Why Choosing Love over Fear is a Key to a Joyful and Powerful Life

Summary

Choosing love over fear is presented as a fundamental principle for living a joyful and empowered life, with love being the key to unlocking one's creative power within the universe.

Abstract

The article posits that our existence is akin to an interactive play within the universe, where we assume multiple roles including audience, actor, writer, and producer. It suggests that both God and the Devil are symbolic representations of positive and negative experiences, and that we must recognize our own power in shaping our lives rather than attributing it externally. The text emphasizes that love and fear are choices that respectively bring us closer to or further from unity with the universe, and thus, our ability to create joyfully. By choosing love, even in the face of challenges, we align with the universe and enhance our creative power, leading to a more fulfilling life experience. The author encourages embracing gratitude and love to navigate difficult situations and to even love our fearful choices as a means to redirect our life's trajectory towards happiness and unity.

Opinions

The universe is likened to an interactive art piece where our experiences and choices shape our reality.
God and the Devil are viewed as aspects of our experience rather than external entities, highlighting the importance of personal responsibility in creation.
The author believes that all experiences, whether negative or positive, are self-created to some extent, and our responses to these experiences are within our control.
Love is seen as a unifying force that connects us with the universe, enhancing our creative power and leading to happier experiences.
Fear is considered a choice that separates us from the universe and diminishes our creative power.
The Power of Creation is intrinsically linked to our consciousness and our connection with the universe, with love being the catalyst for expanding this awareness and power.
Choosing to love, even in challenging circumstances or in reflection on past fearful choices, is seen as a powerful act that shifts momentum towards happiness and increased power.
The author suggests that while choosing negative experiences can also be an act of love and self-discovery, it is not a sustainable path to joyful living.

The Universe, God, the Devil, & the Power of Creation through Love

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What I propose is a perspective of existence; believe as much as you choose. You are, after all, the master of your universe and your choices create your experience.

I woke up this morning, after coming to some revelations about the nature of the Universe, God, and the Devil, as well as how Power really works in creation and was inspired to share. The biggest takeaway being the Power inherent to choosing Love over Fear in shaping a joyful human experience.

What is the Universe?

We are at least our universe, perhaps also the whole Universe. The Universe can be equated to a play with: audience, actors, writers, and producers. Beyond a static play, this one falls into the category of Interactive Art, where the momentary experiences shift the trajectory of the overall art piece. As an obvious experiencer and participant of our worlds, it’s easy to see how we are both the audience to, and actor of, our experiences. When our desires, for better or for worse, are made manifest, we can see our role of writer. As we come into deeper understanding that we are at least part of the whole Universe, we also see our role as producer.

What are God and the Devil?

Both God and the Devil are aspects of our experience, respectively positive and negative. Placing our power outside of ourselves, to either of these forces, takes us further from the realization that we are the Universe, and therefore further away from the power we have in creating our own life.

Are all negative and positive experiences self-created? This question is difficult to answer outright because the answer is both yes and no as we are simultaneously human and divine, with different answers depending on role. We have power as audience/actors in how we respond to experiences. We have power as writers/producers in how we create experiences. While we create at a human level, our higher level selves create on the grander scale. This understanding is key in realizing the role that choosing love in all situations, even challenges, can lead us to a happier experience.

All positive and negative aspects of life are part of our experience. While I’m slightly reluctant to use the terms positive and negative as they may imply judgement or separation, right versus wrong, good versus bad, explanation should serve to relieve this. It’s actually the realization that by not judging them, that they are different aspects of an undivided Universe, while realizing the effect that our free will choices have on our lives as art that allows for the mastery to create with joy and power.

What are Love and Fear?

Love and fear are the choices that allow us to respectively feel more connected or disconnected from the Universe. Choosing Love takes us closer to unity with the Universe and therefore gives us even more power to create. Choosing fear brings us more into separation with the Universe and gives us even less power to create our experiences. Even loving fearful past choices is not only the impetus to accept and choose differently in the present and future, but an act of love that redirects trajectory towards unity and increased power. It really is that simple.

How do we navigate challenging circumstances? Gratitude and love, for something, shifts momentum back towards happiness. Even if it’s not related to the challenging circumstance, just choosing to love something about life in the moment is both powerful and often the key to unsticking momentum. Choosing fear, especially by focusing on the challenges, does not make anything more joyful. What is fear anyway except the belief that we are not powerful?

What is the Power of Creation?

The Power of Creation is the power of the Universe, more fully realized as we realize our closer connection with the Universe. When “Expanding Consciousness” is talked about this is really an expanded awareness of our role as Consciousness. As we intentionally choose Love we move closer towards our awareness of being connected to the Universe and our Power increases.

Something to touch on is the power created from choosing negative experiences and loving that choice. This too is an act of love and will bring one closer to understanding their increased connection to the Universe. The caveat though is that this road will not bring sustained, joyful, experiences. Often this will even call in more negative ones. That is why the formula for creating joyful, authentic experiences is to lovingly choose positively.

Summary:

Choosing Love in all circumstances, even challenging ones, not only brings us happier life experiences, but gives us increased power towards creating even more happiness.