TAKING A SHOWER WITH YOUR CLOTHES ON
When we interact with one another and the world, we are clothed with our biases, our agendas, our beliefs, our thoughts about our past, our thoughts about the future, our beliefs and thoughts about God or Higher Power or Great Mystery or It, our psychological baggage and scars, our addictions, our needs, our "truth", and our ignorance to name a few articles of clothing and then we wonder why we don't get the full benefit of our interactions. We wonder why we feel so alienated or so separate from others at times. We wonder why we don't get it that we are ONE. We wonder why things fall apart. We wonder why there is so much discord in the world. We wonder why so many of us end up ship wrecked or languishing on some barren island wondering what life is all about.
Come naked before God and surrender all the stuff we think is so indisputably important. Surrender doesn’t mean you won’t have any preferences it just means that things will be put in their proper perspective so that like the Emperor's Clothes in the age-old tale, we seem to be clothed but we are not. The clothing will indeed be invisible.
All we have to offer ourselves, God, and each other is our very self. If sacrifice should be made to a god, it would be all the stuff we think we are and all the stuff we think is important. The only thing that is important is Love and you can't do Love when your stuff is more important than that.
When you meet another soul who sees this way and you do too, you experience One. There are no longer two people, only One Thing when you interact. Though speaking and acting are part of the interaction, at times there is only profound silence into which each falls savoring the oneness that is so full, nothing else is needed - no conversation, no words, no needs, no explanations, no jockeying for first place, nothing! There is nothing, absolutely nothing that can compare with this or makes you feel so complete. Far too many of us will live and die without ever having experienced it. If we are able to come before another person in our nakedness and the other person is not able to do this, we can at least stay within our truth and offer to this person the silence, the space, the love, and the opportunity to do the same just by virtue of our being with them in this amazing space. It is always their choice and none of our business what they do with the opportunity.
This ignorance is what sets the tone on this planet and is the father of all deceit, all discord and chaos, all suffering, all acts of violence and hatred, all misuse of power. If one by one we could come to know rather than to be ignorant, we would bring the whole planet to uprightness. However, it is the very discord, suffering, chaos, and such that help to rouse us from our sleep. That is quite a paradox.
We shall shower with our clothes on until we admit they get in the way and we realize how much we are missing.
Come naked before God and surrender all the stuff we think is so indisputably important. Surrender doesn’t mean you won’t have any preferences it just means that things will be put in their proper perspective so that like the Emperor's Clothes in the age-old tale, we seem to be clothed but we are not. The clothing will indeed be invisible.
All we have to offer ourselves, God, and each other is our very self. If sacrifice should be made to a god, it would be all the stuff we think we are and all the stuff we think is important. The only thing that is important is Love and you can't do Love when your stuff is more important than that.
When you meet another soul who sees this way and you do too, you experience One. There are no longer two people, only One Thing when you interact. Though speaking and acting are part of the interaction, at times there is only profound silence into which each falls savoring the oneness that is so full, nothing else is needed - no conversation, no words, no needs, no explanations, no jockeying for first place, nothing! There is nothing, absolutely nothing that can compare with this or makes you feel so complete. Far too many of us will live and die without ever having experienced it. If we are able to come before another person in our nakedness and the other person is not able to do this, we can at least stay within our truth and offer to this person the silence, the space, the love, and the opportunity to do the same just by virtue of our being with them in this amazing space. It is always their choice and none of our business what they do with the opportunity.
This ignorance is what sets the tone on this planet and is the father of all deceit, all discord and chaos, all suffering, all acts of violence and hatred, all misuse of power. If one by one we could come to know rather than to be ignorant, we would bring the whole planet to uprightness. However, it is the very discord, suffering, chaos, and such that help to rouse us from our sleep. That is quite a paradox.
We shall shower with our clothes on until we admit they get in the way and we realize how much we are missing.
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