Cultivating Willingness

19. Cultivating Willingness


Now you have prepared the way, and all that is left to move into willingness to have your meeting with the creator within, to experience communion with God.

This can be encounter that you experience physically or mentally—or both. You may weep with joy, tremble with excitement, or rock in ecstasy. Or you may simply and quietly move one day into a gentle awareness that you now know.

You know about The Illusion, and The Reality.

You know about your self, and about God.

You understand the Oneness, and the individuation of the Oneness.

You understand it all.

This experience of knowing may remain with you, or it may come and go. Do not feel exhalted if it stays, and do not feel discouraged if it goes. Simply notice what is so, then choose what you next wish to experience.

Even Masters have been known to occasionally choose not to experience their mastery—sometimes for the joy of reawakening to it, and sometimes for the purpose of awakening others. This is why things can happen to Masters that you, in your place of judgment, do not think should or could be happening if they were “really Masters.”

Therefore, judge not, and neither condemn. For you may meet your Masters this very day—as the bag lady on the street, or the mugger in the park, and not only as the guru on the mountain top. In fact, rarely so. The Master who appears as a Master is seldom acknowledged, and more often rebuked. Yet the Master who walks among you, appearing as one of you, is often the Master who makes the most impact.

So be alert, for you do not know at what hour your Master may come. He may even come as what you choose to call a criminal, disobeying the most sacred laws and customs of your society, and be crucified because of it.

Yet in the aftermath will you seek to remember every word he ever spoke.


Should you achieve mastery, or rise to that level even part of the time, you, too, may be judged, condemned, and crucified by your society. For others may be afraid of you, because they may be worried that you know something they do not know, or because you are challenging something that they think they do know. And it is fear that turns observation into judgment, and judgment into anger.

It is as I have told you. Anger is fear, announced.

The anger of others will be part of their Illusion about who they are, and who you are. And so the Master in you will forgive them, understanding that they know not what they do.

This is the key to expressing and experiencing the Divinity within you: forgiveness.

You will not see that which is Divine in you unless and until you forgive that which you believe is not. And you will be unable to behold the Divinity in another unless and until you do the same.

Forgiveness is the expander of perception.

When you forgive yourself for that which you and others are not, then you will experience that which you and others truly are. In that moment you will understand that forgiveness itself is not necessary. For who would forgive whom? And for what?

We Are All One.

There is great peace in that, and great comfort. My peace I give you. Peace be with you.

Forgiveness is just another word for peace in the language of the soul.

This is something that you deeply understand when you awaken from the dream of your imagined reality.

Your moment of awakening can come to you at any time, and through any person. Therefore, honor all times and all people, for the moment of your deliverance may be at hand. It will be your deliverance from The Illusions the moment when you can be with it but not within it.

There will more than one such moment in your life. Indeed, your life has been created to bring you just such moments.

These are your moments of grace, when clarity and wisdom, love and understanding, guidance and insight are brought to you and through you.

These moments of grace change your life forever, and often, the lives of others as well.
Just such a moment of grace brought you to this book. That is why you are able to receive and deeply understand the present communication.

In one form, this is a meeting with the Creator.

It has come upon you through your willingness, through your openness, through your forgiveness, and through your love. Your love of self, your love of others, and your love of Life.

And, yes, your love of Me.

It is love of God that brings God to you. It is love of self that brings awareness of that part of self which is God—and therefore knows that God does not come to you but through you. For God is never apart from you but is always a part of you.

The Creator is not separate from the created. The lover is not separate from the beloved. That is not the nature of love, and that is not the nature of God.

Nor is it the nature of You. You are separate from nothing and no one, least of all God.

You have known this from the beginning. You have understood this always. Now, at last, you are giving your self permission to experience it; to have a true moment of grace; to be in communion with God.


What is it like to be in a state of such communion? If you are even at the edges of that experience now, you already know the answer. If you have made that connection only momentarily in meditation, you already know the answer. If you have experienced the incredible high of the most exhilarating physical experience, you already know the answer.

In a state of communion with God you will temporarily lose all sense of individual identity. Yet this will occur without any sense of loss, for you will know that you have simply realized your true identity. That is, you have real-ized it. You have, quite literally, made it real.

And indescribable bliss, an elegant ecstasy, will envelop you. You will feel merged with love, one with all. And you will never be satisfied with anything less.

People who have had this experience return to the world and their lives in a new way. They find themselves falling in love with everyone on sight. They experience Oneness with all others in surprising moments of Holy Communion.
A heightened awareness and deep appreciation of nature can bring them to unexpected tears of joy at the slightest provocation. And a new clarity about everything they are seeing in the world around them can render them transformed. They often begin moving more slowly, talking more softly, acting more gently.

These and other changes may last for several hours or several days, several months or several years—or for a lifetime. The length of the experience is purely the individual’s choice. It will fade of its own accord if it is not renewed. Just as the brightness of a light fades the farther one moves away from it, the bliss of Oneness fades the longer one has been away.

To stay in the light, one must remain close to it. To stay in the bliss, one must do the same.

That is why you are urged, while living with your present Illusion, to do whatever it takes—meditate, exercise, pray, read, write, listen to music, whatever you find that works—to ignite your awareness daily.

Then you will be in the holy place of the Most High. And you will feel high, and think highly of yourself, and of others, and of all of Life.

Then, too, you will create and contribute to Life as you have never contributed before.