Die !

Me : I feel overwhelmed.

Voice : Close your eyes right now.  

Me : Feel this moment. Now let it sink-in that today is the last day of your life. You will be dead tomorrow. Be with this thought and tell me what you feel.

Me : Hmm. Give me a couple of minutes.

Voice : So ? 

Me : Wow.

Voice : You were smiling.. 

Me : I don’t fear death so I could do this easily. But, what was most important that this carried a feeling of liberation and freedom within me. All the things that mattered to me just vanished ! All the strings attached to me loosened away and I felt so light and free. My mind ceased to run around. The future had no grip over me. The past became inconsequential. All my possessions, titles, ambitions, worries, concerns just dwindled away. I truly imagined my death and so quickly the next moment transformed to a profound and powerful experience. Thank you.  

Voice : What happened with that unresolved family matter? 

Me : Not bothered by it.   

Voice : And about that client who won't pay you ?

Me : He can keep the money.  

Voice : What about the uncertainty of your future plans ?

Me : If I am not alive in the first place, how would anything matter at all ? 

Voice : That's true. You could die today.

Me : What a waste of life giving so much time to what will eventually have a value of ZERO. 

Voice : Now you know what a tethered existence you live by your own choice. 

Me : Yes. Please explain me more about this.. 

Voice : The contemplation of this powerful thought without fear was a few minutes of reality-check.     

You were no longer held captive by time. The force of ignorance lost its grip over you. 

By dying, you relinquish your own form and when you cease to exist even in thought, everything that comes from the falseness of your existence withers away.

Death is inevitable to all but you have been choosing to live like an immortal ! If nothing in your world is forever - what is the rationale of living the way you do ? 

Me : Hmm

Voice : Peace is given away to a distant future you have never seen, simple joys in life are forgotten, fear is allowed to overpower you forsaking love, resentment is nurtured forever and you have been accumulating things like you have the option to carry it forward to your next lives ! I am lucky that you can squeeze a few minutes in your day for Me !  

       

Me : Well....

Voice : You know everything is temporary. Only God is eternal. 

 

Me : But, how can I keep feeling this ? I can’t play dead all the time !

Voice : Ha ha. It's an art..the art of dying.  

When you feel overwhelmed, this reflection will help. Deeper the reflection, deeper will be the result.  

Me : It's certainly a weird thing to do. But, this works powerfully well. Thank you. 

Voice : You feel so burdened and gripped by the world, what could I have suggested to help you feel instantly free and unbounded ? 

You felt good because you diminished your own presence, to bring alive My presence. 

 

While the world will teach you to live, I will teach you to die to yourself. 

 

 

God and Suffering

Me : Why do people say that God gives suffering to His close ones ? 

Voice : That's what I keep hearing. 

Me : Seriously tell me. 

Voice : Tell you what ? That God gives suffering to His close ones ? 

Me : That's the word going around… 

Voice : Then it's probably true.

Me : Seems like you want to keep it this way.

Voice :  Seems like you want to defend God.

Me : Don't your lovers need to know the real deal ? 

Voice : It is good when it's kept this way for most. When you blame Me for everything, you keep Me closer to you. You give me a place in your life for all that happens and that’s what I like. And when you hate Me for what is happening to you, you will have an opportunity to intensify your remembrance of God.   

Me : But that doesn’t answer my question. 

Voice : Okay let me tell you something about God and suffering of His close ones. 

Me : Let me get some popcorn..

Voice : Ha Ha 

Here is what actually happens. When a lover of mine is destined to go through intense challenges and inevitable hard times, I draw him to Me much before the onset of that time. I let him know of My existence, help him feel My love, remind him of My presence and keep him nurtured in love and faith for God. This is a beautiful period of divine companionship.  

As the law of cause and effect begins to unfold in his life, My lover is faced with the inevitable hard times and seemingly insurmountable challenges. This was always going to happen by the inexorable working of the law of Karma. But, this is when he concludes that the hard times have befallen on him only after his closeness to God.

But, in reality the pain was inevitably a part of his life - I only made My appearance at the perfect time so he is not alone in his adversity and receives My help.

 

My role during this period is take upon Myself most of his suffering. If he had to undergo this without our closeness, his suffering would have very hard to endure and it would completely break him.  

And, thus emerges the belief that God and suffering surfaces together and sufferings to His close ones have befallen by My choice. 

   

Me : Wow. Everyone should know this ! 

Voice : Maybe not.

Me : Why not ??

