Anguish in the heart is a foreign object. The heart is not the home of anguish. Anguish has no home. It does not have to lodge in your heart at all. Anxiety and anguish are vagabonds. They will land wherever they are made welcome. Be hospitable to love but not to anguish. You do not have to cosset anguish or any of its relatives. When you allow your heart to fill with love, there is no room for foreign matter.

Your heart is a welcoming instrument. It is not meant to conceive of anguish. Anguish is felt when you close off your heart. You interpret events and people and life in ways that squeeze your heart and rub at it as if with sandpaper. There is no good reason for your heart to feel rough or to clank shut or huddle within itself. What is the advantage of it?

Nor is your heart meant to be an open wound. It is meant to be an open heart. Anguish and anxiety are only sludge to your heart. We could say that they are the undigested food of your heart. Feed your heart well. Feed it what it can digest, and that is love. Your heart is meant to absorb love. Not to be wrung out with woe. Let your heart make a lot of love and little or nothing of anything else. Love is the cream of life. Pour it down.

Your heart does not have to be affronted by this or that. Your heart is really too important. Anxiety is a false front. It is presumed. Anxiety is a message sent by ego.

Ego would detract you from love. Ego rubs you raw and blames it on someone or something. Ego is like the toreador with his cloak, and your heart the bull. You would think that after a while, you wouldn't fall for ego.

Ego would instruct you on how things should be. And then tell you to adhere to its standards. Ego tells you that you are not important in life and that you must insist on being so. The fact is you are already tremendously important in life. You are the pivotal point — you don't have to be the focus. You are the linchpin through which all goes around and through. Ego would tell you that you have become a cog in the wheel and that you or something must be fixed. That is one of ego's rules.

Beloveds, if rules are meant to be broken, then break the rules the ego has hoodwinked you with. The truth is that you are so vital and so important that the ego's tomfoolery is beneath you. Ego is full of prattle. You have listened to it a thousand times.

Anxiety would seek to appease the ego. Anxiety, a by-product of ego, tells you that something is amiss. To all intents and purposes, from ego's vision and the world's, it is. But when is there greater need for awareness of love than when you have been convinced that you are beset with flying gnats in the guise of problems?

Awareness of love is in opposition to ego's creed.

Take sides today. Stand over here with Me on the side of love. Transcend ego. Yet there are no sides to take. I am not on a side. I am full-front center. In fact, I am all-encompassing. There are no sides whatsoever. All you have to do is to stand up where in truth you already stand.