The peace of God lies within us. It is us. Our essence, our true ‘I’-ness, can never be threatened, it always is, we always are, I AM. Everything else changes constantly and therefore is not ultimately real. To claim this peace that we are, we must re-identify with that which is real, that which is us, I AM.
Imagine wearing a futuristic pair of VR glasses that provide an experience of virtual-reality that’s as real as it can get. With those glasses on, our body could be sitting somewhere and not moving at all. The experience due to the glasses could have us hurtling through a tunnel, in a fast moving car that’s avoiding going out of control on an icy road. After just a little while it would be easy to forget that we have these fancy glasses on. And it would be easy to completely slip into the character that we are, within that VR world. While still seated on a piece of furniture our entire world within the VR could be topsy-turvy, violent and very colorful.
Someone within the VR might ask us, ‘Where is Reality?’ How might we respond to that question? What do we have to do to re-discover reality? Do we really want to exit the VR? Some questions to ponder as we ruminate on our life on this planet and at this point in Time and Space…
And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. T. S. Eliot
We decided to get out there and explore. And so we did. It’s been a very long time and now we’re weary and have had enough. But we’ve lost our way, we don’t know where home is. Home is here, right where we started, and right now. The journey, the adventure we undertook was real in Time and in Space. But our home is beyond these two, beyond all concepts, in the timeless Now, in the very presence of All That Is.
What we truly want is what we experience in our lives. When we realize that this world and its experiences will never truly satisfy us, we are then ready to rediscover the truth that we are. We will begin to experience peace, love, joy and happiness when we desire truth more than anything else.
We live and actively participate in a grand and illusory drama. The only way out is to become still and allow our wild egoic-mind to come to a stop. Then the peaceful and joyous center, that’s already there, makes itself known. That’s who we are. When that original self becomes dominant in our lives we’re ready to spread and share that loving-joy with those around us. That’s the only way to change our own world and the planet.
The body, the ego or who we think we are doesn’t awaken. What we are is the light within. This light eventually envelopes its body-ego under certain conditions. And that is an awakening, the larger subsumes the smaller, the part that thought it was on its own collapses into its parent.
Oft repeated but seldom fully understood, Reality (truth) can only be found in the experience of the present. And while we experience the present we disappear, there are no thoughts either. There’s just the experience of what’s going on. To experience the present in this fashion is the only way to experience it.