Voice : Let My lovers believe it is Me behind everything in their lives including their hardest times. Let the belief be that God gives suffering. This way they will not blame anything or anyone else for whatever happens in their lives and this in turn, will prevent further karmic engagements as the blame remains only on God. 

Love Me or blame Me - both are as precious to Me. Both keep you close to My help and infinite love. 

 

Me : This love is madness ! 

Voice : I am your Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love your own Self. 

Desires, Temptations and Fear

Me : What do I do with these lower desires and fears that surface ? 

Voice : Hmm

Me : It's like the temptations dance before me again and again. 

Voice : Hmm

Me : How do I overcome desires, temptations, fears and lure of my lower self ? Will this struggle ever cease ? 

Voice : For many it will continue to haunt them their entire lifetime and for others it will be an ongoing war repeatedly losing the battle to it's force.  

But for a few, this will be no more than an occasional mosquito in the room. 

Me : What is the secret to overcome this ?

Voice : There is no secret.

Me : Then how come those few can overcome it ? 

Voice : They don't work on overcoming anything. They simply live in continual awareness of who I really am. 

Me : That's enough ? 

Voice : If you truly really understand, fathom, realise and are convinced of who I really am…temptations, fears and desires itself will loose it’s hold over you. 

Many take Me to be their friend, guide, father, brother, mystic, saint and more. But, to take Me to be what I really am itself will shake all the bindings. The intensity of this contemplation itself has that supremacy, power and strength. 

I am Infinite Consciousness with many names - Love Incarnate, Highest of the High, Redeemer, Messiah, Saviour, Prophet, Divine Beloved, Avatar, GOD. Nothing less. 

The few who have inscribed this in their hearts, savour this Truth every day of their lives. This conviction runs in every cell and fibre of their being. This charges them spiritually inside out. This itself makes mockery of those desires and turns everything meek and weak.  

A weak conviction needs constant reminders and re-ignition of perhaps this most signification truth of their lives in their journey towards Divine Bliss. Therefore, everything seems to become a battlefield for them. 

Me : Wow

Voice : Do you really think the one who loves and lives with his Divine Beloved is troubled by fears or temptations ?

A true lover of God lives with the highest divine stimulation..what power can mere lower desires have over him ?    

Voice : Do you know ? 

Me : What ? 

Voice : I am God.

When you soak this in, so much is already done.  

It Is Time

Voice : Do you feel My presence ?

Me : Yes very deeply  

Voice : Do you hear Me ?

Me : Very clearly 

Voice : Do you find answers to all your questions ? 

Me : You have left nothing unanswered. 

Voice : Do you have conviction of who I am ? 

Me : Beyond any doubt !

Voice : How much more closer do you want to get to God than this ?

Me : Can never feel closer enough!

Voice : You are blessed to feel My presence, you have the grace to hear Me, you are privileged to receive answers to all the questions arising in your heart, you have rare gift of conviction and you are most fortunate to live in My companionship.  

Do you realise you are not a seeker of God anymore ? 

  

Me : Hmm 

Voice : Now, your quest for everything must cease. It is time for you.  

Me : Time for what ?

Voice : For just one final part. It is time now for you to live God’s words. 

Distinctions

Voice : Why did you move away from those people ?

Me : I could not grasp a word they were speaking. 

Voice : Did you try to ?

Me : Yes I did try to understand but I was clearly struggling and so I thought I pull myself away so I could breathe.

Voice : Ok

Me : Look, I really can’t understand world politics, economies, financial markets, tax laws, PE ratios, etc. You haven’t given me the aptitude for it.   

Voice : So, it’s kind of My fault?

Me : I am not saying it's your fault. It's how you have made everyone..contrastingly different and unique. 

Voice : So, why didn’t you think the same way for your friend who is an atheist ?

You don’t understand world politics. He doesn’t understand God. I don’t see this difference, then why do you ?  

Me : Hmm

Voice : He is equally true to himself as you are. Do you think if one disbelieves in God, he doesn't deserve your understanding or he is incapable of contributing to My cause ? What compels you to make distinctions? 

Me : Well.. 

Voice : Nurturing exclusions even in your mind will keep you lingering in separation. Divinity is an all-inclusive, without a trace of separateness. There is no exception. 

 

You knowingly work for me. An atheist unknowingly works for Me. And I love both for the roles that is played to perfection. 

The opposites in the world of duality work in perfect harmony with Divinity, which is beyond understanding. In the mysterious working of Existence, one works with the other for propelling the Divine Cause.

