The restrictions in your life come from past precepts.

If you could really start new today, you would know freedom.

All the past is a shackle, for with the past incumbent upon you, you are obliged to remember how and what and when and why and who instead of simply you and simply Me. Why not remember Me instead of all the rules?

Remember Me, and you are well prepared. Remember Me, and you will know there is nothing to prepare for. Remembering Me requires no preparation. It requires the intention and the looking up.

Many have pleaded: If only I could see God.

Never mind seeing Me.

Know Me.

Stop hustling a moment and feel Me.

You don't have to see Me. I see you. And I see you as you are, not as the world has wrapped you.

Unshackled of the past, you too would know the wonder of you. And then you would see Me everywhere.

The past holds you in its thrall.

The past says, "Here are your directions. Go by them. Don't lose them or you will lose your way."

I say you cannot lose your way.

The past says you must start on the starting line.

I say, wherever you are is the starting line.

The past says, "You have a long trek ahead of you, fraught with danger. In fact, you won't make it."

I say, the distance is very short. In fact, the distance is nonexistent. There is no distance to traverse. Skip over the past and you will know the truth of what I say.

The past says man will always be incomplete.

I say, you are already complete.

The past says the world will always be a mess.

I say, the past has kept too many records, too many details, and has forgotten the whole. Oh, never mind what the world says! Listen to your heart. You know you have wonders to perform. You are not just another man with the measurements of the past.

Grow to the magnificence I hold out to you.

You are My generation, and what I have generated will come to pass.

Although you are My inheritors, consider yourself My progenitors.

Step out of the concrete of the past that your feet are stuck in. Let it go. It was only a dream anyway. And now you are on the threshold of a magnificence far beyond any dream you ever dared dream.

What if the only restrictions that exist are your thought, predicated on the past, yours and others?

Have an original thought. Make a new one.

Look at life the way a tree must.

Look at life as the sun must.

Look at life as the stars must.

You are more closely in tune with marvels than you are with the thoughts passed down to you. Tune in. Listen to what I say to you.

I do not give you a pep talk, not that you don't need one.

Listen to your feelings today. Listen to what reverberates to your inner being and what does not. Listen to what lifts you out of the mire of the past and what does not. Listen to how My words make you feel. Have more of what heightens you and less of what does not. And let your words heighten another. Pull up the vibration of the world. Do not keep it cast down.

Lift your spirits. Throw off the dirges that go around in your mind.

Today raise yourself a notch. Raise yourself a notch every day and you will surmount the past. The past will have to let go of you, and you will know freedom.