Outside and Inside - As Long As You Seek For Something, You Will Get the Shadow of Reality
There is a natural balance in the world.
Nature always seeks to bring everything to balance.
Water seeks its own level, what goes up comes back down.
In life you have the pursuit of relationships and material gain.
At the same time you have the process of resolving conflicts and stressful beliefs.
Only awareness of your true nature can give you the peace you seek.
Peace and harmony is the essential nature of the creative force within you.
Jesus said "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within] you.
" Luke 17-20.
His teachings stressed personal responsibility for your actions and personal freedom when each person finds God within themselves.
The process of finding peace and harmony is as simple or complex as you want to make it.
Can you find joy and happiness in your daily activity? What issues or beliefs come up when you try to find peace with yourself and others? This process is the inside work, the work of growing awareness.
Spirituality is a process as much as it is a belief.
Spirituality is the discovery of your true nature, that part of you that is connected and is part of the creative force that formed the world.
The inside life and the outside life live in balance to each other forming the whole experience.
The inside life is the recognition of spiritual awareness.
Awareness that you are more than your physical body and of your connection to the infinite unified energy field that supports all life.
The outside life is the ego driven thoughts of me and mine.
Most of that time is given to protecting yourself with material comfort and emotional stability within relationships.
When you are young and growing the outside life is more important to you than the inside life This imbalance between the outside and inside life will continue until the outside life driven by ego starts to realize that more and more stuff will not satisfy the inner needs.
The cycle of life of birth, growth, maturity, decay and death is the way the physical world express itself.
Nothing is permanent as the old gives way to the new.
Relationships are similar in that they start, grow and mature.
They can develop into love relationships which will then give them life beyond the friendship stage.
Love relationships develop when emotions open up the energy center of the heart and the connection to the other person is made on the unity plane of consciousness.
Love is the language of unity awareness, when you feel no separation between yourself and others.
Love relationships are a great way to work out negative beliefs and learning how to live in the present moment.
While love relationships are important for self development, they will not replace the inner work of knowing your true self and your connection to the unity of the world.
As relationships mature, there is an opportunity for each person to use the knowledge that maturity brings to gain awareness.
This process is part of your natural evolution as each person comes to this point at sometime in their life.
At you mature awareness has the opportunity to start to grow again.
Evolution pushes the awareness of all souls forward.
Ever so gently you are becoming more aware of yourself.
Sometimes a crisis appears that jolts consciousness awake.
Great difficulty can be a catalyst for great change.
Dramatic changes caused by accident, injury or illness can create openings for dramatic transformation.
Many people who face life threatening situation find themselves in the peace of surrender.
Nothing more can be done, they can only bring peace to themselves by accepting their situation, no matter how extreme.
Many spiritual awakenings have occurred when the mind and ego have become exhausted and can no longer control their environment.
You don't have to wait for life threatening situations to redirect your attention to peace.
Every day events, your work environment and your relationships are perfect catalyst for change.
Bringing awareness to everyday events gives you unlimited opportunity to question stressful beliefs.
Life is flows of energy, as life presents itself to you, bring awareness to it by looking closely at your thoughts as they appear.
Do your work without attachment.
Know that life will provide the opportunities for you to evolve and grow.
Be open to all possibilities and know that serenity is an open door.
The knowledge that awareness is behind all creation will give you comfort and allows you to accept all situations as they are without negative judgment.
By resolving stressful thoughts, you can begin to experience the flow of life.
In this state all thoughts come and go without attachment.
You still make decisions and take action for your life, the difference is that with awareness those decisions and actions are rooted in peace and harmony.
No stress is created when decisions are made in a state of clarity.
If someone disagrees with your decision then that is their preference.
They need to look at their thoughts if that preference is creating stress for them.
Opinions and preferences are the ways evolution occurs.
Each person is on an evolutionary track to self awareness.
How long it takes is obviously up to each individual, depending on how many unresolved beliefs still reside in their consciousness.
The different levels of awareness are very subtle and blend from one to another.
Awareness can sometimes rise slowly or can rise dramatically depending on the events in your life.
Some people plateau and self awareness can stay on the survival plane for a long time until something dramatic happens and throws the ego out of control.
In the practice of raising awareness, it takes time and attention to your thoughts and beliefs.
Self examination can be a fierce practice that puts all your beliefs about who you are and why you think the way you do in the open for questioning.
You can only be responsible for you own awareness.
Everyone is the doing the best they can with the awareness they have at any given time.
You can only live your life as an example of living in peace and harmony.
There are spiritual teachers and masters in every society that serve as guides to learn how to expand awareness.
The path to self awareness is an individual journey.
