Do We Need To Do Penance?

 The paradox appears again with the belief that somehow we are incomplete, not whole, and there is something we need to do - some action, some healing, some penance - to become complete. We are bombarded with this conditioning by many sources such as a society which tells us to go through this program or use this device to become smarter or more attractive, by western religion which tells us we have to do this penance to bring favor from God or get in heaven. 

Nothing could be further from the Truth as these are all false things of the world. Yes, you may have an illness that needs addressing through the means of the world, but all conditions are temporary, even if it is an illness that you have for your whole life. Everything is temporary because our life in this earth reality is temporary. So while we are here, we are like a wave that arises from the ocean with many smaller variations within that larger wave (our temporary states we experience while here), only for the larger wave to crash back and become absorbed into the ocean - Jesus said he and the Father were one, and the same holds true for “you.” When we hold this experience of being both the wave and one with the ocean, we understand that it is impossible for us to be incomplete or not whole. We do experience conditions that appear (variations in the wave) to need addressing, and we may need to address them with the means of the world to some extent, but this doesn’t take away our unity and wholeness. It doesn’t take away the inherent perfection that we are as a part of God.