In the story of our lives, who are the protagonists, and who are the antagonists? Are you the protagonist, the hero, in your story? Or are you actually an antagonist, the perennial "bad guy" in your life who always gets in your own way? Is your partner a protagonist? How about your children, or your boss? Political figures? Who are the "bad guys" in your plot? Who is "good?"

We inherently believe that our world is composed of opposites. Everything can be defined into categories, such as good and bad or right and wrong. It feels comforting because when we apply a label to something, we think we know how to deal with it. If we can dump something into the "bad" category, then we don't have to worry about it, acknowledge it, or even consider it as an option. Labels allow us to be lazy.

Of course, the main problem with labels is that they aren't true. We just believe that they are. Nothing is inherently "bad;" therefore, nothing is inherently "better" than something else, either. The reason for this is simple:  there is nothing you can see, imagine, or conceive of that isn't a part of God, of the One Divine Source. Nothing is outside of God. The act of labeling something or someone is equivalent to saying that one part of God is superior or inferior to another, and this is just not possible. Either ALL of God is worthy and divine, or none of it is. There is no separation between anything.

If there is no separation, why do we persist in the belief that we are separate? We do it by design, because this life is a game. We wanted to know if we could fool ourselves into believing in our own separation. And we could! We created the belief in our ego, and our ego is capable of believing in the impossible:  that a part of God can be judged to be different than another part.

We judge constantly. This person or thing is wrong, that person or thing is right, this is good, that is not. These judgments reflect our beliefs, and our beliefs create our reality. Our minds are incredibly powerful, because they are a part of the God mind. When we think, we create. So to heal this belief in duality, we must train our minds to view the world another way—a non-dualistic way. To borrow a lesson from A Course in Miracles, we must recognize that, "I have given everything I see in this room (or on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning that it has for me." If we label something as "bad," then we have given it that meaning. It doesn't mean that it is true.

Our world is changing, and the game we are playing is being "upgraded" to remove the duality element. We'll all have to start again at Level 1 and learn how this new game works. The story of our lives will continue. It will still be entertaining, fun, and suspenseful. But it will be different. Who are you without your antagonists? How much do you rely on being defined by what your antagonists are not, than by who you are? Can you envision a story that has no antagonist in it, anywhere? Can you imagine a plot that has no conflict? Are you ready to drop all of your labels?

When we can look past our labels—Democrat, Republican, black, white, male, female, Christian, Muslim, right, wrong—we will be able to see one another as we truly are:  worthy, loved, Divine. God would literally be diminished without each and every one of us. That's how important we are.

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