Love is the most important thing there is. 

 

Pain and suffering are unavoidable.  It's part of having a body.  Evil is somehow tied up with the experience of having a body, so evil comes as part of the package.  This is what makes love so important. Pain and suffering are unaviodable, but love is optional.  Loving in a state of apparent separation is stronger than evil, because it is the less evident choice. 

 

Choice is what makes humans human, as Moshe Feldenkrais said.  Choice requires two things: time - even if it's only a millisecond - and more than one option.  Dr. Feldenkrais said that people are at their best when they have at least three different choices for every possible action.  In a life where we feel that we have no time to choose and no choices, we reduce ourselves to machines and reject the gift of humanity.

 

You can do no wrong.  Every day we take actions, make decisions, say and do things.  None of these can be "wrong" in the moral/mortal sense of the word.  There are only actions that create love and bring us closer to the experience of the Source of Love, and actions which take us farther from experiencing that oneness.

 

Your body doesn't lie.  The parts of your brain that govern sensation and movement don't think, thus they are simply incapable of lying to you.  The bodily reactions you have to certain people or situations or memories are the only reliable information you have.  Confusion comes in when the thoughts we think about something (or someone) don't match the bodily reactions we have.  Which do we believe - that which is more convenient to believe, or what our innocent bodies tell us?  Listening to what your body has to say may be the most radical action you ever take.

 

If life doesn't feel effortless, the problem lies not in our circumstances or the tasks to be done, but rather in the way we perform the tasks to be done.  This includes our attitude toward them as well as the actual physical movements involved.  We create much of the friction that leads to our discomfort, be it anger or joint pain or sadness or fatigue.  Our challenge is to always shoulder responsibility for our discomfort, even when it appears to be someone or something else's fault.  When we can't see our way clear to resolve our friction by ourselves, then it's time to seek a teacher who can help us see into our blind spots.

 

Heaven and Hell are here and now. Heaven is, as far as I can tell, the experience of Oneness with the Source of Love: Hell, the experience of utter separation from that Source, with all the actions that naturally flow from each experience. Our task while here on Earth is to seek experiences that lead to the experience of Oneness (ever wonder why sex is such a popular way to spend our time?), and of course life presents us with an unending game of "will you be able to experience Oneness and Love under these circumstances?" That game literally feels like Hell some of the time, but it's not real. "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women on it merely players." Shakespeare knew. If you don't believe this, think about the most intensely bonded friendships and the most intense love one has experienced: these are forged, more often than not, under very challenging circumstances.

 

There is enough. Constricted thinking is a reflection of the sense of separation from the Source of Love.