. Well, what about when you’re juggling four things, or even more?

• 10% on Remembering to Send Important Email Later
• 30% on Talking on the Phone
• 15% on Cooking Dinner
• 10% on Watching Kids
• 35% on Juggling Tasks

To really understand this, let’s put it in terms of money.

Let’s say a person only paid you 30% of the money they owed you. Would you like it? No. You want all your money.

Give the objects of your tasks the same respect. This leads to you actually completing tasks well and in less time resulting in more free time.

A completely focused mind has the power to manifest something out of nothing instantly. An unfocused mind can also manifest, it just may take years.

Stay focused.

2. Stop Contradicting Yourself

Contradiction is closely related to focus. It’s two equal focuses in opposing direction.

It would be equivalent to focusing 50% on what you want and another 50% on what you don’t want.

Those two focuses would cancel each other out and you wouldn’t have seemed to accomplish what you set.

Some common contradictions may include:

• Believing in God and His abundant blessings, but being scared of dying, being broke, and loneliness
• Wanting your friends to stop being selfish and focus on what you want instead
• Calling a person stupid, but continuously engaging with that person
• Wanting love, but hating people

Remove the contradictions. Have a singular focus regarding all things.

When you contradict yourself, you undo everything you just created with the power of your focus. To say it another way, you create the opposite of what you’ve just created.

Let go of the law of opposites/duality. Embrace the truth. Truth has no opposite. Some may say a lie is the truth’s opposite, but a lie can never undo the truth.

This leads us to the next way to have your mind serve you.

3. Know.

Yes.

As the saying goes, knowledge is power.

However, many really don’t understand this saying at all. Many people believe that it means you must accumulate knowledge in order to be powerful.

No.

To think that you must accumulate knowledge creates the separation between you and knowledge. It becomes something you must take and try to keep, which is explained in more detail in Major Life Lessons #2.

From the non-contradictory singular focus aspect, if you take something, it can be taken from you.

This is why you always have that which you share with others. What you share with others is shared with you.

Among these endless exchanges, you in fact keep (not try to keep) what you share, because it’s given back to you more abundantly.

In order to share knowledge, you must have knowledge. To have knowledge, you must be knowledgeable.

You have the answers to all of your real questions.

Know.

Don’t create the thought that you don’t.

Know.

Don’t split your focus between taking knowledge and having knowledge taken. Be knowledge.

Know.

4. Practice with your thoughts, words, and actions.

Here’s my favorite saying again.

Of the above, your thoughts, words, and actions are in your control. Your habits, character, and destiny are just the effects of that control.

In the same way that a single focus allows you to manifest and create quickly, a single focus shared amongst two or more people multiplies this effect.

Since you possess this power of focus and manifestation, so does your fellow man.

When you create against another what he is creating for himself, neither of you truly create anything.

However, when you create in accord with what another is creating for him or herself, then not only is that creation created awesomely, you both get to benefit from it.

Practice this with your thoughts, words, and actions.

Think positive thoughts, say loving words, and show kind actions toward every person you come in contact with even if they aren’t doing the same.

But wouldn’t that person’s actions then contradict what you’re doing?

Ah, you’re paying attention.

This does not contradict because it’s from the perspective of your mind.

If your single purpose is love, for instance, that would be all you see, hear, and experience. This is because you are not letting anything get in the way of that. You are 100% focused on it.

The other person will see and feel this. His mind will quickly shift and meet you in this space of love.

Your 100% focus on love is greater than his 50% focus on love. His is only 50% because although he was loving himself in that moment (which could be debated), he wasn’t loving you at that moment (which could also be debated ). So he wasn’t fully focused on love.

The dominance of your love will out-love any hate the way that light outshines darkness.

5. Stop Thinking

What?!?!

I know.

This entire article had to do with your thoughts, but now I’m telling you to stop thinking.

Why?

Let’s look at what happens when you stop thinking. You’re clear, you feel free, you have fun, you enjoy yourself, and many more wonderful things.

This is why vacations are so amazing. You leave most of your thoughts and worries behind.

This is similar to being “in the zone” with whatever action you’re doing. It’s like you produce without thought and time ceases to exist.

Again, your mind is responsible for what you see. When you stop thinking, what is real is seen clearly. If you had been thinking about something that wasn’t real, then it would quickly fade from your vision.

Well, what’s real?

