Welcome to our second
day! We’ve noticed what Agape is
NOT. Let’s move along a bit further.
We can see now parts of
ourselves we’ve found to be unacceptable - so much so that we cannot look at
them. The first step towards changing
anything is recognition. What’s not
working? This journey is not so much
about fixing what is wrong as seeing what is going on. We are not broken. We are in varying levels of pain and healing.
To move through these parts
we’ll have to accept them without shame.
This is not a pretty process or a simple one. None of us are exempt. How do we see with our hearts instead of our
heads?
Compassion is key. Look at each other. Find not fault, but empathy. I am your sister. He is your brother. You know how we feel. You’ve been here on some level. We are not “wrong” or “strange” or
“uncomfortable”; we are doing the best we
can with what we have.
As your emotional trigger
gets pushed, and you feel the rise of anger, pity, annoyance or opinion –
STOP. You are looking right now at an
aspect of yourself you’d rather not.
This “other”, the one killing your otherwise sunny disposition, reminds
you of you. This memory is familiar. It is uncomfortable. You’ve labeled it “not good”. You want it to stop. It reminds you of why you feel so bad
sometimes.
You are not wrong or bad for
feeling this way. You’ve been trained by a lifetime of habit. Very early on you learned specific responses;
they are engrained in your brain. You
feel familiarity around them. You may
actually seek to create them if they are not already there. You label them your personality: “I am me.
I like these types of things and people.
I don’t like these types of things and people.”
You are speaking here as the
little you. This is the you that is
determined by circumstance. It is not
the Great You. The Great You is self
defined, embodied and present in every moment.
The Great You greets every circumstance, welcomes and embraces it.
The Great You has
preferences without opinion. He or she
may like a certain color more than another.
I was with a little guy this past weekend who is just learning his
colors. So far he knows “yeyow”. His response to any “What color is this?”
question is exactly the same: “yeyow”. To him, color is in a category of One.
He is proud and happy to tell you his newly discovered truth.
Now next week he’ll learn
another color and the separation begins.
There will be “not yeyow” things he’ll have to decide about. What attributes he puts on these new colors
will in some way decide how he sees the world.
It is that way for all of us.
There are all sorts of “not
yeyow” things we’ve already formed opinions about. These decisions feel right and comforting in
a constantly shifting world. We can
“hang our hat” on these thoughts. We’ve
held on to them for such a long time – they must be true.
Yet the number of absolute
truths can be held in one hand. The rest
are momentary truths and depend on the subject, the speaker and the “time”.
To embody Agape asks that
you see with your heart. The heart knows
Truth. It can be trusted. You will recognize when your heart is
seeing. It sees only love. It sees only Truth. Sort of like seeing all color as “yeyow”,
your heart sees all of us as infinite expressions of life. Your heart sees you as exquisite. The heart
sees One everywhere it looks.
The inner discomfort you
feel when your buttons are pushed is not a signal of error or wrongdoing or
imperfection. It is a message from your
heart. It is whispering “I know the perfection that is you. Remember.
This judgment you are forming is of the little you. I know the Great You. Remember.”
So we spend our formative
years learning to categorize and label this 3D world. Then we wake up. We realize these names are just
conventions. They are useful in
conversations perhaps; not so much in forming beliefs. Names are separators. All is One.
The little you needed them
to communicate and make sense of a very big world. The Great You does not. Observe them, yes; and then without opinion
see with your heart.
What you’ll find is that
reflected in each bit of life and every face is a bit of you. Look directly at yourself and accept each
gift. For you are so much greater than
the sum of your parts. You are so much
more than a name, age, color, title, job, relationship, gender, religion or
nationality. You are heaven itself, all
wrapped up in a being that, for now, is human.
This Great You is
multi-dimensional, the embodiment of Eternal Essence, and certainly bigger than
any opinion. This Great You is an honor
to know. Thank you for showing up. You are the One we’ve been waiting for.
See you tomorrow,
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