As children we are born free and until we are socialized we enjoy that freedom. But we are schooled to believe that we are individuals that must follow the rules. Many of us tried very hard to conform. And even when we did, the reward went something like this. “Okay, you got all A’s on your report card. Great!” And your ego translated that into, “I must do that again.” And thus the desire to be perfect, to impress, to do better, arises. It is called “Life on Planet Earth” or “spiritual kindergarten.”

But the flaw in the Law of Opposites is there and it is up to us to find it. For me, the flaw was that I could no longer be myself. I had to be the self that the world demanded that I be. I was good at spelling but bad at math. I was good at obeying the rules but bad at breaking them when I should have. And so on and so forth.

Enlightenment, then, might just be seeing so clearly that you automatically come under the Law of Grace.

No one has to explain it to you. Forget the online gurus and their seminars and blah, blah, blah.

All you have to do is stop trying to put the broken pieces of your beautiful self back together.

Then wham! As you sit there in your puddle of pieces, the missing peace now descends.

The answer was not “Try harder.” The answer was “Quit trying.”

And the gate-less gate opens and your feel the peace and power of surrender.

Let it be.

Jesus might have said, “My kingdom is not of the opposites.”

The Law of the Opposites has been hiding the Secret of Grace.

And no teacher can hand that over to you. Yet when you are ready to receive it, it is given.

Hallelujah.

Vicki Woodyard