As you know, I say things like pain is an illusion and that there are no such things as enemies.

The reason goes back to this.

When conflict is shared, it’s destined to come to an end because nobody constantly wants conflict. It’s not enjoyable.

It will be let go because it’s not valuable.

What happens when something is let go of? It’s never heard of from again. It dies in a sense.

When you embody conflict, you are aligning your identity with something that will die.

So conflict and even death aren’t natural. They won’t remain eternally.

On the other hand, something like love is shared by all. Everyone loves to love because love is love. It’s the one thing that people will never let go of.

Even when they try to let go of it, it’s really just a cry for love so its presence still remains.

When you embody love, you align yourself with that which will always remain.

Love is not a thought. It’s not really even a feeling. It’s what remains when you let go of everything.

So don’t think. It gets in the way of your loving.

For a reverse look, be sure to check out The 5 Ways Your Mind Betrays You.

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The God and evil question is one of those questions that’s been asked repeatedly by both believers of God and atheists. This is also one of the first major questions I remember having as a child.

Of course, I never received a straight answer that made sense.

It wouldn’t be until recently that I am able to answer this question fully and correctly so that many can benefit from this knowledge.

The answer is quite simple, but in a mind split by conflicting thoughts, it can seem difficult to isolate only what is true.

This article aims to dispel all illusions surrounding this topic so that the truth can be clearly seen.

By the end of this article, you’ll know exactly why evil seems to exist and what you have the power to do about it.

Common beliefs

There is a common belief that God created the world including angels and humans. It is also a belief that one of the angels defied God, fell from heaven, and is the father of evil.

This angel has been called many things such as the devil, Satan, and Lucifer. What’s funny is that “Lucifer” means bringer of light, but that’s another topic.

Although religious texts do not serve as concrete proof, accounts of God creating the world and mankind are outlined in many of those texts throughout numerous cultures.

However, the details surrounding angel creation and furthermore an angel falling from heaven are not found in these texts. It seems to be more speculation than fact.

Well, what is evil?

Before we dive fully into why evil exists, let’s first come to a consensus of what evil is said to be.

I’m going to breakdown the dictionary’s definition to get the most basic explanation similar to what I did with happiness in the article How To Be Happy All the Time.

Google’s dictionary defines evil as profoundly immoral and wicked.

• profoundly immoral and wicked
• (profoundly not conforming to accepted standards of morality) and (extremely unpleasant and intending to or being capable of harming someone or something)
• (using extreme force to not act in accordance with a wish or command concerning the accepted distinction between right & wrong or good & bad behavior) and (greatly causing discomfort, unhappiness, or disgust; disagreeable or physically hurting another)

It sounds like evil is one of two things:

1. Greatly going against what somebody or group feels is right
2. Causing somebody extreme physical pain or death.

Agreed?

Cool, let’s proceed.

How are right and wrong determined?

Since we know that evil is partly defined as going against what’s right, the next logical question is what exactly is right?

Just to get the definitions out of the way, right is defined as:

• morally good, justified, or acceptable
• true or correct as a fact

Most of these definitions lead to more questions, not answers. For example, justified or acceptable by whom? And shouldn’t all facts be true?

One thing I know about truth is that what is true is always true no matter what. It is also true for all without exception. If truth was not all-encompassing, then it would not be truth.

There’s a fact that 1 in 5 adults in America experiences a mental illness, but this isn’t true always depending on which 5 people you ask. It fails the truth test.

For the purpose of truly understanding the answer to the God and evil question, let’s disregard facts and focus only on truth for the remainder of this article.

This means that what’s right should be what’s true.

Yet who among us would be considered truthful enough to justify or accept someone else’s behavior?

Since the majority of beliefs are based on fact and not truth, no person can accurately judge another. Herein lies the barrier that seems to obstruct the truth from vision.

Assuming God is good, then God would be the only One to accurately say what is real and true.

God and truth

If God determines what’s good, then God must represent truth. This mean God exists always, never changes, and extends to all without exception just like truth.

Since it’s only possible to create of yourself, then what God created must follow these same rules. The rules are that God’s creations exist forever and are perfectly good.

You may be thinking, “Well I change, am I not real?” Hmmm.

Your thoughts and emotions do change. Even your body changes. However, there is one constant, you.

If you were your thoughts, you would have died with the ones you no longer think. The same with your emotions and your body. You would have died with the billions of cells that have died.

