Love holds no grievances!

A Course in Miracles says in Lesson 68, “Love holds no grievances.” And adds: “To hold grievance is to let the ego rule your mind.” Later:

“Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind. It seems to split you off from your source and make you unlike him.”

And later “When I let all my grievances go I know I am perfectly safe.”

I love letting go grievances yet they can come back to haunt me and I have further work to do!

When religion has become an ideology, when men use and abuse scripture to have power over human beings, they inflict great pain by denying sensual pleasure through our animalistic bodies. I suggest, if you repress the energy of love, love will become abusive and addictive.

So I invite you to listen to your body and the wonderful animalistic virtues it has—like I did with Freddy the Dolphin.

However, we need to experience this inner body that is eternal. Your love, together with the divine love, is going to lift you up.

I am playing “Love Is Going To Lift You Up” by Bobby Womack.

This reminds me of “The Smuggler,” a story of the obvious—yet so unseen—just like how doctors or so-called experts are not prepared to see the connection between mind, body, and soul!

The Smuggler

Every day, Mustafa took his straw-laden donkey across the border. But one day, he was stopped by a customs officer, who eyed him suspiciously.

“What have you got in that straw?” he asked. “Are you carrying any contraband goods across the border? If you are, you’ll have to pay a fee.”

“Look for yourself,” replied Mustafa. “I’m hiding nothing!” The customs officer poked about and found nothing.

This went on, day after day. Sometimes he would look in the donkey’s mouth, even under the tail! Nevertheless, the customs officer vowed he would never stop searching.

This went on for ten years, and the customs officer retired. However, the ex-officer thought one day he might have been smuggling gold dust in the donkey’s fur.

One day he was walking through the market and he saw a familiar face. It was Mustafa without his donkey. “Hey you! Come here! Aren’t you are the man with the donkey laden with straw?”

“Yes I am,” replied Mustafa.

“And you were smuggling weren’t you? I am convinced you were. I searched you every day but I couldn’t find anything, because you were very crafty. But you can tell me now. Were you smuggling?”

“Yes I was!”

“I knew it! What were you smuggling?”

“Donkeys!” said Mustafa with a big smile.

What negative thoughts do we smuggle into our beautiful minds, bodies, and souls? Our bodies never lie. We, in our minds, lie to it. Then we wonder why we are full of fear and dis-ease!

My love to you!