Thus, in this body the soul is reflected. The soul is God, and every human being has a perfect divinity within himself, and each one must show his divinity sooner or later.
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Michael Singer, and many of the great spiritual teachers of the past, teach that we are very high and great beings staring down at something that is not so great. We are focusing all this amazing consciousness down on the dramas of a self created "me" with all its thoughts and feelings, its endless and fruitless quests to make everything "out there" okay so we can feel good "in here". We are constantly trying to distract ourselves from the mess we created and we erroneously believe those distractions that lift us up a tiny bit to be our "highs" in Life. We become so focused on our inner drama, our quests for distraction and more highs; we get so pulled in by our thoughts and emotions, that we get lost in them and start to identify with them,
The amazing powerful and very high consciousness that we are gets narrowed and constricted to a tiny little beam of light as it looks down, way down, onto this tiny speck of a thing we are focusing on. We believe we are that which this light is shining on. We do not see we are actually the light that is shining. We do not see the natural, inherent high state within us, that which we are. Then something starts to wake us up. We realize what we have been doing isn't working. We just can't stay high.
As we start to wake up, we begin to want more and our quest becomes all about getting out of this low energy state...of moving up a bit from our conditioned way of approaching Life. As we begin to move up and away from the mess, disidentifying with the drama of "me" a bit...we certainly feel better. But there is still so much more to us that we cannot grasp or understand.
It is isn't until we let go of this "me" and fall back into the seat of Awareness that we get to experience what we truly are. What we truly are is so much more than what we imagine ourselves to be. Realizing Self is a process, a beautiful process.
Vivekananda puts the process of spiritual growth this way (and it may or may not include a religious practice):
First, we see God in the far beyond, then we come nearer to Him and give Him omnipresence so that we live in Him; and at last we recognize we are He.
Once we reach this state we will experience Sat Chit Ananda ( which is also a name for God in some translations)- Eternal-Conscious-Bliss
All is well!
Michael A. Singer/ Temple of the Universe (January 14, 2024) Learning to Maintain Your Center. https://tou.org/talks/
The Complete Works of Vivekananda. Kindle Edition
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