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I was afraid of a lot of things that never happened.
Worry is good for a few things I suppose: Creating physical stress in the body, shitting our pants on the bus by accident or making ourself feel like we have some sort of magic power over uncontrollable circumstances.
Worry is fear.
Worry accomplishes nothing but can make us feel like some sort of progress is happening. It is a form of negative prayer and can actually impact a situation in an undesirable way. The field is neutral and we can charge it with any kind of electricity that we choose.
What if, the world was exactly the way it was supposed to be and that everything was running smoothly? What if, this was true despite chaos, corruption and strife?
Could you accept this? Why not?
Would you rather have worry or peace?
Choosing peace is a big responsibility. We have to be diligent. It means that we do everything that we can to accept the world, make it a better place and help ease each others burdens. After that comes one of my favorite sayings: Let go and let God.
Ask yourself this: What has worrying ever accomplished in my life? The answer is simple and astounding.
For the record, I hope no one intentionally shits their pants on the bus.
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Years ago I thought it was clever to create something called: I.D.E.A.
Intelligently Designed Educational Acronyms:
SIN: Self Imposed Non-sense
SIN: Self Involved Negligence
PEACE: Practical Exercise Altering Community Experience
NORMAL: Natural Ordinary Routine Making All lethargic
ALL: Artistic Living Language
ANARCHIST: Angry Narcissistic Anti-social Rebellious Conforming Hypocritical Insecure Subversive Tyrant.
TIP: Total Infinite Potential
I didn’t say that is was a good idea per se. I just said it was an idea.
NOTE: If something about this concept moves you and you want to use the term “Intelligently Designed Educational Acronyms” then please do.
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Love is our Source.
I know our source to be infinite. We can draw from it over and over and over and over again and our source remains infinite. Good news for us. This is what I know as grace. It is as an infinite bank account that we freely give and receive from.
What this means is both simple and complex; Love is the source of both joy and pain. Joy, as in we are free to be, love, dance, work, make love, sing, smile, do nothing, do something or just simply enjoy all or any of it. Pain, as in fear; our attachment to any of it. Fear is a signal to act; whether perceived or real. Pain is also a signal.
Fear is not a source. Fear is like the shadow of light blocked by an attachment. If I stand with my back to the Sun I see a shadow cast in front of me. That is how I see fear. It is something blocking the source; an effect or result but not causal.
Love gives us fear as a gift in order to survive potentially dangerous situations. In case you hadn’t noticed, life is not all roses here. The trouble arises when our mind begins to dwell in the effect (fear) through our attachments and insecurity. It is a choice that we do not realize we are making. If we were fully aware, we would not make that choice. When fear arises I ask; what is my insecurity here? How have I come to believe that love has left the building and I must suffer? What is my attachment and why? What purpose has it served me and what would happen if I just let it go? Is it a signal from love or is it bullshit?
I have experienced life from both cause and effect and I can report that life is to be lived from the source; Love. Just so I’m not vague about this…
I’m not talking about a bio-chemical reaction in our brain. I’m not speaking about human emotion love (which is typically attachment/insecurity). I am pointing to a peace that is so perfect nothing can touch it. It is a still knowing that is so vast that it encompasses all things. It is presence in the moment. I’m acknowledging our natural state of being and suggesting that we function optimally in this state.
If this is a stretch for you then do your best to remember a moment where you felt perfectly still, at peace, with a slight smile on your face. Go back in memory and find a reference or many references and build on that. Maybe it was when you were five years old? The structure of our mind is associative and built by references. We can reprogram the mind by removing old references and implanting new ones. It is work but it is worthwhile and it is no secret.
This post is affirmation of my commitment to allow our source to flow through me unhindered or die trying.
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Forgiving to me, is about completely letting go of wrongs into the future. It is something that happens in the moment. We tend to think in terms of past behaviors when we speak of forgiving. In other words, I forgive you for this or that. I don’t feel that this is what forgiveness is about. Forgiveness is a state of being; a perpetual letting go in the moment. It is a way.
The most important one to forgive is ourselves. Until that moment occurs, we cannot move forward. This is the hardest task to do. I still struggle with it. It is easy for me to let someone walk all over me and then forgive them because I’m yet to forgive myself about something. In this case, I may feel deserving of their crappy behavior. When I truly forgive myself and let go I can then stand up to put an end to this nonsense. Forgiveness is freedom and it allows us to do the next great thing….
Giving. From a state of clarity, we can truly give of ourselves. More of us becomes available to others in a genuine way. My dream is for human beings to let go of hoarding and working to get more for themselves and instead, invest our time giving to one another. Our work could be focused around making sure that everyone is cared for. In the end, I believe that we’d find ourselves cared for more than we could imagine. I realize that this will be a challenging transistion but I do believe it necessary and possible.
We have the grace to do so.
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Tedious tasks can be daunting. This is why I love the power of intention. If I just simply intend to use these seemingly daunting tasks to bring my awareness more into the present moment then suddenly my peace increases. No longer does it seem a chore. It becomes zen and there’s nothing like a good peace increase.
Yes, cleaning toilets can be a spiritual experience and why not? Spirit is our fundamental nature. It just makes sense to apply this to everything that we do in our life. I have been enriched for practicing this. It’s like a deposit into the joy account. How much do we put in to that account during our day?
How much do we put into the worry account? How much into the fear account? How much into the love account? If we don’t think that these accounts have everything to do with the quality of our outflowing life then what do we think? I have a million dollars but I’m sad because I invest too much in the worry account. I think you catch my drift.
