The fun of living is variety. We are given this variety in abundance every day, but we see with limited vision and dulled senses because we are falsely told this world is struggle and strife. It is not the natural way to live. However, those who wish to control others and bend them to their will, will stop at nothing to accomplish this, even saying it is God's will. Obedience is righteous and noble. It is NOT so!
There is nothing noble or humble in denying the magnificence of your being. If God is as they tell us, we are created as He is, an extension of Him, then the splendor of Him, includes each and every one of us. We are not unworthy, tainted beings who need instructions from others who know less than we do, how to accomplish what we came here to do.
Life seems harsh at times, but our suffering comes not from the circumstances, but from our lack of understanding of how things work. We are meant to approach life with vulnerability, knowing we are safe in that we are an integral part of all there is. With this understanding, we embrace the expansion caused by the difficulties we face with exuberance, grace and gratitude.
One can spend his entire life denying his desires, praying to an imaginary friend for guidance, when what we think of as God, lives within us and is ready in every moment to answer you. When you ask something, expect an answer. Look for it in everything around you as it may come in a subtle sign or in a piece of a conversation you overhear in passing.
If you are receiving guidance telling you to cause hardship for others, to deliberately encourage others to hate or to actually kill another person, YOU lack understanding and should seek the counsel of a physician.
In 21 of the world's major religions, the common thread and the most revered message in them all is the Ethics of Reciprocity, better known as The Golden Rule. Basically, they all say, do to others as you would have done to you and yet this is the most violated. What does this say about the validity of religion? What does it say about our ability or willingness to listen and incorporate information into our behavior?
We are not meant to live in anger, to hate ourselves, thereby treating others as we feel we deserve to be treated. If you dislike something about yourself, it is for you to deal with on your own, within your consciousness, not in the oppression of others or obstructing their path, which is their Divine Right.
We are meant to learn in joy. Life is meant to be a celebration of our freedom and our treatment of others, to be an expression of our gratitude. Look to yourself for your salvation. Nothing and no one is coming to save you or fix anything. We ARE the love we seek. The world needs your love, not your self-loathing. It is each person's responsibility, probably the most important task we have, to cultivate and choose your own happiness. If everyone would address his own self worth, the world would begin to change immediately, because you cannot offer what is not in you. Buddha said, "One who loves himself, cannot harm another." So make the choice to be happy and remove what is covering the light in your being.
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