Since you have always existed unaffected by these things, you must be truth and these “things” must be false.

You have confused your identity with that which never was and so you act accordingly.

You try to create that which is not of God and so your creations seem to fade with time.

Death

Some of you may now be asking the question that, if God creates what is permanent and the body clearly isn’t, then who created the body?

We’ll come back to that. First, let’s discuss death.

What do we already believe about death?

We believe:

• it comes to everybody (every “body”)
• it cannot exist without life

This seems logical. If there is death, something must be living in order to die.

Is the opposite true; can life come from death?

It doesn’t seem so. Death cannot exist without life.

Does this mean death can exist within life?

For this to be true then you would live, you would die completely, and then you would continue living. That goes completely against what death is.

I’m sure you’ve heard many stories of people being brought back to life. They all had one thing in common. They still experienced something while they were supposedly dead.

If you’re experiencing something, you can’t be dead, right?

So if death cannot exist without life, and it also cannot exist within life, then the truth about death is that it cannot really exist.

Is your brain tingling yet? Good.

The body

I said earlier that you can only create of yourself. For example, apple trees make apple trees. Horses make horses. People make people, except people seem to make a lot more.

People make music. They make ideas come to life. They make planes, structures, love, etc.

The above is proof that people must be more than just bodies.

So if God creates of Himself, this means that God creates gods. And what makes God God is that God is unlimited in His Creations.

If being in a body means you are limited by what you can do, then either the body is misperceived, or God did not create any “body”.

What’s even more interesting about this is that evilness is defined in regards to the body.

Since it’s been confirmed that you are not a body, then where’s the threat of death or wrongdoing? Also, if there is no death, where’s the threat at all?

There is none. That means God really is good.

To put this another way, what’s happening is similar to you confusing your identity with a shirt. You immediately feel in danger because a shirt could be ripped, worn out, cut, burned, stolen, etc. So you cover it up with another shirt to “protect” it.

It’s only after the shirt seems to wither away that you realize, “I ain’t no shirt!” And you regain consciousness. Yet if you still value shirts, your focus changes from consciousness back to illusion, and the cycle repeats.

Read the parable of The Painting. It’s much better than this shirt example.

The true maker of evil

Once again, you can only create of yourself. So to even perceive evil is to perceive being evil.

I must say this again.

You can only create of yourself. So to even perceive evil is to perceive being evil.

Thus the evil you see is of you. You value evil acts because it bears witness to the false belief that you are a body.

Evil becomes your twisted idea of salvation. It attempts to hold this illusion of bodies and death in place.

You have created something so unbelievable that you literally fight for the “right” to believe it. But to fight for a right is an oxymoron. What’s right (or rather what’s true) does not need soldiers for it to remain true. Only the lies (or rather illusions) need constant attention.

The simple truth

Evil does not exist. It is a false belief that you carry with you from moment to moment.

You attempt to speak it into existence each time you bear witness to so-called evilness. You are its preacher and sustainer.

In addition, you place evil above God because you think it’s something to be feared or a mistake that God made.

Fortunately, God is Love and that which is love sees no evil. It sees only love.

Will you stop making evil and make love?

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Raise your vibration and keep it high. Well, why?

Your mind is like a tuning station. When you focus on a particular thought, all thoughts of a similar frequency will come into your awareness.

Thoughts of joy and peace are of a high frequency or vibration. Thoughts of pain are of a lower one.

The higher your vibration, the lighter you feel mentally, physically, and emotionally. You are above all perceived problems because they are no longer pulling you down. You’ve let them go.

This article is straight from the gurus / master teachers that help us to remain “high”.

1. “If you wish to find Love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.” —Mooji

Yeah, Mooji! I could end this article right here. Love is the one thing everyone loves. It’s kind. Love is beautiful. It’s what you are.

People have a habit of looking for love every except where it always is, within. Love is never without because you are never without love. What is out is just a reflection of what is in.

Seek the real thing, never the reflection.

Find out more about Mooji at https://mooji.org/.

2. “Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.” —Sadhguru

Sadhguru just gave the key to happiness.

You are an abundant being in an abundant universe. If there are such things as problems, then you know that there will be an abundant amount.

Do you really want to fix an abundant list of problems? That just sounds exhausting.

Instead, you can fix this one problem of thinking that you have to fix problems.