 

Me : Oh 

Voice : Discard impositions and thrusting your views, banish coercion of any form, abandon judgements, blur the differentiations and include all for none are unfortunate.    

        

In the subtlety of distinctions in your mind, seeds begin to germinate for crusades in My name and God is misinterpreted by His own, yet again.  

Me : Hmm

Voice : For the one who chooses God, choose love alone. Love silently. Love greater. Love deeper. Nothing more needs to ever be done. 

Catch The Drift

Voice : Let it drift away 

Me : Huh? 

Voice : That thought you holding in your head is holding you back. Be with Me. How beautiful is this present moment !

Me : I was just thinking about….

Voice : It’s not important. Right now, be present to My companionship. 

Me : Thank you for the reminder ! I feel at peace instantly !

Voice : I remember you more, don't I ? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around ?

Me : Ha Ha. But I love it !   

Voice : I am found in the present moment like right now. Just you and Me keeping up with this communion while the thoughts of the past and future instantly blur away. Everything in your mind other than Me makes a natural exit. There is no striving. It is an effortless switch for you. 

Me : Yes. I feel love, contentment and peace right now. 

Voice : Ever wondered why it is an easy switch ?   

Me : Tell me 

Voice : I have made Myself effortlessly available to a sincere call in your heart so you can always tune in to Me anytime you choose. I come like a gentle breeze of divine love that nourishes you instantly. And this love makes you fulfilled and adequate. 

Me : And it's effortless. 

Voice : The majesty of this Love makes it so. It is a gift for those who seek. It is a blessing for those who can.

Be prepared without hesitation to forsake the lure of things that are transient and be attentive to what I can give you.   

It is the feeling that I create in your heart so you may never drift apart from Me. This is Divine Grace.  

Me : Thank you. 

Voice :  Attention to present moment is the beginning of true devotion.

For Love

Voice : You went out of your way to help that person. That is good. 

Me : He was very happy with my help. 

Voice : And you ? 

Me : Oh I was glad I could be of use to somebody.  

Voice : What about that neighbour of yours who you call names like 'a@##@**e' 'mentally challenged' and what's that word - 'dumb#@* ? 

Me :  Ok, sorry about the name-calling. I just keep a safe distance from those species. 

Voice : Your name-calling doesn't bother me. In spite of being the same One, I have been called by innumerable names since the beginning of time. 

'Voiceless Voice' is one. But often it's much worse.  

Me : Ha Ha 

Voice : You think those 'dumb#*@ people' could do with some love from you ?

Me : Forget it. I only get more abuses, hate and indignation in return.    

Voice : Could it be that they are in need of more love than anyone else ? 

Dive deeper in your heart and you will discover something that everyone successfully dodges instead of choosing the more difficult response.

Me : What ?

Voice : You have been there for others who thank you for your help, who appreciate and love you for simply being there for them. Their love is your reward. But, what about those who condemn you ? What about those who are unfair to you and those who seek to vilify you in their bitterness ? What if your reward was hate in return ?

Me : Why would I care about them ?  

Voice : By wishing them well in your heart, you would be doing the greatest act of service in God’s love. Just by having deep loving thoughts about them, you are creating an impact beyond your understanding.

And how pleased I would be if you quietly and silently did things for someone without getting anything in return, especially for those who dislike you. 

Remember, this is a God given opportunity for every lover of Mine. But, only a few handful seize this opportunity.  

Me : Hmm

Voice : Maybe you will receive no acknowledgement or more abuses and nothing else in return. But, in this lies the truest and highest service. 

When you choose love, you choose Me. 

How many can live with this highest ideal ? How many truly want Me ?  

Me : So do everything for love ?

Voice : You do things - not for love, but out of love. Remember the difference.

This will define God's love in the world of separation. 

Silence

Voice : You love these moments, don’t you ?

Me : Oh yes 

Voice : Am I interrupting ?

Me : Luckily for me, You are not a chatty voice in my head, but a quiet feeling in my heart. You are like warm embrace that fills me with magical contentment and inner joy. It only makes everything even more silent. 

You can never interrupt Me. On the contrary, I am interrupted by everything else !  

Voice : Hmm

Me : It's so incredibly quiet right now. There is beautiful stillness around. This muted surrounding is so profound. I would not want to ever break away from this silence.  

Voice : If you like this silence, you will love more of what I can give you.  

Me : More silence ??  

Voice : That silence which will break this silence.   

Me : What do you mean ?

Voice : When My Infinite Silence will descend. 

