Most people are identified with the ego mind, the mind created out of the need for safety and security. The problem is that safety and security are nonexistent in the ego's realm, since death is imminent. The gift is that this ego mind is doomed to fail, resulting in an inevitable awakening. When the awakening occurs is a matter of individual circumstances. 

When will your awakening come? Perhaps it is already here?

Love.



On this path toward enlightenment, we are all just comparing notes. I love what Eckhart Tolle says in The Power of Now: “I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already.” I don’t think we could ever trace truth back to the original teaching. We could never find the original messenger of divine reality because it exists within each of us. These are the teachings of every sage, avatar, and incarnation of the divine throughout the ages.

We get ourselves and the world in big trouble when we relegate truth to one person or the followers of one human’s teachings. This is the nature of Jesus’ teachings and the endless war that has sprung out of collective clinging to one man’s monopoly on God. Did the Buddha not bring similar messages? And before that, and after this, and forever and ever, Amen, right? We crystallize these teachings and refuse the possibility that they exist in you and I right now and always. We don’t tap into our infinite nature, choosing to stay in this finite reality, and thus reject our teachers and those teachings we so revere.

Know yourself to be the teacher and the student. A true teacher learns from his or her teachings and knows them to be from beyond. Do you really think you came up with all that by yourself? Don’t be silly. And here is my teaching. Know that I am learning, with you, beside you, from you. Most of the time, I’m just writing about the problems I’m facing in my own life. Now isn’t that fun? We may just be sharing this life. I once heard a man say, “The reason God chooses broken vessels to carry His messages is so that we don’t mistake Him for the vessel.” None of us are perfect except in the moment, and this is where divine truth exists, where you and God are one. There is nothing left to learn, just teachings to remind us of what we already know.

Love.