If you like to visualize, try this:
Imagine loving the whole world as yourself.
Imagine loving the world so much that you’re willing to forgive it in every way and see that there is nothing to forgive.
Imagine seeing yourself everywhere you go, on every street, in every passageway, and in every moment of time.
Imagine how happy you’d be if you loved everything on earth exactly as it is.
Imagine that your heart was so filled with love that you could hardly bear it.
Imagine that you were in love with everybody just the way they are.
Imagine what it would be like if everything you saw and everything you heard and everything you noticed—you were totally in love with.
Imagine if you just wanted to help out how ever you could, whereever you could.
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Imagine if everything you saw was precious to you because you knew you were seeing yourself.
Imagine forgiving all your enemies knowing that they can’t help being the way they are, any more then you can help being the way you are.
Imagine realizing that you don’t exist as a separate being, and that there is truly only one thing, one energy, one existence.
Imagine that the one is you and everything else too.
Imagine that everything in the universe is just one light, one essence.
Imagine that you're meeting yourself everywhere all the time, under all circumstances, and that you're in love with yourself as you see yourself everywhere.
Imagine that your heart is bursting with love for everything and everybody, and you just want to help out and be kind in whatever way you can.
Imagine that you had such trust in the infinite, that is yourself, that you were willing to let the world be as it is, knowing that it has to be that way at this moment. And that it's true every moment.
Imagine knowing that the only thing that matters in this world is love.
Imagine knowing that your happiness has nothing to do with anything but the love in your heart.
Imagine what a joy it would be to be as kind as you could be, with everything and everybody, as much as you can.
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Imagine that your love was so great that your heart was filled with gratitude that you could know such love.
Imagine knowing that the whole purpose of the universe is so that love can exist. Imagine if you really knew that.
Imagine that you could set boundaries and say no when you had to, with great love.
Imagine that you knew who you really were, not some separate, imaginary somebody, but all of it, all of it expressing through you as you.
Imagine that you woke up and you realized that there was nothing but love, everywhere, expressing itself in different forms as yourself.
Imagine that you woke up and realized that there was nothing but you, everywhere, like the salt of the sea—salty everywhere you taste it.
Imagine that you knew your true identity as the infinite oneness, expressing itself in all these beautiful forms, all these beautiful people, all these beautiful beings.
Imagine that the tiniest grain of sand and the merest blade of grass were precious to you, because you knew that they were yourself.
Imagine wishing everyone, everywhere, no matter where they are, no matter how they may be, great love in this moment.
imagine sending your love out to all existence, knowing that it's yourself.
Imagine feeling that each moment, each person, each event, was precious to you just because it exists as it does.
Imagine kissing the whole world goodnight from the love in your heart, and imagine that love spreading everywhere, leaving out nothing.
Imagine that the love you felt when you first fell in love with somebody...could extend to everybody and everything, knowing that there is no separateness anywhere.
Imagine extending your hand to help out, or to be kind, however you can, wherever you can, whenever you can.
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Imagine that you stopped judging everything and everybody, and knew that in some way that you couldn't comprehend with your mind but could know somehow in your heart, that everything is OK, and that in some mysterious way all is in divine order always and everywhere.
Imagine that whenever you have a doubt, or a decision to make, that you could just go to your heart and find the answer.
Imagine that you were
so in love, with nothing left out, that it overflowed like ocean waves, endlessly kissing the shore.
Imagine that you forgave yourself for everything you ever did, or didn’t do, knowing that "you" couldn’t have been any other way at any given moment.
Imagine knowing that everybody else and everything else is that way too, and none of us can help being the way we are at this moment.
Imagine that seeing that, your heart just melted in gratitude, for everything and everybody being just the way it is, just the way "we" are.
--jim sloman 4/15/01
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