What do I really need in my life?

It is very curious to note that very little of what we had planned has come to fruition. Instead, we have been presented with new experiences that have taken us out of our comfort zone because they were not planned.

Before, I thought that everything that happens to us has a meaning, even if we cannot find it from our limited perspective. Now, with maturity, I realize that life has the meaning I want to give it. In other words, I am the one who decides, from the dial of consciousness, how I am going to take on this new situation I am going to go through. And at the crossroads, I can only take two paths: fear or trust.
 

In the path of fear, which is usually how I react, I will quickly project illusory scenarios and look for solutions to protect myself and keep everything under control.
 

When it comes to trust, I will pause along the way, take a short break, to connect with my wisest self, my Being, and listen to its advice to open myself up to this new situation that will bring me an enriching experience.
 

If I choose fear or complaint, I will miss the opportunity. That's okay, because as it remains unresolved, it will come back to me. I will attract that situation back into my life.
 

On the other hand, if I approach it with trust, I know that the new loving vision that will be given to me, above the battlefield of the ego, will bring me moments of peace.
 

I ask myself: What do I really need in my life? For me, it is to be aware of my thoughts that lead me to suffering or to peace.

What do you really need in your life?

I accept that the world can function without me, and sometimes much better!

How important it is to let go. I believe that things will not work well if I do not personally oversee them from start to finish, without overlooking any details, using my expertise.

 
But the day will come when I will have to let go, whether I like it or not, to make way for other people to take over. It is possible that at first they will make mistakes due to their inexperience, but they will surely bring something new to the process that will help to improve it.

 
How good it is to accept that the world can function without me, and sometimes much better!

 
It's wonderful to know that everything is sequenced in a perfect Universal Order with which I collaborate when it's my turn. And I also step back when it's my turn.

 
Trust is the key to accepting that the end of a stage has come, and that new experiences of inner growth await me, in which I can accompany my brothers on the path to Love.

How much beauty and splendor there is in you

Feel like pure Light, united with your brothers, together forming a Whole.

Allow Love to flow through your veins and fill you completely.

Open your arms and feel the presence of the Father, His Love and His Peace, which is yours.

Do not make the world you see with your eyes real.

Look at your brothers beyond their form, with deep Love.

Being at peace depends only on me

If I truly realized that what I see on this earth is nothing more than a reflection of my inner state, I could assume that being at peace depends solely on me.

As if it were a movie, I see my unconscious guilt projected on the big screen of the world, causing me to suffer. What I criticize in others is really self-criticism. When I talk about someone else, deep down I am really talking about myself. The advice I give to others is advice I need for myself. I teach what I need to learn.

This paradigm shift, this new way of looking at life, can help me turn my suffering into a great opportunity for inner growth. With every negative thought I have, every judgment I make, every fear I feel, I will remind myself that what I see is directly related to me, to my inner state. And from there, I will give myself the opportunity to see it differently with the help of my Being. All I have to do is ask and trust in its sure response, which will come when it is meant to, not when I want it to and in the way I want it to.

 
This change in perception, this new perspective based on love, will bring me peace. I will understand that this person acts this way toward me because they do so out of fear. With my thoughts, I will thank them, since my mental attack toward them has made me aware of how bad I feel inside.

That is why, paradoxically, I affectionately call the people who cause me the most suffering “great teachers,” not because of their elevated state of consciousness, but because their attitude toward me brings out parts of my erroneous mind that are still to be healed and that I was unaware of.

Relationships are the situations that help me know myself the most.

If my erroneous mind were healed, I would not be able to see suffering, as I would not have it inside me. I would see with compassion those who are suffering, or those who attack others, as they are unaware of who they really are: beings of Light, eternal, living a temporary experience on this earth. I would be patient with them, just as I would be with a small child who has yet to mature. I would see heaven on earth.

There are people who have died and still don't know it

Traditionally, it has been said that dying is “resting in peace,” when the reality is very different. When we die, we are freed from the pain of a sick or deteriorating body, but in our immortal mind, the same suffering we had in life continues.

Movies such as “The Sixth Sense” or “Ghost” show us this, in which the character believes that, because they are still able to think, they are still alive when in fact they are dead and unaware of it.

