One of the hugest secrets we strive to keep is a sense of independence and dignity. The idea or emotion that you are significant in some special way, that you are loved by a unique person, that an individual is giving you unique attention, these are some of the ego’s very subtle secrets. We are attempting to hide our Heavenly Self and are playing all these different games, which look to be very upsetting. It is quite depressing and it really doesn’t go anywhere, so we attempt to get scraps of distinctive love, attention and acclaim to prop ourselves up.
We toil so hard at becoming “better people”, at obtaining greater intelligence and more skills. We want to be liked more and be more well-known. The entire self-help sector is focused on bettering the self so you can grow into a better you. That is another gimmick we secretly partake on ourselves, thinking we have to keep turning our wheels trying to grow into better. This self-improvement game is another secret we can to learn to let go of. It is very relaxing when you start to realize that you do not have to become any better than you currently are. You were created perfect. It is not through self-improvement that you find tranquility but through self-acceptance.
As I worked with A Course in Miracles, I could observe that there was a dread of divine love in my mind. I realized this was the ego’s fear of losing itself. The ego is afraid of being uncovered and being perceived as a puff of nothingness. That is the fear of intimacy. We talk about this terror in relationships, which is sometimes projected as fear of sexual intimacy, but it is really a fear of dropping our persona, our mask of individuality. It is the terror of getting swept away by a magnificent love, a love so strong that none of us can even envision something as glorious and powerful!
For me, those are the big secrets, because it doesn’t start off with this great awareness. It always starts with feeling like you have done something incorrect, whether you’ve masturbated, stolen something, malhandled an individual, or there is something in your mind that you have deemed as so ghastly that you don’t even want to confront it, you just want to forget about it and push it out of consciousness.
Beneath all those reminiscences and ideas, is the belief that we are parted. This is the “secret” we hide. It really is an unattainable belief, but we think that it is true; We have deemed it as terrible and have pushed it out of consciousness. All unconscious guilt comes from this belief in separation. And as you really provide yourself over to the miracle, you feel all those hidden beliefs and secrets are being washed away and you finally confront this hidden belief in separation!
Please, share any thoughts and observations with me below, I’d appreciate to hear about your journey!
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