Being wise and other revelations.

"When you become wise you respect your body, you respect your mind, you respect your soul. When you become wise, your life is controlled by your heart, not your head. You no longer sabotage yourself, your own happiness, or your own love. You no longer carry all that guilt and blame; you no longer have all those judgements against yourself, and you no longer judge anyone else. From that moment on, all the beliefs that make you unhappy, that push you to struggle in life, that make your life difficult, just vanish.

Surrender all those ideas about being what you are not, and become what you really are. When you surrender to your nature, to what you really are, you no longer suffer. When you surrender to the real you, you surrender to Life, you surrender to God. Once you surrender, there is no longer a struggle, there is no resistance, there is no suffering.

Being wise, you always go for the easy way, which is to be yourself, whatever you are. Suffering is nothing but resistance to God. The more you resist, the more you suffer. It is simple."

-Excerpt from "The Mastery of Love"
By Don Miguel Ruiz


There is an ancient Greek saying that has been attributed to many people, but probably most famously to Sophocles and the Oracle of Delphi...

γνώθι σεαυτόν
gnothi seauton
know thyself

Who am I? I am who I am. I am what I am. Do I judge myself? Yes. Do I judge others? Yes. Should I? No. If I am to truly live I must first stop running from myslef and accept the truths of my past and who I am. I must learn to love and accept myself and my body, because it is the only self and body I will have in this life.

I have mentioned before that I crave and need love. This is true. However, I have been searching for it in the wrong place. I have been searching for it out there, in the world, in the approval of others. That is not true love. It is needy and self-serving. True love comes from within and is projected outward. We are creatures of love. It is our natural state.

Orginaized religion would teach us differently. They would have us believe that we are born into sin and that our basic instinct is toward evil. That is a lie. It is a lie of the mind. It is a lie designed to make you believe that love is unattainable except through the church. God IS Life. God IS Love. Every living thing has Life and thus is a part of God, just as every living cell within us is a part of us. So, in that sense, we are, each one of us, God. Without us, God would not be, just as without the cells that make our body, we would not be. We were born to love, to be free, and to be happy. It really is that simple.

Anyone who tries to take that away from you or impose limitations or restrictions to those three things is a part of The Dark Con of Man. Whether this be rules, such as 'you can not eat fish on fridays' or 'you can not have sex before marriage' or 'you will burn forever in Hell if you don't do things our way' or 'drafting you and forcing you to kill another man over a plot of land or some oil.' It is not right to impose your own Dream onto another person. No one should be forced to live your Dream. Love, Freedom, and Happiness are the rights of every living thing in the Universe. It is not for any one of us to take these away from any living thing, whether it be a tree, or a bug, or a person, or a planet, or a star. This does not mean that we should never cut down a tree or kill a bunch of ants that have invaded our home, however they should be treated with respect for the life that they possess.

I have the right to love myself for who I am and others for who they are, to be free to make my own choices as long as they do not harm others, and I have the right to be happy. These are my rights and it is up to me to claim them, for they are within me and claim them I will.