Start to love all and accept all as it is. You will begin to ascend above all. You will be free to experience life how you intended.

Find out more about Sadhguru at https://isha.sadhguru.org/.

3. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.” —Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle just gave the ultimate affirmation and explained life in simple terms.

Thoughts and emotions come and go, but through it all, you remain. This means you are not these things. You exist beyond them.

To belittle yourself into believing you are your thoughts and emotions is to lower your vibration. You also lower your vibration by holding others to their thoughts and emotions as well.

You are Life. You get to experience one thing at this moment and then experience a completely different thing in another. None of it truly matters.

Never let matter keep you limited. Life knows no limits. Be Life.

Find out more about Eckhart Tolle at https://eckharttolle.com/.

4. “The people who trigger us to feel negative emotion are messengers. They are messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.” —Teal Swan

Teal Swan just exposed the role everyone plays toward each other.

You are all saviors. You get to show your fellow human his or her beliefs that they are holding onto.

When someone seems to anger you, you’re never angry at them. You are just angry at the thought you held about what they had to say.

You are not that thought and neither are they. That person is not your enemy. They have just shown you a miracle if you would but accept it.

By seeing what seems to be angering you in its true form, you can let it dissipate into the nothingness that it is.

Never be angry when others show you what needs to be healed. In it lies the key to keeping your vibration high.

Find out more about Teal Swan at https://tealswan.com/.

5. “If you pay attention to the patterns of your life you’ll realize everything always works out. Everything always takes you to a greater destination. You always grow and the things you think you can’t survive you somehow divinely make it through. That’s life. Always remember that.” —Idil Ahmed

Idil Ahmed speaks the truth.

If you must leave this moment and re-visit the past, really look at all of it. Nothing that happened to you was every permanent. Ever.

All things change, except for one. You always remained no matter the circumstances. You will always remain.

Hold this truth to heart. Know that no matter what, all will work out.

Find out more about Idil Ahmed at https://idillionaire.com/.

6. “Need nothing and then see what happens.” —Gangaji

Gangaji just gave a practical action to raising your vibration, need nothing.

“Well, how do I make myself need nothing when I need everything?”

Stop needing it.

“What?”

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve tried to change your behavior before. This could be eating or not eating certain foods, spending less money, sticking to a workout regimen, or hanging out with different people.

What always happens as soon as you decide to change a behavior? You get enticed by many for your old behavior.

Try to stop eating candy, everyone is offering you free candy. Choose to save money, your favorite stores release deals on products you’ve always wanted. Start working out, your body says no and produces aches & pains.

You get the point. Decide to stop needing anything and watch how you’ll not only have access to it, but you’ll have access to everything.

Find out more about Gangaji at https://gangaji.org/.

7. “What we don’t recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You’ll soon start to suffocate.” —Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra gave a beautiful analogy.

Who wants to sit with their breath held all day? All things are give-and-take, even breathing. You must give of yourself to receive from others.

By holding onto anything, especially resentment, you are cutting yourself off from life.

Let go. Yes, let go.

Find out more about Deepak Chopra at https://www.deepakchopra.com/.

8. “Love is never absent – the only choice is whether to be aware of It or not.” —David Hoffmeister

David Hoffmeister is the man for this one.

It is impossible to be aware of both love and fear at the same time. The presence of one negates the other.

Where love is, fear can never be. Where fear is, love can never be. This goes with all the wonderful things synonymous with love (joy, hope, peace, abundance, gratitude, life, etc) and with fear (despair, hopelessness, scarcity, death, etc).

Hold love in your awareness always. Share it with others. Extend God’s Love as it was extended to you.

Not only will you be aware of Love’s presence, but It will also be present everywhere you look.

Find out more about David Hoffmeister at https://davidhoffmeister.com/.

9. “Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong.” —KRS-One

KRS-One continues to share wisdom.

When you love yourself, nothing else matters. Despite the perceived circumstance, you are love.

You could be in the most boring of places and it would not bother you because you know what you are and you get to express it.

Everyone loves love. It’s the one thing that all things share. So it is always welcomed.

Love that about yourself and love yourself.

Find out more about KRS-One at https://www.krs-one.com/.

10. “Don’t dwell on your weaknesses, everybody else is already doing that for you.” —Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vee cares not for the weak; he cares for you.

You are strong. It is only your attention to the weak that makes you believe that you are part of what you consider to be weak.

