could life really be perfect?
What if everything was exactly as it should be?
Could you even imagine that thought? Could you imagine that thought enough to feel in your body what that would be like?
I remember reading this practice in a book (can't remember which one now): go throughout your day with the belief that every person you see, every car that drives by, every word you hear in a song or a text message, every leaf on a tree is there JUST FOR YOU. And it has been planned for centuries to be here for you, right now in this moment.
We know how to live life as a miracle, because you've been practicing the opposite for decades. Most of us wake up living life as if everything has to be changed. Our feelings, our actions, the actions of others, the world. It all is wrong and needs to change and, BONUS! Once something changes we will feel different.
It's the greatest trick the ego has to play on you. Because you are only in ego when you are arguing with life. And if you are arguing with life, no matter what you change, fix or rearrange, you'll still be arguing with life, because that is where you have been coming from.
For centuries, fear has been the motivation behind our lives. DO this to make sure these bad things don't happen. Don't do this or you'll make bad things happen. Do this to make sure bad things don't happen to your kids. etc etc etc
But the world is shifting, fear isn't a top seller anymore. It is for adults, but kids and younger adults have caught on. Why live a life from fear, only to end up an older adult with even more fear?
Love is the answer my friends, yes, the Beatles coined it right. But so did someone very special long before that. Jesus told his disciples, “… love one another, as I have loved you…” and it's the greatest gift for the world. LOVE.
LOVE>FEAR
but only always.
How do you shift from fear to love? Just one thought at a time.
Get curious. Be open. Be willing. It's all you can do.
“God, I am ready to see things differently. Please help me to see this with eyes of love.”
You can apply that to a long standing situation in your life filled with resentment.
You can also apply it to your kids leaving the toothpaste squirted all over the sink.
Because all of it, yes even the toothpaste, is perfect. It's all working perfectly for you. Yes, your upsets and disagreements and stress and worries, are PERFECT. THEY ARE ALL TEACHING YOU HOW TO REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.
You are a perfect child of God. You were never born, and you'll never die. You are here experiencing an earth life. It was created for you with love and to remind you you are love. Anything other than that causes indigestion.
What if you walked throughout your day today looking at everything and YOURSELF with absolutely gratitude for the infinite perfection in all of it?
I'll leave you with this quote from an interview from Werner Erhard: "Here’s an observation that I know will parallel what you’ve seen. People are willing to give up anything to get enlightened. You and I both know people who’ve given up wealth, given up jobs, families, their health people will give up anything to get enlightened. Give up talking, give up sex, give up you name it, they will give it up. There’s only one thing people will not give up to get enlightened. They will do everything they know to hold on to this thing that they will not give up no matter what. The one thing people will not give up to get enlightened is the idea that they’re not enlightened. That’s the big holdout, not anything else.””
You are a beautiful and enlightened soul. Shine on in your beautiful life great one. Shine on!