Drifting Behind the Scenes

To see, to experience, and to honor is to participate in life instead of standing back and judging it.

-Michael Singer, the untethered soul, page 177

 

Spiritual growth is not about getting somewhere or getting something. It is all about letting go of something.  That something we let go of is our ego self...that part of the  mind that really doesn't serve us.

We let go of the ' little me' and step into the world of the One Source. We let go of our lower vibrations and drift up into the higher ones of the Divine.  We untangle ourselves from the web of foreground we were stuck in for so long, and we drift back behind to what is real.

When we let go of this self, we let go of anger, fear and self consciousness.  We let go of restriction and retraction.  We let go of guilt and shame. We let go of stress and tension. 

We stop judging! We stop 'suffering'! We stop closing up and we open up.

The saints and transcended masters, who were able to experience this directly, tell us that when we let go we open up and when we open up we see what God sees and we feel what God feels...joy, love, bliss and enthusiasm for everything.  We see beauty everywhere in absolutely everything.

When we let go of this idea of what we have of ourselves...separate little beings lost in "I", "me" and "mine...we will know "Thine".  When we go beyond seeing and judging the world and ourselves with our mind's eye, we connect with spirit and when we do that we connect with the Source of all things. We drift back behind the scenes of the drama mind created and we are home.

The drop of consciousness, which is individual Spirit, is like a ray of light emanating from the sun.  The individual ray is really no different from the sun.  When consciousness stops identifying itself as the ray, it comes to know itself as the sun.  Beings have merged into that state. page 176

Even when we say "no" to the sun and choose to live in darkness, for whatever reason...the sun is still there shining brilliantly.  Even though we say "no" to God for whatever reason, God is still there, loving brilliantly.  All we need to do is lift our heads up and turn in that direction.

We may not all transcend in this life time but letting go of what holds us back for that reality will definitely make us realize the beauty of the light.  Wanting that light  is all the purpose we need and turning toward it is the only thing we need to do.

All is well

Michael Singer (2007) the untethered soul. New Harbinger.