You have at least one strength. It’s love. You can use that strength to birth many more.

Focus on your strengths and watch them expand. Watch it influence everything around you to become just as strong, which influences you to remain strong.

Find out more about Gary Vaynerchuk at https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/.

11. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” —Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer just cured me with this quote.

It’s tempting to look at life as a series of successes and failures, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.

What seems like failure is always part of success. You can’t learn how to walk unless you’re willing to fall. But even the act of trying to walk is a success in itself because you are just being you.

In other words, no matter what you do, you are successful. You are an expression of life. Every thought, every choice, every emotion is all a success. You are a success.

Find out more about Dr. Wayne W. Dyer at https://www.drwaynedyer.com/.

12. “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” —Adyashanti

Adyashanti just brought us to reality.

Enlightenment is the raising of your vibration. You become light. Nothing is holding you down. You have let go of the world that consumed you.

From the perspective of someone with a lower vibration, they don’t want to see their world end. They complain about all, but they love complaining. Conflict rules their lives, but it’s the safe space they’ve created for themselves.

When you bring things to the light of truth, you see that what you thought existed was never really there. It was an illusion made in the dark. You saw a shadow and gave it meaning. Yet in the presence of light, all things are seen as they truly are.

Are you ready for the truth? Truth is not to be feared, because truth is Love.

Love ends all conflict. It ends all hurt. Love ends all form because It exists beyond it where the beginning and end meet. It is the Alpha and Omega. God is Love.

Find out more about Adyashanti at https://www.adyashanti.org/.

It’s Your Turn

Think of the most helpful quote that you can. Bring it to the light of truth to make sure it is true. Now share with the world. Start with the comments below.

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Ever since man has taken breath, there has been idol worship. Some see this as a “sin” and others don’t even realize they’re worshipping something.

The effects of idol-worship can be seen in a variety of illnesses, both mental and physical. That which you idolize becomes a source of your wellbeing. Therefore if what you idolize is limited in any way, your experience will be that of lack.

By removing the cause, you render their effects ineffective.

Let’s talk about the cause.

What Are Idols & What Is Idol Worship?

Abrahamic religions, namely Christianity, Judaism, and Islam state that you should not worship someone or something other than God.

These are what idols are…people or things that you consider greater than yourself and/or God.

Worship is the practice of giving honor and glory to your idol.

The word worship is a combination of “worth” and “ship”. It’s the complete body of worth you give a thing.

Within you, you have the power to appreciate. You can give value to many things that are seemingly worthless. Through repetition, it can be confusing to tell the two apart. You start to believe that what you have given worth to is now worth more than yourself, especially if others have given value to the same thing.

Below are 7 idols that you may be worshipping without even realizing it and how they are affecting your life.

1. The Body

The people of the world seem to be fascinated with the human body. The shapes, structure, and feel of it are all beloved by many. Having a body is of course what all people seem to have in common.

People love the body so much that when their idea of the perfect body is not in line with the body they seem to possess, the body then becomes a source of pain and struggle.

By possession, I’m referring to the body that you’re currently operating and the ones you feel are yours through special relationships (ie “my” partner’s body, “my” kid’s body, etc).

This can also appear true to those that have what’s considered a great body. They could create fear around losing it and exhausting great effort to maintain such a body.

In all of the above cases, the body is no longer considered a safe dwelling place, but a symbol of pain.

Even though your mind controls your body, you allow your body to dictate your thoughts. This is clearly backward behavior.

How can one ever find peace & joy, when they seek comfort in an entity that is symbolic for causing and receiving pain?

Withdraw belief in your body as a source of wellness. Recognize it for what it is. Your body is an extension of your awareness. Use it only for what you would have in return.

Use it for love and not attack and you will receive love, not attack.

2. Your Identity

Are you your identity?

Your identity is who you think you are. It’s the thoughts and beliefs you carry into situations.

A lot about your identity is even unknown to you. It could be the way you pronounce words, your word choice, how you feel about wealth, your thoughts against voting, etc.

A couple of years ago I was in London walking down the street at a touristy spot and a drunk guy looked at me and shouted, “Americaaaaannnn…hahahaha!” There were many people from different cultures and races that were in the vicinity. I had not spoken a word, but something about the way I carried myself led him to believe I was American, well United Stadian. He was right. The same can be said for the judgment I made of him in thinking that he was drunk.

