Until you are done with your relationship with self, you will have no relationship with God.
Michael A. Singer
Singer tells us, in the below linked video, that when we are so focused on this "me" we think we are, and all its likes and dislikes, this irrational need to give it what it wants, and figuring out how to control everything "out here" so it can feel safe and okay on the six foot spot of earth it takes up...we are ignoring God. Wayne Dyer once said that Ego...was an acronym for Edging God Out. And that is what ego tends to do...well what our focus on it does. Because it really isn't the ego's fault...egos will be egos, doing all kinds of silly things...but for some reason our consciousness is staring at this individual ego we created and call "me", with all its drama as if watching a really bad, but really addictive, soap opera on TV. We are so glued to this small screen and what happens to the main character on it...we don't see everything else that is happening on this planet, or in this universe. Our idea of an individual life is that soap opera. It becomes, "all about me!"
We are just one of eight billion screens or human lives, one of trillions and trillions other forms of life ...on one small planet in one galaxy of 30 billion. Come on! How can we be the only thing to focus on? Yet, here we are thinking we are the sun the solar system is rotating around. How crazy is that?
Now, God...however you see God...created this universe, right? It had to come from some Source...so yes He/ She /It created us too...but we were not the only things created. Why do we pray to God as if we were? (If we pray that is). "Please God make this or that thing turn out this or that way for "me"". If our prayers are answered, we are grateful and our faith in a loving God is strengthened. If they are not answered to our exact specifications...we feel cheated and see God as an unfair and unkind Source. Imagine. We can't seem to see the infinite amount of other things God is taking care of other than us and the space we take up. As if our lives and how they turn out, in the form of circumstances, is all this Great Being has to take care of. Come on! We are here for a blink of an eye in eternity...in comparison to the 4.5 billion years the earth has been around ... 80 years is a pretty short time span, right? It isn't all about "me" and the more we buy into that idea that it is, the farther and farther we get away from God...the less of Life we get to truly experience.
We need to train our minds, our consciousness, to stop staring at these little selves. We need to redirect the gaze elsewhere. Only then will we see and be aware of all the joy and all this sorrow this Life entails...not just for us but for everyone and everything! The moment consciousness stops staring at "me", with all its likes and dislikes, that is freedom from suffering, Trying to appease the "me" is what is causing all our unease with Life. When we break this addictive and distracting focus, we are free. That is enlightenment!! That is peace.
Whether we know it on the conceptual level or not, we want a relationship with God. It is who we are! But we cannot see that beauty and that magnificence behind the wall we built with ego...a wall we keep building, protecting, decorating. God is and always was behind that wall we are staring at and in order to reconnect, we need to remove the wall. Singer reminds us that there is only one way to be okay: "Get over yourself!" Our focus on "me" is the wall!
Hmm! Something to think about.
All is well in my world.
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe ( July 21, 2023) Getting Real. https://tou.org/talks/
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