Do your best to resolve stressful beliefs so that you will be able to have clarity in all your words and deeds.
Nature always seeks to bring everything to balance.
Water seeks its own level, what goes up comes back down.
In life you have the pursuit of relationships and material gain.
At the same time you have the process of resolving conflicts and stressful beliefs.
Only awareness of your true nature can give you the peace you seek.
Peace and harmony is the essential nature of the creative force within you.
Jesus said "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within] you.
" Luke 17-20.
His teachings stressed personal responsibility for your actions and personal freedom when each person finds God within themselves.
The process of finding peace and harmony is as simple or complex as you want to make it.
Can you find joy and happiness in your daily activity? What issues or beliefs come up when you try to find peace with yourself and others? This process is the inside work, the work of growing awareness.
Spirituality is a process as much as it is a belief.
Spirituality is the discovery of your true nature, that part of you that is connected and is part of the creative force that formed the world.
The inside life and the outside life live in balance to each other forming the whole experience.
The inside life is the recognition of spiritual awareness.
Awareness that you are more than your physical body and of your connection to the infinite unified energy field that supports all life.
The outside life is the ego driven thoughts of me and mine.
Most of that time is given to protecting yourself with material comfort and emotional stability within relationships.
When you are young and growing the outside life is more important to you than the inside life This imbalance between the outside and inside life will continue until the outside life driven by ego starts to realize that more and more stuff will not satisfy the inner needs.
The cycle of life of birth, growth, maturity, decay and death is the way the physical world express itself.
Nothing is permanent as the old gives way to the new.
Relationships are similar in that they start, grow and mature.
They can develop into love relationships which will then give them life beyond the friendship stage.
Love relationships develop when emotions open up the energy center of the heart and the connection to the other person is made on the unity plane of consciousness.
Love is the language of unity awareness, when you feel no separation between yourself and others.
Love relationships are a great way to work out negative beliefs and learning how to live in the present moment.
While love relationships are important for self development, they will not replace the inner work of knowing your true self and your connection to the unity of the world.
As relationships mature, there is an opportunity for each person to use the knowledge that maturity brings to gain awareness.
This process is part of your natural evolution as each person comes to this point at sometime in their life.
At you mature awareness has the opportunity to start to grow again.
Evolution pushes the awareness of all souls forward.
Ever so gently you are becoming more aware of yourself.
Sometimes a crisis appears that jolts consciousness awake.
Great difficulty can be a catalyst for great change.
Dramatic changes caused by accident, injury or illness can create openings for dramatic transformation.
Many people who face life threatening situation find themselves in the peace of surrender.
Nothing more can be done, they can only bring peace to themselves by accepting their situation, no matter how extreme.
Many spiritual awakenings have occurred when the mind and ego have become exhausted and can no longer control their environment.
You don't have to wait for life threatening situations to redirect your attention to peace.
Every day events, your work environment and your relationships are perfect catalyst for change.
Bringing awareness to everyday events gives you unlimited opportunity to question stressful beliefs.
Life is flows of energy, as life presents itself to you, bring awareness to it by looking closely at your thoughts as they appear.
Do your work without attachment.
Know that life will provide the opportunities for you to evolve and grow.
Be open to all possibilities and know that serenity is an open door.
The knowledge that awareness is behind all creation will give you comfort and allows you to accept all situations as they are without negative judgment.
By resolving stressful thoughts, you can begin to experience the flow of life.
In this state all thoughts come and go without attachment.
You still make decisions and take action for your life, the difference is that with awareness those decisions and actions are rooted in peace and harmony.
No stress is created when decisions are made in a state of clarity.
If someone disagrees with your decision then that is their preference.
They need to look at their thoughts if that preference is creating stress for them.
Opinions and preferences are the ways evolution occurs.
Each person is on an evolutionary track to self awareness.
How long it takes is obviously up to each individual, depending on how many unresolved beliefs still reside in their consciousness.
The different levels of awareness are very subtle and blend from one to another.
Awareness can sometimes rise slowly or can rise dramatically depending on the events in your life.
Some people plateau and self awareness can stay on the survival plane for a long time until something dramatic happens and throws the ego out of control.
In the practice of raising awareness, it takes time and attention to your thoughts and beliefs.
Self examination can be a fierce practice that puts all your beliefs about who you are and why you think the way you do in the open for questioning.
You can only be responsible for you own awareness.
Everyone is the doing the best they can with the awareness they have at any given time.
You can only live your life as an example of living in peace and harmony.
There are spiritual teachers and masters in every society that serve as guides to learn how to expand awareness.
The path to self awareness is an individual journey.
Do your best to resolve stressful beliefs so that you will be able to have clarity in all your words and deeds.
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