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We are infinite beings. Every one of us, young and old, healthy and sick, rich and poor, are spiritual beings. This is our primary reality. We are not our circumstances. The conditions of our lives, whether we are young or old, healthy or sick, etc., are just temporal experiences. They are not lasting. If they seem so, it is due to the spell of illusion. It is our unconsciousness that diminishes the reality of what we really are and at the same time deceives us into thinking that we are limited, finite, and mortal. A false premise leads to false values and false thinking.

In my life I have gone through intense suffering. Physical suffering that left me at 95 pounds at age 21. Emotional suffering that saw almost all of my closest friends dead by age 30. But at the end of those painful episodes in my life, I discovered a deeper essence in life. Yes the pain was acute, but the effect was profound. I felt like a stick that was hollowed out so that music could be made from it.

With this basis of understanding, it behooves us to approach life in ways that deepen our experience as spiritual beings.  Love is real. Any expression of love is an expression of oneness. It is the soul’s declaration of “This is who I am!” It is the essence of our eternal existence. Any experience that reverberates with it is a heightening of spiritual consciousness. With each step we take, we can either tighten the knots that bind us, or loosen the knots and progress towards greater and greater inner freedom.

A major hurdle we have as human beings is a tendency towards addictions. If not alcohol or drugs, then it might be excitement, wealth, sex, comfort, travel, gambling, or watching television. But some of us even get addicted to our limitations. That is, some of us get addicted to fear, to poverty, to being shy, or feeling inferior. It becomes very unsettling to go beyond them, but that is precisely where we need to go. Holding on to limitations is the work of the ego. Transcending them is the work we do with the Divine Beloved.

With the Divine Beloved, who is Infinite, there are no limitations that can bind us if we dare to transcend them. And the inner promptings of love that springs from the Divine Beloved can be so great that we can spontaneously give up our limitations. It’s like being given a master key to a huge assortment of pad locks that have us chained to illusion. When that moment comes, seize it. Set yourself free.

The patterns of your life will change. Perhaps your friends will change. Your old friends will perhaps think you are crazy. But this is a time to follow your heart and not your mind or the mind of any one else. It’s time to heed Joseph Campbell’s sage advice and follow your bliss. 

Try it. See what happens. Open your heart to the infinite being that you really are. Let go of all limiting beliefs. Say yes to life as it unfolds before your eyes and you will discover that life is a process of self-discovery.

We don’t see far enough. We don’t see that when our desires are snatched away that that we are free to discover life at a deeper dimension. We need to look at the big picture; we need to look at the Infinite Picture. We need to know how to surrender to the master sculptur and the blows from his hammer so that he can make us the masterpieces we are destined to become.