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What holds the self back from feeling beauty,

peace, oneness, love?

It is the emotional 'glue' with which we cling to things,

even while feeling that we wish to let them go.

The things we cling to can be persons, places, or objects.

Yet, most importantly, they are feelings.

Many cling to painful feelings while thinking that the

feelings are clinging to them.

How does this happen?

It happens because the familiar pain is often less

frightening than the unfamiliar and unknown landscape

of change...

This landscape is wondrous, yet it can seem daunting

and beyond one's capacity when one has lived as a

smaller self for a long while.

To enter it, one must trust. 

One must greet change with hope.

Why do we cling?

We cling because we are afraid not to,

and what we cling to are the things which make us

feel safe.

We become dependent.

We become judgmental.

We become indifferent.

We become critical.

These are ways of being we cling to that seem

to create safety.

Beloveds, all clinging is fear-based.

It is based on separation from the Divine within.

It is the ego's way of coping with the state of aloneness.

It is not the way of the deeper self.

The deeper self says: "Why are you holding onto

these attitudes?

Let them go.  They are not needed."

But the smaller self says: "I do not believe you.  Without

them I do not know who I am."

Yet, a new time is upon us.  One in which more is possible.

It is more possible to say to the feeling one feels: "I am not THAT."  Nevertheless, it is often hard to do.

In the process of letting go, it can seem like many

obstacles are blocking one's way.

In fact, it is often the case that we are afraid

of moving further in a new direction.

To overcome this fear, one must return to the truth

of the Divine within.

This is the key to the door of freedom.

Walking through this door,

one feels the light expanding and there is no need

to remain small.

There is no need to doubt that freedom can replace

limitation, that love and joy can replace sorrow.

The soul desires to be free to express on the physical plane,  and so it shall be.

The possibilities are limitless, for the largeness and

beauty of who one is is always better than what one has

imagined.

The inner Essence is always more loving, more giving, more truthful, and stronger than one ever might have suspected.

This is the teaching for today -

to risk becoming one's deeper and truer self,

to release what one has been clinging to in favor

of the new.

Take the chance, beloved one, for a moment, an hour,

a day, or longer.

Be what you have not dared to be.

Let go of what you have felt you must inevitably be.

Become who you are in the light of your Divine being.

Let the day of re-birth begin.

Blessings.