Cloudscape

Love, in its earliest form, still as a germ, usually inevitably comes with attachment, and so fear, and ultimately hatred for anything that threatens that which we are attached to, and these remain until our love has become perfected. Usually, it is only if our love grows steadily, so that it grows already being close to perfection, it does not cause attachment. Attachment arises when our love grows faster than we can deal with.

Perhaps we can so see the evil within us, in the form of fear and hate, at least in part, as a good sign. It means that we are growing, and that we are growing fast. That we hate means that we love, and that we love so much that we are prepared to make the sacrifice of suffering for it. When we make this sacrifice, we must bear it, however, and not impose it upon others; it is our own burden. Others did not choose to share in it.

It is, in fact, easy to get rid of all suffering, but only if one gives up one's love. Love, once found, however, is so strong that one rarely finds the force to dispose of it again, unless one has descended into extreme tendencies of self-destruction, such as drug addiction.

Life is as hard as you are willing to make it. Life will never be easy unless you make it so. Remember this when you are suffering. It is the cross you bear to love. You can always be freed of it if you give up that love, and stop caring about anything in unfeeling emptiness. To suffer, until you are perfected, is your own choice.

Suffering, it itself, is not necessary to grow. But nonetheless, that we are suffering means that we are growing. It means that we have not given up, and that we are trying. For failure is always also a sign of success.

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Change and Sameness

The only thing that you can perfect is your awareness of the perfection in and of the universe. To be fully aware of all perfection in the universe would, however, require infinite consciousness.

If God doesn't do anything, that is because he is in acceptance of all things. If he were to remove that side of the universe we find unacceptable, it would be incomplete. But as all things have a value, he would let them all be.
In God’s eyes all is perfect; complete yet incomplete, and complete in that it includes incompletion. In His perception even the most horrible things are wonders of nature. For God sees not the need to change it, as in its infinity, it is already complete. Indeed, changing it would make it incomplete, as it would impair its diversity. In this Universe everything is - from infinite happiness to infinite suffering. To us, this is hard to accept the latter, and why God allows it to happen. But to take it away would make the Universe less whole.
Life is a theater: we are the actors, God is our audience. That is the only reason we are here, struggling and suffering - the actors can get off stage once the play is over. And just like we find ourselves to appreciate the pain we perceive in tragedies, God appreciates the pain it perceives in our lives - even though God experiences it more than we do ourselves; for God is more subject to life than life itself.
God, in His omniscience, does not only know all, but also feel all; he experiences our lives not as an observer, but just as we do ourselves. Indeed, he lives our lives infinitely more than we do ourselves. And yet, God chooses not to change it.
He feels all our emotions - and feels them far more than we do, or even imagine to do. For everything we experience, and infinitely more, God experiences as well - in infinity: from joy to sadness, God feels all we feel - for God is with us at any time, even in our darkest moments.

Look ahead and see the light. This is it, what for thousands of years scientists, poets, mystics and philosophers have sought for. This what Christianity called Theosis, what Buddhists called Nirvana, what Pierre Teilhard Du Chardin called Point Omega, what Vernor Vinge called the Singularity. This is what civilization has strived for since its birth; for even without ever knowing that it was its destination, slowly but surely it had always been sailing toward it. This is the completion of all of the universe, where the perfection of omniscience and omnipresence awaits.