Today, I will take my own advice (for once) and use my tasks to invoke a greater sense of peace and well-being. Why not? What else am I going to do?
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Ignorance is just a light that has been turned off inside of someones brain.
You cannot turn it on for them. They have to do it.
The switch is accessed by compassion and empathy.
The best action that we can do for those with the switch turned off is to facilitate situations where they have the opportunity to be compassionate and empathetic. Oh wait, I think that is called ‘life’.
Still, we can encourage each other.
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When people ask you how you are and you reply “great”, that is usually where the conversation stops. If you say “terrible” as your response then people tend to inquire; “Why? What’s wrong?”. No one really ever asks you why life is so great. Our tendency is to seek out the resolve in the negative and not the positive.
This has me thinking about positives and negatives. Let’s take money as the next example. How long does it take you to create $1000? How long would it take you to spend $1000? It is way easier to go into debt quickly than it is to get out of it in our world.
It is also way easier for someone to pull you down from a great mood than it is to be pulled up from a bad one. I wonder why this is?
Gravity? Is all of this relative to the effort it takes to climb a mountain versus falling down one? Or building a house of cards relative to knocking one down? Or maintaining a lie in comparison to being truthful?
Are we in some backwards universe where the negative is magnetically stronger than the positive? How could this be when the proton is implicitly joined with the neutron core (quantum physically speaking)?
Perhaps this has to do with our perception of light and color. What I mean is that we perceive the negative in color as light is refracted. For instance, when we look at a red rose, we are not technically seeing red. We are seeing every color except red. Red is the only vibration that is not absorbed and we are witnessing what is left… the negative. Technically, it is a cyan rose.
Further, it could be amplified by television as electrons are pulled through the cathode ray system. I may be stretching on this one though. Despite all of this philosophizing, I recognize that waking up with love, embracing the world and being a source of peace takes work. This is the real work. It is so easy to get sucked (literally and magnetically) into the negative laziness of the world.
Ultimately, I am saying that being passive in this active world will consume you because electromagnetically speaking, the odds are against you. And if quantum physics has anything to do with it, then I’d further say that the odds are specifically 66.6 to 33.3.
Does anyone know what I am even talking about at this point?
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| Noun |
1. |
ism – a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
At first I thought about becoming an Ismist. This would be someone who believes in beliefs about believing, I suppose. Thank God I didn’t go down this path because beliefs can be dangerous. Detrimental at very least. They may even block one from the Truth and have one bomb their brothers for their beliefs. Ismism would end up being one dead-end after the other. It is best to free yourself and listen.
Later, I felt that it would be more appropriate to conform to Schismism. The belief in religious conundrums. I am sure that I wouldn’t be the worlds first Schismist but I would be the first to name it and proselytize a fresh batch of idiots to join the latest popular cult. I would be clever and cunning about it too. Maybe even where a half white, half black robe for effect. Perhaps, even be a lead singer or drummer of a band?
My friend Reid and I came up with the idea of creating the church of the eighth day Adventists. It would be a “new” revelation of the “truth” that God, in fact had created an eighth day and those following the seven-day week have been fooled. And of course, were destined for eternal damnation. We thought it would be fun, for effect, to both wear white and speak in unison when recruiting.
Then I seriously had to ask myself the following questions:
Why on Earth am I creating fake religions in my head? Am I that bored? Does God really want me to start recruiting fellow Schisimists? Would Schismists eventually attack Ismists? What the fuck are all of these people who profess doctrinal beliefs that are founded on peace and love doing fighting each other?
No this is not my path. I am here to observe life and participate with love.
That being said, I do still think it would be funny to start a fake religion and watch droves of fools (who I do love but realize that nothing I say will save them from themselves) march like sheep to a slaughter. The more absurd, the better.
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Emotions are like waves. Watch them ebb and flow with the tide. At times, I forget that I am the calm center and whirl about in my fears and insecurities. I have the potential for harm when I forget who I am. This harm is not intentional. It is a consequence of allowing fear to overtake my mind. Even though harm is at times a part of harmony, I choose harmony over harm every time.
The more I live, the more I learn and grow. Wisdom is like a fine wine that gets better with age. Sometimes it can be expensive.
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I found a love so great. This is still present in my life. What came with this love however is something I hadn’t anticipated. Fear. The fear of losing the love that I’ve found is at times unbearable. Such is my humanness. This is what happens when I perceive love through the filters of my emotions and insecurities.
Since this happened, each day has been a progression towards letting go with the awareness that there is a love so great, so pure and so unfathomably infinite that no fear can kill. I cultivate my faith around this truth.
Friends and family will pass away. So will I. We may get along today and you may hate me tomorrow. Knowing this, I do everything I can to be fully present with you in the moment. After all, this is all we have.
And it is enough.
I don’t require you or the world to change in order for my joy to exist and increase. This is entirely my choosing. Knowing that life here is temporary only makes me appreciate it more. I liken this to a week-long ‘get away’. The week flies by and seems like an instant. At the end of my life I may think “well that flew by. Time to go home”. Thank God my real home is awesome and I can’t wait to get back.
I have said before that the attempt at capturing freedom is like trying to grab a handful of sand under water. Experience is fleeting so letting go is our best option if we want to live with joy.
I may not personally know everyone who reads this but, I appreciate the fact that we share this moment together. My advice to you…
Smile lots and hugs someone you love today. They may not be here tomorrow.
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