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HEAVEN #1807 Enjoy the Movie October 16, 2005
God said:
Criticism is a harsh thing. Be very careful with it. You
may think you are doing some good with it. Perhaps you are. Too often it
is you who feels good giving it while the receiver feels disheartened.
Criticizing gives you a sense of satisfaction, perhaps, that you have
educated someone. Even when you are correct, you may be incorrect to
correct. Do not think that giving criticism is your due.
Do not praise unduly either. False praise is false praise.
It can be as wasteful as criticism. Whatever is going on, it is not a
critical matter.
You have to get out of the mode of criticism. And that
includes self-criticism. When you dont fault yourself, you will be less
likely to fault another.
If you must find fault, find fault with the concept of
fault-finding. When love is, where can fault lie? The only fault is in not
loving. It is not your duty nor your right to find fault. Bite your
tongue.
If you do not feel loving, then ask yourself how you would
respond if you did feel awareness of love in your heart? You would respond
more creatively.
Ink spilt is ink spilt. Pitch in and clean it up.
When there is no past, where can fault lie? When a river
flows, where can past collect?
Life flows, beloveds. It is not collected. Life is
ever-moving and, therefore, it is always fresh.
If you must collect, collect tributes to life, to yourself
and to the person across from you.
There is no karma, but you are creating energy right now.
Right now create the energy you want to find. The past does not create
this moment. You create it. Carry the energy you want to receive. You have
choice. So, choose. Choose the energy you want to give. You have free
will. Free will means free choice. Do not consider that anything is
foisted on you. In every moment you are choosing your life. You are the
chooser of it.
There is no cause and effect. Accept this. You see an
effect, and you keep looking for the cause. Yet what you see as the effect
may not be accurate. In any case, get beyond the question of why. Get
beyond the question of why, and you will move forward.
If there is no past and no karma, why persist in
accounting for the present? Explanation is not the name of the game. If
you have been playing Explanation, cease now. Do not explain your life
away. Live instead.
The cloth has already been woven. You are not going to
unweave it. Looking for the past to explain the present makes you a pawn.
For those of you who believe in karma, dont make yourself
a victim. I would not have you be victim. I would have you wrest the
present from the past. And now, the present is already passed. Drop off
the concept of present and past and any connections you make between them.
Only in the relative world, does time take a bow. It is
hard to understand how time does not exist when it is underfoot all the
time. Let go of time, and you let go of restrictions. The past, whether
ignoble or meritorious, is a restriction. Whatever has been is irrelevant.
What energy are you fostering in this moment of timelessness?
In Eternity, would you concern yourself with a passing
fault observed on the relative plane? Relative life does not exist. It is
a movie you are watching. Observe the liveliness of the movie rather than
the obscurity of what you see amiss. Enjoy the movie. | 
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