Today we ask you to stop “worrying about the future.”

This advice may sound like madness.  Surely, a wise man worries about his future.  How else can he protect himself and his loved ones?  Only fools do not worry about the future.

And yet be assured that it is a terrible waste of energy.

Imagine that you are given a tank full of fuel.  Worrying about the future is the equivalent of poking a hole in the tank.  It is a continuous energetic drain.

If any of you feel like you are not able to accomplish your goals, or struggle with fatigue or other chronic health issues, examine your mental habits around “worrying about the future.”  You may be losing precious creative energy down this sinkhole.

There is a great difference between “making plans” and “worrying about the future.”

“Making plans” happens in the present moment.  For example, let’s say you wish to travel somewhere.  You must make travel arrangements: decide when you want to go, arrange your schedule, book tickets and accommodations.  All these things you can start to do right now.

“Worrying about the future” is what happens when you worry and agonize over these travel plans.  Will the weather be okay?  Will the hotel be okay?  Are you spending the right amount of money?  

Can you see the difference between “making plans” and “worrying about the future”?

“Making plans” is sensible.  If you wish to accomplish some specific goal, it is useful to make a plan that you can commence enacting in the present moment.

“Worrying about the future” is suffering over things that have not yet happened and that you have no control over.  You are projecting negative imaginary scenarios in your mind, and feeling real fear and panic around these mental phantoms.  It is a pure energetic drain.

“Worrying about the future” is a useless and destructive activity.  It does not protect you or your loved ones from anything.  All it does is exhaust you, and keep you stuck in a lower vibrational state.  In this state, you will be prone to making poor decisions.  You will also be prone to acting out at the people around you — reacting to the phantoms in your worried brain, as opposed to the real situation in front of you.

Haven’t you experienced this?  Say you are worrying about the future, and someone asks you an innocent question.  Aren’t you prone to answering with a sharp tone?  You are reacting to the fear in your brain, not the person in front of you.

For example, someone is worried because he is infatuated with a person, but the object of his desire has not returned his latest message.  He is imagining futures in which he is rejected and feels horrible.  Now, some co-worker asks an innocent question about a project he is working on.

Isn’t it likely that he will answer with a sharp, defensive tone, because he is feeling agitated about his romantic problems?  Now the co-worker may take offense and feel slighted, or even think that this person is not a good member of the team.

This is why the act of “worrying about the future” is highly destructive.

Take action in the present moment.  If there is something you wish to do, make a plan, and take a step toward it today.  That is a healthy use of energy, and you will accomplish your goals if you do this.

But do not get caught up in worry.

This includes your major global issues.

If you are perturbed by an issue in your world, make a plan to do something about it that involves an action you can take in the present moment.

Worrying about things you cannot control and can do nothing about is a pure waste of precious life energy.  It causes far more harm than good.

Make plans, yes.  But do not “worry about the future.”

Today we ask that you question insane beliefs.

Most humans really are not sane.  The reason they are not sane is because they believe what they have been told by insane people.

Any belief system that promotes the ideology that mankind is existentially worthless or sinful is insane.

Any belief system that promotes the ideology that this reality is broken, profane, or corrupt is insane.

Any belief system that promotes the ideology of a punitive divinity that sends souls to eternal suffering in Hell, or to reincarnate in some sort of bad life, is insane.

Any belief system that promotes the ideology that individual human value is measured by markers like monetary worth or societal achievement is insane.

Any belief system that promotes the ideology that life is meaningless, and that the universe is empty and uncaring, is insane.

Perhaps you begin to see why most people are insane.

Here are some sane beliefs:

You are fundamentally good, and worthy.  Nothing that you do, or do not do, in this life can take away from your intrinsic worth.  This is true for you, and for everyone else.

Reality is fundamentally good.  The universe is conscious, intelligent, and loving.  

It is not punitive.  The very notion of any kind of punitive divinity is nonsensical.

Someone might hear this and ask: “What about consequences?”

Someone might say: “I am a virtuous, God-fearing individual who works hard, makes sacrifices for my loved ones, and lives morally.  Surely I am worth more than some drug addict or criminal.”

The answer to this person is “No, you are not.”

No one is worth more than anyone else.

Someone might say, “I don’t want to live in a universe where there are no consequences for bad people.  I want to live in a universe where good people are rewarded and bad people are punished.”

There is no such universe, outside of human minds.  That universe does not exist.  