There are people who have died and still do not know it. They wander this world for years, or centuries in some cases, trying to contact their family or friends. Time in the spiritual realm does not work the same as it does on this earth. Almost no one hears or sees them, as few people have developed “psychic perception.” They tend to stay here because they mistakenly believe that they can help, care for, and accompany us, but what they don't realize is that they are conditioning our lives by crossing their thoughts with ours. They restrict our freedom. They influence us greatly, and we are unaware of it. They are in a state of transition, trapped by their thoughts of guilt and duty.

We believe that by constantly remembering them, which is often selfish on our part because we still need them, they will be by our side when in reality we are holding them back on their path to the Light, and furthermore, their thoughts of fear and guilt condition our lives.

If we ever remember a deceased person, let us have a loving thought for them, which will surely reach them as all minds are united, and let us avoid thinking about them continuously so that they can continue on their path and we can continue on ours.

I want to see Love in you

To bless the person who has caused you discomfort or harmed you, you must have a very high level of consciousness that comes from an almost complete absence of ego. Few people could do this, since most of us carry our ego with us in this world of fear, suffering, aging, and death. 

Someone with such a level of Love within them looks beyond the body of the person who harms them and sees only their essence, their Light hidden under thick layers of fear.

I see my inner world projected onto the other person. My finger accuses you, and my errant mind judges you because I see my unconscious guilt reflected in you, thinking that it is yours, when in reality it is only mine.

By wanting to see Love in you, I discover it in myself.

Waking up from the dream of this world

The preface to A Course in Miracles says: “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. In this lies the peace of God.”

Ask yourself if there is anything in this world that remains forever. The answer is simple: everything in this material world is susceptible to destruction. In fact, with the passage of time, our planet will disappear. Therefore, this world, in essence, is not real; it is not our true home, even though it may seem so in this dream/nightmare.

The world was born out of fear, and fear is what sustains it. It is meaningless to perceive life exclusively as a biological sequence of events involving birth, development, and death, as it becomes routine with an inevitable end.

The world is a classroom of experience and learning, a great theater, which can lead us to our true home if we change our perception and begin to see life through the eyes of Love.

We are part of the same Mind

How is it possible that your ring finger criticizes and feels separate from your middle finger when they are part of the same hand?

We make the same mistake of perception when we judge and discriminate against anyone because, in essence, we are all part of the same Mind.

Dear brother, even though my physical eyes see you separated from me in another body, in Mind we are united, we are One. If I judge you, I am really attacking myself.

Any thought of Love I have can cross the universe and reach both you and the rest of humanity.

You mature through life's trials

Don't let the trees of the difficult situation you are going through prevent you from seeing the forest of this important experience in your life that can help you mature internally.

You see what is happening to you as punishment. You ask yourself over and over again why you have to live through this injustice, this relationship, this illness...

If you took a broader view, looking above the battlefield, you would see that it is these difficult circumstances that will train you to take a leap of consciousness on your inner journey.

You mature through life's trials. Don't criticize them. Understand that they are great opportunities to evolve.

I bless every relationship

We have spent a very long time, perhaps hundreds of lifetimes, without realizing that the outside world is a reflection of our inner world. We have tried to solve it out there, in the effect, and it has not worked because the cause is within us, from where we project this interactive 3D movie we call life.

We are so used to following the ego that we consider suffering to be natural. Now, the time has come for our freedom, as we become aware that we are tired of suffering and want to see things differently.

That person who irritates me is a great opportunity because instead of seeing them as someone who acts against me, I will stop for a moment and open my heart to feel them as someone who is suffering deep down because they are not in Love. Furthermore, I will be grateful for their attitude, which helps me to recognize my deep, unhealed wounds. And I will ask my Being to see it differently.

This is true forgiveness. And so, even if I continue to stumble, I know that I will get up with the certainty that I am advancing on my inner path.

I bless every relationship because it is a great opportunity for me.

This is a path that is traveled step by step, in which little by little you feel more and more inner peace. It is the path of Love that we will all, without exception, reach.

Escaping suffering

We have always been and will always be Love, since, in essence, that is how we were created by extension from the Source. The problem we have is that, due to our ego, we believe that we are not. We are so identified with this body, the temple of the ego, that we are afraid to see it age and inevitably deteriorate over time. When in reality it is nothing more than the vehicle we use to experience this earth. It is a puppet animated by our mind. A body that is temporary, like everything around us, and that will sooner or later disappear.

How wrong we are. What a limited and biased view of life we have, the result of limiting beliefs passed down from parents to children. We look outside ourselves for answers to the meaning of our lives and we do not find them.

