"People are either guided by love or enslaved by fear"

Joshua Guild writes:

"If you believe you have something to give, you'll give it... The emotionally distant believe they have little to offer... A person who fails to return affection sees them self as emotionally bankrupt... don't take it personal... Remember fear is the greatest obstacle to love. Many of our fears are yet to be discovered... Many people unknowingly spend their entire life running from fear... Awareness, discovery, enlightenment is the answer... We cannot unsee, but we can be forever changed by what we see... We don't need to be fixed, only awakened and this happens through meditation, processing, prayer... It is the difference between telling and showing... the difference between reading and experiencing... The only way to reach deep into the heart of an enemy is to love them... People are either guided by love or enslaved by fear... Light reveals, but darkness enslaves, so when you feel anxiety turn on the light, don't act upon anxiety... Acting upon anxiety creates more anxiety, more regrets, more destruction and keeps you enslaved... Unwrap each fear, one by one to reach the love at your core... Love starts with getting to know yourself... You're not emotionally bankrupt, you have eternity inside you. You have enough love behind those fears to give some to every person you meet... You just need to be awakened from the bad dream know as living unconsciously... you need to become conscious... I once was blind, but now I see this love inside of me and out of this love comes depth, warmth, beauty, allure... I am not a Christian, but I believe the person of Jesus manifested such depth, such love... such divinity... Namaste."

Yes, the axiom "People are either guided by love or enslaved by fear" sums up his post because love and fear are mutually exclusive. Organised religions have tried to include both love and fear in the hearts of their followers through their teachings, which only results in people living in fear of judgment. It is hard for people to love themselves and others when they are put under fear. I have been there before too. I agree with his post that "we don't need to be fixed, only awakened and this happens through meditation, processing, prayer..." 

I also find that the gospel or good news (which is not necessarily confined to christianity) about our true identity that we are already beloved and innocent and complete/perfect children of God/Divine Love/Universe has helped me become free from fear and self-limiting thoughts, and learn to embrace myself (including my "dark" or shadow self), and accept others the same way too. I am on a journey still even as I am sharing this. I appreciate always reading such reminders as this because this axiom captures a timeless truth that is relevant for all time and applies to everyone regardless of their age, background, belief system, etc.

God is love, and his love is a God-sized-love

"God is love, and his love is a God-sized-love. We can't compare his love to our love. His love is cosmic sized. His love is big, no bigger, no it's BIGGER. It's bigger than we can even comprehend. It's bigger than our own definition of love. It's a completely divine love.

It's a love with no faults and no limitations. It's a love that never fails. It's a perfect love. It's beyond our own definition of love. We only see a glimpse of it. A tiny piece of its whole, but what we see blows our minds.

What we see inspires us to love likewise. What we see is just a fraction of the whole, and the whole of God's love is BIG. BIGGER. Keep going.... its bigness never ends. It's like the universe: Unending, ever expanding, and undefinable".

"Although I can't possible fully understand how great a privilege it truly is, I'm blessed beyond measure to know that God is holding me within his cosmic-sized love." Mick Mooney

"And our God has more than enough love and Grace for ALL who are hurt and confused about WHO they are in this life".

It is good to meditate on the love of God that is unending and limitless. Yes, like the universe that is infinite and yet ever expanding, so is the expansive yet inclusive love of God. NASA describes the universe as infinite in extent.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html

"If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is flat like a sheet of paper, and infinite in extent."

Someone commented in this website that "Incidentally, if the universe is infinite now it has always been infinite, even at the Big Bang. This is why you'll often hear it said that the Big Bang wasn't a point, it was something that happened everywhere."

I think this may align with the panentheistic view of "All is in God", as we are all included in God, including the universe with all the stars and planets and living beings such as ourselves. It is reassuring then to know we are included and safely held within God's cosmic-sized love, as Mick Mooney put it in his quote. 

Yes, our God has more than enough love and Grace for ALL who are hurt and confused about WHO they are in this life. Whenever we are being rejected or sidelined by the society that try to make us conform to their norms and expectations to become something we are not, we can take refuge in the knowledge that God always loves us and accepts us for who we really are - beloved sons and daughters of God. 

Young's Literal Translation (YLT) 1 Peter 5:10

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle [you];

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Yes the God of all grace will perfect us with his/her love that casts out fear, and establish and strengthen and settle us in the knowledge of our true divine identity. It is good for our heart to be established by grace.

We Are Never Alone—The Universe Always Sends Someone—The Empowered Human: 360 Senses

Video message
"Do Not Suffer in Silence—Open Your Heart to The World!" - Ralph Smart

I thought it is an encouraging message reassuring us that even as we embark on our spiritual journey that differs from the crowd, from the world system, we are not alone because the Universe always sends someone in our life at each stage of our journey. 

How Great is the Divine

The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it.
With hammers of can't and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory Light of the world.
~Tom Robbins

 Yes, the Divine is expansive and cannot be contained within the restrictive confines of religion. The expansive nature of the Divine reminds me of the Universe, which is also ever expanding. So are we, for we too are the Universe, and we are ever on a journey to know ourselves. The more we know ourselves, the more we discover there is so much to know, for there is an infinite depth to our soul. We are deep calling unto deep, and marvellous co-creators with greatness, power, beauty, wisdom and love within us that is endless. Hence, religion can never be able to do justice to the wonderful Us/Divine with their dogma. God/Us are like the new wine that cannot be contained in old wine skins, and we are like the unending spring that flows unceasingly with rivers of life. 

We are all each responsible for our own creation in our hologram

"We are so used to thinking of things external to us. When, we do this we begin to feel like a victim. This keeps the victim-victimizer game going. We have been both. It is some times painful to look within and see self. Many say you need to get rid of your ego. If you do that you are no longer able to see what needs healed. If you repress your thoughts or feelings then this energy turns in and causes illness and all kinds of problems. When, you are able to see it and not judge it but send love to it the energy is no longer stored in and can flow out in a healthy manner. What, is on the outside of you is a refectrion of you. When, you heal what you see needs it, you will stop the victim-victimizer game, you will know we are all in the same boat. We are all each resposible for our own creation in our hologram. Also, makes it easy to love each other. We are all one, but individuated Faces of God Source. So, we make our experience here." ~ Marlene Fow

Yes, we are all one and yet individual faces of the God source in this divine ecosystem in which we coexist and build up one another in the body of Christ. Like what Paul wrote, when one part of the body suffers, the rest of the body is affected and suffers as well, and when one part of the body does well, the rest of the body benefits too and rejoices with that part. 

And yes, I have also come to realise that we are living in a matrix or holographic universe, whereby our inner condition or consciousness can affect our outer condition or universe. So what we see and experience outside is a reflection of what is inside us because what is inside us manifests on the outside. 

Like what the post says, when we love and accept ourselves the way we are, including embracing the ego, we will experience wholeness and create a beautiful and peaceful world both for ourselves and others, which is our ultimate reality. Whenever outside circumstances appear challenging or overwhelming, we can remind ourselves these things are an illusion and focus on the divine unconditional love inside us, and we will remain in peace and victory over the circumstances. 

In 2 Chronicles 20, when King Jehoshaphat and his army was overwhelmed by Moab, Ammon and other armies, they learnt to sing praises and focus on their belovedness, and they eventually won the battle without a fight and got to collect the treasures in the battlefield. 

The gospel of our belovedness and oneness has the power to transform our consciousness and bring peace and wholeness to ourselves, which will also emanate to the world around us. May we continue to create a wonderful, peaceful and restful world.

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