Everything is in motion. The gates are open. There is a flow to life. There is a flow to you and a flow to all of life. You do go down a stream of life. You might as well go merrily, merrily. And, yes, life on Earth is but a dream. It is one moment of a dream that continues. It seems to go on and on, your dream of the life you lead on the dimension called Earth.

Believe it or not, We, you and I, are as close as peas in a pod. We are nestled so close in this pod of the Universe that you may not have seen Me or felt My Presence. You, even though you may be nearsighted, simply may not see that which is right in front of you. I think you get blindsided. You get distracted. Your attention pulls away from Me to something else. But even that is all right, you understand.

If I saw as you do see, I would have given up a long time ago! Have not you perhaps given up a long time ago? Have you not sometimes said, "To heck with life! I'm tired of it. I have had enough. I don't like the world the way it is. I am tired of my mere survival. I want to exceed survival. I want to enjoy life."

The mind that thinks so much doesn't think at all. It doesn't think: "To what avail is all the cogitating I do?" The mind keeps on the same without regard to what is going on around it. It takes note, but keeps bulldozing through regardless of the situation. Thus, you have mindset. Your mind got programmed, and it is hard for it to stop.

Expand your vision, and your life expands accordingly. In the act of greater vision, you are already expanded. What is within your sight is within your sight. What is out of your sight is out of it. Bring more opportunities into view.

You are the viewer of your life. The canvas is Mine. I have given you paints to make a picture on the canvas. First your painting is a sketch, and then a more definite painting arises. But the sketch was integral to your painting. The sketch is your vision.

From the depths of earth you rise to the heights of Heaven. Somewhere, Heaven and Earth are meeting. They meet high or low according to how you set your sights. Whether you look up or down makes all the difference in the world. You are always looking at the same thing, only it is from different angles that you allow the light of the world in. You are an artist whose eyes paint the world. One world, and yet so many colors and ways to paint it.

From nothingness comes everything. From an ocean comes waves. From life comes your life, comes the world, comes stories, comes adventure, comes love evident. From love comes love. Love is. Love is predominant on Earth. It cannot be otherwise.

If you but saw clearly what is right here, how easy life would be! If you but saw only what was immediately in front of you, uncolored by the past, how clearly you would see! But the mind behind your eyes does calculations and totals up figures from the past.

It is as if the mind asks in every situation, without calling it to your attention: "What from the past is present now? What shadows appear here?"

And so you do not always see what is present. You see last night's leftovers. You see a transparent overlay clinging to the present.

How beautiful is one petal from a tree! How beautiful is one tree. How beautiful is one Human Being. Oh, the beauty! A Human Being is a delightful sight. Think a moment of what it is to have a Human Being before you. It is like having the Kohinoor diamond. The only thing is that when you have the diamond in front of you, alas, you are often in ignorance of the value. That must be what purgatory is, beloveds — to have a treasure and not know its true value. Imagine thinking that a diamond is a bauble! Imagine thinking that the Kohinoor diamond is glass!

Your imagination is like filaments from the sun. You have seen photographs that show the sun's rays between trees in the forest. Your imagination is like that. Your imagination is not something to be discouraged but encouraged. Who is there qualified to say that the trees are more solid than the rays of the sun that blast through between and above them?