You ask yourself: how can I escape suffering?
The answer is simple: walk your inner path and you will find peace.

And how do I do that?
Remove each and every layer and obstacle you have placed between yourself and the Love that you are in essence, and your inner Light will shine. It is a personal and non-transferable path that will lead you to peace. A path that is traveled not from knowledge, which will not advance you even a millimeter, but from the experience of transcending the ego and freeing yourself from its heavy chains that virtually anchor you to an empty world.

It is you who mistakenly thinks that you are imprisoned in the jail of your thoughts when in reality your mental bars are nothing more than a mirage, a thin veil, which you can pass through when you firmly set your mind to it accompanied by Love. 

Listening to you can help me

Essentially, what happens to you can also happen to me because we share the same ego.

Hearing what happens to you can resonate with me, helping me become aware of those parts of my mind that still need healing.

I have nothing but the present

The “ostrich effect” of ignoring or denying a difficult situation does not make it go away.
 
If I became aware that the suffering, which is only in my mind, comes from my interpretation of what is happening to me, I would try to see things differently. A change in perception can give me a new vision that brings me peace. To see it differently, I need to rise above the “battlefield” of the ego and thus have a new perspective on the situation.
 
I have nothing but the present, this here and now, in which I choose how I want to perceive what is happening to me. And the result of my inner choice leads me to fear or peace.
 
When I am afraid (restless, moody, judgmental, etc.), I know that on the remote control of the movie of my life, I have pressed the ego button, which is usually the channel I tune into.
 
To stop suffering, all I have to do is change the channel by pressing the Love button, which will allow me to see the world from a new perspective in which I will feel peace, even if nothing changes externally.

This world cannot be fixed

We have a deep-rooted belief, passed down from generation to generation, that by fighting for something we consider to be just, whatever that may be, we are going to change the world when in reality this world, as such, cannot be fixed. We invest thousands of hours in causes and, discouraged, we see that things are getting worse and worse.

If you change your perception and take the world as a temporary classroom where you have come to experience your lessons in forgiveness, you will not strive to change it, but rather you will strive to change the way you see it. This new vision of the world, from the perspective of forgiveness, will bring you moments of peace.

Whatever situation you are going through, no matter how complicated and distressing it may be, you can always see it in another way, through the eyes of Love. And to achieve this, all you need is your intention and firm purpose to connect with your loving essence.

The end of the road leads you to yourself

When you open your heart, you will realize that the end of the road leads you to yourself, to rediscover the Love that you are in essence and seek outside without being able to find.

I am the creator of my destiny

How does darkness disappear?
By turning on the light.

How can I overcome fear?
By choosing Love.

It is my will to choose the path of Love that leads me from darkness to Light and from fear to peace.

I am the creator of my destiny.

I don't want to suffer for another minute

I don't want to suffer for another minute. And I know that stopping suffering depends only on me, on my inner attitude. Regardless of where I am, who I am with, or my state of health, I can be at peace. Understanding that the circumstances I am going through are great opportunities makes me take an active role in my existence. Difficult situations help me mature inwardly by being great training, a great opportunity, a gift.
 
Transcending the ego is the goal that gives meaning to my life. Looking up and seeing the beacon of Love in the distance motivates me to continue on my inner journey. It is really a journey without distance because, in essence, I am always the Love I seek, but I have hidden it under multiple layers of unconscious guilt.
 
I know I am not alone in achieving this, as He always walks beside me as the unconditional good friend who accompanies me.

We feel lost in life

We feel lost in life because, from our conscious mind, which is said to correspond to less than 5% of our psyche, we ignore the plans of our unconscious mind, which is dominant with more than 95%. The psyche is the set of conscious and unconscious processes of the human mind, as opposed to those that are purely organic.

 
We do not understand anything that happens to us because we lack perspective. Hence, the importance of choosing Love to rise above the battlefield of this world and thus understand that everything has its reason and purpose when we observe the synchronicity and perfect fit of the events we have wanted to experience.

 
We cannot solve the problem from the same level of ego that generated it.

A first step toward change

A first step toward change, or toward embarking on a new path, is to become aware of how bad I feel when I realize that I am often mentally attacking or judging the people I interact with. And that all they do is metaphorically “hit me with a stick” in the swamp of my unconscious guilt, and when it splashes, I notice its bad smell, which I attribute to them when, in reality, it is only mine.

