When a person is born into a body, he forgets the limitlessness and eternity of his soul. A person dresses herself in a body suit constructed according to her previous body experiences, like a diver in her wetsuit. A person stuffs his omnipotent soul into the fearful limits of the body and believes that he is only his body, which will inevitably die. A person lives in fear.

Human life is a courageous dive of an omnipotent deity into the narrow limits of the material world he himself created. The narrowness and limitation of humanity is an extreme challenge that the infinite and omnipotent deity has created for itself in order to expand the circle of its creation, that is, to become real and conscious even in the narrowness of matter. God lives in a person.

In order to experience human life, the deity must limit itself and convince itself that it is only the body into which it is born at any given time. He must not remember that he was born in many different bodies in many different worlds, both in heaven and on earth. For if she remembered everything she had experienced in the past, she would no longer believe that she was only this current body, but an eternal soul that has inhabited many bodies to experience itself and expand the boundaries of its creative work. God is creating in a human being.

Man’s limited or bodily self is like a crown of thorns, which is pressed on the head of a small child from birth so that he learns to suffer and fear for his body and never remembers the unlimited freedom and power of his soul. Parents and relatives who suffer in their bodies and for their bodies teach the child this path of their own suffering by placing a crown of suffering on his head. Man suffers in the body.

Man, or the divinity in all of us, can have enough of the suffering he has created. Man can question the need and meaning of suffering and notice that suffering only beautifies when it ends. A person can realize that all his suffering is due to the fact that he believes that he is only the body and its desires, lusts, fears and mortality. A person is freed from her suffering when she sees that all her feelings are old body reactions, or the past, which repeats itself exactly as long as a person gives her divine creative power for them to use, or recycles her old feelings. A person is a prisoner of her feelings.

All feelings arising from body experiences are confrontable, or when they emerge from the depths of the subconscious, a person has the opportunity to choose at every moment whether to go with them, or to give his divine power for them to use, or not. Each of us has the opportunity to choose in this moment of presence whether we will once again go on the dramatic roller coaster ride of our old feelings or whether we have had enough of them. A person can choose differently.

But a person can choose differently only when he has forgiven those feelings that he believes are the fault of someone else. As long as a person believes that their feelings are caused by someone else, they remain a victim of other people and a prisoner of their own feelings. Only by recognizing their own creative power, or responsibility for their own feelings, whatever they may be, can a person be freed from the addictive and ensnaring repetition of emotions. Human faith is also a feeling. A person frees themselves from all their feelings by forgiving.

Forgiveness is scary. Giving up the power of emotions is terrifying. Who or what am I without my feelings, my lusts, desires, fears, hatred, affections…? Those are all emotions that keep me trapped in my cramped emotional body, or diving suit. The most terrifying of those feelings is the belief that without them I do not exist. I believe that I will disappear into emptiness and die into non-existence if I do not either hold on to my feelings or deny them. The masculine way is to deny feelings and the feminine way is to fight for them. Both lead to the repetition of emotions and the past they carry, or this emotional captivity that we imagine as humanity. We are mistaken.

I am a drop in the invisible, yet all-carrying energetic sea of Life, momentarily dressed in a fear-ridden diving suit to experience spirit within matter, or my own creation. When I have had enough of my body producing the finiteness and anguish of emotions, I have all the power to forgive myself and free myself from their treadmill. I have all the power.

This moment of sacred presence is my only chance to be free from the recurring emotions of my past. Only in this moment can I choose otherwise, to make my past nonexistent. Only in this moment am I free. You are too.