Stepping Off the Roller Coaster

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.- Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)


Are you getting what I have been trying to communicate in the last 4-5 blog entries?  More importantly, am I getting it lol?

The whole premise behind all this talk about mind, ego thoughts and complaining as well as effortless effort is that we really are not what we think or what we do, are we?  The whole premise behind everything I write lately is that we are not who we think we are. 

We have confused ourselves (or the Self) with ideas we have of ourselves. These ideas are conditioned in us, taught by well meaning others at an early age, and generated from centuries of ego confusion. We have come up with 'ideas' and 'beliefs ' about who we are that get stored in our subconscious mind as a pseudo truth we habitually act upon.

Following the crowd that subscribes to these beliefs, we jump up onto a roller coaster that takes us up and down and all around...exciting us for a bit but terrifying us for most of the ride.  Even in those rare moments of calm when we can sigh a breath of relief we have memories of what we left behind and  anticipate the next up and the next down. So we cling with all our might to whatever ego tells us we have to hold on to. There is little peace on this ride, is there?

The thing is...it is all in our minds!

Within us, however, despite all the screaming and the ups and downs is also this quiet yearning for peace...for stillness...for more.  Even though ego has us strapped in pretty tight...we somehow know that this is just a ride we can get off of anytime.

Who we really are is on the ground beyond the mental ride, beyond the ego...beyond all the thinking that steers us from It.

What awaits us on the ground is peace, stability,  joy.... Love. Our Father, God, Life, the Universe...(however you perceive the Divine Nature) calls us from the ground, waits for us to get off and to come home.

Step off the ride and spend the day with Your Father; Your Self in perfect peace.


                  This day I choose to spend in perfect peace. -ACIM-W-255

All is well in my world!