5-28. All attachments are but illusions chasing illusions, akin to shadows pursuing other shadows, hoping to invigorate their falsity with a reality they do not enjoy. Release your attachments and Love will return.
To become attached is equally to present - to yourself primarily, but also to the universe in a tangential manner - that what it is that you are enamored of must be possessed of a value that you do not currently enjoy or have the ability to access within your own heart. What of this? What is stated when all that is obtainable is regarded as being representative of some experience that would otherwise be inaccessible to you? Simply nothing at all, for it is no better than using darkness, if such an absence could even be captured and set to task, in some aborted attempt to illuminate that which it already is, or rather much more specifically, what it is not and can never be. That which is not Real is not to be replaced, for it has never existed in any manner at all that can be said to be rational when Love becomes the final answer to all inquiries, for all that is not Real is but the illusions of the mind, spun from the tendrils of falsifications that the ego endlessly serves up, always partial in intent and primarily useless in function, for they are based upon misperceptions and so they will all dissipate just as soon as they are recognized for what they are - the nothingness of a conjecture that finds its most terminal conclusion in a presentation of isolation as being the first principle of awareness, when such a separated perspective is forever its own genesis and justification. What can be discovered when it is not intented to be uncovered? What can be transcended when it was never Real at all? All of these inquiries point to a much deeper conundrum that will remain unresolved for just as long as you desire to be held apart from your heart, a sanctity of safety that is anything but. To not face that which is illusion is not to be kept unaware of its implications, or to be unaffected by its bounds, for nothing transpires in the absence of structures of intentionality that are both robust and well supported by a genuine desire to infuse them with the fortitude and determination required to look beyond all that is darkness. Equally, it will not be possible to utilize the tenets of this self-similar darkness to discover its origins within an error that is much more ancient than all that is considered to be the flow of time within the material universe, for time is but a necessary illusion that appears to obscure the Unity of Love, a Certainty that is the only reason you will ever require to embark upon a journey of self discovery that will lead not so much to liberation but rather to the eventual realization that there was never anything at all that restricted you in any manner that was ever Real. Whatever it is that you wish to attach to - any situation, person, event, possession or belief structure that seems so very comforting and supportive at any particular time, serves you not at all, for within these obsessions and structures of unwillingness to be Freed from all necessities, a great castle of infinite darkness is built, one that is intended to keep out the memory of a Love so vast and so overwhelming that were it to be allowed to enter, all that never was would have to be disabled and discarded, for there would be no further want or need that could be expressed. Love reigns supreme because it is dependent upon nothing at all and it requires no allegiance to itself, for it is just as it has always been - Complete in an of itself, without any regard for what might or might not be believed about its Nature. Can you genuinely say that anything at all that you might desire to be attached to can be as this? Certainly not, from a corrected and Awakened perspective, for all that is of materiality, including the compositional aspects of a life lived in form that delineates that bodies are separate, and so all else that is of Creation must be - somehow, without justification and so very tragically indeed - separate and isolated from its Creator and from the other examples of what Creation can be, when it is manifested in all of its forms and possibilities. Darkness that is self-elected obscures nothing at all, save for what you would have it hide from you, for it is but a shadow that chases its own creation endlessly, which must, when it is seen logically and from a state of completeness, be recognized as symbolizing nothing at all, for what is there to an absence save for its definition within all that actually is Real? Shadows would not exist if there was no Light to be obscured. Fear would not exist if there were no participants willing to invest themselves within falsity and the guilty guile of attempts to obfuscate themselves from their own hearts, believing that they must be distinct from Love, and so they must equally be unable to be Loved, for they are unworthy in some fashion that they do not understand. Such blindness all of this is, and so very unnecessary indeed, for there is nothing that Love cannot See and there are no aspects of Creation that are not Loved completely and perfectly by their Creator. Shadows mean nothing, for it is the Light that they are obscuring that will remain after all that is darkness is set aside in favor of the Truth that you are Loved not for what you do, or do not do, but simply for what and who you are, which is of course a blessed and beautiful Child of God - one that has perhaps forgotten their genesis through and for Love, but also never one who has been ignored or discarded by God in any manner at all. Attachments attempt to circumvent the natural process that will unfold when you attempt to set yourself on a new and most divergent Path indeed, one that moves increasingly rapidly away from fear, pain, loss or regret and one that equally steps towards the certainty that your heart holds for you, a level of assuredness that is not at all exchangeable with or for anything else that has ever occurred before, for you exist because of Love and so there cannot be any other alignment that can be obsessed about or held up as having value, once all that is the darkness of error begins to fade away and the Light shines forth again from your heart for you first, and then for others later after you have remembered a sufficient amount of your own Certainty that you can be an effective mirror for them as well. Attachments attempt to scuttle this process, casting into the infinitely open waters of the sea of possibility that is the material world what it is that you’ve remembered so far, the endlessly jetsam of abandonment that occurs when it is seems that Remembering Peace is just too difficult, or more damningly indeed, when you arrive at a point that dictates that you cannot possibly be worth of such Grace. Foolishness all of this is, and meaningless prattle as well, for these are but the conversations of the mind with its own projections, all without value and accomplishing nothing that is Real, for distractions abound and focus is a skill that must be cultivated and sustained through commitment and directed choice. Attachment are easier than freedom, at least at first, because they are familiar and so they seem to offer some solace that is not otherwise obtainable. Yet they function in a manner that is exactly the opposite of what they appear to be, for all that is attachment is equally a relinquishment of the Love of God, a great bargain that grants to you temporariness and littleness when it is the Glory of Love and the Promise of God that you are genuinely deserving of, as well as being the final resolution of all that is darkness or strife in any way at all. Through releasing all that is conditional or believed to be a requirement in any manner that such designations can possibly carry as an implication, there unfolds before your initially bewildered mind a completely new level of Peace and understanding, one that requires nothing at all and that is equally based in beingness, rather than some formulation of a belief in reality that is dependent upon the sustainment of anything at all. This is the Freedom of God, and it is Absolute. It requires nothing and it Gives everything, for it is without limit and it is not predicated upon even your own willingness to accept that you deserve to be just this Free and just this at Peace with all that transpires, for once all of the necessity for the material world has ceased within all of the final sets of Children of God who incarnate into the world of form, there will remain endlessly given Love, and that will always be so much more than enough to provide to you all of the Joy and Peace that you have formerly sought out in so many other shaded haunts and abandoned ephemeral illusions. Love abides all error, and so once all that is misperception is corrected and then completely forgotten, Love will remain, and that is all of the reassurance that you will ever genuinely require.