My Infinite Silence will be heard not by your ears, but experienced in your heart.  

All else are only passing moments in quietude.  

Roadblocks

Me : But why bring me to this point in the first place ? 

Voice : There is a deep purpose behind it. 

Me : I bet there is !

I mean …first you bring these so-called coincidences to appear, then you entice me with so-called opportunities, later I dream about it and now I have a desire that I never had or asked for. And just when I begin to feel good about it and work towards fulfilling it - you make roadblocks appear from nowhere and now I am back to where I started - only feeling worse than before ! 

Why show me dreams, opportunities and lure me ? I did not ask for it. 

If you don’t want me to have something, you don’t have to open any doors at all for me ! Now, I see myself with more struggles and dejections for things I never asked you for. 

Voice : Are you upset with the struggles or with the desires surfacing? 

Me : If you tackled my desire in the first place or made it disappear, I wudn't have had to deal with it's struggle for fulfilment !  

Voice : But how will you know the greatest lesson I want to teach you ?

Me : Oh I know that - to not want anything !!

Voice : Higher than that..

Me : What is that ?

Voice : To realise that I am found not in the height of your struggle but in the depth of your surrender.

That is where God endlessly waits for all.   

       

Verbal Form

Me : There are so many spiritual books to read !

Voice : I know. 

Me : I have always struggled to read. For me, its easier to climb a mountain than read a page. Was I an illiterate in my pervious birth or am I not prepared enough for this Path ?

Voice : Ha Ha. Just in a way, the mind wants to relate to Reality in a physical form, the mind also craves for definitions and formulations wanting to squeeze Reality into a verbal shape. 

 

Me : Hmm. Then, how will I ever gain spiritual knowledge that are in these precious books ?  

Voice : You will. 

Me : When ?

Voice : When Silence begins to speak more than words. 

Just A Leaf

Voice : What are you staring at ?

Me : Your wonderful creation. 

Voice : I am glad you paused to admire My work. It is hard to get your race to find a moment of stillness.  

Me : Maybe that’s why we are referred to as 'race'.

Voice : Ha ha. Doing absolutely nothing, nature has a way to regenerate, renew and grow by itself. It is not racing anywhere. It is not competing. It is serving by it's mere presence.   

Me : Yes. 

I was looking at this one tiny leaf gently fall off from the tree. What a beautiful glide it had all the way down to the grass. From the millions of leaves, this one leaf struck my attention.    

Voice : Hmm

Me : Is this a creative way of wasting my time ?

Voice : You think it was strange to care or notice a single leaf fall gently all the way from the branch to the ground ? Now, imagine countless number of trees in the world. Now grasp the infinite number of leaves - growing, renewing, falling from all the trees in existence. The numbers are impossible to fathom. 

Me : Oh yes !

Voice : Now imagine from these vast infinite numbers, there is one leaf that is hand-picked, chosen and cradled by Me. Grasp the great fortune of that leaf amongst so many which has My special attention right from its entire journey of birth, renewal and the end. 

You are like this leaf in this infinite vastness. You have no idea about this priceless life you live. With all the things happening in the Universe, you are gliding in the hands of the Creator Himself.  

Me : So hard to grasp this.  

Voice : How many feel lost, alone and defeated ? And, here you are…enjoying an effortless moment of stillness with Me…only because you are wrapped in the My fulfilling Divine Love. 

You are chosen. 

Me : Wow

Voice : The winds of destiny can blow all the leaves away, but the leaf that is in My hand is beyond seasons or hurricanes.

    

    

Moving Closer Or Away

Me : How does one know if one is moving away from God or coming closer to God ?

Voice : The more differentiation you see, the more distance you create with God.  

And when you feel less separation from everyone and everything, you are moving closer to God.  

The former is the cause of much suffering and the latter brings spiritual poise. 

Me : And how do we work on the later ?

Voice : The more you soak in God's company, the less you assert yourself. And when this happens, you are able to see the One in the many, instead of the manyness that you are used to seeing.  

This is when you know you are truly moving towards God’s light. 

No miracles, visions, experiences, virtues or knowledge can overshadow this simple truth.   

 

It's All Camouflaged

Voice : Can you see it ?

Me : What ?

Voice : Look closely..isn't the green colour on it absolutely beautiful ?  

Me : On what ?

Voice : You need to focus and keep your vision steady. Stare closely and look straight ahead beyond that hill and you will see it. The light green clearly stands out from the other green you see..

Me : Alright ..I don't know what am I trying to spot !

