We Are Just Acting

 All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII

Hmm! How bang on was Jacques' statement here? I thought about that today as I istened to Eckhart Tolle.  He brought up this famous line in his discussion on disguises...on how Life/Universal Mind...what I refer to as God... disquises itself in many forms. (see video link below).  Everything of form is an expression of God in a different disquise.

Just a Disquise

Each human is an expression of God, a player on this stage we call Life. We are all wearing costumes and heavy make up: our bodies and personas, as we play our parts here: our roles, our doings and creation of outward appearances.  But they are just that...disguises we are wearing and roles we are playing.  These things we have come to believe are us, what we have come to see as "others'...are just that...disquises.  Too often we are so convinced the  disquise is real that we do not see beyond it  to who we really are...expressions of divine Intelligence. One intelligence...many forms...entering and exiting, playing seven acts from birth to death.

Getting Lost in Character

We are just acting under the most brilliant of direction. What is created seems so real  that we get lost in character and foregt all about the script writer and lose touch with that gentle direction as if we can now control the way the play turns out.  We lose touch with who we really are beyond the costume and the makeup. We do not see beyond the disquises in others either. If they are playing the part of the villian...we see them as the villian and defend or attack accordingly. If they are playing the part of a loved one, we will claim and cling. 

Reminder: We Are Just Acting

We are here to enjoy the role without getting lost in it, without believing it is all real. We have to remember that we are just acting...just playing a part and wearing a disquise.  Who we are is much grander, much more spacious and beautiful than any mask or robe we can cover ourselves in. There are no villians and opponents; no special lovers and friends.  There is just One United Self flowing through everything.  

Play the game...play your part, enjoy it but seek to see through what appears to be ...to what is. See through the disquise in self and others to find that truth that makes the need for mask, make up or costume obselete.

United Under the Supreme Director's Command

We are not seperate in anything but this play.  In truth we are One and our seemingly seperate  bodies and egos are simply disguises we  wear while we act on this stage which is only the superficial platform of our existence.  Life is so much more than this stage and  we are so much more than the seperate  parts we are playing. We are all united under the Supreme Director's command. See through the disguise to the truth!

Hmmm! 

Some Correlating Ideas from the Bible

For as in One body we have many members, and the members don't all have the same function, so we , though many, are one  in body in Christ,and individually members one of another. Romans 12:4-5 ESV 

Or do you know that your body is the temple for the Holy Spirit within you? You are not your own...1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written every one of them, the days that were formed for me,when as of yet there was none of them. Psalm 139:15-16 ESV

Some Correlating Ideas from Andersen

Other people see me not; they see but my body. It is only I who know myself, and this knowledge returns, to me in my health and in the things of my life. Location 4076

Some invisible thinker merely uses the brain as a central reception station for sensory perception. Someone, something, is dwelling in your body, peering through the windows of your eyes, listening at the portals of your ears, using your brain to receive impressions. Invisible, hidden, gowned with your particular form but an instant in the eternity of its being, it uses your body as an idea, then discards it and departs to whence it came. This is immortal Self. Location 4230

I am not body; I am not Conscious Mind; I am not ego. I am sense of Self only, consciousness, awareness, unadulterated being. The presence that animates all life is within me, is altogether the real me. I am using my body for a purpose, as an expression of an idea, and when the idea in fully expressed, through mywork and my mission, I shall return again to unity with universal Self, leaving body and ego behind. I do not confuse my body and my ego with what I truly am. My body in simply an instrument for my expression, and my ego is simply memory of physical experience.Location 4351

Some Correlating Ideas from ACIM 

I am not a body. I am free. I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys. ACIM-W-Lesson 199:8:7-9

All is well in my world!

References

ACIM (2007) A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume. Workbook. Foundatins for Inner Peace

Andersen, Uell S.. Three Magic Words . BN Publishing. Kindle Edition. 

Eckhart Tolle (September 10, 2020) Looking Through the Disguise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKQrPuRpW8w

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20139&version=ESV

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+12%3A1-21&version=ESV

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