Releasing the self-knot

Forgiveness, atonement, salvation,  enlightenment—these synonymous terms signify nothing more than the restoring to your mind of what is already in it.

You cannot, by meditating on your problem, find release from it...you must release the need to dwell upon this self-knot, which is in no ways fundamental to your being, but only an artificial imposition upon it.

You are free and enlightened, as you naturally are, as you were created! Awakening is nothing more than recognizing That which is always already the case and training the awareness to continually abide in It. But this cannot be done through effort, which is more of the same struggling to undo the knot by tightening it. You cannot get there from here. You need to rise above this battleground, and then it is clear that you need no protection from it at all. You have no knot to loosen, it was just an optical-delusion of consciousness. See that temptation is nothing more than a tightening of the knot, a projection onto the world outside, reflecting an internal wish that things be other than they are, and which your control is needed to assert your fantasy and make it "real". Yet fantasies, whether merely dreamed of or seemingly carried out, do not become other than what they are. No reality can be found in them, and it is only reality that can satisfy you. Rest content in the knowledge that reality is here and now, and very easily obtained. You need merely withdraw your projections on the world, and accept that whatever happens from here on, you will remain rooted in the acceptance that all things are working together for good. That reality is, fundamentally, good. And by inhering in that awareness, you will be brought to the recognition that there is no part of creation that is not good...there is an infinite play and diversity of forms, and it is all necessary to bring humanity to the point of awakening. And when you stumble, practice self-forgiveness. You will never untie the knot by beating yourself up about its existence. 

You will come to know that God has not abandoned the Child He loves, by not abandoning your brother, whom you love. His hand remains outstretched for you to take, had you the willingness to raise your eyes and see him in a different light than the dark and obscuring one you held him in before. Lifting the veil, behold your brother: savior of the world, the holy Child of God, come to save you of the sin you saw in him, before the light had come to set you both free.