When will you forgive yourself
for the years you spent
being angry at things
you could not control?
Burn your human needs away
The layers of person issues
about how others have failed you
Parents, friends, society
And you as well
Your false belief
That you are not good enough.
What’s left?
Zero.
Now start from there.
Love is the highest form of appreciation
occupying a special space in every action
of every person in every society.
It is a paradox, true and pure
when there is no thought of it.
hidden until we stop searching.
lost when we announce it.
Intangible, deeper than feeling,
it is presence.
Did it evolve with the mind?
Dormant in the child
unconscious until the mind recognized the “I”
And once defined, dissolving back into the unconscious.
Love is intrinsic
It is seeded in you, an art taught by those who love.
taught by loving, not by teaching.
Love is without expectation, without fear
not waiting for approval, or reciprocation. It just is.
The essence of being.
Regulating love negates it.
It doesn’t run from a tap,
It isn’t controlled by a lever.
Love precedes time and space
A bold claim, but let’s see:
It has no border, it is dimensionless, timeless.
Love runs in the same existential channel as life.
Ingrained in every object, every action, every feeling, even hate
The symbols of love that we choose
are pale and empty in comparison
Rings and declarations:
I love you,
it comes with an expectation, hangs in the air
Considered a commodity, a mistaken fair trade.
Marriage is another symbol, a serious statement,
A religious and political agreement
confused by a contract, a recorded legal document.
Commitment to a partnership of love.
Yet it requires none.
Love is the highest form of gratitude
It transcends objects, and actions, and words
Love is a value of your being.
I am valuable
I am valued
I am being.
A sacred miracle, in human form.
Love is a descriptive word which fails to describe.
It is the ultimate, it contains everything.
It is the beginning and the end.
I am love.
Full stop.
Blessed is the spirit of Christ
—so powerful that 2,000 years after
leaving the body, this light shines today
throughout the world.
May all who hold inside their heart
the true desire for freedom,
come swiftly to the recognition
of the pure Self and
be timelessly happy.
Wherever you are, may Grace wash away
the trivia that distract you.
May all who meet you on the path of life
be transformed through this encounter.
May they be so touched by your light,
peace and joy,
that they are compelled to search
within themselves to find the light
that they see in you.
Let this Freedom be contagious,
let this Love be contagious,
let this Truth be contagious.
This is your true responsibility
—to live out the fullness of your Being.
Merry Christmas!
(From Mooji on https://www.instagram.com/p/DEC3qglueob/)
My breath is simple and yet has much behind it, hundreds of thousands of concurrent operations synchronized together. The mind witnesses these automatic processes. And when it is added to our human being, our biological existence becomes a divinity, a conscious awareness of its existence.
The mind is the curse of knowledge, the punishment of a god for our curiosity. It is the mind which makes us strive beyond to find what could be, because we can never be satisfied with what is. So we reach out for more knowledge, more control, and more satisfaction.
But we already know too much. We know a most terrifying fact. We know our own mortality, and so we can never truly rest, until the end of our existence.
Pills
Alcohol
“Plant” medicine.
We have a consumption society
It has set up a temptation-filled environment
Which makes it easier to take something
Acquire something, add something, ingest, and consume.
Rather than realize that you’re ok the way you are
And the tools you already have:
Your mind and body
are a much more powerful technology
Than anything else in the world
For you to use to live your life.
We all subconsciously know that we don’t have control of life. We have some daily control, but it becomes very little as we get to the big things.
However much we try to ignore it, this awareness resides inside all of us. And it’s the reason why we are insecure.
It can result in trouble with daily functioning and productivity.
It can also result in seeking distractions with “feel goods” like alcohol, weed, pharmaceuticals, sex and relationships, food, and powerful titles, like PhD, VP, MD, or guru.
Insecurity can also push me into constant activity….producing, building and acquiring.
But all of us are grappling with knowing that we lack ultimate control.
This is our shared experience. Making sure I am ok, that I’m good enough, that I’m worthy. Seeking reassurance that I’m doing enough for myself and my tribe.
One thing brings absolute peace to this anxiety:
The realization that there’s nothing you need to do, nothing you must have, and no one to chase.
You are good enough just being human. In fact, you are a sacred miracle.
This conscious realization is profound.
Once you glimpse it…even for a moment, you will gain control over your life.
Not control over what happens. But control over how you live it:
Suffering or Peace is your choice.
Can you imagine living another life? Not a human life. A worm life, a spider life, a dog life.
The human experience is unique. True, we don’t actually know the inner thoughts of a worm, or spider, or dog. But it doesn’t matter in order to realize how special being human is:
You are having this sensory experience, of sight and taste and sound and touch. Along with thoughts and emotional reactions to everything around you and inside you.
But there’s one more thing in our human experience, and it goes beyond these things.
It’s the one thing that might separate us from everything else. It’s the sacred part, the divine part. And when you get full access to this, without the distractions of the senses and thoughts and emotions: You have tapped into the eternal. You have become fully conscious.
And once you’ve seen this light, you can spread its good word. Because there is a lot of unconscious being in the world. An insanity which doesn’t see individual human beings in one shared experience. Rather it sees groups: us versus them.
This unconscious insanity comes out of a simple instinct. The automatic animal instinct to survive. The instinct of fear. Because I, and you, become fearful when everyone else isn’t the same as us. If you’re not in our tribe, in agreement with us, then you’re the enemy.
Consciousness reveals this insane fear. It reveals all the instinctual emotions that have pulled us out of our deeper being.
Time to show people the way back. One human at a time. There is no other way to have a revolution. It starts with individuals, each one waking up, light bulbs flaring on.
The only other option is force, with rules and quotas. Good-intentioned authorities, using the threat of punishment, so that we, the people, can be forced to live cooperatively, instead of choosing to do so ourselves.
Idealism. The feeling of “not good enough”.
It makes me suffer. It will make you suffer. It makes individuals suffer.
But when idealism and perfectionism is applied to a whole society, we approach disaster.
Through government laws, controls, and war, idealism will cause suffering to millions. And it will destroy us all.
There are no solutions to make life fair; there are only trade-offs.
If I see the world as filled with bad guys and good guys, as a place of injustice that must be eradicated, then I’m creating a recipe for disaster.
Progress is good. Progress toward perfection is not.
And there’s no need to be perfect.
You’re good enough just the way you are.
One attitude is about tearing other people down to help myself and my group.
The other attitude is about empowering myself and everyone around me.
When you listen to people, notice whether they’re more complaining about others, or if they’re more empowering others.
You’ll quickly see through the BS.
Which reveals the two motivations of humanity.
And then decide which side you’re on.
The highest level of self-awareness: Knowing that you are a god in temporary human form.
But time moves so slowly that our human process, from conception to dissolution, is known but less appreciated.
While our time passes quickly…and there is the paradox:
Gods unaware of their own experience.
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