Tag: s/Self

Reintegration

Posted on by Marko

See the World as you yourself. Love it, as you love yourself, and you will not fear it. Love others without qualifications, assumptions, or reservations and you will feel them, not just see or describe them. Their depth matches yours. Together our depth is infinite.

Hope and Fear are self-centeredness, self importance, arising due to the self directed separation from the Whole. The Whole from which you were carved. Hope and Fear are two sides of the same coin of Insecurity. Insecurity arising from self directed isolation, self inflicted loneliness. If you prioritize your little self over the big Self, you rob yourself. You perceive and live less. Being one with the big Self, you gain wisdom, connection, and live more. A statue has a fixed shape, but a rock that it was carved from has unlimited potential to express itself. Be a person, but don’t forget the planet that nourishes and gives us form.

Potting Invasive Thoughts

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There are thoughts that possess us and reduce our complexity to a compulsion. These invasive thoughts sprout from self-doubting seeds, breeding insecurity and conformation. When left unrecognized, they take root in the ground of our being. Their growth is exponential and parasitic, preying on our sense of self while giving little outside suffering in return. They possess us to the degree of losing control over our behaviour, priorities, and values. They alter our reality, our sense of normal.

Yet these invasive species of our mind should not be ignored, suppressed, or ripped out – just potted. Don’t let them take root in your garden, your ground of self, but give them space to make themselves known, contained in a mental pot. When understood, these dark seeds are wells of deeper information that our self-preservation often buries. They contain records of our interaction with world and life. Be aware of your feelings and seek out their origin. Embrace them without becoming them. By identifying the roots that vie for control over us, we control them. They become an adviser, not an adversary.

Present Tension

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Living in the present starts with the fundamental belief that you can change now. Now exists, the future does not, the past has passed. The first is real, the other two are either fantasy or history. The first anchors you to life, the other two remove you from it.

Since our language describes our relationship to the world, we can start embracing the present there. Instead of having three strictly defined temporal tenses, let’s reduce them to two: Present Expressed and Present Expressing. Both are real-time, both describe life as it naturally flows, but neither pins you to a point in history or anticipation of future events. Imagine that both tenses describe a natural evolution of the universe, in which you participate in your own authentic, natural manner. If you need labels, you can call it grace, destiny, fate or whatever else points you toward that process. As the universe unfolds, so does time – time measured not through minutes or seconds, but through changes in and around us. Those changes that have taken place are part of Present Expressed, a tense describing the form and course that the universe has naturally taken. The Present Expressing represents the continual evolution of the universe and our participation in it. We are all variables within this tense, and we all matter, so long as we embrace our authenticity. Through or without it, we steer the evolution of the universe to some infinitesimal degree.

The right behaviour is authentic behavior, and this behaviour expresses itself through our continual decisions. Don’t ask yourself if this is the right thing to do – ask yourself if this is the authentic thing to do. Are you acting from within or out of fear or imposed duty? The form that our lives, and by extension the universe (sum total of every life and everything), assume after an authentically expressed decision, will be natural and right, because it comes from a natural place. Think of yourself as an element, like oxygen or helium. Each element behaves in its own, unique way because of its nature, and yet together they hold the universe together and are part of its continual evolution.

Relationship with the Universe

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Your relationship to the world matters, it is the original lens behind how you see reality. Our world, and the universe as a whole, is not a scary place. It is our home and origin. Love and see it, with its many forms, as you do yourself, and you will feel a connection, a natural belonging, nurture. You are a loved part of that ever-expanding, Self-completing whole. You matter to it, and when you recognize and feel that, it matters to you. The universe sustains you in so many ways, and you help shape it through your thoughts and acts.

On Identity (part 1 of many) 

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Who am I? The problem of answering starts with the question that seeks to strip down something uniquely formless into a familiar, standardized group of adjectives. Personally, I prefer the less literal approach of pointing toward how one perceives reality – through acts and authentic expression – rather than passively describing it. We are bundles of life experience glued by an inner essence. The changeable and the unchangeable. All the connections we make with people and the world give us concrete form to say we are this or that. But we often forget to zoom out, attaching ourselves to individual parts of the bundle, when instead we are closer to being their sum. A sum whose potential is not only greater than the totality of its individual components, but also unquantifiable (nor should it be unless you wished to reduce it). It is us a communion of the known (conscious, learned, experienced) and the unknown (deeper, unmanifested awareness). When we allow this synthesis to take place, we feel more complete, and we begin to feel the depths of who we are. We let ourselves be, to belong. We learn to purposefully navigate the world – but also to extend and transform it, through acts of compassion and selflessness. The universe is a canvas, and we are one of its countless brushstrokes.