ABOUT PAST REGRETS

As I was writing my book I Can See Clearly Now, I thought of the low
points in my life and things I had done, my behavior, my consciousness ...

Yes, but how would you know you are seeing clearly if you did not have the
experience of not seeing clearly? How would you appreciate clarity or even
recognize it?

That’s  a   very    good    point.

You would not have the clarity that you have found if you hadn’t lived in
some of that. And how can you live other than what you are living? Source has
always been right there, calling you forward.

From where you now stand, you often look back and condemn former
experiences you have lived, saying you shouldn’t have been on that path or you
shouldn’t have lived that experience. But really, Source called you every step
along the way—because it was the path of least resistance and, therefore, was
the only path that was available to you at the time.

It’s a good thing to give yourselves a break. Source is not judging you. You
do it to yourself. And then you pinch yourself off from Source.

When I think of the ways that I have behaved at earlier times in my life, I
think, I’ve just been lucky, because had I been found out ...

But things are always working out for you. And your behavior didn’t deserve
punishment. It didn’t deserve finding out. You were just off your path a little bit.
Source is always looking the other way when you stumble. Never looking at
what you think is wrong. That’s you who do that to yourselves and to each other.

When a little child is just learning to walk and falls down, you don’t
disapprovingly say, “Get up, you little dummy!” You understand that falling
down is the way he learns to find his balance. And Source feels the same way
about all of you.