All such longings to know more deeply, love more deeply, connect more deeply are ultimately a desire to experience a more unified state of awareness than that afforded by the normal disconnected ego.

Fear is the principal lower-self fault of those with a love mask. Fear turns the true love of the higher self into the mask of love. This mask pretends to be more loving and more caring of others than is the case. This mask is based on fear of rejection and fear of standing on one’s own two feet. This mask always pretends sweetness and caring that

Since we have all been taught that God is the supreme authority, our images of God are distorted in whatever direction our early childhood experiences with authority were distorted. If we experienced authority as punitive, we will expect a harsh, judgmental God. Hence we may resist finding our own Godselves for fear that we will meet self-judgment

Many entities have an intense longing to realize their inherent divine nature, and they forget, while in the body, that they came to earth to fulfill a mission in the universal plan. This mission is the purification and growth of undeveloped cosmic matter. In order to do this it means shedding the light of conscious awareness and experience upon

“Original sin” really means the imperfections inherent in our human nature as a result of the original choice to separate our consciousness from God consciousness.

The practice of self-observation is the bridge from our ordinary scattered selves to the core of our unified self.

This truth must not be used to put ourselves down when our lives are going badly nor to aggrandize ourselves when our lives are going well. It is easy to distort the idea of self-responsibility into blaming ourselves for the “bad” things in our lives, or taking credit for the “good” things. The creation of our lives is not a matter of ego blame or

Human consciousness is neither simple nature nor pure spirit. We are, instead, in the middle stages of evolution, beings of both spirit and matter, of partial but not complete self-awareness, caught in restless incompleteness and inner division. We are in a state of disequilibrium seeking balance, of disunity and duality evolving toward unity.

While we may understand that diverse and contradictory levels of consciousness coexist in us, we often do not perceive that each one of them is innately creative. Our lives are a manifestation of the sum total of all the different characters or levels of consciousness that we are, whether or not we are aware of them. Bringing the inner worlds of