I had so many blocks to Love, it was exhausting me and I didn’t even realize that was the cause. Studying spiritual principle for so many years taught me a LOT, but it didn’t heal my mind.
For me, focusing on giving up the grudges and the grievances, the opinions and the judgments, those projections and perceptions—that’s my practice every day.
Working on that each day, and being willing moment after moment has made all the difference in the world towards releasing the blocks to Love and actively choosing awakening.
Willingness is an expression of Love.
t’s a willingness to love.
And that’s all that’s required.
Here’s what I’ve realized:
When I let go of the blocks to Love, then I can feel that the Love is already there. The patience is already there. They’ve always been there behind the blocks in my mind.
The Freedom, the Joy, the Harmony, the Abundance, the Prosperity, the Wholeness, the Wisdom, the clarity—all of those spiritual qualities are right there when I relinquish the blocks to Love.
Sometimes we don’t really know what’s bothering us. It’s hard to tell sometimes, but we can tell something is bothering us.
That’s when we can reach to our own holiness, that Higher Holy Spirit Self and say:
“Whatever this is, whatever this is, this itchy, scratchy feeling, this malaise—I don’t need this anymore. I’m willing to surrender this, to let it go forever. I’m not going to let it keep me playing small and living in lack and limitation.”
The thing is, all the ways that we’re playing small and living in lack and limitation, many of us have lost track of them because it’s so constant.
We don’t even realize what they are.
I see this more and more in people because I’m able to see it more and more in myself. Like:
“Oh, wow, there’s a block to Love in that thought. I never noticed it before.”
A Course in Miracles reminds us that “To have, give all to all.”
To have Love, to have renewal, to have resurrection, offer it to our brothers and sisters.
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The I AM is the resurrection and the life
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The I AM is the way, the truth, and the life
Fortunately, analyzing these blocks isn’t helpful. It doesn’t speed up the healing at all.
The one thing that speeds up the healing is the willingness to be loving, to see from a loving perspective.
Willingness is the only thing that’s required to do that.
This doesn’t mean it’s always easy.
I’ve counseled many people who have been really upset, deeply depressed, extremely bothered, and they have no willingness to forgive things. None.
They’re not willing to give up the meaning they’ve made of things, their interpretations. They’re focused on blame, and anger and viewing themselves as the victim.
And so they’re investing:
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Their precious life force
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Their spiritual energy
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The power of Love within them
In holding themselves back by blocking the Flow of Love in their own mind.
But here’s the miracle:
We’ve been created to be able to feel the shift change every time we block the flow of Love.
Not through strain or effort, but through simple willingness.
Every day gives us new opportunities to discover the blocks to Love in our consciousness. Every upset shows us where we’re still holding onto illusions. Every grievance points to where we can choose again. If we’re willing. If we’d like to. If we no longer wish to be upset.
Love is true prosperity.
When we align with the only power there is, everything valuable follows.
The spiritual qualities we seek aren’t things we need to develop or earn—they’re already within us, waiting to be uncovered.
Every day, in every way, we’re choosing:
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Illusion or truth
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Grievance or Love
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Limitation or freedom
The power of Love in us will undo all the belief we’ve ever invested in illusion.
We choose Love.
Choose it again.
And again.
That’s the practice that makes all the difference.
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