I am at a movie that my Auntie has treated one of my sisters and me to. The movie is at it's climax when the main character's fience has a bomb strapped to her waist. He has his gun but he doesn't shoot. All the other action becomes fuzzed out, and it is only the two people. The main character is speaking, "Wait, just listen to me for a moment." She waits with her thumb on the trigger. "You know how you told me that you joined this Fundamentalist group because you wanted to make sense of your life, you wanted to find peace with yourself?" She nods, yes, with tears welling up in her fearful eyes. "Well, this doesn't make any sense, this is insanity - to take your own life and take the lives of so many others. All that matters now, is that I love you. Love is the only sense we're ever going to make of all of this."
In the intensity of this life and death situation, this young man new this, from the very core of this being. He loved this woman, bomb, or no bomb, and this was a greater reality to him then her insanity. Our fears, our demons, the insanity that goes on in our minds, all dragging us down with ball and chain: guilt, are all, ultimately a mass hallucination that we have allowed to take over, and invalidate who we really are. Only love is real. It is the answer to everything. It is the answer to our inner peace. What happens on the outside all depends on what is happening on the inside. Just as dark in the absence of light, evil is the absence of love. The source of all 'evil' is fear. You are a child of light. You are a being of unconditional love. Through love you are connected to the entire cosmos, and you have, potentially, the support of the entire cosmos to bring about the peace of mind that you haven't even dared to hope for. What we have allowed the ego to do is build a case against us, and not only that, we believe the lies, of our worthlessness, our guilt. There's another fantastic movie called My Cousin Vinny. Vinny is a New York Italian lawyer. He defends his nephew who is accused of murder. So many things have gone wrong since the case began. Just as his nephew is about to give up, Vinny sits him down and says, "The prosecution is going to build a case against you. He's gonna use bricks. He'll show you how the bricks have nice flat sides, and nice clean edges." As he's explaining this he's using a playing card to illustrate his point. "But what he's not going to let you see is that in actuality it has no substance. His house is totally and completely a facade. His house is made of playing cards, and what he wants you to believe is that it's a real house, it is valid. But it isn't it can't be, because you're innocent." To feel within yourself, the love that is the power and essence of you, the storms can rage, the ego can keep pushin' it's point, people can say what they like, but you know it's all a hallunination, and you know that you can achieve your dreams of a peaceful mind and the the life you always wanted; where you are filled with love and you give it freely, without fear without doubt. You finally know the one thing, the only thing that matters, because only it is real, and that is love. Because of that, you know, beyond knowing, beyond anything that this earthly realm has to offer, that you've already won, it's only a matter of time that the hallucination will disappear into nothingness. You and the Creator are one, you are one in love. When the going gets so tough, when I feel like I'm ready to quit, I stand very still, sometimes I close my eyes, and I say to myself "all that matters is that I love you." When I do that, what happens is just like the movie: the fear, the pictures, the thoughts, the monsters all fuzz out, and all that is left is me and love, me and God, the Father. We are saying this to each other. We- 'I am' is confirming that, only this, this incredible love that is US is real, not only that, because it is, it will be the only thing left when all is said and done. In this confirmation, I know that I am co-creating a new life for me. I know that since this is what's on the inside, it has to eventually be what is manifested. With this I'm plugging myself right back into the source, the source of real power, which makes it the ultimate reality. "All that matters is that I love you." This is what it means to choose fear or love. Happiness or unhappiness. It can take some doing because we are so fearful, we still think that the hallucination is reality, it still controls our lives. As said in the beginning, love is energy. When you are deciding that love, that is the most important over all things, you can immediately feel its energy, this incredible connection to the Divine Self. This energy that flows right through every part of your being casting out the fear, the pain, the darkness, the confusion. You know the most important of all things in Heaven and on Earth; you know who you are. You are love. You are powerful, you can do anything, and best of all, you find out that you are loved, so much more profoundly than the limited ego self could ever feel, you are loved by God. Without you God can not cast out darkness, without God you can not cast out darkness, but together - the recognition of your oneness with love, with the Creator, that always existed, it was just buried, the true self-put to sleep- together, YOU are the ultimate healer of you- and all that surrounds you; the people, the creation, your job, your talent, are all an extension of that love.