Well, we humans like to do that. We like to take great truths and reduce them to simplistic
conclusions. Then we can have really good arguments about them.
I see. Is that your intention here? Do you wish to have an argument with Me?
No. I really am trying to get at some wisdom here, in my own stumbling way.
Then it would benefit you to listen to everything I am saying and to place all of My words into
that larger context, rather than create a meaning out of only a few of My words.
I stand corrected.
Do not stand corrected. Stand advised. A correction is for someone who has done wrong.
Advice is for someone who is seeking direction.
God gives direction, not correction; commendation, not condemnation.
Whew. Oh, boy...
I know, I know. Another bumper sticker.
Well, it is. It really is!
Make as many bumper stickers as you like. I-shirts, too.
Get the word out. Stop at nothing. Do a movie. Go on television. Be shameless!
While you’re at it, be shameless about love. Get the shame out of it, and replace it with
celebration you may want to do the same thing about sex.
Let’s not get into that, or we’ll never get my question answered. Are You saying that being in
the arms of another is okay, as long as you’re honest about it?
I am saying that a thing is okay or not okay depending on what you decide about it. I am
saying that people in relationship cannot even know if it is okay with them if they do not know
that it is occurring.
I am saying that what does not work in highly evolved relationships is lying—about anything. I
am saying that lying is lying, whether it is by commission or omission. And I am saying that
once the whole truth is told, your decision about whether you can love a person who has
loved, or is now loving, another is ultimately based on what you declare to be your most
appropriate and comfortable form of relationship—and that this will be based, in most cases,
on what you imagine that you need from another person in order to be happy.
I am saying that if you need nothing, then you can love another unconditionally, without any
limitations whatsoever. You can grant them total freedom.
Yes, but then you wouldn’t be in a life partnership with them.
You wouldn’t, unless you would. Mastery is reached when this becomes a decision and a
choice based on what is true for you, rather than what someone else has told you ought to be
true, or on what your society has established as its current convention around life
partnerships, or on what you feel others may think of you.