Alexander Bell - How To Live in Love

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Which would you rather have? Your ego and all of it's conflicting and complicated thoughts, or the mind of Christ, filled with his beautiful light? Because you have the choice, just like I had. Long ago I chose the mind of Christ, and have been patiently unpicking the tendrils of the ego from my being. Eventually, you will come to the final tendrils; the more deeply conditioned ego desires for something other than God's will. Our total and complete surrender to God's will is the end of the ego, which means the end of fear also.
The ego has nothing left to cling to, because it only holds on to you with the desires that it places in your heart. These are like its roots, which give the ego a foothold in your being. It makes you desire things other than union with God, and thus union with God does not occur, and you remain yoked to the ego. Eliminating ego desires is how you loosen its roots. When they are gone, and simply doing God's will is your only desire, the shadow of the ego simply falls away from you and you join with God. What remains in you is the light of Christ.

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Humility is what makes us part of the solution. Humility is one of the most precious of all human qualities, because it is one of the rarest. Humility never encourages us to point the finger at others or lay the blame at their feet; rather it encourages us to take responsibility and ask what we can do to be a more effective instrument for love and compassion.
We cannot truly evolve until we let go of our arrogance and self-righteousness, yet the ego hates to hear this. It rises in angry opposition when it is told that it needs to be more humble, and this is why our ego is the greatest obstacle to accessing the very beautiful and healing space of humility within our heart.
Our humility enables us to recognise that we are not perfect and that our character can improve. We can become a more loving person; a more patient person, a less irritable and moody person and so on . This simple recognition is the biggest step needed to realising the catalytic power we have to change not only our own experience of life, but also the world around us. We all have the power to make our heart a more loving, forgiving and generous place, and this is the crucible for the transformation we all want to witness in the world.
Within our own heart is where all the work is needed. If we say "No, not me. My heart is fine" and continue point our finger at all the others who we think need to change, then what this essentially means is that we will prevent ourselves from healing, growing and evolving as a human being. Instead of being an agent for the change that is needed in the world, we remain emotionally stuck where we are, refusing to recognise that anything needs to change within ourselves.
We can only evolve as we recognise - within our own character - what we want to move away from. Dysfunction, self-centeredness, vanity, unkindness, greed, impatience... these are the kind of attitudes and behaviours we all know we want to move away from. The fact that we can even recognise that such qualities are undesirable in our character is a great blessing from our conscience.

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So this is why it's very important that we develop a forgiving nature that is willing to let go of judgment, fault, criticism and our own past pain. I know this is not easy, because our ego requires drama to feed upon. It wants conflict, it wants to battle and score points of others... but for the sake of our own heart and soul it is essential that we let it go. Yes, people will undoubtedly offend us, disrespect us and hurt us - sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally - and it's how we respond to such things that determines the degree to which we grow and evolve.
If we can learn to let go of the anger, disappointment and hurt, our heart can heal. If we are unwilling to forgive and forget, our heart simply will not be able to open to the degree which it needs to, and we will prolong our own suffering. There is a saying which goes something like this: "Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." If we are angry with someone and we wish suffering upon them, what is occurring in our own heart while we do this? Well, love is not there, that's for sure, and in its place is the more toxic energy of resentment. It's impossible to comprehend the profound spiritual consequences of feeding such energies with our hostile thinking. To say it is detrimental is a colossal understatement, yet when our thoughts are caught up in judgment and anger, we believe we are in the right. This is the delusion of the ego, whose sole purpose seems to be to keep us separate from love, and exert control over our reality. Love and control do not go hand in hand, because love always offers freedom.

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These 2 small words – trust and faith – mean success or failure, triumph or defeat, freedom or bondage. I am asking you to have faith, and trust that the divine forces of goodness are more powerful than the forces of evil and darkness. Your logical mind may come up with 1000 reasons why this is not the case, and our logic will always attempt to talk us out of having faith. This is why we need to dethrone logic, and put faith on the throne of our mind instead. Then we listen to the voice of faith first, and then logic second. Without faith, we are mere victims of circumstance, and all the things beyond our control.
Logic is only what we know, but faith is what could be. Strive to develop unrelenting faith in the vision of a positive transformation on Earth, no matter how things may look, because your faith will inspire the faith of others, and darkness will be dispelled slowly but surely. There is no other way, because darkness must first be vanquished in our own heart. This is the responsibility of each one of us; to allow the darkness in our heart to be replaced with light. No-one else can do this for us, and we have to want to let go of the darkness, the fear, the insecurity, the anger.

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We need to be open to seeing God as he actually is, not as who we think, or who we fear he is. I can tell you he is certainly not an authoritarian "Bow Down Before Me" God. Love does not demand such things. So don't be angry with him, or afraid of him. Just open your heart to him, and you will connect with his divine heart. Only then will you see and feel how beautiful he really is. How truly loving and caring he is. How devoted to us he is. How very much like us, he is.
So what does God desire from us? Most of all, he loves our deep appreciation of what he has created. You would never call God 'insecure', but he really, really does like to hear that we are happy with what he has created here. He REALLY, REALLY does. It actually makes God happy. So when we thank god, and feel genuine gratitude in our heart, its a confirmation to him that he did a good job in creating everything. He is not arrogant, he doesn't expect us the be thankful. He hopes we will, because that means our hearts are happy, and that is what he desires most. Let me re-iterate that. What god desires most is that our hearts are happy, joyful, free and full of love and gratitude.