The love that you give is the love that you receive. The bread you cast upon the water is the bread that returns to you. Your life is the experience of your inner most awareness or consciousness. As you become more aware, that is as you remember more clearly, the truth that is your own, your experience of life becomes ever more joyful. The thoughts and experiences that seem to distress you are simply the letting go of or burning of the karmic seeds of the past. The more you are able to watch the experience as the unaffected observer, the more you will experience life as a series of events or images that have no real effect. Letting go of your investment in the outcome of material sense, illusion and setting your mind upon the eternal truth in every situation sets you free. As your ability to see truth when illusion presents further develops, you learn that all the world of physicality is but your perception and is always subject to the paradigm through which you see it. Remember that only love is real and that I am ever with thee and that paradigm through which you see all things becomes the loving truth. You begin to see what is rather than project what is unreal. This is the lesson of the great mystics. “My Kingdom is not of this world” was spoken to demonstrate that the vision or actualization of truth presents as an experience outside the five sense world. Seen through or more accurately, known through the wisdom of the heart, there is only love. As you cast your eyes upon the world this day let your gentle gaze reflect back to you the love and equanimity, that is recognition of your true self. Release the karmic patterns and forgive all experiences of the past that would impinge upon the present movement. The initiation, or purification, is simply a letting go of what as never real so that all that is left is the eternal truth of you. Surrendering, or renouncing the unreal so that the real is at last visible and known to you in the heart is truly your awakening, your salvation and your gift to others. As you walk in this truth you empower others to walk in theirs and all the world is made new.