What is it?

We go through life inattentively avoiding pain, wanting naively to Feel Good instead, but what is it that makes Feeling Good no longer Feel Good.

Loving What Is

Thinking that you are worthless doesn't make you worthless any more than thinking you are a donkey makes you a donkey; you are who you are and your thoughts are just thoughts you've picked up in the course of living; many if not all are not true; certainly that you are worthless is false. You hate you because you can't manifest reality as you want it to be; you are ambitious to have the power to make everything go the way you want it to go; you don't have that power and you hate yourself because you refuse to love a person who does not have the power to make things as he wants them to be.

Try ignoring your thoughts; focus your attention on your senses; enjoy your sensory experience; appreciate your body and the various experiences it allows you to enjoy. It's your mind that is making you miserable; dethrone your mind, don't take it seriously; don't take your hate seriously. Relax and enjoy.

They Will be Forgiven

Man has not yet reached his natural state; like a rose bush that has not yet flowered; but the potential is there. Man the caterpillar transforms at the right moment into a butterfly; spiritual eyes have to be open to see the butterfly in the caterpillar. All who look down on others are forgiven because they don't know better; acts are often harmful but when they are it just means that the actors don't know any better; the act can be criticized never the actor; criticizing the actor keeps him infantile and guilt ridden.

It is not true that our higher self does not exist; it does exist; but it is not seen or known because all our attention is focused on survival in external reality; that's why mind is so powerful because it aligns us with external reality and survival; mind is essentially authority; our higher self is our inner authority; until it is realized we are like corks tossed on a turbulent sea; when it is realized we have grasped the breeze of the eternal and are at peace in our selves and know no fear.

It is good that you are feeling better; enjoy it and be glad for it; accept the downs enjoy the highs; celebrate both.

Bob Schenk