I have learned throughout my conversations with You that my relationships are sacred. They
are the most important aspects of life, because it is through relationships that I express and
experience who I am, and who I choose to be.
And not merely your relationships with other people, but your relationships with everything
everywhere. Your relationship with Life, and all the elements of Life. Your relationship with
money, love, sex, and God—the four cornerstones of the human experience. Your
relationship with trees, plants, animals, birds, wind, air, sky, and sea, Your relationship with
nature, and your relationship with Me.
My relationship with everything determines who and what I am. Relationship, You have told
me, is holy ground. Because in the absence of a relationship with something else, I cannot
create, know, and experience anything I have decided about myself. Or, as You have put it,
in the absence a/that which I Am Not, that which I Am.., is not.
You have learned well, My friend. You are becoming a messenger.
Yet as I try to explain this to others, they sometimes get lost. This concept doesn’t always
easily translate.
Try using the Parable of Whiteness.
Yes, that helped me immediately.
Imagine that you are in a white room, with white walls, white floor, white ceiling, no corners.
Imagine that you are suspended in this space by some invisible force. You are dangling
there, in mid-air. You cannot touch anything, you cannot hear anything, and all you see is
whiteness. How long do you think that you will “exist” in your own experience?
Not very long. I’d exist there, but I wouldn’t know anything about myself Pretty soon, I’d go
out of my mind.
Actually, that’s exactly what you would do. You would, literally, leave your mind. Your mind is
the part of you that is assigned the task of making sense out of all incoming data, and without
any data incoming, your mind has nothing to do.
Now, the moment you go out of your mind, you cease to exist in your own experience. That
is, you cease to know anything in particular about yourself.
Are you big? Are you small? You cannot know, because there is nothing outside of yourself
with which to compare yourself.
Are you good? Are you evil? You cannot know. Are you even here? You cannot know,
because there is nothing over there.
You cannot know anything about yourself in your own experience. You can conceptualize it
all you want, but you cannot experience it.
Then something happens to change all this. There appears a tiny dot on the wall. It’s as if
someone has come along with a fountain pen and squirted a tiny dot of ink. Nobody knows
how the dot actually got there, but it doesn’t matter, because the dot has saved you.
Now, there is something else. There is You, and there is the Dot On The Wall. Suddenly, you
can make some decisions again, you can have some experiences again. The dot is over