Identity itself is not a problem. It’s only when you give tremendous value to who you think you are, that it becomes the problem. You have attached yourself to something that isn’t real and it hinders your abilities.

The reason I say that your identity isn’t real is that it’s constantly changing. How can something that changes have any real substance? It’s here one second and gone the next.

Yet some of your biggest worries come from holding on to this identity. It can prevent you from quitting a job that you hate, dating a person you find extremely attractive, taking on a new hobby that interests you, and more.

Your identity plays tricks on you causing you to question everything like:

• I’ve succeeded at everything, what if I fail at this?
• Am I a hypocrite for wanting something different?
• Will my spouse not like me when I change?
• Will my culture think I’m not real?
• What will my family think?

How can you ever find peace & joy in an identity when the idea of holding on to it, stops you from fully living and expressing yourself in every moment?

Again, your identity is who you think you are. It’s the thoughts and beliefs you carry into situations. But these can change depending on your preferences at any moment. Because of this change, then your identity can never be you. You exist beyond your identity.

Don’t be afraid to shed your limited identity for your unlimited nature. If you’re going to practice idol worship, at least worship your true self.

3. Special Relationships

This one right here, special relationships, is one idol we seemed to be born into. Special relationships are those we put over any other (ie “my” spouse, “my” best friend, “my” parent, “my” teammate, etc.)

Google’s explore page reported the earth’s population in 2018 was 7.5 billion people. In America, the average person knows 600 people and has 9 close friends.

Let’s say you considered all 600 people “special”, that’s less than 1% of the population. In fact, that’s less than 1% of 1% of the population.

The reason I point this out is that by identifying certain individuals as special, you are limiting yourself greatly. You are limiting who you are willing to share with and who can share with you. As a result, you may even fear those that you don’t have a relationship with.

In addition, you may fear the loss of special relationships because you think that it will leave a void within you. Since relationships don’t seem to last past major disagreements or death, you are again placing your value in something that will run out.

Family are just people you are familiar (family-ar) with. Relatives are just people relative to your point of birth. They are not more valuable or special than anyone else. This is not to say that you should not love your family, it’s the opposite. This is to say that you should love everyone as much as you love your family.

This concept explains why it was so easy for you to make friends as a child. You didn’t devalue potential friends by judging them.

How you act towards a person affects how they react toward you. By leading with love, you welcome love.

In this way, your sense of happiness is never tied to a special relationship. If you are apart from another, it won’t be as noticeable because you will always be surrounded by many other loved ones.

The identity in you (ego) is probably saying, “This is sad news for the ones we’re apart from that don’t share this view.” Although this may be true, your identity is not as concerned with that person as it would have you believe. The ego is more concerned with protecting itself and its individuality. I won’t go into that topic in this article. However, I will say that as long as you teach and show others how awesome it is to lead with love, they will never be in a lonely-type situation ever again.

Release your created identity and reassume your natural one.

4. Money

You knew money was going to be on the list about idol worship. People like to claim that they don’t worship money, but that’s only because they are not taking an objective view of their relationship to it.

If you didn’t put money above yourself, you would never work a job that you didn’t like. The next logical thought is, “Well if I don’t make money, I’ll be homeless.” Will you? According to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report, 0.17% of the US population were experiencing homelessness. Is this voluntary? We don’t know.

My point is when you make decisions based on money, you are at the mercy of it. No one is happy being controlled 100% of the time.

From the perspective of being unhappy because you have no money, you believe that having money will make you happy. The truth is, money was never your issue. Your issue is that you placed faith in something outside yourself, leaving yourself without faith.

Money is just a tool for cooperation. By being love and seeing all as loving, you will be a very cooperative person.

You won’t be controlled and you won’t seek to control. This will lead to all of your needs being met. But this takes the same faith in yourself that you’ve placed in other things.

5. Conflict

Who values conflict? Certainly not you. Or do you?

Quick test:

1. When someone says either Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter, are you ready to write that person off in an instant?
2. When someone says they voted for Trump or they voted for Obama, are you ready to call this person ignorant?
3. Are you drawn to television shows that have massive amounts of drama?

If you’ve answered yes to any one of these questions, conflict may be a form of idol worship in your life. This idol is tied closely to the egoic identity. You believe in wrongdoings and that punishment is the only way to atone. Not only do you seek to punish others, you expect punishment for yourself. As a result, you feel a sense of satisfaction when others are punished. This increases your faith in it causing you to worship it even more.

