07-22-2017, 07:30 PM
So i thought of an addition that may be pertinent to others...
This is something I struggled a lot with in my life. That is how can I be of service to my self if I don't know where my self is. If everything arising in my awareness is totally dwarfing my sense of self/awareness - how am I to be of service. How am I even to focus on myself to maintain a center of consciousness? You are already the completion of any quality you could imagine - paradoxically. If you can intuit the Self consistently, you become consciously knowing and consciously connected with that quality which is alive and vibrant at the core of every bit of life.
I think Service to Self and Service to Other would be more clearly be defined as Sense of Self.
The Self is sensed in the Self, and the Self is sensed in Others and the Self is sensed in God and All.
The service comes once the sense is very strong.
Just get a sense of the one experiencing. Be strong in that sense. Pull it through your pain, do not fix your pain, it is indestructible. Your self has the capacity to welcome anything and everything, as long as you stay truthful and devoted to that.
Times are changing and moving so rapidly, I feel its not important to heal exactly, because the pain itself is directing you toward that which is the Self! It is stripping you of all the ideas you have as yourself, that are deviations away from the eternal self that survives all. If you can muster the courage to stay as Yourself through everything. Stay centered. And trust that all that you need, and all the inspiration to do what you need to do will be born from that focus. Centered in your pain, and wishing it to heal away by some act can be very destructive.
Thank you all.
This is something I struggled a lot with in my life. That is how can I be of service to my self if I don't know where my self is. If everything arising in my awareness is totally dwarfing my sense of self/awareness - how am I to be of service. How am I even to focus on myself to maintain a center of consciousness? You are already the completion of any quality you could imagine - paradoxically. If you can intuit the Self consistently, you become consciously knowing and consciously connected with that quality which is alive and vibrant at the core of every bit of life.
I think Service to Self and Service to Other would be more clearly be defined as Sense of Self.
The Self is sensed in the Self, and the Self is sensed in Others and the Self is sensed in God and All.
The service comes once the sense is very strong.
Just get a sense of the one experiencing. Be strong in that sense. Pull it through your pain, do not fix your pain, it is indestructible. Your self has the capacity to welcome anything and everything, as long as you stay truthful and devoted to that.
Times are changing and moving so rapidly, I feel its not important to heal exactly, because the pain itself is directing you toward that which is the Self! It is stripping you of all the ideas you have as yourself, that are deviations away from the eternal self that survives all. If you can muster the courage to stay as Yourself through everything. Stay centered. And trust that all that you need, and all the inspiration to do what you need to do will be born from that focus. Centered in your pain, and wishing it to heal away by some act can be very destructive.
Thank you all.