Chapter 9 Pages 64/67
"All is love.......All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. and then time stops. And everything is now"
Instantly I comprehended the truth of these thoughts. Reality is the present. Dwelling in the past or future causes pain and illness. Patience can stop time. God's love is everything.
I could also immediately comprehend the healing power of these thoughts. I began to understand.
"Love is the ultimate answer. Love is not an abstraction but actual energy, or spectrum of energies, which you can "create" and maintain in your being. Just be loving. You are beginning to touch God within your self. Feel loving. Express your love.
"Love dissolves fear. You cannot be afraid when you are feeling love. Since everything is energy, and love encompasses all energies. all is love. This is a strong clue to the nature of God.
"When you are loving and unafraid, you can forgive. You can forgive others, and you can forgive yourself. You begin to see with the proper perspective. Guilt and anger are reflections of the same fear. Guilt is a subtle anger directed inward. Forgiveness dissolves guilt and anger. They are unnecessary, damaging emotions. Forgive, this is an act of love.
"Pride can get in the way of forgiving. Pride is on manifestation of ego. Ego is the transient, false self. You are not your body. You are not your brain. You are not your ego. You are greater than all of these. You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest -pride arrogance, defensiveness, fear-is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God. You must transcend your ego and find your true self. The true self is the permanent, deepest part of you. it is wise. loving, safe, and joyful.
"Intellect is important in the three-dimensional world, but intuition is more important.
"You have reversed reality and illusion. Reality is the recognition of your immortality, divinity, and timelessness. Illusion is your transient three-dimensional world. This reversal is damaging to you. You yearn for the illusion of security instead of the security of wisdom and love. You yearn to be accepted when, in reality, you can never be rejected. Ego creates illusion and hides truth. Ego must be dissolved, then truth can be seen.
"With love and understanding comes the perspective of infinite patience. What is your hurry? There is no time anyway; it only feels that way to you. When you are not experiencing the present, when you are absorbed in the past or worried about the future, you bring great heartache and grief to yourself. Time is an illusion, too. Even in the three - dimensional world, future is only a system of probablities. Why do you worry so?
"Therapy can be done to the self. Understanding is therapy. Love is the ultimate therapy. Therapists, teachers, and gurus can help, but only for a limited time. the direction is inward, and sooner or later the inward path must be trod alone. Although in reality you are never alone.
"Measure time, if you must, in lessons learned, not in minutes or hours or years. You can cure yourself in five minutes if you come to proper understanding. Or in fifty years. It is all the same thing.
"The past must be remembered and then forgotten. let it go. This is true for childhood traumas and past life traumas. But this is also true for attitudes, misconceptions, belief systems drummed into you, for all old thoughts. Indeed, for all thoughts. How can you see freshly and clearly with all those thoughts? What if you needed to learn something new? With a fresh perspective?
"Thoughts create the illusion of separateness and difference. Ego perpetuates this illusion, and this illusion creates fear, anxiety, and tremendous grief. Fear, anxiety, and grief in turn create anger and violence. How can peace exist in the world when these chaotic emotions predominate? Just unravel. Go back to the source of the problem. You are back to thoughts, old thoughts. Stop thinking. Instead, use your intuitive wisdom to experience love again. Meditate. See that everything is interconnected and interdependant. See the unity, not the differences. See your true self. See God.
Meditation and visualization will help you stop thinking so much and will help you begin your journey back. Healing will occur. You will begin to use your unused mind. You will see. You will understand. And you will grow wise. There will be peace.
"You have a relationship with yourself as well as with others. And you have lived in many bodies and in many times. So ask your present self why is it so fearful. Why are you afraid to take reasonable risks? Are you afraid of your reputation, afraid of what others think? These fears are conditioned from childhood or before.
I chose to read this book as am interested in re-incarnation and the lessons we can learn from it for this life. It was interesting to learn about the soul mate side of things as we often hear people refer to their soul mates and either meeting them or never seeing them in this lifetime.
This book refers to such a couple and how they handled relationships in this life that were not really working for them and attending the same therapist. Through confidentiality Weiss could not introduce them to each other but had hoped that by leaving it in the hands of the universe they would eventually find each other.