But so long as you cling to a belief in a hierarchy of human worth, you will suffer and be miserable.  It doesn’t matter if you measure worth according to moral virtue or monetary possessions.  If you believe that “God” loves some people more than others, or that some people are simply worth more than others, then you are not sane, and your insanity will manifest as misery.  

The rich are not worth more than the poor.

The virtuous are not worth more than the immoral.

The self-sacrificing are not worth more than the selfish.

The spiritual are not worth more than the materialistic.

The success is not worth more than the failure.

The smart are not worth more than the stupid.

It is very hard for people to let go of the belief that some people are worth more than others.  Their whole identity may be based on this belief.

The question is:

Would you rather experience a deep sense of peace and well-being in this life?

Or would you rather cling to the belief that you must constantly strive to be a superior being?

You can have one, or the other.

But not both.

Sanity and peace are one.  The sane person is a peaceful person.

To be sane, you must let go of insane beliefs.

It doesn’t matter if 99% of the people on the planet believe these things.  Your planet is in the state it’s in because most people are not sane.

Today, be one of the sane ones.  Believe in the truth that you are intrinsically good, just you are, and the universe loves you unconditionally.  Let everything else falls away. 

Today we ask that you cultivate healthy flow.

Healthy flow means a healthy use of energy, with minimal blockage or waste.

Energy waste is, of course, the great crisis of the modern age.

It is entirely possible for every human soul on this planet to live lives of health and purpose, without compromising the earthly environment.

It is only that humans waste a lot of energy.

This happens everywhere, at every scale.  It is not just about oil consumption or consumerism.  Energy waste is rooted in unhealthy and false beliefs.

In many places, it is culturally expected that a good worker is always working himself to the point of exhaustion and sickness.  This is not restricted to third world factories and sweatshops.  Well-paid professionals in developed countries are routinely expected to work extremely long hours, to the point of chronic exhaustion.

This is completely insane.

Anyone who spends eighty hours a week or more in an office is simply not a productive human being, no matter what his billable hours may claim.  Most of that human’s time and energy is being wasted.

In truth, if the average overworked human put in half the time (or less) than is societally expected of him, there is a good chance he could become far more efficient and do at least twice as much.

Is this clear?  Overworking humans is a gross waste of energy.  A well-rested, healthy human is always far more productive than an exhausted, sick one.  This is simple common sense.  

This is what is meant by healthy flow.

Healthy flow means a wise, efficient use of energy, without waste.

Unhealthy flow is a mismanagement of energy that involves a lot of waste.

Healthy flow means taking the shortest route between two points.  A leads to B.

Unhealthy flow means meandering around in a circuitous fashion.  A leads to X leads to R leads to 2 leads to B.  

For example, someone who is continually distracted by texts, email, and the internet is caught in unhealthy flow.

A distracted person can require ten hours struggling to do what a focused person can easily take care of in one.  Really, this is a low estimate.  

Distraction breeds unhealthy flow.

Social drama breeds unhealthy flow.  Gossiping about people, resenting and complaining about your coworkers and bosses — all of this is energy down the drain.  

So for those of you who obsess over issues like global warming — focus on your energy usage closer to home.  This not just about gas and electricity.  This is about making wise choices in terms of using your time and physical energy in healthy ways.

Learn to focus on tasks.

In general, it is much easier to focus on tasks when you know why are doing what you do — not just mindlessly doing something because you “have to” or are “supposed to.”

If you are very clear with yourself in your intention, this will focus the flow of energy.

Here is a wise practice:

Before setting out to do something, create a vision for yourself of how you would like the process to unfold. Focus not so much on what other people are doing or trying to control reality.  Focus instead on how you feel.  Be very clear with yourself as to why you are doing what you do, and envision feeling good about it.  

And if there is absolutely no way for you to envision feeling good about doing something, then probably you should not do it at all.  

This simple practice can save you truly vast amounts of time and energy.  And it costs nothing.

Learn to be a good steward of your personal energy.  Make sure you give yourself plenty of healthy downtime.  You can only be truly productive from a place of health.

Before humans can learn to be good stewards of their world, they must first learn to be good stewards of themselves.  Do not waste energy.  Cultivate healthy flow.

Today we ask that you release your opposition to entropy.

Entropy is the force that pulls systems into increasing states of disorder.

Old age and sickness are entropic forces.

Dust and mold are entropic forces.

Entropy dissolves complex forms, reducing them to simpler states.  The pile of clutter on your desk is entropy.

