WHAT IF YOU TRUSTED DIVINE INTELLIGENCE TO GUIDE YOUR LIFE?

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Here is an insightful passage in “Life Is Just A Ride!: A Map To Help You Remember The Truth That Is Already Inside You.” by Jocelyne Grzela

 

— Respect and love yourself, your body. Do what makes you feel good. Love and accept yourself just the way you are. Your body, your emotions, they’re all perfect, and so is everyone else’s. Accept that we’re all different. Give yourself and others permission to just be, and you will no longer have the need to judge, blame, and criticize yourself or others. You will find that you no longer have the need to be right and the need to make anyone else wrong. You will replace the tendency to dominate with one of allowing others to choose what’s best for them. Everyone has a strong sense of what they want and what their limits are. That applies to all people in your life, including your children. In the words of the poet Kahlil Gibran:

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you...

When you become aware that you are being judgmental of yourself or others and you’re about to impose a rule, consider saying nothing. Instead, switch to observing your feelings and actions. Be at peace with what you observe. Instead of reacting in a defensive way when you notice an irritating person or situation, just be with the feeling you experience at that moment, and accept whatever comes without labeling or defending it. Simply pay attention to the feeling moving through your body without judging it. Become the observer of the character you are playing. Monitor your performance, and ask yourself, “what’s the most loving thing I can do or say here?”

What if you stopped interfering and allowed life to unfold as it should? What if you trusted that the same intelligence that is directing the universe is also guiding and directing you and everyone else without your having to interfere? Instead of going through the rule book to decide what’s right, try closing it, and observe your life experiences fall perfectly into place. As a result, you will become more loving, kinder, more respectful, more powerful, more mindful, and that’s what will be reflected back to you. What do you want to see in the mirror?

We live in a world of duality. The belief system we have carried with us since the story of Adam and Eve promotes duality and judgment. We went from having eternal life to experiencing death, from having abundance to not having enough, to living the illusion that there is a beginning and an end. This story promotes duality, meaning two-ism or seeing the whole as somehow divided. Similarly, the word divided has two parts: di like duo means two, and vided means seen; together, they mean seeing two.

With yin and yang, everything occurs in pairs of opposites, but the opposites always function in unity. We learn through contrast. For us to know beauty, we must also know the concept of ugliness. To know if someone is tall, he or she must be compared to a short person, and vice versa. All these beliefs depend on opposites. Opposites give meaning to each other. Male is the opposite of female; happiness is the opposite of suffering, and life is the opposite of death. We must experience one to know the other. Both are essential and inseparable. Darkness and light, left and right, front and back, up and down, hot and cold, water and ice, heaven and hell, cannot be separated. They are the same thing at different degrees of vibration. Accept that we are both, a human personality, and a perfect divine being coexisting in this illusion of duality.

When we accept both opposites, without criticism, we realize that they are perfect oneness, coexisting in this illusion of duality. Accept both sides, without judgment, and let the illusion be.