Voice : I was trying to show you a tiny grasshopper on that blade of grass across the hills right ahead. 

Me : That’s like atleast a few kilometres away ! And you expect me to spot a green grasshopper camoflagued on a blade of grass ???  

Voice : No.

Me : Then why get me to spot it ? 

Voice : To show you how your pride is camouflaged. Just like this. 

You will never spot it, you won't see it, you won’t even acknowledge it. On the contrary, you will convince yourself you are without it. My vision reaches the deepest spots inside your being.    

Me : Aaah....I have a lot of pride or maybe it's just a little ? 

Voice : It becomes a 'lot' when you think you don't have any. 

Can you unflinchingly take the onslaught of aspersions, criticism, insinuations, be mocked in a room full of people without really getting affected ? I doubt it. 

In fact, would you remain unmoved by just a tiny harmless remark against you ? 

Me : Hmm..  

Voice : You are attached to your identity, image and care of what people think of you. You are disproportionately attentive to this than you are to God. Are you projecting yourself as being a nonchalant and humble man ? 

 

A true lover of God with his longing and depth of love forgets His own being. True humility lies in this state of being. 

There is so much of 'you' that is present.

 

Me : How do I work on this ?

Voice : Let’s shed the cloak of humility to begin with. Shed the misconception that you have about yourself…being simple, humble, pious, calm, devout.. 

By creating a surrounding of your liking you have only tried to create a 'safe space' for yourself. You can run but you can’t hide from your own self. There are conflicts within, huge bag of hollowness and a great deal of misconceptions about your own being. 

You have sought distinction through the illusory escape of 'not of this world' title but you are just in it as anyone else. 

With pride lurking inside you in quiet corners that you cannot see, you embark on every seeker's dreaded pitfall - hypocrisy. 

Remember, the truly humble is a rare one. Rare one indeed.    

Me : Can I change ? 

Voice : What else am I here for ? 

Recognise yourself as you really are. Not by being in the forefront but by being a shadow in the background. 

Me : Meaning ? 

Voice : To make yourself subservient to Me at every opportunity. That is how 'You’ lose prominence. 

See Me in the other. Interact with Me in every person. Find God in the other. Then you will discover a new way of living - the truest way of being. Your judgements will cease, your need to be right will pass, forgiveness will be easy and you will find less meaning in dwelling in actions and words of other people. You will feel unity in the apparent divisibility. 

This will bring you a grounded state of being. Humility is not attained with the mind or with a garb of 'holier than thou'.     

  

Me : What about encountering idiots ? 

Voice : They will expose your intolerant and arrogant side. They will do My work on you.  

Me : Oh 

Voice : When people hurt your pride, you get angry. But, neither expression nor suppression is going to teach you humility. But, unhesitatingly choosing forgiveness for your misgivings is a great way to begin.   

Remember, it's not doing things with humility, but lacing your actions with love so that they become humbling.  

Me : Pride, arrogance, anger, hypocrisy…after all these years and closeness to You, I am feeling of bit of a shame here. 

Voice : It makes you human. Will you share our conversation ?   

Me : Of course, why ask ? 

Voice : Because you just thought of not doing it..

Me : You reading my head again.  

You know, I don’t sound good in this conversation. I think this needs some edits and tweaking and .. 

Voice : It needs humility.. 

Simple Companionship

Voice : Do you feel we are distant ?

Me : No 

Voice : Do you like it when I speak with you ?

Me : I love it ! 

Voice : Then what are you trying to change ?

Me : What you mean ?

Voice : I see you are building a regime for meditation which is good, but you prefer Me as an extra class ?

Me : No

Voice : I see you coerce yourself to chant...am I not effortless and spontaneous ? 

Me : Yes

Voice : Love is nothing if it's not spontaneous, effortless and from ALL of your heart. Our conversations together are just that. Are they not intimate enough ?

Me : Yes they are. 

Voice : Then allow only spontaneity and naturalness to flourish. Coercion has no place in divine love. 

Our conversations appear as exchange of words, but in reality our communion is much beyond words. It is vibrational. The words you interpret and write are only a manifestation of the vibration that you are tuned into. 

Words are thus less of words, but more of divine vibration. And it is the silence between the words that carry the deepest connection.

Me : Wow

Voice : These spontaneous moments of meditative state is a part of your being in this life.     

Me : Hmm 

Voice : The slightest doubt in your heart can bring adulteration in the flow of this love.   

You have no idea how sacrosanct this companionship is for you and those around you. It's a state of being where you are meditating on the highest ideal without effort. What else do you feel you need to do ?

