Love is what it concludes

When the true being is discovered as the love that is the self we perceive that at the root of everything in existence there is a perfection that is good and positive. This perfection may appear otherwise, as brokenness or suffering for instance, but that is only an appearance, a maya. The perfection is still there if you look for it and it is love that looks and love that sees.

For this reason our efforts to fix ourselves, or others, or the world, always fail. Who is doing the fixing? Perfection is already there. It only has to be uncovered and acknowledged, which is in itself an act of worship, or devotion.

If you think about it, acceptance of that fact has profound implications for health and healing, and for making life work better for everyone. It is not a reason to dismiss the fact that this realization is elusive and maybe far from reality for most people. Keeping this in mind AND the fact of the ever present perfection allows us to be compassionate but also useful.

Without one we become cold and unloving, which takes us away from reality, and without the other we are unable to embody a hope that we can trust in. That hope is a function of the fact that every glimpse of the perfection is redeeming and an assertion of the true reality that asserts clearly that in the end, there is only goodness.

Nothing is broken. It only appears that way. And appearances can fall away in an instant.