Our Spiritual Journey: Finding Our True Selves

We often get traumatized in our relationships with others when we try to draw from their behaviors some definition of life around us, our own worth, or how we need to react in the future to avoid such pain. The reality is that people are either acting from a place of illusion, delusion, confusion about who they are and the nature of reality, or they are coming from an increasingly awakened state. Trying to draw reason from something that is not based on reason, but by a complete disconnection from reality will never bring reality-based answers.  "Trying to draw reason from something that is not based on reason,  but by a complete disconnection from reality will never bring  reality-based answers." When we can recognize that a person is living from a state much as if they were in the middle of a dream or nightmare, but not knowing they are in a dream or nightmare, we can know that we just need to leave it be. Anything we try to do or say will only be incorporated somehow i...

Don’t try to connect with people on the level of their personality. That is not who they are. What we project out to the world is not who we truly are within. It is a reflection of where we are in our growth and our consciousness at that particular point in time. Who we are is something far greater. When we can connect with someone with the knowledge that we can see them and honor them and recognize them as that which is holy, even if they are not aware of this within themselves, we can really begin to be present with others. "Connect with someone with the knowledge that we can see them and honor them and recognize them as that which is holy..." If we were to ask anyone who they truly are, they would probably not be able to tell us. But, they may be able to tell us what makes them glow, what makes them feel most connected to life, what they are discovering about the world around them and within them. We do not have to be a show of personalities. That is only a stage in our ev...

Don’t take anything that you try to accomplish personally. None of it is about you. You are already perfect in your creation; nothing that you do or fail to do will either amplify or diminish your being. We do for the greater whole, not because it is who we are, but because it is what they need. If we move into a place where we are open to the needs of the whole, we can forget ourselves as a manifestation of that in the process.  "You are already perfect in your creation; nothing that you do or fail to do will either amplify or diminish your being." The more we forget our own importance in the creation of our works, the more creation can flow through us rather than from us. Nothing valuable gets created from ego and remains in that state. It becomes forced and elicits a sense of fear. We do not have to earn our worth on this earth. We need to remember the worth of others and that we can bring to all of life something sacred and valuable that can help us to awaken into a highe...

Don’t go looking for something that will make your life more worthwhile. Let go of your aspirations for a moment. Let go of all the great plans and the expectations of what you might “be” one day, with a lot of hard work and discipline. We are already that. There is nothing to go looking for. There is nothing outside of ourselves that we need to seek. There is nothing beyond ourselves that we need to find. It is all within us.  "We are each both the drop of water in the ocean and the morning dew." In this allowance for who we already are, we can allow life’s expression to move through us and our into the world. We can know that we are a part of this beautiful whole, but still our unique selves. Imagine life’s expression moving through a drop of water in the ocean. There are billions of drops of water that make up the ocean, each one never really thought of in its separate beauty. But look at a drop of dew on a flower at the break of day. Or the way the droplets of water glist...

Live more often in the moment between two thoughts. Don’t rush to do anything when you find you aren’t doing anything. Sit with the stillness. Be with the absence of thought. Let your mind be blank and move into your senses. We are not our brains. Our brains are only a part of our entire makeup, and yet we frequently make them the focal point of our existence. There is no reason for this to be where we reside most of the time. Allow yourself to be with your whole body. Our senses exist in every cell of our beings. We do not connect with life from our brains. We connect to live through who we are, beyond our life stories, beyond our personalities. There is a state of being of which we are a part, an inseparable expression of the whole. As you experience that, you will experience the true meaning of life.    

Start each morning with something that lifts your soul. Sit outside and just listen to the birds. Listen to a beautiful piece of music. Take the time to discover a new and interesting story on social media that highlights the beauty of humanity. Talk a walk for no other purpose than to feel your body move and to be connected with the earth. Say a prayer for someone.   This is who we are. Every day is sacred. Begin each day with reverence and a sense of awe in being alive. Life is more magical and wondrous than we could ever know . ~Karin M. Keyes