Author: ratnadyer

Forgive yourself. No one gets things right 100 percent of the time. You deserve as much compassion as anyone else.

We are allowed to be human. We are allowed to be here to learn. We are all worthy of compassion.

When we empty ourselves out, we can be filled with life itself. We can rest in the beauty of what is here.

Wisdom does not belong to anyone.
It is part of life, all around and yet passing and moving. Sometimes fleeting, sometimes seemingly stable.

If we think we can claim or grasp wisdom, it is like a wind between leaves, it comes and goes as it pleases. It can be like sand between our fingers.

No one owns wisdom. It is like a cat.. if we hold too tightly it will jump off our lap, if we think we own it, it will let us know in no uncertain terms that it is it’s own creature.

We can merge in wisdom’s beauty and yet we must relinquish our entire identity to reside fully in its house. There is no me or you there. There is no individual left to be wise.

Where is your orientation?
What is your direction?
What is your motivation?
How are you relating in this moment?

Self love takes many forms. We don’t always know what the right thing is for us at the time, but we certainly know when something feels wrong. Listening to the answers found within requires a kind of attuned attention. A spaciousness inside where we can sense how we are interacting with life.
This is often where life can unfold in a new way.

All war is caused by belief.

Belief in ownership, belief in difference, belief in entitlement, belief in an idea, belief in religion, belief in grandiosity, belief in fear, belief in personal identity.

Belief is the bases of all division.

We can have endless ideas, and all sorts of things can come into our mind, but it’s not unless we believe a thought that it is given any power.

A kettle cannot boil unless it is plugged in and switched on. We plug an idea in by giving it attention (conscious or unconscious), we switch it on through believing it.

Otherwise a thought is just that, a thought. Just like a kettle is just an object we would throw away if we had no helpful use for it, we need to learn to discern if our thoughts are useful. And with how we act from there.. are we being kind?.. both inside ourselves and with others.

We look everywhere for ourselves. Yet it’s in the stopping, in the silence, in the stillness that we feel the simple pulse of the presence of being.
This is gold. This is all.

Often we think we need to break down our inner walls to heal. We might try too hard to open up when we’re not quite ready. Or we might try to be beyond our fear, when really it’s still there.

An easier way to approach it is to allow ourselves to have walls, to see them, to know them, to understand where they come from, to be honest with others about them and to give ourselves moments of opening to freedom.

We need to learn it’s safe to let the light in and safe, with discernment, to let our vulnerability show.

To do this we can make little windows in the wall, bit by bit, by increasing our self awareness and with sincere, consistent intention. We can communicate about our walls/fears realistically and we can begin to trust that life isn’t out to hurt us.

Albert Einstein said ‘We cannot solve a problem at the same level of thinking that created the problem.’

If we fight division with division, all we do is continue and increase divisiveness.

Focus on what we share. Focus on our humanity. Drop the personal and seek the universal. Where we put our energy, gets energised. What we focus on grows.