We perform so difficult at becoming “greater people”, at gaining better intelligence and more skills. We wish to be loved more and be much more popular. The whole self-help market is centered on increasing the self so you can turn into a greater you. That is another trick we privately play on ourselves, thinking we’ve to keep spinning our wheels wanting to become better. That self-improvement sport is another secret we can to learn to let it go of. It’s really comforting when you begin to appreciate that you may not have to become any benefit than you previously are. You had been developed perfect. It’s maybe not through self-improvement that you discover peace but through self-acceptance.
As I caused A Class in Miracles, I possibly could see that there clearly was an anxiety about divine love in my mind. I realized this was the ego’s concern with losing itself. The ego is afraid of being subjected and being seen as a puff of nothingness. That is the fear of intimacy. We discuss this anxiety in a course in miracles relationships, which might be predicted as concern with sexual intimacy, but it’s really an anxiety about losing our identity, our mask of individuality. It’s the fear of having taken out by a glorious love, a love so powerful that nothing of us will even envision something as glorious and powerful!
For me personally, those are the huge techniques, as it does not begin with this great awareness. It generally starts with emotion like you’ve performed something wrong, whether you’ve masturbated, taken something, mistreated somebody, or there is something in your head that you’ve evaluated as so hideous that you never even need to face it, you only want to forget about it and drive it out of awareness.
Underneath those memories and feelings, is the belief that people are separated. Here is the “secret” we hide. It is actually an impossible belief, but we feel it is correct; We’ve evaluated it as horrible and have pushed it out of awareness. All unconscious guilt originates from this belief in separation. And as you truly provide your self to the miracle, you’re feeling those concealed beliefs and techniques are being washed out and you eventually expe