Children play the games they play. Children like to play in mud. They like to play cops and robbers. They like to play hide go seek. They like to break toys. They like to build sand castles, and they like to knock them down. They like to play. Play makes sense because it is play.

As the children become adults, they continue to play games. The game they play then is called life, considered by many to be real life, and very very serious. Play is really entered into, and sometimes at all costs.

If Eternity had an opposite, life in the world would be the opposite. Certainly life in the world is temporary. The world fades, as in movies when one scene fades into another. The castles made of sand in the world, made by child or by man, will disappear in any case. And all the footprints. All is washed away in the tide of relative life.

There are states of consciousness. And each is followed exactly. Each to his own state of consciousness, beloved.

To the one who holds a particular view, his view makes sense to him, at least at the moment. To others it may make no sense at all. To the originator, it may no longer make sense, yet still sometimes he will go ahead, as if there were no point of return. The wheels are in motion, he might say, and he will not stop them, come what may. Of course, the wheels were handheld, and the motion could have been stopped with a flick of the finger. And yet some impulse of momentum kept the wheel turning in its path. A point of view once proclaimed takes an inviolability of its own and becomes public domain, as it were.

Absurdity is nothing new to you. You have known right along that there are people with too much food on their plate, and those with none, that there are those who promote kindness and yet who are unkind, that there are those who mind other people's business and do not take care of their own. There are even structures built to this concept, and government, initiated and stated to serve the people becomes its own entity and acts out the role of overseer, inspector, gainsayer, and the people become its servants.

The world is turned upside-down because love has been made secondary. Peace has been made secondary. Else how could there be war? When people come from love, there would be no need for law, so who would deign to make them? From harmony, laws do not arise. Love does. Love cannot be mandated, and yet love is the power and the glory, and love is Mine.

You recall that the word "love" as I use it is not prettified. The love I speak of is a state of consciousness. The world is seen through the consciousness of love, and the world appears in a different cast. Oh, to see the world through the eyes of love! Seen through the eyes of love, the world forgives itself for its infractions against itself.

The world is working out its kinks. And you are here on Earth to help undo the knots. Love has been tied up in knots. The knots will be loosened. No matter how entangled, knots disappear. They appear so they will also disappear.

Love walks the Earth. Love is not unknown. It's just that not enough of it is known. There is more love to be known. It is waiting behind the curtains, just waiting for its cue to come out. It is ready when you are.

I think you are ready. I think you are ready to love the world, and so make sense of it.