Passage from 'Entering the Castle - an inner path to God and your Soul' Carolyn Myss pg 154 

Difficult experiences can make you feel that God has abandoned you.  Prayers seem to go unanswered: sacred rituals seem to lose their ability to comfort you.  The heavens seem to have no compassion.  What are your memories? 

The word deserve causes immeasurable pain.  Beliefs about what we deserve are rooted in a social-superstitious creed that suggests bad things should only happen to bad people.  Most people believe that if they are good, God will reward them with protection from all undeserved suffering.  This is human logic, but not divine logic.  Pain and pleasure, suffering and abundance, are two sides of the coin of life experiences.  yet we struggle with the concept of deserving because we continually strive to see the logic behind events that occur to us.  We cling to the belief that goodness is a shield of protection against having to experience the injustice or unfairness.  But all sides of life are expressions of the divine; the unjust side tests our capacity to trust in a wisdom greater than our own.  Without that trust, we often end up holding on to the memories of feeling betrayed by God, believing that somehow the wrong things happened to us.  Such illusions give rise to bitterness and an inability to forgive........

To release the image of God who works within the code of human justice is to break free of a limiting mindset, which allows you to embrace a cosmic figure of the divine who is not contained within the parameters of human law and order.  This marks a major transformation of fear to faith and is no simple task.

Passage from Page 183

Life is a constant dance of light and darkness.  Your goodness attracts darkness; your darkness attracts the light.  that is the divine design, which you must learn to recognise as an active principle in your life, like cause and effect or magnetic attraction.  You can never be too sure of yourself, too sure that you are above temptation or above seduction, but nor should you ever doubt the power of your inner light to protect you no matter what the circumstance.  The emphasis that all spiritual masters place upon humility reminds us that we are never beyond the power of our shadow.  The practice of self-reflection and prayer must remain a constant in your  life to feed your need for the right of wisdom and truth.

In the midst of a negative action or thought about another person, notice the immediate infusion of light, because it is immediate.  Notice, for example, that the instant that you judge a person, you become saturated with the question "are you sure you want to hold that judgment?"  As if giving you a chance to erase the effects of a negative judgment against another human being, a light-filled question always follows a negative thought about another human being.  Divine light is instantly present the second we slip into darkness.

 

Let Go

To let go does not mean to stop caring

It means I cannot live someone else's life for them

 

To let go is not to cut myself off

It is the realisation that I must not control another

 

To let go is not to fix it

But to be supportive

 

To let go is not to do it all oneself

But to share the load and take time out

 

To let go is not to be in the middle,

trying to dictate all the outcomes

But allow others to affect their own destinies

 

To let go is not to be protective

It is to permit another to face reality

 

To let go is not to regret the past

But to live today and to grow for the future

 

To let go is to fear less and to love more

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