What I see is my inner self projected onto the world. A nightmare that I have decided to live in this world of fear, suffering, illness, and death.

How good it is to know that I can change my perception by choosing to see any situation from the perspective of Love and thus remain at peace.

Feel the transformative power of Unity

The best thing I can do for someone who is ill or going through a difficult situation, besides caring for them, is to connect with them mentally, not with their suffering. And to do this, I choose to feel Love within myself, and when I look at them or think of them, I will do so from that Love that I am.

I don't need to say anything to them; my loving attitude is enough for them to feel the transformative power of Unity within themselves.

It is up to me alone to remember Love

It is up to me alone to remember the Love that created me in its own image and dwells within me. 

Enjoy every moment of your life

Enjoy every moment of your life, for eternity is condensed within it.

Rest in the peace of the Father

Rest in the peace of the Father.

He always embraces you and looks upon you with compassion.

Thought and freedom

We are one thought away from freedom.

The crazy idea

At every moment of our lives, due to unconscious guilt (which we ignore), the ego reminds us of that initial moment when we had the crazy idea of thinking what a world away from the Father, from our Source, would be like. We took this idea so seriously that from the ego (our fragment of errant mind) we decided to create this illusion of a universe of matter/energy in which we believe we live. A dreamlike and tragic world of fear, suffering, and death.

It is egoic thoughts that make us suffer without seeing a way out or a solution to the infinite problems we seem to have, or that will come our way.

If we truly realized that, just as at the beginning of time, it was in our minds as Children of God that we conceived the apparent problem of separation (which never actually occurred), it is only in our minds that the solution lies. What good news! For there is only one problem and only one solution. And it is very simple, although difficult to put into practice because we almost always choose to follow the ego. All we have to do is want to see the situation that causes us suffering in a different way, through the eyes of Love. And to achieve this, we always have the Holy Spirit at our side, or Jesus, the perfect therapist, who, responding kindly to our request, will lead us to see the situation in a different way, from our essence, from Love. And the result, when appropriate, will be a change in our perception in which we will temporarily remain at peace. The situation will probably not change, but we will see it in a new way that will give us peace.

If we surrender our suffering to the Holy Spirit, or to Jesus, it will not matter how, where, or who we are, for we will be at peace within.

Paradise is not a place, it is a state of consciousness

What good is it for me to reach the top of the mountain to find peace if inside I can't stop thinking about the fears and attacks that cause me suffering?

Conversely, I can be in one of the most inhospitable and horrible places, but if I choose to be at peace in my mind, I will perceive peace and harmony outside, regardless of what is happening in the movie of the world.

Paradise is not a place, it is a state of consciousness.

The prison of thoughts

Those who hate are prisoners of themselves, living in the prison of their thoughts.

When death comes

For me, death is a process we have to go through, in which the body, the temporary vehicle that has served us to experience life on earth, comes to an end. 

Our essence, our spiritual part, does not die and will never die. It is paradoxical that there are people who, after their body dies, think they are still on earth because, as they believe that everything ends with the death of the body, they assume that they are still in the world as ordinary citizens, living on in spirit.

When that great moment arrives in which our vital signs stop, we will observe with astonishment that our life continues, although we will no longer be able to speak to practically anyone on earth, since most people will neither see nor hear us.

Once freed from the physical body, we will no longer feel any pain; however, our suffering, being mental, will continue in this new stage of transition into which we will enter. That is why it is important, when the moment of our death arrives, to let go of our attachments, forgive ourselves for the mistakes we have made, be grateful for the opportunity we have had to spread Love, and open our minds to the new experience. We will see this for ourselves when the time comes.

Trust and remain at peace

When faced with a new and unexpected situation, fear driven by the ego takes hold. Your misguided mind projects countless threatening scenarios into the future, and you seek solutions for each one as if it were a chess game several moves ahead.

You enter a loop of obsessive thoughts instead of opening yourself up to the eternal present, where every situation can provide you with the learning you need.

There is nothing but this moment, this here and now, in which you can choose to tune in to your essence to see that this situation is an important experience that will propel you on your inner journey.

Trust and remain at peace.

Other people's problems have something to do with me

Since the beginning of time, we have lived in a world of fear, suffering, aging, and death. An egoic world, in which for me to have something, I have to take it away from you. And it will continue this way until the idea of Unity is present in the minds of each and every person.

