difficult thing every day. It is why your life feels so difficult. Yet when you do the easy thing,
when you decide to come from, to be, Who You Really Are—which is pure love, unlimited
and unconditioned—then your life becomes easy again. All the turmoil disappears, all the
struggle goes away.
This peace may be achieved in any given moment. The way to it may be found by asking a
simple question:
What would love do now?
The magic question again?
Yes. This is a marvelous question, because you will always know the answer. It is like magic.
It is cleansing, like a soap. It takes the worry out of being close. It washes away all doubt, all
fear. It bathes the mind with the wisdom of the soul.
What a good way of putting that.
It is true. When you ask this question, you will know instantly what to do. In any
circumstance, under any condition, you will know. You will be given the answer. You are the
answer, and asking the question brings forth that part of you.
What if you fool yourself? You cannot fool yourself?
Do not second-guess this answer when it instantly comes to you. When you second-guess is
when you fool yourself—and can make a fool of yourself. Go into the heart of love, and come
from that place in all your choices and decisions, and you will find peace.
(16)Sixteen
What does it mean to be totally accepting, blessing, and grateful? These last three of the Five
Attitudes of God are not quite as clear to me—especially three and four.
To be totally accepting means not to quarrel with what is showing up right now. It means not
to reject it, or throw it back, or walk away from it, but to embrace it, hold it, love it as if it were
your own. Because it is your own. It is your own creation, with which you are well pleased—
unless you are not.
If you are not, you will resist owning what you have created, and what you resist persists.
Therefore rejoice, and be glad, and should the present circumstance or condition be one
which you now choose to change, simply choose to experience it in another way. The
outward appearance, the outward manifestation, may not be altered at all, but your inner
experience of it can and will be changed forever, simply out of your decision about it.
Remember, this is what you are after. You are not concerned with outer appearances, only
with your inner experience. Let the outer world be what it is. Create your inner world as you
would have it be. This is what is meant by being in your world, but not of it. This is mastery in
living.