A spirit needs space to expand without getting mixed up with the static of the unevolved and unenlightened. Does following a set of rules and guidelines get you enlightenment, or does discovering your own path and your own way? Does chanting this or that enough times take you to Nirvana? If you find your own path, even if it is unaffiliated with a deity or a guru, should you follow it, or should you only venture on the pre- blazed paths?
Whose wisdom should you trust, the one spoken to you by a voice in your head, or somebody who wrote a book and claims to have the answers? What is the genesis of wisdom? From where does it originate? Wisdom is an intrinsic knowing. It is beyond the ego. It is what you find that resonates with you through your own explorations of your inner landscape.
The ideas of others, and what they call “teachings” may serve as jumping off points for your own explorations, but be certain you find the connection between their words and your own understanding, or their words will have no value to you. This is the genesis of wisdom.
Simple Wisdom: Don’t fear what you find in your heart
Don’t be afraid to communicate with others. If it is in your heart, know that it did not get there by mere coincidence. What you find in your heart is organic to who you are and more importantly, why you are. Do not fear what you find in your heart. What is in your heart was placed there by your spirit. It is your spirit. So explore the unexplored regions. See what is there. Know that it is true and real and that when shared with others, the others will know the realness of it and appreciate it. Much of what is there, in your heart, is there to be known by others. Share. Trust. Know. Be fearless.
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Divine Grace operates through us all. Do not shirk away from the people who have a genuine need of what you offer. This is all part of the web that is existence on earth. Remember that the influence you have on others helps them to find the pieces of their puzzles that in return help others to find their own truths.
Simple Wisdom for an Enlightened Life: Open Heart Creativity
An open heart will greatly enhance your creative output and abilities. When you are creating from the heart, this is pure creation from your spirit. When creating from the mind, it is often a creation from the ego, often to mask and to cover pain. Keep your heart open to be truly creative. — Jim Larsen
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From: KNOWINGS FROM THE SILENCE: SIMPLE WISDOM FOR AN ENLIGHTENED LIFE vol.1
Simple Wisdom: Your emotions are your guidance system
It is completely ridiculous to fake your emotions all the time. These people who always have a fake smile on their face acting like they are happy every minute when in reality they are not, are denying themselves the opportunity to explore what their true emotions are pointing towards. Your emotions are a guidance system for your spirit. To pretend to be only happy, to fake like nothing ever bothers you is like having a compass that doesn’t have west on it.
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What can wound an inner child? A dashing of hope. A placement of limitations. A sense of separation and abandonment.
We are perfect. We are born knowing what the world should be. We are intimately aware of oneness. It is though, the harsh realities of life on earth, of having the indignities of the ego thrust upon us from those in our life that we lose sight of these things. These things are not fully gone, they are simply covered over by blankets that hide the truth, the light. Over time, this light is hidden, but on a deeper not forgotten. This light still shines; however muted it may be by all these layers.
Over time, we begin to question the life of the ego that we are embroiled in. We begin to examine these blankets and question their validity. One by one, we begin to remove these layers, peeling them away, one and then the next and next until we uncover that light of truth of who we are.
When we are born, we are still very aware of our team of divine helpers and the fact that we have a mission and a purpose on the earth. Because we know it, we assume that those in our life know it too. It confuses us that they do not act as though they know it. They seem to act in ways that are counterproductive to achieving their purpose. They ignore the help and guidance offered by the divine helpers. This is confusing. These people are our caregivers. They must know best. They must know the truth. Because we rely on them so heavily, they must know the truth, know what’s best. Their thoughts and ideas become our own. We are now enculturated. We are now a part of this society.
Slowly our awareness of the divine truth of ourselves gives way to the projections of society. Now we are what society needs us to be and what it expects of us. Now the burden of rediscovering our truth is on us. But is it a burden? The peeling away of these blankets to get back to that core light can be both thrilling and exciting, can it not be?
The process of discovering, the process of stumbling upon answers and then figuring out the question that fits it can be thrilling. What do we learn of ourselves and of society if we do not go through this process of discovery? This is what it means to incarnate and be present on the earth. In this way, we achieve balance. We achieve balance between our divine self and our earthly self. What we learn on the earth becomes our soul. This soul, and its knowledge and wisdom contributes to the knowingness of all beings of the universe. This is The Silence. This creates a universal strength. In the reality of oneness, the wisdom of one is the wisdom and strength of all.
Knowings From The Silence: Anger is one example of what the mind does to assume control of the system.
In the heart, the capacity for forgiveness and oneness dwells. This is the desire of the heart- to forgive. But the mind perceives wrongness. The mind has a need of status quo and a balance where the self is the center. The heart has no concern for such things.
Anger and other such negativity pollute the system. It sends a black cloud that covers the shine of the heart. We must teach the mind to let go. Examine what is creating the anger, find the lesson it has to teach- often it is an old wound that never fully healed. Use this anger as a window. Look into yourself though it. Look in as far as you can go. Follow it back to where it begins.
