My Lyft driver last night is named Jean. Jean moved here recently for the purpose of new beginnings. He wants to start over and move away from his-story … his past. We are not our history. That is not our identity. When we are in the present moment which is the only thing that is real, there is no history. History is over and the future is a made up story.
We can choose to react out of habit or old patterns of behavior. After all, those old reactions are familiar and comfortable like an old shirt. However, if we examine that shirt it has some wear. That shirt has holes, pit stains, a certain smell and it’s faded a bit. Although, it is comfortable … it is not fit to wear in public. Often, we live in those old habits. We tend to live in those patterns of behavior as the way we do things in the present moment. We will say when we do so … It’s just me, so deal with it! That can be our reaction. It has been mine before and still is sometimes. Well, it’s just not true. We are not our history. Our accomplishments are wonderful, but they are not who we are. Our mistakes and damage we have caused are not who we are either. Yes, they have shaped us. They have created the situations we are in possibly, but your history is not your identity. The money you have or don’t have or the toys you have now are not who you really are. Your pedigree and family you were born into whether viewed positively or negatively is not who you are. When I think of pedigree, I think of how dogs are bred purely in their breed, yet if too pure then there are birth defects. It’s the mutts that are the healthiest. Maybe our DNA is a result of the physical evolution of our birth history and we do have some physical conditioning based on that, but you are a child of God. Child of God is bigger than a child of mom and dad and their moms and dads. Jesus made the claim he was a child of God and a child of man. Our physical body is temporary. Our Soul is forever. We are eternal beings beyond our flesh and bones. We have to take care of our bodies and that is a big part of self love. We also have to take care of our Souls. Deciding to Love ourselves is a good start with taking care of our Souls. Practicing Love for others since we are all One, needs to be a daily practice. That hobo or the president of whatever are the same as you. Remember, a candle lit from the original candle, no matter how many iterations thereafter, is still the same candle flame … just on a different candle. We have the Original Candle Flame in every one of us. We cannot hate on our brothers and sisters, otherwise we are hating on ourselves and that seems to happen naturally without any effort. Self love breeds love for others and self hate reciprocates as well. We can’t help it. So we are not our history … that’s just stuff we did and choices we made. We can start over this moment.
We can be a bold and brave badass like my new friend Jean. He left everything, went where he knew no one, so he could sit with himself. It’s like how I have wanted at times to go to an Ashram to get away and focus. He moved from Miami to a place with nothing – no family or friends or things he once had for the most part … a desert so to say. Like when Jesus went into the desert wilderness to fast for 40 days. Take away the distractions and what do you have … you. You have to sit with you. If you dwell on your history, then you mourn and grieve and worry and have self-pity and all that garbage that is a low vibration. If you are new this moment, ready to experience life in a new way with new tools and new choices, then you are growing and it’s exciting and an adventure. This is making the future. This is dictating how you might respond in the future with a new self love and new choices you are making that happen to have a great result. You are NOW. God is the great I AM and you are NOW. We can only be in the present moment. NOTHING else actually exists … kinda like there is only Love and fear is a lie we choose to believe. Think about how you can live in this present moment .. all things are made new when you are here in the now. This was said in the Bible – Isaiah 65:7- “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind. Also, Revelation 21:5 “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Are you willing to adopt a new philosophy? Well, who the hell am I if I am not my history? Remember, you are a child of the Master, the Creator of the Universe … a child of God. You can do anything! You are given all the resources to succeed. God wants us to Create. Create our lives like we want to … any way we want to live. We have all the tools and if you can’t find those tools, then we just have to ask with all sincerity. Are you willing to step out of the comfort zone of historical reaction and patterns of behavior? Are you adventurous? Can you try something new … a new approach because you realize that the ways you are responding now are not giving you the happiness and results you want? Can you live in the present moment? Do you know what that is? Is that a new concept? It surely was for me when I finally learned about it? I never knew about it before I learned what that meant. I was in the past and future only. I had no reading comprehension because I couldn’t focus and be in the now. Attention deficit can be helped by learning to live in the present. My mind was blown when I read Eckhardt Tolle’s “The Power of Now”. That book taught me about being present and learning this kicked off my spiritual awakening 10 or so years ago. My sister gave me that book and I know she is here to walk with me and help me on this Path I am now on. I am so Grateful for her, the Eternal Wisdom I am learning, my Guide and Soul Family, new friends I make along the way like Jean and each one of you brothers and sisters I am privileged to walk and play with on this Earthly Utopia.
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