Humans, in general, dislike entropy, and deeply resent its existence.  People often take entropy as a kind of personal affront.  They feel personally victimized by entropy.  There is a kind of incredulous disbelief that they, too, are subject to forces like old age, sickness, or entropic events like financial collapse or natural disasters.

Entropy is at the root of the human sense that there is something wrong or defective about reality itself.  For any reality that includes entropy must be broken.  “God” must have made a mistake.

Your reality is good.  That means that entropy serves a purpose.  Entropy, too, is good.

In truth, you have chosen to live in a universe that contains entropy.

Entropy, you see, is an engine of creation.  Without entropy, without the breakdown of old forms, nothing new can arise.

Consider compost, which forms as a result of the decay of plant matter.  Compost is a result of entropic processes.  And yet it is well known that compost is an ideal fertilizer.

Stars have a life cycle.  They grow old, and die.  At death, they shed a vast cloud containing heavy elements, without which life as you know it would not exist.  The entropic process that destroys stars seeds life in the universe.

So it would be good to cultivate a healthy relationship with entropy.  Entropy is not going to stop existing just because you don’t like it.  

That does not mean, do not resist entropy.

It is important for humans to resist entropy.  It is good to clean your home and your body.  It is good to create health, structure, and complexity.  

Of course, at a certain point in the lives of all living things, one reaches a place of surrender to entropy.  This happens at physical death.  Physical death is not a tragedy, but really a form of rebirth — which entropy makes possible.

Modern humans in general do not have a healthy relationship with entropy.  Old age and sickness are swept under the carpet.  Humans resent mess, breakdown, disorder.  Even the common cold is despised.  

Sleep is a form of entropy.  When humans sleep, they enter a simpler, more disorganized state of being.  Many modern humans resent that they have to sleep at all, because sleep is considered an “unproductive” time.  No wonder so many people have insomnia!  It is quite crazy, the extent to which modern humans despise entropic energies.    

If you could learn to accept entropy — to simply give it permission to exist — you would experience life with a deep sense of peace, and equanimity.

Without the resentment of entropy, it would be far easier for you to resist it in a healthy way.  How much easier is it to clean, for example, when you do not resent the task?  

It is healthy also, to accept the reality of flaws, mess, and failure.  The Navajo rug weavers always included a flaw in their rugs, to honor and acknowledge entropy.  If you honor and acknowledge entropy — flaws, mess, “failure” — it will have far less power over your life.  

Accept that in the end, all creation is subject to entropy.  You will die, sooner or later.  There is no stopping it.  This does not mean you live in a cruel, broken universe.  It does not mean you are a victim.  Just the opposite, in fact.

If you can perceive entropy as part of the perfection of reality, then your eyes are truly open indeed.  

Today we ask that you put an end to human sacrifice.

Human sacrifice used to be quite common.  Most cultures practiced it.  Animals and humans would be slaughtered to feed a tribal god, to ensure rain or a good harvest, a good hunt or a good war.  Humans were considered an especially pleasing and powerful offering.

Though you may find such practices abhorrent and insane, if you traveled back in time to the days when it was commonplace, you would discover that most people would consider the notion of not sacrificing humans to appease the gods quite crazy.  How else would one feed and propitiate one’s gods?

Modern humans are still performing human sacrifice.  It has just become more hidden, and insidious.  

While modern religion does not promote animal or human sacrifice, it does promote the idea that virtue, purity, and self-sacrifice pleases God, and grants you a place in Heaven.  People who do not make such sacrifices, in turn, go to Hell.

This belief system has destroyed countless lives.  “God-fearing” individuals exist in a state of perpetual dread, frightened that sinful thoughts or deeds will put them in Hell for eternity.  In order to appease their angry image of God, they punish themselves, suffering from chronic feelings of existential shame and worthlessness.

Human sacrifice no longer occurs on public altars, but inside people’s minds.  Well-meaning parents sacrifice their own children to their God by indoctrinating them with the ideology of existential shame and “original sin.”

While most extreme among religious fundamentalists, these kinds of belief systems also exist among people who consider themselves progressive and open-minded.

Take, for example, people who worship the God of Ecological Purity.  Such people castigate themselves whenever they are not “green” enough in their actions, when they fall short of their ideals.  They punish themselves for their shortcomings, and lash out judgmentally at others around them.  

Do you see how this works?

Ask yourself: what kind of God or Gods do you worship?

How do you hold yourself up to a perfectionistic ideal?

How do you experience existential shame whenever you fall short of this ideal?  

