The only time we have is now and we squander it by allowing the mind to hold sway over us. We are sleepwalking so we can’t even hear the truth when it is told. This is the dilemma that everyone faces.
We fear other people seeing how insecure we are and so we shore up our image with new clothes and life-draining pretense. Are you with me so far?
A war is raging in Ukraine and we who walk free are wasting our opportunities to wake up. It takes a war being waged in our own home to be blasted into even a moment of clarity.
Examine your day and you will see that it is chockfull of trifles. Some of them are necessary; most of them are not.
There is a voice in our head dedicating to fear-mongering. It drones on non-stop in the background of our daily routine. The airwaves are jammed with subliminal propaganda. It’s all we can do to deal with our suppressed emotional pain.
There is a good reason for this. The ego only lives between the lines. It dwells on past and future pains we will experience.
I am writing this in a state of pain because I have studied my mind for so long. All I can hope for is to know this. To know that the simple words of Jesus tell us about this.
Go back to knowing that you are not your suffering. You are not your past or your future.
What you are is unknowable by the mind.
Stop now and feel the silence that you truly are.
Vicki Woodyard
Oh how wonderful to feel the silence that we truly are! And to be free from the worry troll that tends to plague me. He’s a sneaky envoy that’s been sent by the ego to muck things up. It’s always a battle/war like you said Vicki….internally. Frankly, I’m tired of it, but I will keep on keeping on one day/moment at a time.
Yesterday’s blog reply: I wonder what time it is on the doomsday clock? And where is Abraham Lincoln when you need him? Strange little Oscar interlude last night, but it doesn’t mean diddly squat in the larger scheme of things…..just shows the symptoms of our moral cancer. I guess I’ll do my own homework and watch it all play out.
I hope you’re finding peace dear Vicki.
Tami
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I haven’t seen the doomsday clock lately, but I heard that the trend is towards autocracy on a global level; that democracies are disappearing. I know ours is because DOJ is seemingly ignoring many chances to indict Trump. We all SAW him commit treason and yet it has to be proved in some legalistic way that no one can fathom, hence he goes free.
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