Follow the shadow back to the light. The more people do this, the more people will awaken to enlightenment. Master your anger. Don’t be a tool of it. The ego loves anger. It gives it leverage. Anger gives the ego the fuel it needs to perpetrate its domination goals. The ego wants to dominate. The “I. ”The “I” is so important. This is the mind.
The heart is “we.” The heart wants to open to the oneness of all beings, and as such cannot exist without oneness. Anger though, blocks oneness. Anger creates a strong sense of “I” and “me” and “them” and “those people.” Now there is opposition. With opposition comes a sense of attack. Attack creates anger.
Master anger and you are that much closer to living an enlightened life.
She judges her own self-worth by how bad she can make other people feel. This, to her, is power. She measures her own self esteem by how low she can make another feel. Her aim is to make this other person cry. If she can get them to cry, then she feels good about herself. If she can get somebody to cry over her, she feels valued, important. She feels as though she is worth something if she can get people to cry for her.
This of course, is an indication of a deep rooted sadness. This of course is an indicator of a long-held sense of low self-esteem and low self-worth. She will attempt to boost her self esteem by being cold to others, people that she has drawn in and made them feel close. By making them feel cold and distant, she will feel better about herself, because now she feels she is worth feeling bad about to this other person.
Is it worthwhile for this other person to be upset over losing her, or for the thought of losing her? People like this, as unfortunate as it is for them to have this sense of low self-esteem, really are not worth the effort to be close to. Who needs this level and this amount of fickleness in their life? Life is meant to be enjoyed. Happiness is a birthright.
These people will not provide you this happiness. People like this will make you feel distant from your center, and drained of energy. There’s really not much you can do for them as they will always be looking for their next energetic/self-esteem boost at your or somebody else’s expense. Did you ask for their energy drain? Did you sign on to be their martyr? Of course not. Let these people get whatever psychological help they need, but don’t take it upon yourself to heal them or to provide them their fix.
Of course, show them compassion, but stay distant. What’s the point of being used this way? Accept these people for who and what they are. Forgive them for any pain you may have felt because of them, then move on with your life. You will notice these people moving from person to person, indiscriminately getting close, soliciting attention, indiscriminately forming bonds with them, and then quickly moving on from them. There is a sense of constant discontentment about them. Until they choose to get the help they need to heal themselves, they will continue to use people up and toss them aside.
This example was written as a female. It was just an example. It is a gender neutral phenomenon. A “He” is just as likely to play this game.
We do what we can do to help people, but if they are simply resistant to what we offer, what are we supposed to do?
We need not look any further than within if we are looking for God, for what is that spark of divinity that is within us if it is not a piece of God that we carry with us always?
What exactly is God? God is the all-encompassing fire of the universe. There is a spark of God within each of us. The goal is to ignite that spark and allow it to become a fire. When we do this, we feel a connection to God. God will be experienced differently by all humans, for we all have different ideas about what we want and what we need from God.
God is our ability to feel and experience emotions. The mastery of human emotions is a goal of human form, for when we master the array of human emotions, we become enlightened. To be enlightened means to be one with the Allness that we call God. To be enlightened means see the world and those beings who inhabit it from the same perspective that God would see it.
How does God see the world? What is the purpose of God? What is the purpose of humanity and the world? If the purpose of our lives is to perfect ourselves for God, then what exactly is the purpose of God? Once we are all perfected, then what does God do next? What is the ultimate reason for any of this? God exists as the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine, the dark and the light.
Close your eyes and visualize God as the yin yang symbol. This is the most perfect symbol of God, for it encompasses all, perfectly and beautifully without favoring one over the other. Can the true purpose of it all even be conceived? Can a single person alone conjure the meaning and the purpose of God?
It being that our purpose is to perfect ourselves to be with the Allness of God, does point to a highly significant purpose. Why do we have this being we call “God?” Why have we bestowed on him such all mighty and super natural powers? It’s as if one day, a very long time ago, there was a giant energetic entity named “God.” This entity, God, exploded into billions of bits. God wanted to put himself back together, but by now all his bits had become polluted. So, in order to put himself/herself back together, he needed to initiate a cleansing process in order to make perfect each bit and piece of him/herself so no part would pollute the whole. And so the earth was created and humanity was formed, and a system of birth and rebirth was created.
Now, through the process of going through lifetime to lifetime, these sparks of God have the opportunity to incarnate and go through the process to become perfected. It is but a human concept that we call this “Enlightenment.” So, the question becomes, once all these sparks of God are Enlightened and perfected to rejoin the whole, what does this greatness that is the Allness of God do next?
The simple answer can only be that at this time, the Allness that is God will simply be. Once it “is’ then there is more that it can create. God is a creator. What more can he/she create when at full power? What new levels of creation can be attained?
As sparks of this Allness, what new and unexpected joys of this Allness, what new and unexplored joys can we experience? As sparks of God, we each have the power of God. This is a crucial understanding that more and more people are awakening to.
