“The greatest goal is to find out who you really are”
Now – as far as goals go – most peeps would probably think it’s a darned good goal. The Ultimate.
I read this the other day,
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretence. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagine to be true”
I don’t know how you define enlightenment, and let’s face it, it’s a pretty loaded word that many of us don’t visit: too weird, to far out there, to woowoo, to other worldly, linked heavily to religious traditions, something only ‘very spiritual peeps’ reach.
And yet, ‘the crumbling away of untruth’ is how you find out who you really are. And surprise surprise that journey isn’t all butterflies and roses. Thorns in abundance.
In fact, if you asked any of the people just finished Creating Courage (no longer available), they may say to you “it (taking the wool from your eyes) can feel like you are putting a bomb underneath everything you believe, seeing it explode and then starting to build again.”
And why would you really want to do that?
My guess, because there the time has come for you, where you now realise that the maintenance of being what you are not is so darned hard. And it’s the untruths that are keeping you from saying yes to your greatest goal.
You maybe want to say ‘Yes to yourself’, but not feel you have to sacrifice, or loose out if you say yes to the destroying of what you believed for so darn long.
Who do you think you are?
If you want to know, you don’t have to look too far, you only need to look out at your life right now, because what and who you think you are is right in front of your eyes.
You’re living exactly what you think about you, right now.
Perhaps for you, that will be a beautiful observation exercise, or you may want to look away because there is stuff happening that even you can’t bear to look at because all you see is horror on a mammoth scale.
Take heart, see what you can do when you put your mind to it!
It’s a mess!
But see what you can actually do. Can’t you see how powerful your thinking is?
In order to find out who you really are, you have to remove the layers of what you are not. Look, I’m not one for telling anyone what they have to do. But, this one, removing the untruths and lies, it’s a have to.
How do you do that?
Start with the inside. Thoughts. Don’t go trying to change and tinker with the outside: you would never repair the washing machine when it’s the cooker that’s not working. It seems to me that to find out who we are, we go looking in the strangest of places.
Too simple.
Yes, it’s simply.
But it’s not easy.
It’s not (usually) quick.
It’s not instant.
It’s a crumbling.
And a decision you must make.
To find out who you really are you have to let go of everything you are not – not a little bit, the whole shebang.
And what do you know, the ego mind isn’t that willing to give up all that it’s placed value on without a fight. And, I promise you this, it will fight, at first.
How do you start?
First, you have to choose what you are saying Yes to (Love or Fear), you can’t fail to get to the truth if you ask for it – even if you make (many) mistakes, mess up, screw up, trip, fall, start over, make a complete old hash of it.
Change the inside and the outside will change accordingly.
Can I make a suggestion?
Start with this question, ‘Why does it matter to the loving part of your mind to find out?’
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