The Course tells us that all of life is but a dream.
However, words are symbols.
We must not make too much meaning out of the word dream.
But this life as we know it is something of an illusion.
An altered state of consciousness.
It is why spiritual paths refer to the process of enlightenment as waking up, or Awakening.
Because we are asleep.
Our spiritual path is about waking up to our Truth.
It’s about waking up from the dream or illusion of pain, fear, suffering, and separation.
Waking up to Loves presence, and our true reality in Oneness.
When you awaken from your dreams at night, the dream evaporates.
You don't long to return to it as your reality.
Because you instantly remember your True Reality.
The dream fades as your Truth becomes clear to you again.
And just as easily as we drift away from the pain of a nightmare upon awakening…
We will release the pain and suffering of this life, as we Awaken.
This experience we call life, might be its own altered state of higher consciousness.
It’s an idea.
An experience.
A dream.
Sometimes there is pain and suffering in our dreams.
But we know not to attach to the pain of our nightmares.
Because when we wake up, we return to the light of our true reality.
As if the dream had never happened.
We can do the same as we navigate the pain and suffering in our lives.
Perhaps we need not fear it. The suffering is but a harmless dream.
God is Perfect Love.
And Perfect Love creates.
Love is not Love without something to Love.
This makes sense to me.
So perhaps we were created.
And Perfect Love requires free will.
Because Love is not Love without freedom.
So we as the Divine’s creations are free to think, and create, and experience.
If we think and create with thoughts of separation from love (ego), we will have an experience of suffering.
But if we think and create with Love, then we will Awaken.
And I think we will Awaken.
Love is waiting for us.
When we're ready to return.
For now, we are choosing an experience that is separate from it.
So we will experience some suffering.
But experience is not the same as Reality.
Meaning, it isn't our forever.
It isn't Eternity.
God does not reveal himself to us.
Because that would make the nightmare real.
God knows only of Love.
And Love knows nothing of suffering or dreams.
Life is nothing more than an experience that Perfect Love allows.
Just as a loving parent must allow their children to leave home and have their own experience.
We are allowed to think thoughts that are not of God.
But we can always return home when we are ready.
Our spiritual path is our return home.
While dreaming, we will have Revelations.
Glimpses into our Truth in Oneness.
Moments of Bliss.
But Revelation will not be sustainable until we've fully given up the thought system of the ego.
It cannot be sustained until we choose Love fully.
And nothing else.
This is the path of enlightenment.
Letting go of ego thoughts, attack, fear, and separation.
And choosing only Love in every moment.
We don't have to be afraid in this experience of life.
We don’t have to fear the pain and suffering.
We can put our weapons down.
Because we will wake up to our Truth again.
Our Truth in Oneness with All That Is.
And as we wake up, the pain will vanish as fluidly as our nighttime dreams.
And in an instant we will remember that we were dreaming.
We will awaken to our Truth as Spirit.
We can wake up now, in this moment.
By shifting our perspective from fear to Love.
And we will all eventually return to this Peace and Love in Eternity.
Because it's already where we are.
Just as you would not shake a child awake from a nightmare, for this would increase fear…
We won't be shaken to Awaken.
We are waking up slowly.
Through soft whispers from the Divine.
And in time, we will remember who we are.
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