One of the biggest secrets we attempt to keep is a sense of self-governance and pride. The concept or feeling that you are crucial in some special way, that you are loved by a particular person, that somebody is giving you unique attention, these are some of the ego’s very delicate secrets. We are attempting to hide our Heavenly Self and are partaking in all these different games, which appear to be very upsetting. It is rather depressing and it really doesn’t go anywhere, so we try to get scraps of unique love, attention and acknowledgment to prop ourselves up.
We labor so hard at becoming “superior people”, at obtaining greater intelligence and more skills. We want to be appreciated more and be more well-known. The entire self-help industry is focused on improving the self so you can grow into a better you. That is another scheme 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 grasp that you do not have to turn into 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 collaborated with A Course in Miracles, I could see that there was a fear of divine love in my mind. I realized this was the ego’s fear of losing itself. The ego is afraid of being exposed and being perceived as a puff of nothingness. That is the apprehension of intimacy. We talk about this dread in relationships, which is sometimes depicted as fear of sexual intimacy, but it is really a terror of dropping our persona, our mask of distinctiveness. It is the terror of getting swept away by a splendid love, a love so intense that none of us can even envision something as magnificent and powerful!
For me, those are the big secrets, because it doesn’t start off with this great consciousness. It always starts with feeling like you have done something incorrect, whether you’ve masturbated, taken something, abused an individual, or there is something in your mind that you have judged as so ghastly that you don’t even want to face it, you just want to dismiss about it and push it out of consciousness.
Beneath all those reminiscences and thoughts, is the belief that we are parted. This is the “secret” we hide. It really is an unfeasible belief, but we believe that it is true; We have judged it as terrible and have pushed it out of consciousness. All unconscious guilt comes from this belief in division. And as you really offer yourself over to the miracle, you feel all those hidden beliefs and secrets are being washed away and you finally face this hidden belief in separation!
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