Our human form and human mind and egos limit our abilities. This is to be expected. Remember, Enlightenment happens when we have mastered the wide array of human emotions without backing down, backing away, or suppressing them. Enlightenment occurs when we accept the buried emotions that come to the surface and make us frightened and uncomfortable and experience them fully once and for all. Enlightenment happens when we take an honest look at our shadows and fortify ourselves to step into them and see what is there.
What do we find in our shadows? We find suppressed feelings, forgotten aspects of ourselves, and shame. Accept all these things. Examine the concept of “Shame.” What exactly is this? This is something that we have a hard time accepting about ourselves. This is something that goes beyond the picture we have painted of ourselves that is our belief about ourselves of who we are. This is an ugly smudge on the canvas of who we believe ourselves to be.
So what do we do with this shame? How do we handle it? How do we reconcile ourselves to it and accept it as part of the totality of who we are? There is one way to do this, and that is to forgive ourselves of whatever it is that created this sense of shame to begin with. Forgive and accept. Take a look at how this makes you a better, more enlightened person. If you don’t like what you did or how you acted, now you know how not to act or to be another time. What could you have done differently? Think about this next time.
How can you turn this shame into empathy? Consider this. When seeing others going through this, how can you lighten this for them with gentle understanding? Do you judge them harshly, or do you show loving kindness? Nothing is for nothing, and all contributes to the Allness of it all. Your strength becomes the strength of Allness for all. Our individual personalities contribute. We perceive, receive, and contribute to the wisdom of the All for the Allness of all.
Some of us have a hermit-like personality who thrive in finding and incorporating wisdom by finding it on their own, incorporating it in their own way, and disseminating it however way most resonates with them. Their ways will not be obvious to others, but their ways are none the less powerful. The simple fact that they open as a channel and receive what they open to and receive, benefits all the other sparks of God in human form populating the planet, for once it is received, it is deposited into The Silence, it is accessible to all who are willing and able to hear it.
Those who are not willing or able to hear it will still in their own way benefit from it as others will pick it up and incorporate it into their art, their talents, their star qualities, thus not only perpetrating it, but enhancing it as well. Once perpetrated and enhanced, it spreads even further, reaching more and more sparks of divinity in human form who will benefit, add to, and further perpetrate. This is the beauty of The Silence. This is the greatness that we call oneness.
We may not, and often do not, have an awareness of our connection to others, but at a microcosmic level, we are each the steward of our fellow man’s soul. We may not be thinking or be consciously aware of the fact, but at the root of our being, at the root of all things, we know of our oneness. We appreciate our oneness, even with those our minds tell us we do not “like.” The spirit has no sense of “like’ or “dislike.” It only has a sense of connection and appreciation for the other beings, those carrying a spark of God within them seeking to be cleansed and purified so that it may return home and rejoin the All that is the Allness of All, just like we ourselves are seeking to do. This is to Enlightened. This is to be perfected. This is to go Home.
Contributing to the All that is the Allness of All is to tap into and embrace and appreciate the God quality within us all. We are each a piece of God, and therefore an aspect of God. As such, we each have the powers of God. One such power is the power to create, to manifest. Most are unaware of this power, although they tap into it daily. This is true. It’s a simple and well documented truth- power flows where attention goes.
So many people, and we are each perpetrators of this at one time or another, dwell on something negative. With so much attention and thought from humanity focused on this negativity, how can power not flow there? When power flows, manifestation occurs. So now, we as humanity are creating more and more of what this negativity is. How is this a good thing to do? One aspect of it that is good is that it creates a tipping point. It can be created to a point where the collected humanity will say “Enough! We can’t take it anymore!”
Now humanity knows what it must work to change. Now humanity will work to change. Now humanity will look at the situation it has created, and say “If we don’t want this, then what do we want?” Now they will get their heads out of the darkness and start gazing at the light, at the stars that they can manifest on the planet. Now they say, “We want this…” Pointing towards what is light pure and good, and then manifestation will occur.
At this point certain avatars of this light and goodness will be placed on the planet to show the way to this change. Humanity wanted it, so now they got it. Here are beings to help show the way. Listen to these beings and be led to the manifestation of this change the world so desperately craves. So now that humanity knows what it does want, and now that they have a way- show-er to offer guidance, they can now focus their attention on this. Now they can align their flow of attention towards this intention. Now, positive change has no choice but to occur. This is but one aspect of what it means to have the power of God within us.
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Simple Wisdom: You are not meant to help everybody.
Do what you do, be what you are, become a master of your personal power, but be aware that it is not for you to be there for everybody. People who need you and will benefit from you will find you. Just create space and be available to them. Those who will benefit from your gifts will be drawn to you. Just be there. They will come to you. Just be there. They will come to you.
Trying too hard to draw them to you consciously will only lead to frustration. Simply create the space and let them find you. Let them come to you. Let the others find who and what they need.
There are many healers in this world. Those with specific needs will find those sent to fulfill these needs. We are each from different aspects and different spaces from throughout the universe. Some are bountiful, others are few. These are our spirits. Those from like places find each other. This is intrinsic. Just allow it to happen. These are the people we most benefit from being around. These are the most healing to us. These are the ones we can most heal. This is our true cosmic ohana.
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