Guiding Thought

Choose only to create with Perfect Love. Since Perfect Love is all You Are, and all there is, accept Perfect Love as the only Source for all your creations. Project Perfect Love outward, shining with inner radiance.

Reflection

In my imagination I had a wise person saying the Guiding Thought to me. It was an anonymous wise person, not someone I recognized or could identify. I can’t even tell you what gender this wise one was. But s/he was in a simple monk’s (Franciscan or such) robe, with hands tucked in the wide sleeves.

With the first repetition, I was immediately drawn in by the double meaning of the first sentence: Choose only to create with Perfect Love. The first meaning is that I focus on my own vibration or energy, and do my best to lift myself to a vibration or energy of Perfect Love, then from that place interact with my world, designing and building with Perfect Love.

The second meaning takes Perfect Love as a euphemism for God, and has to do with cooperating with Perfect Love, to achieve creation. This meaning  is about uniting my will with God’s (Perfect Love’s) Will, and acting from that collaboration.

Now, when I read this Guiding Thought, I have both of these ideas in my head at the same time, so that I “see” both Perfect Love streaming forth from my heart, and I see a channel of light going from the top of my head into the ether, to the heart and mind of God, which informs and instructs me on how to use my own will correctly.

All that from seven words. Nice.

The second sentence was stated to me by a monk in a bit more of a teaching-pose, with hand gestures; the monk had a different “feel” for this sentence: now s/he felt more Buddhist than Franciscan. The difference had to do with the awareness of the interconnectedness of All (known as Interdependent Co-arising, also known as Dependent Co-origination, which *very* basically means the experience of non-duality).

While the second monk was saying the second sentence to me s/he was simultaneously embodying the concept of the sentence, so that I could feel what it means that Perfect Love is all I am and all there is. With that feeling, there is no doubt or question about the second half of that sentence: accept Perfect Love as the only Source for all your creations. In fact, if there was a question it was more along the lines of, “how could I not accept Perfect Love as the only Source!?” The feeling made the reality of Perfect Love so palpable, that being told to accept it seemed redundant and unnecessary.

The third sentence took some effort, and I can’t say I can feel it–and most certainly not as strongly as the first two sentences.

It seems to me that the point of the third sentence is to make my brain think and apply itself in a specific direction, i.e. the direction of intentionally acting on the idea of Perfect Love.

In this statement, the intentional action is that of the brain thinking. My brain must visualize (think about) what might occur if I were to project Perfect Love outward and shine with inner radiance.

The brain, is of course the seat of skepticism, and feels some rebellion about this. It does not believe in Projecting Love or shining with anything. The brain believes in what this body can see, hear, taste, touch, and smell–and neither Perfect Love nor inner radiance qualify.

But the mere exercise of asking the brain to imagine this, propels the thought outward, in even the smallest capacity, thereby creating the experience of the projection of Perfect Love, and the shining of inner radiance (even to the smallest capacity). At some level, the brain becomes conscious of the thought and the corresponding experience, even if the experience is in the imagination (you know the brain responds the same way to imaginary experiences and “real” experiences, right?).

The result is that the brain then creates its own experience: what the body can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell–and the brain verify as real.

The other result is that I am now aware of one of my brain’s stumbling blocks, and I can consciously choose to engage and release/transform it!