Whenever you do this, you are sacrificing your life, your health, and your vitality on the altar of a False God.

No True God ever asks for sacrifice, of any kind.

Divine energy is love.  It asks only that you love yourself completely, and love this beautiful world.

Any other kind of “God” is a false idol.  Please do not sacrifice yourself on that altar.  

Today we ask that you believe that you dwell in a loving reality.

You dwell in a loving reality.

To most humans, reality seems anything but loving.  It is cruel, harsh, brutal, uncaring, or meaningless.

Some people believe in a punitive God who sends souls to eternal torment in “Hell.”

Others believe in a random, empty, mechanistic universe, in which consciousness is annihilated at death.

The fundamentalists and atheists fight bitterly with each other, convinced of their righteousness.  Really, both these points of view are misguided.

The truth of this reality is exquisitely simple.  Yet this truth cannot be described without sounding like madness to most people.

Mankind’s visionaries and seers have often penetrated the veil.  When they gain true perception, they see that reality, as you know it, is an illusion.

To say “Reality is an illusion” sounds simple, and it is.  Yet it is difficult for the human mind to grasp this mystery.  The evidence of the five senses insists that reality is extremely real.  To describe reality as an illusion is akin to attempting to describe color to a blind person, or to describe sound to a deaf person.

That is where faith comes in.  The blind man may believe that color exists, because others perceive it, and because he may occasionally perceive color in his mind.  The deaf man may believe that sound exists, because others perceive it, and because he can feel the vibrations sounds make.  

That is what it means to believe that the true underlying nature of reality is purely loving.  That is where faith comes in.  Others have perceived the loving essence of reality, and you, too, may perceive it, especially if you are open and sensitive.  

At night, you dream.  You may experience terrors and nightmares that appear to be very real.  When you are dreaming, you have absolutely no awareness that what your five senses are telling you about reality is not completely accurate.  Reality may appear to be hostile, and threatening.  

When you wake and find yourself in bed, you realize that it was all an illusion.  No harm has come to you.  You were safe the whole time.

Life itself is exactly like this.  You may experience terrors and nightmares that your five senses tell you are absolutely real.  Everything around you may confirm the hostile and threatening nature of reality.  But death, when it comes, is the waking up out of this state.  At death, you will understand that this, too, was all an illusion. No harm has come to you.  You were safe the whole time.

To be conscious of this while you are alive is like being lucid in a dream.  Lucid dreamers are not frightened by the dream landscape, and find dreaming to be a playful experience.  This is what is meant by “enlightenment.”  It is the perception that you are experiencing a collective dream.

When you know and truly believe this, it is very possible to shift your perception of reality so that you experience this collective dream in a spirit of joy and playfulness.  

It is okay if this sounds crazy, and you do not believe it.

And yet it is true.  Illusory though your reality may be, please know that it is not a dark, cruel, hostile, or evil illusion.  

The vast intelligence that underlies all reality is purely loving.  

Everyone dies and goes to “Heaven” in your reality — whether they believe in it or not.  

It is okay if you do not believe this.  But if you did, you would enjoy the life experience more.  

Today we ask that you look at the pattern of “tensing up,” or cultivating states of physical tension, in order to motivate yourself to “get things done.”

Most human are conditioned to believe that they can only take action from a place of physical tension.

They believe that action is motivated by yelling, complaining, attacking, and generally beating yourself or other people up.  Only when you are sufficiently tense and anxious will you be motivated to do something — especially something “unpleasant,” like a “chore,” or “losing weight.”

People speak of “whipping themselves into shape.”  Often there is a link between the image of a “whip,” and the motivation toward action.

This, really, is completely insane.  It is also horribly counterproductive.

Acting from a place of tension can, at best, only produce short-term results.

That is why people who lose weight on aggressive “starvation diets” usually wind up gaining it back.

Any time you bring the “whip” into the picture, you are actually creating a huge amount of subconscious resistance to the very thing you want to do.

That is because true creative energy comes from a place of love, and joy.  The “whip” is poisonous to creativity.

Imagine growing a plant from a seedling.  You put it in a pot in the sunshine.  

But then, you are frustrated with its growth rate.  So you start screaming at it.  You tell it what a stupid, worthless plant it is.  You call it lazy.

If you actually did this to a plant, in real life, you would certainly stunt its growth, and very likely kill it.  You might as well pour a bucket of salt on it.  It would have the same effect.

