Let me start out by saying that people are not here to be like Jesus or Buddha or Mohammad or any guru or spiritual leader. That's all a distraction. You're not here to try to be somebody else, you're here to discover your own Divine Self. If you try to be like someone else, you're just an imitation, an impersonator, an imposter. You can't be somebody else no matter how hard you try, you can only be yourself. Look at that for a moment, are you comfortable with it? If you find the thought disturbing at all, it's because there's parts of yourself you don't like.
Most spiritual practices arise from trying to imitate someone else. The prophet did something, and now everybody else believes if they do the same things the prophet did, they can be just like the prophet. People have been trying that for thousands of years, has it worked yet? Obviously not, or else we'd have a whole Planet full of Awakened Beings by now. What you do is only an expression, only a result, of what's inside of you. The key is to focus upon who you are Being, not what you are doing.
Now I'm not saying that spiritual practices cannot help people. They often do help people at first, which is why they're so popular, but it's important to understand why they work. Many people live a life that's almost an unchanging pattern, one day is so similar to the next that there's virtually no difference. This kind of behavior starves the Soul, and squanders the amazing gift that Life Is. Then the being brings a spiritual practice into their life, and the pattern is broken. This is like a breath of fresh air to the Soul, and the person starts feeling much better about their life. There's a pitfall here though, and that's when the spiritual practice becomes integrated into their daily patterns. Pretty soon they're just repeating that same patterns over and over again, just like before. What seemed like freedom at first starts to become restrictive, because all the person has done is jumped from one mental box into a slightly larger mental box.
The best way to participate in Creation is to Create! This means bringing in new expressions of your own Divine Self, not trying to repeat the past over and over again or imitate someone else. That would be an incredibly limited use of the amazing tools you've been given. Now, expressing your creative nature doesn't necessarily mean you have to be a painter or a musician. While those artistic endeavors are often helpful in self-discovery, the most important part is how you live your life. If you really want to find yourself and break free of the past, everything you do should be a conscious act of self-expression. Do not just react to situations unconsciously, that just feeds into the patterns of the past. Each moment is unique, and in each moment you have the opportunity to recreate yourself anew, to become an even more amazing expression of YOU!
When you start doing this, don't expect that all your problems will quickly fix themselves. You'll get discouraged very quickly if you have those sorts of preconceptions. If breaking out of old patterns was quick and easy, people wouldn't have accumulated so many. If anything, expect a lot of mixed emotions at first, ranging from being highly inspired to very frustrated. It's a process of self-discovery but also self-creation, and you're going to have to learn to Love yourself unconditionally to make it all the way through. Finding your own True Beauty requires releasing all of the ugly ego-stuff, and while parts of the processes may not be much fun, it's the most rewarding thing you'll ever do.
LOVE!
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It is a great message, we get all involve on these spiritual practices trying to evolve, at the same time we forget that through history some of them had been obsolete for the growing of the path of knowledge and enlightement. Will,Blessings to you.
Yes indeed, Will! Great post!
@ Peter,
Now I'm hungry! Nice lookin meal there!
Dear Will,
I appreciate your wisdom....
You are very right.....we can take some hints from our fore runners but we have to live our life with total justice and truthful.....if we can help and take help if you need from who can give us....
Spiritual practice has it's own place...it's good but we should depend upon our intuition also....and Every body will have to follow his / her ways....
With Love & Blessings....
We are our own Master or the teacher....by experience we can learn...and can live peaceful life....our psychology is important....we have to cultivate our mind towards peaceful and Balanced Life....
Dr. Sohini Shukla.
Hi Will,
Good message.
And pertinent.
Having suffered the syndrome you speak of,all i can say is.
Don't seek to be anyone.
Be true to who you are.
and when you information comes to hand that changes what you think you know about yourself,
Embrace the changes.
And be true to who you are.
There is no value in judging yourself against the standards of someone you may or may not have been.
There is no value in acting in manner that is no longer relevant to who you are.
And there is no value in denying the truth of who you are.
The task at hand is to become all we can be in this life time.
Because you're only as good as your last miracle.
Take care.
Thanks for posting, Will! Amazing Pic!!
Thank you for sharing this, it rang right through to my heart and feels so right and true for me. I see so much in the new age communities people advocating what people should do and how to act and what thoughts are acceptable and what is not and judgements by the bucketful and people claiming to be all sorts of things other than themselves, which leads to people not exploring and growing within the divinity that is their inherant heredity, people not connecting with their own soul, and not doing what is right for their own spiritual growth. I so agree with the premise that the best way to be creative is to create.....not emulate others or hang on their words as gospel, or worship people as if they are god or trying to be just like another....Time for humanity to create its own divinity from within. I love the quote "The key is to focus upon who you are Being, not what you are doing". Perfect.
Wonderful message Will and thank you for sharing. As always your writing is superb and a great message.
yes yes yes finally some one who believes what we belive you have hit on the same thoughts and feelings we believe and you have worded it so easy for all to understand and kept it simple which is what being spiritual is all about keeping it simple
wonderful post thank you for your words of wisdom we have faith people will read this and make the changes they need to in there own lives
love lite always