Paradise Perspective

This is going to be like tarot: Not that someone has to die, but that serious change is imminent. The death card is about change, and this is important because we all draw the death card occasionally. We are not victims of this death, we must be the perpetrators of it.

Something about me–the way I feel, the way I respond to something, the way I want something to be different–is wrong or undesirable. It is likely that I will see it as someone else’s wrongdoing that I am responding to, and THEY are the ones who should change so that I can feel better. First, this is hardly ever the case and second, what another does (says, feels, etc.) is never a good excuse to feel negative. I can only control ME, and if I control me, I can decide to feel peace no matter what!!

It is important, when looking to achieve an attitude of unconditional love, to establish an unprecedented trust. Faith that wherever our lives take us, all will be well. All IS well and has always been well, even when I did not subscribe to it’s wellness because I was busy looking for an excuse to feel sorry for myself or be offended. Even while I waited for another to take responsibility for my happiness. Even while I believed I just needed such-and such, or this-or-that to just be over (or start).

Happiness, peace, salvation–all the same thing–all dependent on one thing only: My choice to be happy, peaceful, liberated.

My choice is to be love without conditions, and perpetrate death upon any other feeling that is in contention. Kill it. It’s not real and it won’t let you be at peace as long as you give it any energy whatsoever. And living in peace is more important.