You learn to go into
survival mode. You developed survival
mechanisms that prevent you form feeling pain and layer these mechanisms one on
top of another to help navigate the world as safely as you can.
In the fear, in the
uncertainty, is the invitation of life.
You have to learn to
trust life. You have to learn to let go
of safety and not to surrender to fear.
As a coping
mechanism, we grow up, ultimately deciding that we have to be someone we're not
in order to fit in, in order to be accepted, in order to survive. We start to ask, Who do I need to be in order
to be loved? You see the difference? We
learn to ask not Who am I? But Who do I need to be? That's the moment we cut the ties with our
soul and start to live a lie.
Day by day,
experience by experience, we discover what persona gets us the attention we're
so desperate for. And in the process we
get molded into people WHO WE ARE NOT.
This creates a pattern, a way of being that we call "Me". And this limited expression becomes the whole
of our personality.
Everything you put behind the words "I am" is
a concept that someone else must tell you.
It's not about the
persona. It's about your relationship
with the persona. When your persona owns
you, you have no ability to choose.
We've often gotten
stuck in patterns that keep us powerless. In order to move forward in your
life, you've got to bring to light the ways your past may be having an impact
on your present.
When you dig down to
the root of your conditioning, you will find…your parents. Our parents set our navigational system.
Our personalities
developed in reaction to how [our parents] treated us.
Maybe you think that
is your voice in your head. But if you
start to dig deep, you'll realize it is probably the voice of one of your
parents.
To the degree that
you are run by your conditioning, you are not free to choose and create your
future.
We cannot access the
power of forgiveness until we first acknowledge the hurt and pain lying beneath
the surface.
Sometimes we refuse
to forgive because deep down, remaining angry is our unconscious way to somehow
stay connected with them.
Following your mind
will lead to big trouble. The mind
should be a follower, not a leader. Your
heart and spirit must be the leader.
Just because you
have a thought doesn't mean it's real.
Your thoughts are not real. They
are just energy. Your thoughts aren't
the issue. The importance you give your
thoughts is the real issue.
The mind spins a lot
of fiction as reality.
Don't get negative
about the negative thought. Simply
observe it and let it float by like clouds in the sky. A new thought will emerge.
Just like clouds in
the sky, thoughts will pass. The more
you fight thoughts, the more power you give them.
The reason your
dream doesn't come true is never because you don't have enough money. It's because of a lack of resourcefulness.
Fear is a sign that
you are at your edge. You are about to
transcend your limits.
What if you could
consider those moments when you want to give up as an invitation to stretch
into your greatness.
Your mind will take
all your power if you let it.
It's your ego that
thinks you should be somewhere else doing something else with someone else as
someone else.
The ego is
constantly searching for something. Its
job is to seek but never to find.
We must learn to
shed our obsession with getting someplace else.
When you move
forward in faith, the universe is waiting for you.
How we wait reveals
how we live life.
The only thing you
take with you is the evolution of your soul and who you became in the process
of life.
This belief is at
the root of suffering. The experience
I'm having is not the experience I should be having.
Acceptance allows
you to look for the intelligence of the universe at work.
It is easy to love
those you like. It is easy to love when
life is going well. The true spiritual practice is learning to love no matter
what. Not when everything is perfect. Not when you feel like loving. This is the layer that we must peel in order
to access our soul.
Unconditional love
supports each person's soul journey.
Even if it doesn't match yours at this time.