August 23, 2011
We may be surprised to learn that we have been mistaken about the purpose of the world we see. We do not understand it and thus we perceive the world incorrectly. This may seem impossible to us. Doesn’t the world just happen? It may seem that the world is out of our control and that the events of the world happen to us. Though events happen and may be out of our direct control, what we think about each event and experience is usually more powerful that the events themselves. The world is said to be an illusion not because it isn’t real, but because what we think about it isn’t concrete and absolutely true.
No two people will describe an event exactly the same. Their description will be colored by all of their thoughts and beliefs about their past experiences. Our thoughts are never concrete, even though we may believe them to be absolute truth about what we experience. The thoughts and ideas we hold dear and become attached to witness to our idea of “reality.” These ideas show us the world we believe to be real. Our reality is never as much about the events we experience as it is about our feelings, thoughts, and beliefs about the world we think we see!
When we perceive the world not understanding its purpose, we experience a wide variety of thoughts that we rationalize as true. We may experience painful thoughts that cause us suffering, or the dwelling on our painful thoughts. When we begin to realize that our thoughts and beliefs affect how we see the happenings of the world, we begin to understand that we can think differently; we can change our mind and our thoughts and thus see the world differently. The world we see gives us a way to learn that our thoughts are not absolute and that we can change our thoughts to see a more correct way of looking at and understanding our world.
We begin to understand that our thoughts show us how we are thinking; they witness to the health of our thought process. As we learn and correct our thoughts, we experience the love, peace, and joy of Spirit dwelling within us. It is a connection to the Divine that we really are. It has never been apart form our being, but we have chosen to see and experience something else we rationalized from our usual way of thinking. As we learn to recognize our feelings of suffering as a witness to our state of mind, we have the choice to change our state of mind and recognize the Divine within us. There is never any accusation about why we never realized this before, just the rush of the blessing that washes over us as we return our awareness to the truth about who we really are. Let it be so.
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