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The Time is Ripe For Finding True Freedom
It’s time for an evolutionary leap. It’s time for bold Self Realization. It’s time to empty the old stories. It’s time to surrender the predominant position of the egoic identity. It’s time for the egoic mind to humble itself in service to the wisdom and leadership of the heart. It’s time to realize our highest consciousness of unified love.
Freedom is not someday, somewhere down the road. We are already free and whole. The opportunity available to us all now is to discover that freedom beyond the noise and distraction of the egoic mind.
It’s Time – The Next Evolution of Consciousness
It’s time for an evolutionary leap. It’s time for bold Self Realization. It’s time to empty the old stories. It’s time to surrender the predominant position of the egoic identity. It’s time for the egoic mind to humble itself in service to the wisdom and leadership of the heart. It’s time to realize our highest consciousness of unified love.
Freedom is not someday, somewhere down the road. We are already free and whole. The opportunity available to us all now is to discover that freedom beyond the noise and distraction of the egoic mind.
CONFIDENCE
Developing self confidence with the aim of stabilizing our inner sense of peace, is a flawed strategy. A more powerful and enduring endeavor is to focus our attention on self realization.
The Reward of Mastery is Going to Cost You
To be a master at anything you must rub up against the edges of your profession or passion. And often daringly so. Edges are rough, they hurt, they’re abrasive. Edges define things, often with a sharpness that cuts to the bone.
I don’t know anyone who has dedicated themselves 100% to their craft who doesn’t bear the scars of their commitment.
E M B O D I M E N T
Then I sat in meditation and instead pointed awareness to a practiced embodiment of peace and stillness. I went to a familiar and formless spaciousness that over the years has gradually been revealed. Revealed not in thought, but more as a reliable sensation or presence.
S T I L L N E S S
All movements of mind (chasing desires, retreating from fears, clinging to comfort) appear and disappear, come and go, arise and pass, within the stillness of consciousness.
We are that stillness of consciousness experiencing the movements and distractions of mind.
You Are Infinite Stillness Experiencing the Movement of Self
The personal “i” can never come fully to rest IN the stillness of consciousness.
That position maintains a primary i-dentification with a personal you that constantly moves in and out of rest and maintains that there is a separate stillness of unmoving consciousness that is other than you.
We can only be truly at rest in the awakening AS the vast stillness of consciousness within which a personal story of self is constantly moving.
The Presence of Peace
We needn’t deny the storms, waves, projections, thoughts, emotions and sensations of this life….
The error is in the denial of the imperishable peace.
In the denial of the imperishable peace, we have nowhere reliable to rest while we may graciously witness all the disturbances moving within us and around us.