The ceaseless flow of seeming beginnings and endings that make up this experience of life happens at a fractal scale far beyond our ability to truly comprehend through our minds. Within this dynamic process, our ability to percieve and the objects being percieved unfold simultaneously. Because of this, our minds cannot be aware of the underlying process that gives rise to any experience: at best our minds can extrapolate from the larger picture what is likely to be happening at the smallest picture.
The good news is, when we embrace this realization that the process is unknowable, we are freed up to experience this life in new, more fulfilling ways. Presently, our allotted evolutionary task is merely to move beyond listening to our conditioned “voice in the head” that says that we must (or perhaps will never) be the master of our lives, thereby creating the inner space necessary to more perfectly distinguish and liberate the pure creative intent for our lives from the momentum and noise of the programming that we have inherited.
Aligning our actions with this authentic voice empowers us to overcome all the seeming barriers and obstacles that have, up until now, kept us living half-lives. As we learn to trust our intuition, regardless of what our more reasonable and rational minds might have to say about it, we experience a deep vibration of joy and fulfillment unlike any we had known before.
Our minds are reluctant to give up this attempt at illusive mastery that we have cultivated over all this time. As a species, we have invested extraordinary amounts of energy crafting and honing the rules of this game of life. Whether we outwardly achieved our goals or not, turning away from this learned and structured process in favor of a nondescript and seemingly reckless insight threatens our sense of security.
Surrender is the key. Always.
In the process of surrendering to our internal compass, we begin to unfold the lessons that have been eons in the making. We draw pure energy from this experience of direct learning, and we begin to trust ourselves more and more. In this process, the purpose for our lives are revealed, prepackaged with the energy and resources necessary to overcome any obstacle. For the first time, we know true success.
Realize, though, that our ultimate purpose has little to do with how it is we are called upon to serve, and is more simply just learning how to serve: not others, per se, but life itself. To reach this next stage in our evolution, we must learn to listen for, trust, and surrender to this inner voice as it guides us to unfold and fulfill each outer purpose in this experience of life.
Our minds cannot contain that which contains our minds. Any attempts to do so vainly ties up energy, distracting us from authenticity and limiting our experience of fulfillment. Rather than trying to master life, realize that all illusive beginnings and endings unfold within one eternal occasion to master surrender. It is there where we become the fulfillment of a purpose larger than our own.
I like the idea of describing the world at the atomic level, swirling atoms… it’s heady, intoxicating stuff yet it’s still thoughts about something rather than direct, felt experience … intoxicating also but at the felt level. ya, we can’t THINK the world in as satisfying a manner as we can feel it.
I was discussing Tolle with a new friend and he was describing how previously he’d get all upset at other drivers on the freeway and that has changed… he was remembering a recent experience where he felt the impatience, anger, judgment arise and he just smiled… i realized that that smile expressed the joy of being present with its interconnection, felt reality.
Our minds can not contain that which contain our minds. WOW!!! loved it
Tom