Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue

Must you know that yours will be the “better” picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be “better” than an iris in order to justify it’s existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

Indeed, this is what you are trying to do with your politics. That is why I have said that your political viewpoint is your spirituality, demonstrated. The only reason you have created politics is to produce a system by which life may be lived harmoniously, happily, peacefully. That is, a system by which life itself may be affirmed.

That’s what we’re doing here. I’m going to lead you back to your Self … and thus, lead you back to Me. And this you will one day do for others. You will give people back to themselves—and thus, back to Me. For when you find your Self, you find Me. There I have always been, and there I will always be.

Only you can know that. Yet you’re the one who said you had an ego problem. I observe that true self-love disappears the ego, it does not enlarge it. Put another way, the larger your understanding of Who You Really Are, the smaller your ego. When you know Who You Really Are fully, your ego is fully gone. But my ego is my sense of myself, no? No. Your ego is who you think that you are. It has nothing to do with Who You Really Are. Doesn’t this contradict an earlier teaching that it’s okay to have an ego? It is okay to have an ego. In fact, it’s very okay, because an “ego” is necessary in order for you to have the experience you are now having, as what you imagine to be a separate entity in a relative world. Okay, now I’m thoroughly confused. That’s okay. Confusion is the first step toward wisdom. Folly is thinking you have all the answers. Can You help me here? Is it good to have an ego, or not? That’s a big question. You’ve entered the relative world—what I call the Realm of the Relative—in order to experience what you cannot experience in the Realm of the Absolute. What you seek to experience is Who You Really Are. In the Realm of the Absolute, you can know this, but you cannot experience it. The desire of your soul is to know itself experientially. The reason that you cannot experience any aspect of Who You Are in the Realm of the Absolute is that in this realm, there is no aspect you are not.

A painful observation is almost always a truthful one. You are having growing pains, My son. It’s all right.