LIMITLESS CONSCIOUSNESS IS US
I am discovering that "being the change I want to see in the world" is better than expecting the world to live up to my (thus far unrealistic) expectations. Our civilized world is not "civilized." I want it to shape up so we can all get to live happy lives. I have "wanted" this for years. Instead, the world of "out there" is getting cruder and ruder and dumber and more scary.
These days, I realized, its time to cultivate new practices. If yoga practice is good for the body, then releasing unrealistic expectations improves my thinking when I practice it. Thus, I cultivate "being the change." I want to see in the world around me. I want kinder, gentler world. To achieve it, I am discovering, I must "practice" being kinder and gentler - first to myself and then to the world around me. None of us can give to the world what we first have not given to ourselves.
No more naming, blaming, shaming or finger pointing! It doesn't change anything. Instead, when I inhabit my "new" thinking practice the world around me changes; no matter how diabolical the news (and this last year feels like a apocalyptic sci-fi movie unfolding) as I relieve my ignorance that civilization has embedded in my when I was too young to defend myself. The "truth" I am newly uncovering of humanity's "hidden history thus becomes achievable without burying my head in "sand" of cognitive dissonance.
The only thing I can actually control in my life is my reactions to what Life presents me with. Practice makes progress. I can reframe, reperceive rather than reject or regret life's unfoldings. If human life has any "point" it is the work we do on ourselves. I am doing the work that feeds me spiritually and emotionally. Apparently, I "need" what is currently unfolding in our reality to make that happen! It is certainly not what I "want" but I realize if life was a happy summer's day at a picnic there would be no opportunity for most of us to "grow" into awareness of something we all already are.
I know we have all heard this ancient teaching but (for me at least) I did not not view "knowing myself" as the most important work any human being can do and be the gift Consciousness endowed us with to give to each other.
Meanwhile, while I am filling my intellectual knowing with the worst garbage I could have imagined as "Truth" I am also cultivating the ability to focus on processing rather than becoming "a destination filled with unrealistic expectations.." I am probably happier and more at peace, with myself, than at anytime in my six decades of being in physical body despite knowing that I have been mind-controlled my entire life; limited by civilization, to ignorance about how reality actually operates; limited to belief that humans are small enough to fit in civilization's "box" that has defined and manipulated me into the acceptance that I was limited to 5-sense knowing, in a limited 3-d reality. And, perhaps worst of all, kept ignorant that I am a manifestation of Limitless Consciousness that is not restricted to a time-sensitive status of "three score year and ten." Life beyond the physical is released when Limitless Consciousness-is-us.