Neediness is the most potent love killer there ever was. Yet most members of your species
do not know the difference between love and need, and so they have confused the two, and
continue to do so daily.
“Need” is when you imagine that there is something outside of yourself that you do not now
have, and that you require in order to be happy. Because you believe that you need this, you
will do almost anything to get it.
You will seek to acquire what you think you require.
Most people acquire what they think they require by trading. They trade what they already
have for what they seek to have.
It is this process they call “love.”
Yes, we have had this discussion before.
Indeed, we have. But this time, let’s take it one step further because it is important to
understand how you came to this idea about love.
You imagine that this is the way to show your love for each other because you have been
taught that this is the way God shows love for you.
God has worked out a trade deal: if you love Me, I’ll let you into heaven. If you don’t love Me,
I won’t.
Someone has told you that this is the way God is, and so this is the way you have become.
It’s as You’ve said: what’s good enough for God ought to be good enough for me.
Precisely. Thus have you created in your human mythology a story that you live out every
day: love is conditional. Yet this is not a truth, but a myth. It is part of your cultural story, but it
is not a part of God’s reality. In reality, God needs nothing, and thus requires nothing from
you.
How can God need anything? God is the All-in-All, the Everything, the Unmoved Mover, the
Source of anything that you could imagine that God needs.
Understanding that I have everything, am everything, and require nothing is part of knowing
Me.
Step one in having a friendship with God.
Yes. Once you truly know Me, you begin to disassemble your myth about Me. You change
your mind about who I am, and how I am. And once you change your mind about how I am,
you begin to change your mind about how you have to be. That is the start of transformation.
That is what a friendship with God does. It transforms you.
I am so excited about this! No one has ever explained things to me this simply, this clearly.
Then listen to this carefully, for here comes the greatest clarity of all.