Close The Door To Lies
And if they get in, throw them out.
When our front doorbell rang, I was surprised. When I answered the door and a young man I had never seen before stood there, I was surprised again.
I was once again surprised when he tried to sell me magazine subscriptions to support himself and his children.
However, what continued to surprise me was that he tried every emotional and psychological trick in the book. No matter what I said, he always had the perfect answer.
“What right does he have to be standing there?” I thought with profound indignation.
“At least when spam arrives in my mailbox, I can delete it, but how do I get a person to leave?”
Finally, I told him I would close the door, which I knew might feel rude, but what he was doing was even more disrespectful, if not dangerous.
I shut the door, locked it, and he left.
Of course, we know that what appears in our outside world always provides information about what we perceive to be true.
It is our point of view, state of mind, and subjective experience.
So, what did I learn from this situation?
Wasn’t the ringing of the doorbell and my willingness, without caution, to open the door to someone I didn’t know precisely how dualist worldview thinking arrives at our mental doorstep?
Isn’t its goal to sell us on the game it wants us to play?
Doesn’t it use the subtle tactics of loss, guilt, judgment, and deception to get us to agree to buy what it is selling?
I didn’t invite him in, make him a guest in my home, or cherish his presence.
However, we often invite the worldview perception of lack and dualism into our mental home. We make it a guest, and we frequently cherish its presence.
We do this for several reasons.
We perceive it as part of our existence, believe that it has substance and authority, are used to its behavior and outcomes, and think we must accept it as reality. We aren’t.
Nevertheless, once in our home, it may appear challenging to get it to leave.
Most of us have difficulty cleaning physical objects from our homes that we no longer need or don’t even like.
Cleaning out lies from our mental home can sometimes feel even harder.
It takes training, practice, and an acknowledgment that what the worldview claims is not reality and that its entire existence is based on our acceptance and even cherishing of what it gives and takes.
I said I was surprised by the man at the door’s arguments but was not persuaded.
As I remained objective and calm, I could easily see the intentional manipulation being applied.
This made it easier to shut and lock the door, reminding me that opening the door in the first place was not a good idea. I was grateful that it had been such a gentle reminder.
Stay objective and calm as you listen to the very loud, very aggressive, and constant knocking on the door of your mental home.
If you answer the door by mistake, do not invite the worldview, point of view, or state of mind into your living room.
Don’t accept it as a cherished guest if it is already sitting there. Firmly and without guilt or fear, demand that it leave and lock the door behind it when it does.
Home is not a locality. It is a point of view and state of mind.
In our homes, we would want to honor and cherish the qualities that make up our awareness of the infinite intelligence of Love.
We want guests who possess patience, understanding, wisdom, security, nurturing, and possibility.
As we cherish these qualities, we will be less likely to be deceived into opening our mental door to the aggressive knocking of the messages of the worldview’s point of view of lack and its constant companion, fear.
Without our agreement to its lies, it will vanish into the nothingness from whence it came.
As its noise and delusionary mist dissolve, we will see more clearly each day the truth that our home has been and always will be in heaven, where all that is present is the infinite grace of divine Love.
But don’t wait. Do it now.
Our obsessive vigilance and action against the intruder are needed now more than ever.
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