There is no big or small

God created this sphere specifically so we could come here and learn to correct our inner errors. This includes every one of them, great and small.

There is no such thing as a big or little issue. For whatever is happening between us and a small handful of people is the exact same thing playing out on the world’s biggest stages. Some tiny issue in a domestic spat has the same impact—the same importance—as a big international quarrel.

Those so-called big issues couldn’t even exist if thousands of minor ones didn’t roll up into them. The place to begin resolving them is by mindfully examining every distortion we discover in ourselves.

There are laws governing growth and development, and they apply identically—in theory as well as in application—on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual planes. Further, there’s no difference in how they operate, whether it’s a single-celled organism or a human being.

They even apply to humanity as a whole.

For the relationship that exists between a person and each of our cells is the same as the one between all of humankind and a person. They follow the very same laws for living and growing.

The micro rolls up into the macro. Every atom is a minute replica of the entire universe.

In addition, it is a spiritual law that the more advanced we are—the more work we have done over the course of many lifetimes—the bigger will be the impact of any negativity that remains. So then even minor infractions against the truth of divine law will cast larger and longer shadows.

To put it differently, this law says that the greater our potential to do the spiritual work we set out to do, the greater will be the repercussion of not living up to it.

Our work is to abide by these loving laws and know that if we choose to go another way, that’s our choice. But there will always be a price to pay. This is the loving hand of God at work, and it’s for our own good.

If we want to know the truth, including the untruth inside us, all we have to do is ask. But we do have to ask. That’s the law.

We have to ask

If we want to know the truth, including the truth about the untruth dwelling inside us, all we have to do is ask. But we do have to ask. That’s the law.

Perhaps we think God doesn’t care about us and that we shouldn’t burden God with our problems. But we can always turn to God and ask for help in overcoming our obstacles.

Whenever we contact the greater source of wisdom within, it will respond. We will be filled with stimulating ideas and new outlooks; we will be infused with invaluable guidance and with feelings of truth and beauty.

If we ask, we’ll get an answer. Again, that’s the law.

Once we start to crystallize the questions we should be asking, probing more deeply and coming more fully into awareness, action is no longer what matters most. Then the primary thing to focus on is knowing.

We will begin to gain clarity and insight as we start to unwind the seemingly unshakable false conclusions we formed as children. Self-liking and self-respect will naturally arise from no longer thinking our misunderstandings are unquestionable “facts” to be glossed over and taken for granted.

Even before we are able to live by it, knowing the way life really works creates a sense of freedom.

That’s how inner order builds outer beauty.

Inner peace creates outer harmony.

Inner riches lead to outer abundance.

Reality always moves toward truth.

So can we.

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