Once there was a little soul who got very excited
one day, ran to God
and said: "I know who I am!"
God said, "That's nice who are you?
The little soul said, "I am the light."
God said, "That's right you are the light."
The soul thought for a second and said, "But
I want to be the light!"
God said, "But you are the light."
The soul said, "I know I am the light but I want
to be the light. I
want to experience myself being the light. I want to know myself in my own experience."
God said, "Oh I see, you want to experience being
who you already are."
The little soul said, "Yes, that's it. I want
to experience myself
being the light, not just know it but experience being the light."
God replied, "That is understandable, but it
is a bit of a challenge
because you see there is nothing else but the light. I have created naught
but the light.
For you are as a candle in the sun. Oh, you are there for
sure, with a billion, billion, billion other candles that make
up the sun.
But the sun would not be the sun without you.
No, it would be the sun
without one of it's candles and that would not be the sun at all. Yet how to know yourself as
the light amidst the light ... 'Tis truly a puzzle", said
God.
"Well," said the little soul, "You're God, think
of something."
God said, "I will and I have. Here is what we
will do. You can not
experience yourself as the light amidst the light so we will surround you
with that which you
are not. We will imagine together that which is not you and we will
surround you with it, and we will call it the darkness.
We will surround you with the darkness. We will
surround you with the
opposite of that with you are, so that you may know in your experience how brightly you shine."
The little soul said, "Ok I am ready. Bring
on the darkness I can be
the light."
God said. "I will, for you have asked for this
and requested it. I will
surround you with the darkness and yet in the moment that you find yourself so surrounded by
the darkness raise not your fist at heaven and curse the darkness. Instead, be a light unto the
darkness that you
may know who you really are and that all whose lives you touch might know
who they really are as well.
Let your light so shine before people so that
they will see the glory of
themselves reflected in you. You may do this with any aspect of divinity you wish," said God
to
the little soul. "So choose well and choose wisely in
this and in your many lifetimes. For life has as it's "soul"
purpose the
choosing and the being of an aspect of me that you are." God said, "What do you then choose in
this your
next lifetime?"
The little soul excitedly said, "Wow, wow I can
be anything you are."
God said, "Yes, all of it or any part of it.
Here are your choices. So
what do you choose?"
The little soul said, "You mean in the next lifetime?
I can be happy
or joy, or wisdom or peace or love or or ..."
"That is right." said God.
The little soul said, "I choose ... I choose
... that. That is what I
want to be. I want to experience that."
God said, "My, my, my, this is a big day for
you. You have chosen
forgiveness! You want to be forgiving."
"Yes, yes," said the little soul, "that is what
I want to do I want to
experience myself as forgiveness."
"Well" said God, "there is only one challenge,
you see there is no one
to forgive."
"No one?" said the little soul.
God replied, "Look around, do you see anyone
less perfect, less
beautiful less wondrous then you?"
In that moment the little soul turned and saw
that all the souls from
the universe had gathered for they had heard about the little soul's
discussion with God.
The soul looked around and all there was to see was
wonder, beauty and perfection.
Even as the little soul was perfection there
was nothing but perfection all
around and the little soul said, "So I can see nothing but perfection all
around. Who
then shall I forgive? There is none less perfect than I. How
shall I experience forgiveness ?"
Just then a friendly soul stepped forward from
the crowd. "Do not
despair. You can forgive me."
The little soul said, "You, who are you?"
The friendly soul replied, "I am one among many,
I have chosen to step forward. I will
provide you with someone to forgive in your next lifetime. I will do something in
this your next
lifetime that you can forgive."
"What, what?" said the little soul, "What will
you do?"
"Oh," the friendly soul replied, "We will think
of something."
"But, but, why?" said the little soul, "Would
you do that? For you are
an object of beauty as am I. A being of total perfection, whose light is
produced by the
very vibration of your blessed and glorious self. So rapidly
do you vibrate and shine that I can not gaze upon you. What
would cause you to slow down
your vibration to such a speed that you would become heavy enough to do this horrible thing?
Why would you do that?"
Said the friendly soul, "It is quite simple,
I would do it because I
love you. Oh, do not look so amazed. You have done it for me as well. Do you not remember?
Have
you forgotten me so soon? We have danced this dance before you and I. We have danced
this dance before. We have been through
all of it.
Do you not remember? We have been to the up and
the bottom of it, to the left and the right of
it. The before and the after. We have been the good and the bad of it.
We all have been
through all of it for each other. Surely you remember when I was the victim and you were the
villain?
Surely you remember, but you are right about one thing. It will not be easy slowing
down my vibration exactly as you have
described. It is not a simple matter, so I have only one
favor to ask of you in this next lifetime. It is that you may
be forgiving."
"What, what?" said the little soul. "I will do
anything, anything. I
get to experience myself as who I am. What could I possibly do for you in
return?"
The friendly soul replied, "In the moment that
I strike you and spite you, in the moment that
I do the worst thing possible to you that you can imagine, in that self
same moment remember
who I really am. Because if you forget me as I am now I will not remember myself at all. Worse
yet,
you are liable to forget yourself too and then we will both have forgotten who we really
are then we will need a third
person to help us remember."
The little soul replied, "I will not forget.
I will not forget. I will remember even in the
worst moment!"
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Once you remember who you really
ARE your
head will dance in
between the stars, your heart will
be surrounded by Oceans of Love and you
will be able to
breathe the Golden
Light of the Universe.
