Love Always
mudra
Lazaris suggests that before we try to contact the Higher Self we spend some time on Seven Steps of working on the everyday Self. And the first step, he says, is Love.
Acknowledging that this need to learn Love — especially love of self — will be received by many as a cliché he quips, "Well, we suppose we could say the Sacred Journey begins with covering your body with mustard and ketchup. That would satisfy your ego — you certainly have not heard that before! [But we] are not here to entertain your negative ego. ... The truth is a cliché because it is the truth."
Lazaris says that Love is both a feeling and a state of consciusness, a skill that you can learn and explore. "Love is also an ideal. It is a state of awareness, a state of being or consciousness that you are always seeking. Though you will never fully embrace the totality of Love, in your search, while you stretch and reach, you become more and more of the ideal you pursue. You become more and more the very Love you seek."
The end of seeking is seeing life as it is, beyond the story, which always happens now.
The end of seeking is identical with the presence that you already are, the presence in which all thought-constructed narratives about 'seeking' and a projected 'end of seeking' appear.
Seeing life as it is, is identical with the seeing through of this presently-arising seeking illusion (which we call the seeker).
The end of seeking is not in the future - it is right here in the present seeing-through of the seeker, which is the seeing-through of time itself.
The seeker is time.
The seeing-through of time - and the seeker - is not itself in time. It is not a 'special event'. It is right here, in and as this presence. It is most ordinary. And in that ordinariness, extraordinary.
The seeker doesn't do this seeing. It is the seeker who is seen. "By WHOM"? There is only that question, and it too is seen.
You don't need a 'special event' to for this to be the case. It is already the case - that is the point.