We spend our entire waking life in our minds, thinking and manufacturing thoughts. Our thoughts give us our identity. Our thoughts also guarantee and underscore the mental suffering that we’re so good at birthing. One day we will all realize that our mind is actually our biggest foe. And that our true identity is deeper within. With that realization comes the peace, contentment, happiness and fulfillment that we ever seek.
The Ego is our thinking mind. And it loves to think. It thinks about the future, it thinks about the past and yes it even thinks about the present! It says things like ‘Wow, what a beautiful flower’ or ‘This weather sucks, why isn’t the Sun out?’ And whenever the Ego thinks, we can’t ever be fully present in the Now. If we notice we’ll realize that we are not the ego. We are not the thinking mind. Who are we then? Hint: Don’t use the ego (the thinking mind) to answer this question!
We’re divine children. We live in God’s house. We’re always safe. We matter. We can live unafraid if we so choose. We have siblings. We have a lot of loving to do.
We live selfish lives. And therefore are destined to suffer endlessly. To have eternal life, we must learn to collaborate with and be guided by Life. Life = God = The Universe = The Divine. There’s a divine plan for everything and everybody. We in our selfish little ways can never know what’s good for us let alone know what’s good for the entire world. So we must stop trying to hang-on to life, we must learn to let go and as they say ‘Let God’…
The spiritual practice that gives us the biggest bang for the buck is acceptance. When we’re open and accepting we’re nicely positioned to receive guidance from the Divine. It’s the only ‘trick’ we need to be in grace…
Only love and loving matter. It’s our sure connection to God. The only way to be safe in this world. It’s the antidote to fear. A guarantor of great relationships. It’s the only guide we need. Let’s stay as conduits to God’s love by being love itself…
To find our way, to know ourselves, to live with purpose and to be genuinely fulfilled we must be centered on ourselves. Not in a selfish, egoistic way, no. But in a fully-present, mindful and being-fullness way. And then we’ll find that we’re indeed the center of the world and that we have nowhere to go and nothing really left to do. All destinations come to us and whatever needs to be done, somehow gets done. Life flows. Life is good and all is well.