Have you faced and befriended your demons or are you still unconsciously running?
What you haven’t healed is often, on some level, motivating a lot of what you do.
If you haven’t done the inside work, the outside will never be enough.
Raising your self awareness about how things have shaped you is imperative for creating your ability to make conscious choices.
When we truely walk a path of authenticity, our ego attachments and identity get shaken up, dismantled and shed.
This is not a comfortable process. It requires courage, vulnerability, deep self honesty and being brought into the core of your truth.
When there is nothing left to hide, we can live with our hearts wide and our integrity as the highest armour.
Listen to who you really are underneath all of your reactivity, fear and ideas.
Who you are is more than any of these passing things.
Who you are is peace.
Healing is incremental, gradual and stable, like the growth of a tree.
Just keep watering.
Sometimes your silent compassionate presence is more powerful than any words you might think of to say.
Most of the time we are focused on external things, and we are distracted away from our own being through thinking about everything else.
Start to notice as much as can when your attention is outside of yourself.
Learn to come back to yourself.
Use your body to do this.
Notice your breathing.
Notice your body sensations. Feel the feeling of your awareness.
When you’re looking at something, include attention on the sense of yourself doing the looking.
Nothing exists without you there to be aware of it.
Awareness is the doorway to the Divine. It is the reality of everything.
Let go of all your ideas that you think you are, and just feel yourself, your presence. That is more you than any role or story.
We can’t let go of something if we don’t see clearly what it is.
Clarity of observation and compassionate presence are the two key ingredients to conscious choice.
If we want to change something and get past something in ourselves, acknowledging it exists is the first step. We need to stop holding it out, down and away from us.
Going beyond it requires first that we attend to that something, that we be with it and see it without judgment, that we allow it, and breathe it’s experience.
With this we can then open into seeing we are the space in which it exists, rather than thinking we exist as it. And with this practice, we will at some point softly put it down.
Be wary of the fantasies and assumptions you can have about someone.
They can often be a projection of what you want to see and not based on reality.
It is important to give things time to become clear for what they are before you act on what you think you know.
The purpose of life is to learn to truely be yourself, to love and share your beauty effortlessly.
We often have this idea that when we follow the spiritual path, at some point we are going to ‘get there’.
Like there is some cosmic finish line we will reach, where all our problems and emotions will drift away into transcendent bliss and we will be so beyond everything that nothing will faze us.
That is just another fantasy. Wrapped in spiritual gift wrapping.
There is no finish line.
Spiritual awakening is a verb. It is not a fixed object.
Learning to be accepting and surrendered to what is, provides more inner peace, for sure. However it still involves our ongoing willingness to be tapped in, present and choosing to open.
Awakening is an unending expansion.
RATNA DYER 