wow steve!
your quotes appear as guruji words. going in effortlessly.
thx
ps : we say wah as wow so it is
Wah Steve ! Wah.
Fitting In
I find that the more and more I follow the spiritual life the less and less need there is to follow the ways of the world and the less and less fitting in becomes important. i can follow the beat of a different drummer. We may look at others who were thought as strange, different and unusual with more understanding. Being confident in our experiences, it matters little what others think of us because it is possible to loose our identification to the way the general public chooses to conduct their lives.
Yet after coming back from these experiences there is more understanding and compassion for all the living things around us. There is a caring about everything and everybody that comes into our life. It is possible to look past what used to bother us about others. There is a concern for them even and an ability to look beyond many of the hurtful things they do to themselves and others. Now it is possible to function on a level of witness consciousness where one can observe life like a show. From this prospective; loving ourselves more and finding that in loving ourselves it is easier to love others becomes a reality in our lives.
It is not so much thinking of ourselves as freaks but rather it is less important to fit in. There is no need to hide away and less need to find solace and comfort in others. There is more courage to face the world and what others say and do doesn't bother us. It becomes possible to operate outside of our cultural filters and conditioning. It is no longer necessary to follow patterns of lifestyles that no longer fit our expanding awareness. One can begin to let go of people who hold us back and keep us in our withering past.
One of the most difficult things for those having experiences of a spiritual nature is to keep on in that direction once these experiences come. It is easy to fall back into our old routines and turn our backs on what we have gained. It is much like the rich man in the Bible. Christ once told a man to give away his riches and follow him. He must have seen what the man was still holding on to that was holding him back.
Yet even when something significant happens in our life we are so used to following old routines that we do not see that these mixed lifestyles we live make others look at us as freaks. Yet when we let go of the past we leave room for people and circumstances to come in our life that reinforce rather than take us away from our new found freedoms and there arises more confidence in ourselves regardless of the ignorance and misunderstanding of others.
Keeping ourselves in the past by holding on to old worn out ways of life becomes a less prevalent factor in our lives. People start to come in our lives that represent our change of consciousness when there is a willingness to open up to the gifts and blessings around us. We begin to understand universal order and become more comfortable with our place in the universe.
Steve Hydonus
