Article # 11- One Problem-One Solution

 The only ‘Problem’ – we believe we have become separated from our Source, entered into a state illusion, a state of separation.

What if this belief was wrong? What if there was no separation? What if the belief in separation was simply a mistake?

A child might believe 2 + 2 = 5. No matter how hard a child might believe this to be true, the child could never make it true. The child might grow up to build tall buildings, all the while believing 2 + 2 = 5. Most of the time, these buildings would simply crumble to the ground. But every now and then, perhaps, a building just might stay standing for a while.

The child-turned-builder might see this success as witness to the belief that 2 + 2 = 5, “everybody thought I was stupid and wrong, but I proved them wrong”. This child-turned-builder might go right on believing what is so obviously incorrect.

This belief in our separation from our Source is really the only mistake we have ever made. All other mistakes are but witness to this. Their forms may be quite different, but their content remains the same.

This distinction is of paramount importance to us for it means we only have to come up with one, correct answer, an answer that may be applied to all of our seemingly endless variety of mistakes.

We can appear poor only if we are separate from our perfectly abundant Source.

We can appear sick only if we are separate from our perfectly healthy Source.

We can appear sad only if we are separate from our perfectly happy Source.

If we are One with our perfectly abundant Source, then we cannot be poor. To appear poor would simply be a mistake in perceiving our Identity.

If we are One with our perfectly healthy Source, then we cannot be sick. To appear sick would simply be a mistake in perceiving our Identity.

If we are One with our perfectly happy Source, then we cannot be sad. To appear sad would simply be a mistake in perceiving our Identity.

In our confusion, we tend to look to the effects, poor-sick-sad, and let them tell us of their cause. Each of these effects tells us that we are indeed separate from our Source. These effects become the proof of our mistaken identity.

In correcting this error of identity, we need only look to our Source and let It tell us Who we are.   

Each one of us carries our Source within us. We are never separate from our Source, for It is Who we really are, we simply forgot it for a moment. And in this ‘forgetting’, we let ourselves become focused on ‘effects’ and have let ‘effects’ tell us who we are.

Effects do not know who we are. Our bodies are effects, and we have already discussed how silly it is to look to our bodies to tell us who we are.

To find the one, right answer, we must ask it of One Who Knows. The One Who Knows is within each one of us and will gladly give us the answer when we ask with an open mind and heart. To truly “ask” implies that we do not “know” the answer. Most of the time we believe that we do already “know” the answer and so do not need to bother asking what the answer is.

The One Who Knows is really Who We Are. We but forgot for a moment in our fascination with the notion of separation.

This notion of separation appeared as a new and awesome concept which we became focused upon, and being focused upon it, we drew it into our experiences.

We made a mistake, and in that instant, we seemed to have lost our Identity, our One-ness. And then we started thinking, and concluded that since Reality is un-changeable, and we obviously changed Reality, then we must have committed a ”sin”. And then we defined a “sin” as an act so terrible that even if it could be corrected, it could never be forgiven. And so we were stuck with this terrible state of being separate.

All we did was make a mistake, as a small child might make believing 2 + 2 = 5. We had a dream of separation and then believed we could never go home, we did not even remember where home was. So we had better make the best of this most terrible situation.

So here it is, one mistake – upon which all other mistakes have been founded.

The mistake: We dreamed of separation and believed it to be something we wanted. We were thrilled with this totally new idea, different and mysterious. We asked to have this new state of consciousness and we were not answered. We asked again and again we were not answered. We asked yet again and yet again we were not answered.

And then we became angry at being “denied” what we asked for. We threw a childish, temper tantrum and concluded that since we were denied this thing we wanted, we would just make it for ourselves. And that is just what we did. We made this silly, childish state of consciousness of appearing separate from our Source.

The solution: We have not done this thing. We have not changed our own Reality because Reality is not able to be changed. The nature of Reality protects us from all illusion by being What It Is. Reality knows us as one with Itself, as an indivisible part of  Itself.

We only had a dream in which it appeared as if we had become separate.

When we are ready to let go of this dream, all of Creation is ready to welcome us Home.

There is no punishment involved here. Who would punish a child for believing 2 + 2 = 5?

We have been punishing ourselves, we have done all this to ourselves.

Let us stop this silly, childish behavior now.

Let us gladly give up our illusion of separation, for it is not now, nor ever has been, nor ever will be anything other than a silly, childish mistake that has not really done anything at all to our Reality which forever remains un-changing, un-changeable, eternal and loving.

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