Every day is a test for all of us. That is because we are mechanical beings playing mechanical roles. That is what the Work teaches. Everyone is walking in their sleep believing that they are awake.

Added to that is humanity’s collective need to survive in any way that they can. Jesus called that mechanical behavior “sinning.” He spoke simply because he needed to get his message across.

There is no such thing as mechanical love; love is a state of consciousness. There is no need to put five-dollar words on it. Love is love.

In the morning of our consciousness, love is pure and innocent. But by afternoon it is already covered up in lies. And by midnight, no one remembers love as a conscious state of being that we can choose again and again and again.

It is not easy, this state of awareness, and so we fall asleep so easily. It is then that we suffer mechanically. The Work and the words of the sages of all times throughout history, call us back home.

We are always in danger when we are asleep and the Work calls us back to self-awareness. You think that is easy? Thought is what keeps us asleep.

Few ever go through the eye of the needle. And I am not needling you 😉

Vicki Woodyard