As long as we stay connected with love, everything else will be okay–not because everything is transformed, but because our perception is. AND our perception starts with us. We perceive everything else relative to us. So, let’s remember that we’re capable of more than we have conceived. Let’s act on our knowing. And let’s witness the results, as they transform our perception.

Nothing is too lofty or too perfect for us. Nothing is too much for us to handle. We are the light behind the sun, the darkness behind the moon. Of what, shall we be afraid?

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We’ve all had those moments when we stared dumbfounded at a partner, before we retaliated. Remember that time she lost it and turned into somebody you didn’t want to know? The time his countenance actually changed right before your eyes — as if with special effects?

Are we all capable of turning into monsters?

That’s one way to say it. According to Eckhart Tolle, in his much acclaimed “A New Earth,” we have a “pain-body” that can, at a moment’s notice, erupt like a dormant volcano.

Tolle explains what he calls the “pain-body” as the accumulation of old emotional pain that we carry with us, because of our tendency to perpetuate it. He uses an example of “the duck with a human mind” to make his point. After two ducks get into a fight, which is always short-lived, they separate and float off in opposite directions. Then each duck vigorously flaps its wings a few times, releasing the surplus energy that built up, and continues peacefully, as if nothing had happened. Ah, but if the duck had a human mind, it would keep the fight alive.

Tolle says the duck’s story would sound something like this: “I don’t believe what he just did.… More