Step 12: Knowing why you are here
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Why would you build a house? To live in it, of course. Why would you buy a
car? To drive it, of course. So, why do you think Spirit, The Source, created
you? The answer is obvious, but your ego resists it. Spirit obviously created
you to use you to experience its magnificence. It is such a simple yet powerful
idea. You make things to use them. So does Spirit. Yet You are ultimately
Spirit. You were created but you are one with the creator, The Source, not
separate. Yet, as we saw in the explanation of ego, an illusion of separation
had to be made up so that it can eventually be used for experiential purposes.
And one of the things you were given is free will, just as The Source has free
will, for you are in the exact same image and likeness (in essence, not in
form). So you are free to choose to believe in the illusions or to use them for
what they are and know they are illusions. When you let ego take over you as
most people do, the illusions appear real, for this is all ego is, and you suffer.
The world of ego is weak, changing, temporary, dark, fearful, powerless, and
little. It is the opposite of Reality. When you choose Reality, you allow your
Spirit to use your body as originally intended. You can imagine how powerful
that becomes! Spirit is all knowing, all powerful, and in unison with
everything. It is eternal and infinite. Spirit can never lack a thing, for it is the
cause of all things, from the smallest thing to the largest galaxies. All arise
from here. When your Spirit and not your ego is running the show,
synchronicities and ‘coincidences’ are always happening to you and life works
out amazingly in ways that defy the laws of the world of ego. The laws of
time break and time is collapsed for you, because time, as Einstein and many
other scientists have shown us, is not a reality – it is an illusion. Needs and
scarcity drop. Fear and littleness drop. This is the world when experienced
from the opposite of ego. Remember, the world resolves itself around your
beliefs and thoughts, and because ego is bent on scarcity and fear, its world is
as such. Its opposite is spirit. Right here, right now, you can change your
belief system. Simply suspend your ego based thoughts and ask for your
higher mind to bring you a replacement. Do not worry how this will come
about, just know it will. And you will be surprised to find something new in
there every day!
But you are not here alone. Everybody and everything else here in the
universe is here for the same reason. We are all individuations of the same
One. That is why you cannot attack another without feeling the attack yourself
sometime later, because you are one. And that is why you cannot save
yourself alone. Your success lies in the success of others. Your answers lie in
others. The moment of Now carries all that Is, including all your cues and
answers to your questions. Nothing else exists outside of Now, because
nothing can Be anywhere else but Now (try being somewhere else like in the
past or future – you can’t because the only time that really exists is eternity,
Now). So be present, wake up! Know that everyone and everything around
you is sent to you as an angel, they all have a gift for you if only you would
accept. Everyone and everything around you shows you your past thoughts
and beliefs, for they came about or were attracted by your past thoughts and
beliefs. They are the experiences of what you held true before this moment.
And through them, you learn yourself and are able to see what you would like
to change. But you can only learn if you are willing to watch without
judgment, to accept what is and see what it truly is and not what your mind
tells you it is using its past egoistic frame of reference. Spirit speaks to you
through intuition and through everything and everyone around you. So you
must be present now, be out of mind most of the time, to move ahead.
Because the ego knows this very well and is threatened by it, it strives to keep
you unconscious of Now by filling your mind with thousands of useless
thoughts all the time. Did you know that the average person has about 50,000
thoughts a day, 90% of which are repetitive, and many of which are ne gative
and conflicting? That is noise, and it is dangerous because every single
thought has an effect. And of course, the ego knows you have this power and
so it uses it to maintain itself, but it would have you deny that you do because
once you realize and accept that your thoughts do have such power, you shall
drop ego knowing that it has been the main cause of your pain and negative
experiences. So remember, be present and always know that only through
your fellow beings can you succeed. To have something, show another how to
have it and you shall learn and find it within you. It is so obvious but it
escapes us so much because of ego’s influence. Consider this: would you be
wealthier today if everyone else on this planet was wealthy, or would you be
poorer? Of course, if everyone on earth was shown and given the opportunity
to be wealthy, our individual wealth would multiply. But if everyone was
poor, there would be no one to buy your products and so you would be poor.
Or take happiness. Would you be happier if you cause everyone else around
you to be happy, or would you be sadder? Of course, if you were surrounded
by happy people, you would be happier than if you were surrounded by
depressed people. It is so obvious but ego is the exact opposite of spirit so it
makes you ally with its belief in the insane opposite. It believes in fear and
scarcity, the illusions, instead of love and abundance, the Reality. Remember
that you can never have both an illusion and a reality together – you can only
see one. You choose which you wish to see, for you have free will. Reality
will never force itself upon you uninvited, nor will illusions. Its your choice.
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