| Most of us are scared of what others think of us. | | | | From what I can see, we are living in a time of great |
| Especially in regard to our negative beliefs about | | | | personal reckoning, realized by the individual for and by |
| ourselves which our mind is constantly pre-occupied | | | | him or herself (not by some outer religion or other |
| with disguising as someone else's problem. Usually | | | | authority). Life is becoming more inwardly challenging, |
| these negative beliefs have something to do with the | | | | and the ego's strategies are no longer working as well. |
| fear of revealing our deep insecurity. | | | | For some, such reckoning will not be able to be |
| Our deepest fear, I would say, is that of mass ridicule, | | | | tolerated, but for others their conscience will take the |
| or being laughed at. | | | | fore in choices they make in relationship to others, be it |
| But what have to lose in reality? Can we really lose | | | | loved ones, colleagues or total strangers and a sense |
| who we are? | | | | of reality will be brought in. We each make our choices |
| I contend that we have nothing in the first place that | | | | and we each lie on the bed of our own actions. |
| can be lost. | | | | Nothing goes unnoticed in the Universe. The Akashic |
| And when you have nothing to lose, you are free. | | | | records make sure of that. But the Universe / |
| Or the other way of putting it and in the words of one | | | | Consciousness does not judge, it simply awaits our |
| of my favourite singer-songwriters, Bob Dylan, 'When | | | | own becoming of who we are - eventually everything |
| you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.' | | | | must come to rest in truth. It could not really be any |
| This is more the truth of truth of it - we really have | | | | other way. |
| nothing, not ego, not fear, not any other label or | | | | Although our Divine spark remains hidden behind these |
| emotion that we could put a name to - so how could | | | | constant efforts to appear a certain way to others, |
| we lose it? (This is the spiritually awakened state | | | | energy is such that it cannot be hidden. There is |
| wherein nothing or stillness is the natural state of being; | | | | always creation of energy going on. Even if someone |
| in this state we just are). | | | | is not able to see such dynamics they will certainly be |
| But most of us have a dread of even the most minor | | | | feeling the lower vibrational energies. No wonder it's |
| judgment from others, and in this process we | | | | easy to feel emotionally drained. The choice is always |
| compromise ourselves, our truth and our integrity. This | | | | ours - is it to be fear and ego, or is it to be honesty |
| is fine if it is acknowledged, but this is usually not the | | | | and forgiveness, starting with self-forgiveness? |
| case. Rather, it's an inflated sense of importance that | | | | Let's be honest. We all know what is really in our |
| we carry with us in our relationships that is our own | | | | hearts and what we cover up, don't we? |
| worst enemy. This seems to matter little out in the | | | | Life is truly too short in this physical world to continue |
| world as we have it today. The 'looking good' it seems, | | | | to waste energy on maintaining the cover-ups. It's also |
| is all-important to us and the cost to ourselves and | | | | an opportunity to expand and grow rapidly; it truly is a |
| others ignored. Yet we fail to see that our own worst | | | | precious chance we have here! |
| enemy can lead us to our greatest gift of freedom | | | | So, the question is, is the ego trip worth it? |
| and liberation. | | | | You choose. No one else can anyway. |