We are each other's saviors

 Imagine waking up on your honeymoon morning --
 perhaps from a deep sleep, or even a bad dream --
 to find the loving gaze of your true lover. You
 certainly would be very happy to awaken into such
 a beautiful reality, wouldn't you? In that case, your
 partner is drawing you into a higher level of awaking
 even as they lie there with you, gazing lovingly at
 you. No words can describe the value of being seen
 and loved in that way.

 By loving, by appreciating the true Self of others,
 you create for them the same happy heart-heaven
 into which you awakened that honeymoon morning.
 In exactly that manner in which you were drawn into
 love by being seen in love, you draw others into love.
 You draw them into a higher level of awakening by
 the love you give.

 We are all each other's saviors -- at least, we can
 be. The title "savior" may sound grandiose, but in
 fact, to the extent that we have rejected illusion in
 ourselves, and to the extent that we have accepted
 the responsibility to hold onto Reality, we become
 saviors by virtue of those choices. Our mind is such.
 Our radiance is such. Our certainty is such. Our
 loving is such.

 The right way to relate to our fellow human beings
 is by giving love and true recognition. Take respon-
 sibility to be generous with energy and light. That
 giving is, in itself, our liberation from illusion, our
 salvation AND our saviorhood, all rolled into one.
 Advancement or elevation into "savior" status de-
 pends ENTIRELY on that love-commitment, that
 loving focus, that love-holding, that love-giving,
 that love-living, that continuing to be the light.
 The recognition -- the seeing of the Being. Only
 true and appreciative seeing reminds both the
 seer and the seen of who they are.

 So you see, it is not that you become a savior by
 withdrawing from the world entirely, by going to a
 cave in isolation for long periods of time. In reality,
 quite the opposite is the case. You become a savior
 just as much by the way that you hold your con-
 sciousness during the course of your ordinary living
 as you do by the way that you hold it in prayerful
 seclusion.

 The awesome work of avatars, bodhisattvas, saints,
 sages, parents, lovers, and friends throughout time
 has always been this: to resonate the truth for
 those who otherwise would not strongly feel it;
 to offer Reality-awareness in the face of delusional
 consciousness; to remain hot in the chill. This is
 what avatarhood, bodhisattvahood, sainthood,
 motherhood, fatherhood and friendship are ALL
 about. Until all sentient beings have been liberated,
 until then there will be avatars, bodhisattvas, saints,
 moms, dads, and there will be friends. GOOD friends
 are those who hold that candle for us.

 However, all too often, what happens is that would-
 be bringers of higher consciousness allow them-
 selves to deviate from the higher conviction that is
 so helpful and necessary. For example: Imagine you
 have a friend who really thinks they are an absolute
 loser, doomed -- and you try to convince them
 otherwise. Really, the effectiveness of that conver-
 sation depends, in part, upon your ability to main-
 tain your own conviction on the matter. Sometimes,
 you'll labor along for an hour or two trying to con-
 vince your friend that they're okay, but then there
 comes a point where you begin to believe their
 bleak story. Some of your zeal, your optimism, be-
 gins to deflate. You feel discouraged. You begin to
 think that perhaps they ARE a loser. Oh, dear! The
 teacher has been taught, but the student has not.

 Obviously, blowing hot and cold is not very helpful.
 If one is to be a good influence, one must remain
 so. The way that saviors stay warm within a chilled
 and chilling reality -- a reality that is always tending
 to share its delusion with you and thereby chill your
 own vibration -- is through not buying into the chill,
 but remembering and seeing the other IN SPITE OF
 IT. That's the challenge of motherhood, fatherhood,
 avatarhood, bodhisattvahood. It's the challenge of
 friendship -- at least, of GOOD friendship.

 All progress lies in the combination of the rejection
 of illusion and the acceptance of Reality. That is how
 one enhances one's effectiveness as a salvatory
 influence in the sphere of relationship. That is our
 essential responsibility as parents, lovers, and friends.
 And the discharge of that responsibility depends on
 our will -- our will to do so, to be so, to live and love
 so.

The writer of this article, Amadon, is the founder of the Living Love Fellowship. If you want to read more of his writing, visit the Soul Progress website.