Dear Choose Happy Community, It can take practice to recognize the patterns that keep us disconnected from our deeper truth. This teaching reminds us that beneath fear, limitation, and human pain, there is a capacity for unconditional love, compassion, creativity, and wholeness. We don’t have to pretend difficult emotions aren’t there. Instead, we can meet them with honesty and ask the source of unconditional love to guide us toward a different choice. Choosing truth and love is a practice we return to again and again. And each time we choose it, we create more space for healing, connection, and wellbeing to move through us. Here’s one of our favorite quotes from the video: “If I’m in contact with the pure love of my being, which is unconditional, it’s universal goodwill, it’s compassion, it’s generosity, it’s creativity, it’s the energy of wholeness and healing, it sees the human pain that humans experience, and it also sees deeper than that to their potential to come into contact with self-remembrance, with wholeness, which is present with and within them always. “It sees the ability of everyone to wake up from delusion and to remember that’s not the truth of my being. Truth is the truth of my being. And it’s actually so much more fun not to build a relationship by saying lie to me. It’s so much more fun by building a relationship in truth and in love and in honesty and in compassion and generosity and forgiveness and creativity and wellbeing. “And, you know, also I will acknowledge, I hear from a lot of people, and it takes practice. It takes willingness day after day to say, ‘I’m here. I’m here for this. I’m here to keep choosing unconditional love in the times when that’s easy and in the time when that’s really challenging, and I’ll just keep.’ “If I’m having a hard time choosing unconditional love, I’ll ask the Source of unconditional love to choose through me, and that will happen. That melts away any human patterns of thought or feeling or thinking or behavior that are limiting my ability to allow the Source of unconditional love to share unconditional love through me.” We also shared this video on YouTube, but wanted you to be able to have it on your Substack video player as well, in case you prefer that. Having it on Substack makes it easy for you to see any other podcasts, videos, articles, or full meditation services that might be available in the Healing Consciousness by clicking here. If you have heard this teaching before, we invite you — as Swami so often invites us — to hear it as if you are hearing it for the first time. 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