Work on your own salvation.  Do not depend on others.
Buddha

I think the above quote says all I meant to say in the previous entry. No lover, no friend, no sibling and no neighbor can save you from yourself.  Freedom from the mind basically is the only real salvation, isn't it? 

We are all, whether we consciously know it or not, looking for a way out of this world we created in our minds under the dictatorship of the little self...the ego.  We want to wake up from this dream state and go home where we always were....with God. In that place  we can rest easy in  ultimate peace. We do not need to die to do that.  We can do it now. 

Until we realize that we are dreaming, however...we do nothing.  Then when we realize we are dreaming... but as of yet do not know how to wake ourselves up...we do so lucidly in an attempt to make the dream state better.  We make our way to the specialness and special relationships the dream provides us so we do not feel so alone.  Yet this is still only an illusion.  We are still dreaming.

Others outside ourselves cannot save us from this dream.  We just need to wake up.  We need to see that we have everything we need already.  We are already whole and complete.  The external world we dreamt about is so totally different in the morning  light.  What we were afraid of is whisked away and what brought us joy  and peace in a few elusive moments of dream state  is now abundant and ever lasting.

So when we are looking to others to fix us, rescue us, save us from a nightmare...we just need to realize we are dreaming.  No one can save us but us. 

Relationships are amazing and wonderful things when we are awake.  They are full of much less little self and much more Greater Self and unity with all. It is not defeating to anything but the ego to realize we are not "special".  Once we remove that layer of dream state...we are much closer to waking up. We can approach others with much more unconditional  love and compassion. We can live in peace.

All is well in my world