Life is now.
Tomorrow can never make us happy if we can’t recognise and receive life now.
Practice stopping, listening, looking at things as if seeing them for the first time. Take this moment in, feel your breathing, absorb the colours, notice life’s sounds all around, recognise with gratitude what is here right now… including your own presence, awareness, the sense of being, aliveness, simple knowing, reality.
Spirit/awareness/consciousness/the universe/reality/life…whatever word you want to use… does not depend on or require us to believe in it. It just IS whether we believe or not, and regardless of what philosophy, structure or name we might give it.
Life is prior to names and belief, it is the ground of all unfolding. It had to be there before there was any believer or anything to believe in.
Are we awake to our essential being, there before we think about anything?
What is still here when our mind is empty?
We are spirit, therefore our growth is spirituality.
Our psyche has so many unconscious ways it tries to protect us from our fears and from pain. Even the experience of being in a state of confusion over something, can be an unconscious attempt at avoidance.
There’s that sense sometimes that a deep part of us knows what we’re going to have to face on some level, and yet somehow perhaps we feel we can gain or stall time by pretending we don’t know… So convincingly, that we genuinely lose clarity, strength and will.
Which in turn is another state of suffering in itself.
Aren’t we strange human creatures 🤔😶🌫️🤪
May we come into the confidence to release all victimised thoughts and painful patterns.
May we have the support inwardly and from others, to step into our power.
Where is the gift of your life other than right here, right now, living and breathing; experiencing this moment?
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Being embodied, clear and present in our Self is where lasting happiness sits.
Doing our inner work is to empty out and let go of what we no longer need and that clouds our self knowing; to bring us into our ever present center.
When we are attached to an idea about ourselves and our identity, we are actually further away from the truth of who we are.
There’s nothing wrong.
It’s all a part of it.
Refining and refining.
Including and including.
Expanding and expanding.
You can never stray.
It’s all in the hands of grace.
Your mind is not truth. It is just thoughts.
Some thoughts might be closer to truth than others. Some thoughts couldn’t be further from the truth.
No thought is truth itself. It’s still just a concept.
A general indicator of how much a thought is worth listening to or not is if it supports yours and others well-being or if it makes you contract, tense or collapses your capacity to live your potential.
Choose what you want to follow. Choose what you want to create.
RATNA DYER 