As you can see, conflict is the source of so much pain in your life. In many ways, conflict is pain and vice versa.

When you aren’t so tied to your identity, other’s opinions won’t matter. You’ll know that the truth needs no validation so there’s no point in arguing for it.

6. The World

As much as you would say things against the world, you love it! You wouldn’t change a thing. You would still want all of the corruption and scandalousness, you would just want to be above it.

However, you can’t separate apart from something while you still believe in it because everything real comes from the same source. The rest is simply an illusion. Are you aligned with truth or illusion?

This means that what one can do, all can do. What can affect another, can affect you. But it would be more accurate to say that what you cause seems to affect you and everyone.

You see only what you’ve placed your value in.

By placing value in a world that exists outside of yourself, you are thus investing in hiding from yourself.

You are projecting your beliefs outward to rid yourself of the ones you no longer want. But a projection is but a mirror to the slides within.

To truly be rid of guilt, pain, and shame, you must let these things go, not project them onto others. To project them is to keep them.

To give any attention to any illusion is to attempt to keep it alive. To keep it alive you must idolize it. Without your constant appreciation of it, the world you created would one day lose its value. You would then be free to return to reality, which many have referred to as heaven.

7. Time

You can’t trust time. It’s not always the same. A second is not a second and a day is not a day.

Try being in a place you don’t want to be for an hour while staring at the clock. It will take a lifetime just to complete that hour.

On the other hand (pun intended), try being in a place you want to be for an hour while staring at the clock. You will probably forget to look at the clock because time at this point is meaningless.

Don’t let time dictate where you should be in life. But as long as you believe in time, you might as well make it useful to you.

The more times you perform a specific behavior or set of behaviors, the behaviors become automatic. Use time to forgive and love all. Before you know it, nothing will ever bother you again and time will cease to exist.

It’s “time” to stop idol worship.

You will be above all littleness and ready to accept your abundance.

All Idols

All idols are false and thus idol worship is false. They are symbols of symbols. Symbols are never as good as the real thing. If so, seeing the word chocolate would be as satisfying as eating it.

Place your faith and value in something that never fades. Place it where your faith in it will always be returned in greater amounts.

This “thing” has many names: Love, God, All.

Love is formless. God is eternal. All is well.

How easy it is to let go of the false idols depends on how focused & committed you are.

When you recognize yourself straying, take “time” to place your faith where it could never leave.

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Fight fight fight are words that commonly command the attention of the masses. Yet no fight is ever winnable.

I can tell just how you’re looking at this article that this is a touchy subject. As a result, you’re probably ready to verbally fight me because you believe I’m threatening your right to fight.

Fear not, this is one encounter that we’ll both end up winning.

All throughout our history books, our television shows, and within our family, there are long records of fighting.

Despite this, what do you actually win after a fight? How do you feel moving forward and encountering the one(s) you’ve fought with? What’s actually changed?

In this article, all of these questions and more will be answered. You will learn more about yourself and your motives for fighting than you have from engaging in any fight.

Are you ready to let go of the idea of fighting?

What You’re Really Fighting For (It’s Purpose)

There’s a belief that you must fight for what is right.

This leads to important questions like what exactly is right and why does it need you to fight for it? Wouldn’t it’s rightness be enough to stand on?

For instance, the truth doesn’t need anyone to validate it for it to remain true. What is true will always be true. On the other hand, a lie, it’s constantly looking for witnesses to uphold its claims. A lie will fight to stay alive.

At its core, fighting is an effect of fear. Fear is an illusion. It’s caused by trying to give away what you do not want. You’ve judged against a part of yourself, which can show up as guilt, shame, or feelings of inadequacy. As a result of only being able to give what you have, you give these feelings to others thinking that you can gain freedom from such feelings.

As you continue to give away these feelings, you strengthen your belief in them. Your ability to share is what gives power to what you experience.

For instance, you share:

• what you want to keep alive
• what has your attention
• your inner being
• what excites you

If you want to know what you cherish most in life, pay attention to what you’re sharing with others.

Since illusions cannot birth reality, you fight to maintain these illusions.

Truth/reality is the only thing that seems to contradict illusion. But since the truth has no fear of itself and is peaceful, you are fighting against peace itself. More specifically, you are fighting against your own peace.