That is what you do to your own creative energy every time you attack yourself for not doing enough, or failing to live up to expectations.  You are creating an environment that is hostile to growth and creativity.

The only thing that proliferates in a habitually tense, anxious human being is disease — both mental, and physical.

If you want to create anything new — even if it is just a clean desk — you must lay down the whip, and act from a space of joy and playfulness.

If you have a cluttered workspace, and you “whip yourself” to clean it — in no time at all, you will have a cluttered workspace again.  The pattern will only be reinforced.

Many of you believe that your lives would fall to pieces if you did not attack yourself all day long.

It is not true.  You would only become healthier, saner, and more productive.  You would be a better lover, partner, friend, worker, or parent.  You might even expand and grow beyond your wildest dreams — and it wouldn’t even feel like “hard work.”

It is okay if you do not believe this.  You’re allowed to keep whipping yourself.  You will do that, until one day you do not.

Today we ask that you question your beliefs about the merits of suffering.

This is very difficult for most people.  Though no one consciously likes to suffer, most people believe on some level that suffering is virtuous, and that it enhances one’s character.  One has greater respect for those who nobly endure suffering, as opposed to someone who appears to be “lucky” in life.  

To question these beliefs may be perceived as threatening, and even immoral.  

But what if it isn’t true?

What if the veneration of human suffering is merely a holdover from a “cave man” pattern of behavior, hard-wired into a very old part of the human brain?  

When humans were “cave men,” that is to say primitive hunter-gatherers, a high pain endurance was a useful survival strategy.  Men with a high pain endurance made better hunters.  Women past puberty were continuously pregnant and birthing children, ensuring genetic survival.  It was an utterly miserable existence in many ways, but from a Darwinian standpoint, it “worked.”  Of course, few people lived past their mid-thirties.  

That is why the virtues of pain and suffering are hard-wired into the human brain.  “No pain, no gain.”

But what if this isn’t true?

It is true that humans require a measure of healthy challenge and going outside “comfort zones” in order to flourish in life.  But this does not require pain, suffering, and misery.  Humans have the capacity to experience change and healthy challenges in life with immense joy.  

Your beliefs define your existence, and shape your reality.  If you believe on any level that your self-worth is proportional to your suffering, then you will suffer.  You would not know who you are without suffering.  Your identity depends on it.

Most people do not like to suffer, but their self-image is deeply tied to it.  Many people even believe that God loves them more when they suffer, and that their suffering paves the way to Heaven.  

Really, it is just the old cave man part of the brain that perpetuates this.  Unless you plan to hunt mammoths or birth fifteen babies, maybe you should not listen to this old part of the brain.  Maybe it is time to evolve out of this.  

What if you believed that joy was your birthright?  What if you’d been brought up believing this, and had been taught to actively cultivate states of joy and well-being?

Notice any resistance you feel around this.  Does believing that joy is your birthright sound selfish, or naive?

And yet when a human expands into the state some call “enlightenment,” a deep, unshakeable joy is precisely what they experience.  It is the end to suffering, right here on Earth.  It is not dependent in any way on external circumstances; it is a state of mind.  And it is possible, because it happens.  

What if joy is available to you, even now, regardless of what appears to be happening in external reality?

The belief in the virtue of suffering will block any experience of joy.  How could it not?  Lasting joy and virtuous suffering cannot coexist in one’s consciousness.

So you must ask yourself:

Do I want to experience joy?

Or do I want to hold on to my belief in virtuous suffering, my victim identity, and my self-righteous pain?

You can have one, or the other.

But not both.

Today we ask that you know it is not such a big deal.

Whatever you are stressed about, whatever drama you are caught up in today — it is not such a big deal.

Think about all the things you stressed about when you were a child, or an adolescent.  Consider how agitated you felt about things like going to a dance, or impressing a particular boy or girl.

Was it really such a big deal?  Probably not.

It is not such a big deal now, either.

Some people like to make a big deal out of everything.  Often people think of them as “drama queens.”  Of course, most people are drama queens in certain areas of their lives.

A drama queen makes a big drama out of everything.  You are the star of your own melodrama, complete with heroes and villains, and dramatic twists and turns.  Most people are like this, even if their lives appear to be unassuming.

It is really a very unhappy way to live.

So you must decide what you want more:

Do you want drama?

Or do you want peace?

Be honest.  Many people believe they want peace, but really they are addicted to drama.  They imagine life without drama as boring, or somehow unimportant.  They believe they would be less special if they were not the struggling heroes of their personal melodramas.  Without their struggles, who would they be?

