“To focus on Christ is to focus on the GOODNESS and POWER latent within us in order to bring them to fruition and expression. What you focus on is what you get in life. Focusing on the Light leads us to the Light. Very few of us were taught that we were essentially good. Very few of us felt unconditionally approved of, that we were valuable, because of who we were, not because of what we did. We lost our sense of our own power. And we learned fear, the fear of not being right if we were who we really were. In this absence of Love, we slowly but surely began to lose all our means……. Since we have been taught since we were children that we are finite, separate beings, it is very difficult for us to return to Love. Love resembles a VOID (an anagram of DIEV, God in Greek) that threatens to engulf us. It swallows up our little SELF, our sense of identity; we feel as if we would die if we lost this little SELF, the fruit of our EGO. In reality, what dies is the spirit of fear so that the Love within us may have a chance to BREATHE and BE REBORN.
A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson