Excerpt from

by William Samuel

THE RETURN OF SENSITIVITY

Dear Mary;

As for being "shocked" by your friend as you mentioned in your letter: The ego persists so long as it is coddled. An actress playing the role of Lady Macbeth—should she become so enthralled with her part that she forgets her real identity—may have to be shocked into an "awakening". In any event, the Truth of Being only appears brutal to the personal sense of self, to which it is brutal because it destroys it completely. Jesus said, "I have not come to throw peace upon the world, but fire!"

The "real" Identity (and there is no other) cannot really be disturbed by a rebuking—public, private or otherwise. Identity is Identity. All the hell-fire and damnation this side of the Pleiades will never change Tranqullity Itself into non-tranquillity! If ever we are disturbed by any sight, sound or feeling it is because we voluntarily play the role of non-tranquillity, believing that to be our Identity.

Agony is self-induced, self-acted and self-enjoyed; but this is not the Self we are any more than Lady Macbeth is the actual identity of the actress. Tranquillity (Awareness) itself is the Identity we are, and Tranquillity does not cause itself grief. Is it possible for all to be not-all? For Truth to be not-truth? For God to be not-God? Never! Neither can Tranquillity-am-I ever be "I-am-unhappy.

The instruction of the world appears intended to lift one up to the Light. This work is comprehendedas a step by step study—here a little, there a little, line upon line, "growing consciousness" of Truth—but it is not a lifting up to the Light at all. It is much more a rapid stripping away of the mortal shell, leaving the Real exposed. It is an uncovering of the Light of Identity which has been here as "us" all the while. It is the return of sensitivity in all of its aspects. It is the CHILD uncovered again, stripped of all the intellectual veneers, its worldly vestures ripped away. Without question, this work appears to uncover the Child we are and we stand naked, exposed, defenseless, hyper-sensitive, our perception extremely acute again.

But lo, many, aghast at the old-new sensitivity, pull the covers up again, put the veneer on again. Then, the intellect, by reason of its own ten thousand reasons for wanting to perpetuate itself, attacks that which would make it so vulnerable and exposed. This appears especially true of the ego grown proud of its accomplishments. I have seen many who could stand the pure Light of "reborn" innocence for only the shortest time, thence to return to the blanket heap and greasepaint—and then throw rocks at the mirror of themselves; at those who would "tell it to them as it is."

THE CHILD

I would tell those who have found the Child within, that pure pristine, holy Child you are, to maintain your simple credulousness and sensitivity by living your Child likeness and Simplicity. Hold this grand awareness close to the Heart because, in Truth, it is the Heart. Love this love you have found yourself to be. See it in everyone and everything, because the everyone and everything are but mirrored images of your Self. Do not worry about Identity being raw and sensitive in the face of the world. Its defenselessness is its strength. Who would harm a child? Those who have the courage to remain the newly revealed Child find that this is so.

And to be the child does not mean forsaking a job or an organization necessarily, because the Child's view of those activities is sharp and perceptive. The Child we are cannot be fooled. We see and enjoy the real, leaving the rest alone.

Ego shed is Identity discovered.

And this is so!

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It is inevitable that there will appear to be the dissolution of all that stands between ourselves and a full knowledge of the Truth. Inasmuch as the world appears to reside within the awareness-we-are, the dissolution that began within appears outwardly as the world's search for freedom and the upheaval it brings. Our inner turmoil never ends until we reckon Identity as already arrived and then end our attempt to lift an incorrect self-concept up to the real.

If we are to see the world scene disclose the underlying, overlying Harmony "that is even now spread over the whole face of the land," we must make this re-identification in fact and end the nonsense of acting out from the position of a sponge trying to soak up wisdom. To do what? To steadfastly reckon Self from the standpoint of Perfection. No other view will bring Peace so quickly to the human scene.

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