SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What does the question of being mean to you? Can you share a personal story of bringing forth what was within you? How do we distinguish between conditioned thinking and what is truly within us?
last year s.o read me tarot and kept saying I had all the best possibilities if only i trusted my self. so i began to plan how to become succesfull, accepted, make money etc Suddenly i asked myself what does it really mean to trust myself and i realized that the only self that could be trusted goes far deeper than the me that runs for outward things. I feel quiet now, I see my mind can detect all thought as being a thing outside not to be followed. I also sense that i have a desire to let go, that would be to trust myself. Something like to be in being. I don't know how i came to this so i don't know if there is really a lettin go or i am taken by an inner force?
Please help me understand this passage better. For example: "Your life hangs precariously in the balance, teetering between a state of unconscious sleepwalking and eyes-wide-open spiritual enlightenment." I believe i am on a journey from somewhat darker to somewhat brighter. I don't understand this teetering nor hanging precariously.
I also believe that this journey may not be all stillness, it might also be in doing, in constant motion (not agitation, but deliberate, slow action) - one step, one prayer at at time.
And i am not sure of: "awaken to being or sleep an endless sleep." I accept my 'being' and am happy to awaken. But this life has also some meaning and is part of the awakening. To me, it might not be an endless sleep or a full awakening, but somewhere in the middle. It is a mystery and most likely will remain a mystery after all.
Is there a reason that the audio does not match the text provided ? The first two paragraphs (above) were not included in the audio presentation of the text.
I wanted to comment on the art/picture here. I love the various patches depicting life's "patchwork" accumulated over time and the question of "who's under there?" Love this.
Being means awareness that I am. Just that. I am. I allow myself to happen, just as I am. When I start to think about what is conditioned thinking and what is truly me, I am already moving away from simply being. The conditioned me is also just meant to be, just as it is. Accept it and just be.
Love: Residing and resonating within. Beyond imagination, beyond view, yet closer than anything I have ever known, is this. The light within us, is. It is the peaceful way. It is the peaceful knowing of perfect love, perfect truth, and the eternal embrace of life and being.
Being to me means being aware of my soul and how it's connected to universal conscience. It's detaching myself from ego, emotions, desires, wants and enjoying the every moment.
There is an immense potential in each of us, multitudes of possibilities in each one of us. To pretend we are less than what we are is really a sin. As they say each one us are guilty of 'all the good we did not do'.
timely. Here's the blog post I shared on the 17th Every Light Has a Shadow; The Bravery of Acceptance. Indeed when we bring forth and accept all that is within us it frees us and often helps others. Being all of who we are feels more "real" to others around us too and allows them to be who they are. http://storytellerkp.com/every-light-shadow-bravery-acceptance/ I hope the post helps you to be all of who you are too. HUG from my heart to yours. Kristin