Understanding vs. Acceptance

In Chapter 4, I lay down the arguments proving that you are God.  However, it's one thing to read these arguments and understand them, and something else entirely to really accept the truth of it.  It's much like facing the inevitability of dying.  We all know our time is limited, but it's still a terrifying thing to really try and take in the fact that our last day WILL be upon us, just as today is.

Fortunately, accepting that you are God is a bit less terrifying than staring into the abyss.  And it is something that really needs to be taken to heart if it is your intention to go about your day and your life in a more enlightened way.  Every day, for example, we face innumerable small trials that have a totally different significance if we look at them from a perspective of "I am God" rather than "I am my self."  The petty gestures, the boredom, the "one more thing to go wrong", that the day can hurl at us mean something entirely different when you see yourself as a part of everything, and everything as a part of you.

Take a look at yourself in the mirror.  There you see the face with which you identify.  It could be another face tomorrow, and you would still be you, so you know it is a part of your self, and not truly you.  However, it IS you who is looking into the mirror.  Take a moment to reflect on the fact that the consciousness beholding your face is the only consciousness in the entire universe.  At this moment, you are experiencing what it means to be in God's sight.  'I', the one consciousness, the entire Universe itself, is looking at your face.

Try to remember how this feels when you are with others, or going about the business of your day, or eating a meal.  There is no experience that is not divine, and this is so because YOU are experiencing it.

Jim