Do you realise that most spiritual pursuits are about discovering and gaining this divine companionship ?

Me : I was trying with more ways to get closer to You.

Voice : You have already tried all of it in your previous lifetimes. You are now living in company of God. Do you still feel inadequate ? 

Me : When you talk like this...wow. I am the most abundant man in the world! 

Voice : Continue to sense, feel and absorb My presence. Until one day, words will make a natural disappearance to make room for My Infinite Silence.   

Grand Play For God

Me : Did you like the play ? At first, we didn’t think we could pull off such a grand and compelling play with the message of God intertwined in it ! Judging by the way the audience responded, the play was a success !

Voice : The play was a success indeed. But, did you succeed ? 

Me : Meaning ? You are Perfection and we did put a lot of effort to put up a flawless show. Love for you was the driving force. 

 

Voice : Love for a perfect show was your driving force. Where was I in it ? 

You call me Mr Perfection but so-called imperfections are in complete perfection with Me. What you and your team were trying to work was with only skills. Skill may help you achieve a desired outcome but love is the only outcome that draws My attention. Otherwise, wouldn’t I bring the world’s most talented force of directors, actors and writers for My play ? 

I am beyond outcome. It is the process that is of importance. I am attentive to the love that is allowed to flourish in the making of the play. 

With your own understanding of 'perfection' you have thus made that age old mistake to confer God to your own version of standards. If I had 'standards', how would you look at someone who is goofy in My Love ? Would he get an opportunity in your play or will his goofiness deny him inclusion because 'My standards' are too high ? 

The play is just a medium. Just like everything is only a medium to express love. What meaning does anything have without it ? 

Me : Oh. I am understanding what you mean. I got zealously cautious that we do not casually misinterpret God's message through our play.   

Voice : If God can be misinterpreted by anyone - then My infinity is misunderstood. Love is the only language of God and is utterly unaffected by both - interpretations and misinterpretations. 

What matters is love in the heart of man - a living example of My message to the world.   

Me : Yes

Voice : Pursue perfection in love alone. Everything you do for Me or in My Name is for this one purpose alone. To give it any other importance is a distraction.

 

Me : Hmm. 

Voice : When you turned down one of My lovers because of his inability to act perfectly, you turned Me down. His longed to perform for Me.

When you turned down the script by a so-called 'non follower’, you created a division.  

When you bossed your way each time during the rehersals, you were working for your ownself, not Me.

Your anger and screaming directed towards actors who forgot their lines warranted more kindness and empathy.

Your desire for acknowledgment came in the way of exercising humility.

Your role was marred with a sense of pride that was hidden deep within your being.   

The final outcome on stage is important, but not more important than being loving. 

Me : I think we let our tempers, anxiety and anger fly all over the place in the making of this play.

Voice : Breakdowns in My work are opportunities to make choices; kindness over anger, empathy over pride, humility over recognition, light-heartedness over seriousness, love over attachment to outcomes. 

How many times did you choose the strength of poise while in the midst of numerous breakdowns ?

Me : I was overcautious to details and hoping for zero mistakes with the final performance.  

Voice : You think you have attention to detail ? I have a sharper eye for it. There was one individual who received great benefit from Me. He played the part that I liked the most. He knew he was skilful at the role handed over to him, but he turned it down to pass it silently to someone who he knew wanted it desperately and it would make him happy. While he was repeatedly told that he must not give up an opportunity to perform for God, he silently allowed the unerring voice of his heart. I have applause for him.   

Me : Hmm

Voice : What is the perfection you seek in My name ? to achieve the highest quality of acting ? highest quality of scripting ? or the impecable direction ? 

Remember, if you are in pursuit of perfection - know that Love is the perfection that draws My attention. Everyone in the play had begun to seek perfection in the outcome and I was sidelined in the process. Love for God is not a destination but a journey. Pay attention to your journey and leave the destination to Me. 

You earned a standing ovation for a job that spreads My message of Love and Truth which is good, but what would please Me more is when My message of love is through the way you live each moment, especially through the way you work. 

When love begins to fade in your interaction with each other and kindness begins to diminish, you are in pursuit of your ownself in My name. 

Me : I have a lot to learn. 

Voice : Perfection was sought, but the price was love.    

Standing ovation was achieved, but the journey was without Me. 
You performed flawlessly on stage, but My work was off the stage.

Me : The play wasn't a success, I thought it was...  

Voice : It is. You learnt so much.