When I begin to understand that other people's problems have something to do with me, I will try to collaborate and share in order to help them. I will become aware that there is much more that unites us than separates us because, in essence, we are the multiple faces of a polyhedron whose center is Love.

Change is possible, but it has to start with me. If in every thought in my mind I choose Love instead of fear, my world will change.

Talking to a dead person

Talking to a dead person metaphorically is like talking to a car, the vehicle that has allowed us to experience life on this earth.

And it is very possible that the driver is near the car.

So it is not useless to say a few loving words to that person who has passed away, because their essence, which never dies, may be listening to you, and your message will be a balm in this new situation they find themselves in.

The real cause of pain is in the mind

In the following reflection, Kenneth Wapnick comments that treating an illness with medicine can alleviate its symptoms, which are the effect. But it does not act on the real cause, which is guilt. In other words, healing or recovery is in the mind, where the thoughts of guilt, usually unconscious, that are the cause of the illness reside.

"You have a headache and take an aspirin. The headache goes away and you feel better. There is nothing wrong with feeling better physically, but the real cause of the headache persists: the mind's decision to be sick, which makes the guilt real and projects it onto the body. However, while there is nothing wrong with feeling physically well, there is something wrong with believing that the problem is cured when it is not" (Kenneth Wapnick).

All our guilt comes from the original guilt hidden in the depths of the unconscious. It was generated so long ago that it is impossible to remember it. It was the result of a decision: our idea of living in a world separate from the Source, from the Love that we are. That erroneous and crazy decision was the origin of the unconscious guilt that governs our lives. Even though we ignore it, we are reliving that decision every moment, and the guilt it generated corrodes us internally as we believe that we destroyed the world of happiness and harmony we enjoyed together with the Source.

It was at that very moment that we decided to implant “a guardian of separation,” the ego, to which we gave a very specific instruction: “You will be the one to keep us away from the Source.” To do this, we created a universe (Big Bang) in which to have an individual identity and hide from the Source.

If we have symptoms of illness, we must treat them to feel better. However, if we want to cure the true source of that illness, which is the thought of guilt in our mind, we can practice true forgiveness, which can eliminate it. If we focus exclusively on treating the symptoms of the illness, the guilt that caused it remains and will reappear in the form of illness (guilt projected onto our body) or in our relationships (guilt projected onto others).

In this excerpt, Kenneth Wapnick clarifies this point:
"This is an unambiguous statement. Illness is guilt: when there is no guilt, there is no illness. There may be an appearance of illness in terms of physical or psychological symptoms, but without guilt, you, as a mind, will not experience yourself as ill. Illness is guilt. Period. It is not defined by form or symptom, but by the content of guilt projected onto the body" (Kenneth Wapnick).

According to Freud, if we do not undo the cause, it remains to generate other symptoms. As long as we have guilt, we will inevitably have multiple symptoms.

The swamp of guilt makes me suffer

The outside world that I see and feel is a reflection of my inner world. Situations that irritate me reveal that there is a part of my mind that is not healed and needs love.

Integrating this idea is necessary in order to understand, fundamentally through relationships, my unconscious dark side, the swamp of my guilt. Instead of judging that person for how bad they have made me feel, I assume that it comes directly from within me, that it is mine.

I should thank them because by hitting my swamp with a stick, they have stirred it up and brought out the stinking mud that has given me the opportunity to see how bad I am inside. And at that moment, I have two options. The one I usually take, which is to lash out at that person, ignore them, or repress my feelings of attack/hatred towards them, so that the mud will return to the swamp and that situation will repeat itself sooner or later in my life with other people whom I will unconsciously attract in order to project my guilt. Guilt is the source of my suffering, and I try to get rid of it through projection.

I can also choose to realize that what has bothered me is, deep down, mine, and I decide to practice true forgiveness by surrendering the situation to my wisest part, my Being, the Holy Spirit, or Jesus, so that they can give me a new perspective that will bring me peace: “I want to see this in a different way, through the eyes of Love.” When I am given a new perspective, my vision will change and that mud (guilt) will come out of my swamp and will no longer condition my life.

This is a brief summary of forgiveness, the path of Love and inner healing. A process in which I gradually remove the mud that clouds my inner Light. A path in which, in order to move forward, I need to choose again in the face of each of my thoughts of attack and judgment against others, or against myself, which I am doing continuously. A path that assures me inner peace.