Today I had an interesting experience driving home from the store. I am normally a fairly reclusive person. This has led me to be more judgemental towards people since it is far easier to judge others when you are not present to them, witnessing them in person. You forget that people are experiencing their own confusion and their own circumstances and you only see how their actions affect your own experiences.
Today I was able to see humanity in a different light. It was as if I was more aware of myself as a temporary presence here, feeling the world not from a human perspective, but one that I hesitate to call objective, although it certainly felt more so than my usual experience of life and of people. Humanity is beautiful and crude, simple and yet full of potential. We try so hard to make sense of our lives, to find a genuine meaning in the chaos of the physical world. It is easy to forget that we are still developing.
My step today is Step 6: “I have a true foundation in the world.” Where I left off yesterday I felt myself becoming a little more aware of the layers of confusion that I had built up around myself over the years like a shell. With each little step towards the experience of Knowledge I feel myself less concerned about who I was and who I think I am, and more concerned with what I have to give and do in the world. It is lightening, freeing, to be able to let go of the burden of defining yourself when you really do not know your own true shape. Knowledge knows your true shape, and so you only have to come to it in a receptive state.
What is my true foundation in the world? Knowledge – the part of me that is intrinsic to nature itself, the part of me that is still connected to God. In the New Message wiki I found a quote about God from Wisdom from the Greater Community Volume 1, that goes, “Knowledge is God in you. God is Knowledge in the universe.” God is also described as the sum of all relationships. Knowledge, then, is that part of me that is in natural harmony with everything – everything except human confusion, which is why this preparation is so necessary to return to what is real and genuine within myself.
People take recreational drugs to experience this oneness and inclusion in life, and rave about the experience. Surely, though, it was meant to be experienced naturally, without the aid of stimulants. When I practice, I can feel something of this experience, and it grows a little each time. My foundation in the world, then, is this experience of inclusion; this experience of myself as a part of nature, rather than adrift within it.
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Submitted March 30, 2019 at 11:57AM by Everythingisanexampl https://ift.tt/2V1TOJ8
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