A Course in Love & Healing 
 
Lesson 25

Rising to Your
Absolute Magnitude

By Dr. Scott Peck & Shannon Peck 
Co-Founders, TheLoveCenter
 

How high can Love go? No limit!

What is the magnitude of your life? How bright & big is your radiance?

When we measure stars, for example, we measure them by the magnitude of their brightness. Imagine for a moment what your life would be like if you lived at your fullest magnitude. What would that look like and what would be the effect on the universe?

Much like a night gives place to the beauty and power of a single star’s brightness, each of us has the capacity to illumine the universe with our gifts.

We each came with gifts such as nurturing, healing, visioning, creating, building, uniting, humor, music, enthusiasm, communication, calmness, and infinitely more. You can discover your gifts by observing what gives rise to your innermost passions or the best words people use to describe you. Your gifts are immeasurable, incalculable, and enormously healing.

Now imagine how Love defines your magnitude. Love’s view of your magnitude might be labeled Absolute Magnitude – your ultimate illumination of Love. So the real question is, ‘How close are you right now to shining at your Absolute Magnitude?”

It is Soul’s design that each of us rise to our Absolute Magnitude and fully utilize our gifts. Mentally hold this place and be willing to release all that would hold you back, such as inner resistance. You might, of course, ask, “Why would anyone resist something so wonderful as realizing the full potential of their life’s magnitude?”

Resistance is subtle. It shows up with inner talk such as: “This concept of me is too big. I’m not that worthy. Who am I to have such radiance? What if I fail and disappoint people – or myself?” Resistance also shows up where your intellect argues with your heart. It complains, “I just don’t understand all this!” We further resist by holding our Highest Self at bay until we see “how” we’re supposed to carry it out.

Overcome such resistance by releasing the “how” and simply radiating the magnitude of love in your caring heart. Begin imagining how wonderful you will feel living at one with your Absolute Magnitude. Be mindful not to judge your mission as being too big, too hard, or to discount yourself as unqualified.

Imagine your brilliance equal to a heavenly star expressing the light of Love with full-scale brightness. Imagine radiating your compassion, understanding, patience, gentleness, and caring love to such a degree that you are a healing presence to the entire universe!

As you hold to the magnificence of this wonderful expression of yourself, please know that there will be times you may doubt all this to be true. You will even be sad that it seems distant or unlikely. You will have times when you lose your faith, telling yourself this is just something your ego dreamed up so you would feel valuable. These are merely emotional times when your old self is trying to go home and is disturbed that it cannot find its old resting places. The old, familiar place where you once thought you belonged no longer exists for you. 

You are not lost. You are not even confused. You are still on track. Such times are a way mark to remind you to drop the burden of being your old self. Allow yourself to rise to your true self, qualified to be at your Absolute Magnitude of Love at all times, including now. Gently remind yourself that you are capable of navigating through life changes with comfort and thoughtful wisdom and not through emotionalism. Sit quietly within your magnificent self. Sweetly begin to occupy your light, your brightness of love, your absolute magnitude.

In the magnitude of your Love light, there are no shadows, no darkness. Your light is a law to darkness to transform it. Within this space of  light is the enormity of your gifts and their immense value and necessity to Life’s ultimate design for you and for us all. When you think of your life in terms of brightness think also in terms of radiating your brightness.

Come out from timidity and be all you were created to be. The universe needs your brightest love – and now. Dare to be as BIG as you truly are! We are all in this together. Step into your light. Your light encourages other’s light. Do you feel the universe enlightening up? We so need your light. Welcome to the heart of Love!