If you know people who are like this, don’t try to change them.  They want all this drama.  Telling them to put things into perspective will only feel threatening.  Clearly, you do not understand their tragic pain.  You may even be a villain.

If you are addicted to drama, that is okay.  You have permission to be a drama queen.

But if you are tired of living in a tragedy, you are going to need to drop the drama.

And that means recognizing that things are not such a big deal.

You must understand that 100 years from now, all these things that seem so terribly important will be completely forgotten.

To a drama queen, this is very depressing news.

But really, it the source of true inner peace.

It does not mean that what you do is meaningless, or unimportant.  That is not true.  Small actions can in fact be very powerful.

It just means that your drama is not all that important.  These things you stress about, that you rage about, that you throw tantrums over.  Whatever you are throwing a tantrum over is guaranteed not to be as big a deal as you believe.

This does not mean, suppress your feelings.  It just means don’t believe your fears.  For all drama is rooted in fear.

Whatever you fear, it is not such a big deal.  Even death is not such a big deal.  

If death is not such a big deal, then what is?

This is the key to a joyful, peaceful life.

Today we ask that you perceive there is no middle ground between faith and fear.

Either you are in faith, or you are in fear.  There is no middle ground.

Faith simply means trusting and believing that reality is intrinsically good.  

Fear means perceiving reality as threatening, and annihilating.

You cannot be in an in-between space with this.

Either reality is loving, or it is cruel.

Please do not confuse “faith” with “fundamentalist belief.”  Most religious fundamentalists are deeply fearful in their worldview.  

True faith, which is faith in the goodness of reality, cannot be conditional.  If it is conditional, it means that you are someone who believes reality is good, until something does not go your way.  Then life is cruel.

Another way to look at this is: when things do not go your way, do you feel like a victim?  Or do you have faith that when you meet with adversity or the unexpected, there is a purpose to it.  Can you even connect with a sense of greater empowerment in such situations?

Much of humanity still dwells in fear consciousness, in victim consciousness.  Reality is perceived as threatening, and annihilating.  Life is, at best, a struggle to survive, to achieve dominance, and to ensure that one’s offspring survive and dominate.  The chronic, gnawing fear state can only be eased by addictive pleasures, temporary highs, or numbing out. As soon as the drug of choice wears off, the underlying panic returns — creating a cycle of addiction.

Faith consciousness is as different from this as day from night.  It is a completely different landscape, unrecognizable to someone who knows only fear.  In faith consciousness, reality is perceived as benevolent, and loving.  There is a sense of a vast and loving intelligence at the heart of all creation, an interconnectedness of all things.  Life cannot be annihilated, and is not annihilated even at death.  There is a deep purpose and meaning to existence.  Nothing is random, and there are no accidents.  

As you can see, there is no middle ground between these worldviews.  

In fear consciousness, there is constant suffering, struggle, and misery.  It is a dog-eat-dog world.  Life is meaningless, yet one is compelled by instinctive urges to achieve dominance through ego achievement or living on through your children’s achievements.  

In faith consciousness, there is a deep sense of well-being, joy, and ease.  One is guided by a voice of wisdom that is heard inside, and reflected in the beauty of nature and human creation.  Everything is beautiful, and sacred.  Life is deeply meaningful.  One’s purpose always aligns with serving the greater good of all life.  

There is no middle ground.

For many on the spiritual path, there is a “bipolar” experience — as one shifts between faith and fear.  Life can feel like a roller coaster.  The fear and struggle can seem even more intolerable because one has also experienced the deep peace and well-being of true faith.

Ultimately, it is a matter of belief.  If your belief in a loving reality is conditional in any way, then your experience of it will be equally conditional.  If your conditions are not met, you will drop back into fear.

Therefore it is asked that you love life unconditionally.  Appreciate life unconditionally.  Believe and know that you are not now, nor have you ever been, a victim, no matter what anyone has to say, no matter what your own story about yourself is.  

If any part of you believes in your victimhood, that part will magnetically draw you back down into fear consciousness.  It will do so until you let it go completely.

There is no middle ground.  Choose one, or choose the other.

And it is okay if you give into fear.  It will feel very unpleasant, but it is okay.  It is like eating unhealthy food or engaging in self-destructive behavior.  You will do it, until one day you do not.  There are no mistakes.  You are not even a victim of your fear, your conditioning, or your self-destructive tendencies.  You are not even a victim of believing that you are a victim.

That is how loving this reality truly is.