The Destination or The Journey [1]

The Destination or The Journey

[2]

by John McIntosh

 

Given the choice the ego will ‘always’ choose the journey over thedestination since the destination means its end.

 

It revels in structures, formulas, rules, disciplines, timetables and a host of shackles that bind you to a far off distant emergence into the Light of Freedom. Gurus, teachers, oceans of books and endless seminars offering the next technique, the faster, purer, special way appeal to its endless search for Peace provided it never leads to actual finding.

 

You find yourself wrapped in a spiritual straight-jacket and refer to it as the seamless garment of Truth.

 

It does not occur to the ego-mind that the destination is nearer than a breathe … available Now for the asking merely by placing your undivided Attention upon IT, allowing nothing to take precedence over your rightful place as the God you Are.

 

The ego-mind demands great servitude and long suffering as payment … as penance for the evil you have been before your Liberation can be given. You must earn it at great cost.

 

Nothing could be further from the Truth.

 

You have never been, nor could you be guilty of anything. Your Freedom has never been taken away from you for some transgression against the will of an angry Creator.

 

YOU are the Creator … sleeping for a season in the fields of Consciousness, playing at being less than Whole, less than One, bound by the fickle caprice of a God located somewhere out there, you know not where … but definitely separate from the little you, you have perceived yourself to be.

 

It has been a long dream of your own creation … grand in design, taking you to the depths of a separated hell and the heights of a heavenly vision of what could be.

 

Now the window of remembrance is upon you and you have only to place your ATTENTION on It and through what the mind calls the Law of Attraction … what is correctly known as Harmonic Resonance … the ancient dream of limitation dissolves and you remember Who you Are Now … right NOW!

 

True, this dream will come and go as the last remnants of the glamour that once held your attention so securely in its grasp still flickers from the wings of the stage you have played upon for so long. But as you maintain your Attention on the Truth, on Freedom, on the Destination, on I AM … the Life and the Light and the Truth and the Love that you Are … the remembrance will return as your constant experience …

 

EFFORTLESSLY.