Your Deeply Held Beliefs That Leads To Any Fight

As I said above, fighting stems from fear. This fear is based on the belief that you can be threatened in some way.

You share this vulnerability with others and it’s made stronger within yourself.

The irony is that you believe in your weakness, but you seek to prove to yourself that you are not weak.

This belief is but a manifestation of a deeper one. You believe that God or even the universe is a cruel, unfair Creator to create what can be so easily destroyed.

As a result, you believe yourself to be better than God because why else would you find fault with His creations. You seek to force your will upon others because you believe so strongly in your ability to be right while also knowing that you don’t know everything. This is contradictory and can be seen as narcissistic. Yet you see others as narcissistic, ignorant, threats to your ideas of “rightness”, evil monsters, etc.

So more than anything you are fighting against yourself because those you choose to fight embody the same beliefs you do, which are inconsistent.

Be sure to read: Why You Keep Losing To The Enemy.

After every fight, there’s always some sense of guilt. Why wouldn’t there be, you’ve just attacked yourself.

What About When Being Attacked?

These same inconsistencies that apply when fighting others are the same ones that attract situations where you feel you are being attacked.

To believe that you can attack is to believe that you can be attacked. And since you’ve proven this by attacking yourself for any number of fears, you confuse it and believe others are attacking you as well.

Even though pain is also an illusion, you use it as a witness to your being attack and so you feel more pain.

Let’s restate the previous sentence in its simple truth form.

Even though non-reality is also non-reality, you use non-reality as a witness to your non-reality and so you feel more non-reality.

Non-reality is synonymous with fantasy. How often have you fantasized about a situation where you were wronged by another, you then got “revenge” on that other, and you came out as the hero?

Better yet, how often have you fantasized about a situation where you were wronged by another and you wanted people to feel sorry for you because of it?

And what do you get for this? A combination of any of these illusions:

• a strengthened belief in death instead of what you are
• feeling sorry for yourself
• seeing others as threats
• feeling fearful
• depression

As the saying goes … play stupid games, when stupid prizes.

Fighting For Sport

If you’ll fight for anything, you’ll fight for everything.

The goal of fighting is the same no matter the situation. That goal is to put yourself above another in some form.

The Reality of It All

When you fight, you are denying the reality of your oneness with all. You are accepting a reality where you are separate from everyone and so you fight to maintain this separateness.

Feeling small, you seek to expand your being by taking people and objects as possessions. Claim is laid upon them by using the term “my”. “This is my house, my car, my favorite chair, etc.” The consequence of taking on so many possessions is a feeling of fatigue or overextension.

When people are used as possessions, these are known as special relationships. “My wife, my boyfriend, my kid, my best friend, etc.”

You confuse yourself with this illusionary reality and as a result, your being is limited only to those special relationships and possessions. So you fear losing them because you fear losing yourself. You fight more, lay claim to more possessions, and deepen the burden these possessions places on you to maintain them. You are now prisoner to your own “possessions”.

Instead of living, you start dying a little more each day. Well, the self you created starts to die a little more each day because it is robbed of the essence of life. It is stuck in a world that could never be while trying to keep it real.

Now you know what is truly meant when another says, “I’m just keeping it real.”

The cycle repeats and repeats.

So What Do You Do?

1. Stop fighting.

Recognize what fighting really is. It’s a call for love.

If someone is calling for love towards you, show them that love.

Ever tried to fight someone looking at you with pure love? It can’t happen. It’s like trying to fight the happiest baby ever. Whatever darkness that person harbored will instantly flee out of that person in the presence of love.

2. Let go of favoritism.

Treat everyone as the Godly creation that they are. Love all of them with all of your heart.

Treat others how you want to be treated.

3. Love yourself.

When you truly love yourself, you want the best for yourself.

The best for yourself is to be surrounded by the best because what’s best becomes the new norm.
Pour love into your surroundings the same way you would want love poured into you.

For example, let’s say that your best friend is a millionaire. You will get all the benefits of being a millionaire without having to be a millionaire because your friend will want to share his or her experiences with you.

Now imagine if everyone is your best friend. You get the benefits of everyone.

4. Stay reminded.

Your intentions may be good right now, but you may be habitually used to fighting. When things seem to go wrong, your habits will most likely take over.

Until you’ve replaced that habit with a new one, you will need to stay focused on what it is you want.

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