On the Truth That Lets You Keep the Authority of Your Life (Part 2)

(Continued from last time)

★To Make the Soul Independent

For external injuries to the body, like a broken bone or bleeding that won’t stop, there’s no problem at all in having a doctor treat them.

Next, for abnormalities and illnesses inside the body too, it’s important to have a doctor examine you, ease the pain, and treat it.

Finally, suffering of the heart, anxiety and fear, anger and hatred, sadness and loneliness: for these too, it’s important to get help from people you trust and from professionals. And on top of that, fundamental healing ultimately arises from within yourself.

“But,” you say, “some people felt very reassured after seeing a fortune-teller, or felt their heart become lighter after receiving healing”?

Yes, those are surely real experiences too. But often, the reason their hearts felt lighter was that they could pour out what was in their hearts in conversation with the fortune-teller, or that receiving healing let them feel at ease.

Quite a lot of people have had the experience of feeling lighter after confiding their worries to someone, haven’t they?

And when you were small, weren’t there many who were fooled by their mother saying, “You won’t grow big unless you eat this,” believed it was medicine for growing, and overcame a food they disliked?

People feel better for a while when they pour out the fog in their hearts to someone, and when the placebo effect happens, there’s even a temporary illusion of getting better.

But since the cause hasn’t completely disappeared, the same anguish comes back again, just in a different form.

So with only that, you may end up going round and round in the same place of suffering, and for a fundamental solution, one more step is important: realization from within yourself.

People are designed so that if they don’t change, the world doesn’t change, and if they change, the world changes. Without a single exception.

So while you live in a state of dependence, the independence of the soul is hard to achieve, and while you’ve handed over the authority of your life to others, whenever something happens you tend to repeat looking for the cause outside, or conversely clinging to others.

As we see you, your consciousness must evolve in step with the evolution of Earth’s vibration, yet we still see parts of you swept along by habitual thoughts, the same as ever.

That’s a great waste.

The direction of what kind of life you create is naturally set by how you perceive things and what you choose as you live.

And the present destiny and the world you see and think exists are a world in which past thoughts are appearing and trying to fade away.

Even if we say so, you alone hold the right to steer how you use your daily perception, such as what you see as real and what you see as illusion.

That’s something that originally nothing else can force on you, and no one else can sway you.

And yet, let’s cut off, from this very moment, the delusion you’ve held that “I’m swayed by others” or “I want to be swayed.”

★To Return to Divinity

Divinity, the essence of human beings, is not so feeble.

In terms of truth, a true person has no suffering.

Because as long as you live the truth, there is no anguish.

So when you feel suffering, it’s also like a gentle notification alarm from life saying, “Try reviewing how you use your thoughts.”

The way to stop that alarm is to hold the cause of the anguish in your palm, thinking, “Ah, so this was a way of using thoughts that strayed from truth,” and to thank it and acknowledge its effort: “I’ve noticed now, so your role is finished. Thank you, you’ve done well.”

Then the same suffering will probably never torment you again.

For it has risen ahead into the heaven deep in your heart and become a power on the side of helping you.

Listen, listen carefully.

Nothing can harm you.

Nothing can torment you either.

There’s nothing to make you sad, and no force of any kind to lure you into hatred.

All there is, is your own habits of thought that stray from truth, which you could not let go of since the age when you forgot your divinity.

The way to let them go is the prayer of truth accompanied by deep breathing.

Prayer makes a road back to the light of life.

Making the road, and walking it to arrive back at your own source, are all things you must do yourself.

As long as you don’t forget that, you’ll be all right.

For you were divine existence itself from the beginning.