Dear _________________,
I have been influenced by you in more ways than you can imagine, far more ways than you will ever know. We have lived our lives as separate individuals, but I am realizing our similarities far outweigh our differences. Your existence is interwoven with mine so well that I can no longer tell where mine ends and yours begins.
I thought you were special from the first time I saw you, and you have proven it to me every step of the way. When I think I know everything about you, you surprise me again. The decisions you make and the actions you take have combined with mine to create our current world. This reality is our reality. We have come to the defining moment of our lives and now only stands the test. Will we realize that our differences are only figments of our imagination, and that in reality we are all one? Will we realize our beliefs and thoughts truly do not matter and ultimately let them slide? Will we, in place of thought, allow consciousness, awareness and presence to fill our lives?
We have been afraid. For millennia we have been afraid. We don’t have to be afraid anymore. The rising awareness cannot be held back. It is here. It is now. We are here. We are now.
We do not have to be alone any longer. But alone we must each pass through our own minds, through thought and belief to become the being that we each have been all along. Once we make the decision to act and then take action, we don’t have to go it alone. There are billions of others to help us along the way. There are billions of stars aligning and moving, creating a magical flow that will be amazing to experience.
We are all in this thing together, but we have to come in alone. We each have a decision to make. We all have the ability to become ready to make that decision. What works for one person may not work for another person. What am I talking about, this decision? The decision to awaken. To become part of the living world. To not be a zombie any more, pulled and tugged at the whim of the ego and emotion. The being within each of us is pulling us strongly in the direction of awakening, we just have to read the signs.
Life is greater than we can imagine. Can you imagine that which is beyond imagination? We can allow that unfathomable universal force to live through us and build a life that is in complete harmony with the rest of the universe around us. It will take time. It will take hard work. We and billions of others will need help. No one is coming. We are all already here. Now. Alive. Present.
Everything we know and understand is going to change. Are you willing to welcome the change? Am I willing to welcome the change? This is our time. Our place. Our reality. We can embrace the change or resist it. We can become one with the universe or try to remain as individual stars floating alone in the dark. As I write this my hand cramps and feels uncomfortable. That is resistance. Will you break the resistance with me? Will you help defeat the ego that is in all of us? To win or lose is not the question. To pick up our cross and bear it is not the task. To live, to truly live in presence and consciousness, in awareness that what we perceive is not the totality of reality is our present task.
There is a revolution coming. It has already begun. It is not a revolution of military importance or egoic swagger, but a revolution of the mind. A realization that we are not our thoughts. We are not our feelings. We are being. We are existence. This time. This place. We are now. And in the present we can effect change for the better on all fronts. Improvement is not a fad. It is a way of life. By changing ourselves we can change each other. By becoming ourselves and lovingly sharing our experience with others, we can help each other in this revolution. It is a matter of time and resources to accomplish this task. We have plenty of both. We have all the time in the world to accomplish what we came to the world to do.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he does not exist. Well, the devil does exist, and it is the ego. The ego has pulled a trick on all of us. It is inside each one of us. This mind-made entity is wrapped around the core of our being, stifling honesty and integrity and truth, and creating disharmony and dysfunction in all our relationships. The ego tries to make us believe that we are all alone and must fight for our survival, for our rights, for our freedom, for our lives. We do not need to fight, we have all we need already. All the atrocities in human history have been committed by the ego. We are ready to be rid of it. But it will take some hard work. Some wars are not fought, but lived. Live your battle against the ego every day. One day we will not have to battle anymore.
The ego wants to win this fight. But it is destined to lose. It is just a matter of time. We can quicken its' departure from the earth. We can help make it easier to give up. To dissolve the ego, we must realize it is not us. The ego we think with and about is not our being. Our being does not even know the ego is there, it just knows that our consciousness is not with being, and so thinks of us as zombies, just spaced out in never ending thought patterns that being does not understand.
Stop thinking. Recognize your emotions and let them pass. Stop thinking and be aware of the fact that you are not your thoughts. At first it is not an easy task, but iit becomes easier. Stop thinking about your life. Start living your life. Thoughts are objects that can be controlled and let go and brought in to work on problems, but they are still merely objects like a couch or a chair. The brain, especially the egoic structure of the brain, likes thoughts. The ego likes to take hold of your thoughts and wants to make sure that it all works out for the ego. You must identify the ego inside of you and be aware of it from the presence of your being.
Join the fray, get in here and start living. Become the awareness that lies behind your mind, your thoughts, your beliefs, your emotions. You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness behind your thoughts. And all that wants to happen is for you to be you.
In the end we are all like boats tossed on the ocean in a giant hurricane. It is our destiny to steer our ships alone and ride the storm into port safely. Once we make that decision, to head for home, there are billions of others to help us on our journey. Come to the port. Come home. There is plenty of room, and there is plenty of good food and people. Here on shore we will continually try to do our best. We came for the same reasons you did: salvation, enlightenment, liberation, the end of suffering, because there was nothing left to do. There is no reason to turn anyone away for any belief system held prior or still. It is all just mind traps. We are talking here about consciousness. A shift in consciousness. Consciousness doesn't mind where you came from, or how you come, just come as you are, as you were, as you wanted to be.
At the end of the analysis it has become clear that analysis is not the answer. We cannot analyze our way to the next evolution of human experience . We have to become the experience. We have to live our dreams. And we are ready to do it. It has been a wild ride so far, but things are about to get real around here. We will have to fight. But we don’t need arms for this war. We can lock all the guns in the cabinet. Swallow the key. We don’t need fear or war mongers to tell us what to be afraid of and why. There is nothing outside of ourselves that needs any changing. The change will happen within us. The battle over good and evil does not happen “out there”. It happens in here. It happens in the hearts and minds of every human being on earth. The battle for consciousness can only be fought by each individual, and the awakening has already begun.
Those who do you harm are just not awake yet. Imagine we are in an airplane and heading in for a crash landing. Follow the instructions. Put your oxygen mask on first. Then help others. Make sure you are awake fully. Then ring the alarm for your friends and family.
Because we need help. I need help. You need help. And the only people who can help us are ourselves. I am sounding the alarm. I am blowing the whistle. No one is coming to your assistance, you have to make this realization journey on your own.
Awaken my friend. Burn your candle bright. We all want to see that light shine, brighter than the stars, brighter than the sun. Take that bushel that is the ego and toss it away to the far corners of the earth. Bury it in sand. Burn it to ashes. Allow your being to shine and sing to the rooftops, to the clouds, through the sky. That is what we are here for, we just forgot for a little while. I want to help you remember.
Remember why you came to earth: To let the light of your being shine.
Shine with no bushel and let your brilliant radiance fill the earth with light.
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The Artist
