Our longing, our searching, perhaps sensing that there is something else, wanting to know what it is, wanting to experience it, looking for it «out there» in the world, wanting to escape from where we are because it’s unfulfilling, lonely, painful but not knowing how…these are things we don’t often talk about to others. We don’t share our inner life so much because we’re so busy trying to live up to an idea we have about how we should be: that we should be strong, capable, productive, that we should master our lives, our jobs, our relationships…that if we don’t master all these things we ´ll be seen as weak, a disappointment, a failure. We measure ourselves and our achievements against the lives and achievements of others. Depending on whom we’re comparing ourselves with, we often feel that we fall short, that we’re not good enough, attractive enough, clever enough. These are all mind things, they are ideas and beliefs that we have because of the expectations of the world around us.
But we are not the mind and there is nothing we have to live up to. We are spiritual beings. We are light. Nothing else matters.
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