August 16, 2011
We experience suffering when we dwell on all the world has done to injure us. Or when we dwell on all others have done to hurt us. This is the way we think the world works, and so we think it is real. But way of thinking is like a dream where the dreamer experiences what it thinks it sees and, not understanding its source, thinks that it is all happening to the dreamer from outside of the dreamer’s self. So it must be happening to the dreamer. In this way we think we are suffering at the hands of each other. In this way, the causes of our suffering take on many different forms, each appearing very different and requiring different solutions with varying degrees of difficulty and complexity. This can be overwhelming to us.
What is there was a way to escape all this suffering we experience? What if it were simple and complete? Would we want it? Would we be willing to do it? Though the problems seem and appear to be many and varied, there is only one problem. If we are willing to accept a different way of perceiving the world and each other, we can escape this suffering we are experiencing. We actually release ourselves from the suffering we are dwelling on.
There is a simple solution to the problem. The simple solution has always been there, but we have kept it obscured by clouds of complication. What better way to keep anyone distracted from anything than by making everything seem complicated? Then we are so consumed in the distraction of thoughts going in many different directions that we fail to see the simple answer right in front of us. The truth is the solution lies within us. The source of our perceived suffering actually lies within us rather than outside of us. The source of our suffering is not from outside, what others are doing to hurt or attack us. The source is actually our dwelling on the idea that our suffering is coming from others and not from our mistaken way of perceiving the world. Once we are willing to consider that the problem is the way we are perceiving the world, there is only one solution; correct the way we are perceiving the world.
Once the problem is seen clearly, it is recognized as absurd and without reason. This may seem a big leap for our minds that have become so used to seeing everything as outside of us. So God has given us a helper, a guide to help us make this shift in thinking. The Holy Spirit is within each and every one of us offering continuous guidance if we are willing to listen and accept it. Each one that we encounter in our life is there with the perfect way to see correctly as we
Let Spirit guide us in that moment and situation. Spirit blesses each of us with the peace, love and joy of Heaven as we let ourselves be guided to live our lives from the inside out rather than from the outside in. In this change does our world change from upside down to right side up, from insanity to sanity. Let it be so.
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