Reality

We perceive everything around us and within us with a hint of distortion. Some with a lot of distortion.

This means, that the ordinary reality we see is not real – it is a perceived reality.

Our perceptions create the reality we see around us, and that is why people see so different realities so often, for better or for worse. This is true for all of us, no matter how developed we are.

Matrix

Culture is not our friend.

Culture tells us to compete others and choose money, and encourages us to sacrifice our true spirits for work and repetition of daily routines, calling it to “think smart” when each and every one of us puts ourselves first, and see other people as consumer goods. “There is always somebody/something else out there, just move on”, they say and each and every time we leak our energy all over the place.

We leak our energy for money, career and people that we  think we need but don’t feel driven towards. We’re told we’re smart that way. We sacrifice passions, real connections and love to be “smart”.

“It’s easy, just move on from the things you truly want. The world is full of choices! Come on, don’t think, just move. (The cost of this transaction is 1 gram of your soul).  Don’t think, just move on and do what is “smart”.”

People choose things that aren’t important, like money, careers and safety, and thus sacrifice things that are important, like people they love, true passions and real joy. And we wonder why more and more people turn into lifeless shadows around us?

It’s as if culture has a straw into human souls that way, sucking us dry, so that we don’t notice it, not unlike the machines in the Matrix.

Don’t listen to culture, it will collapse soon, anyway. Systems always collapse, and probably again in your lifetime at least once. You shouldn’t hold on to what your culture tells is important, because everything you have in that realm can and will be taken from you. So choose right. Follow your inner spirit, and heal the world and yourself. It is the only safe bet these days, even if culture tells you otherwise. Culture lies. Real currency lies in connections and hearts and spirits. Don’t sell your soul.

Love

One moment we may think we are the most important person in somebody’s life, the next moment we abruptly learn that they don’t even want to know us.

How come “love” has become a substitute for “want to have sex with for the time being, but after I no longer want to have sex with you, I don’t want to talk with you ever again”?

Isn’t it strange that the word “love” is used about somebody who has no other value in somebody’s life, if they aren’t sex objects for them?

They’ll keep family, friends –  even Facebook acquaintances – in their lives forever, but throw away – without hesitation – somebody they claimed to love above anyone?

No wonder the world is full of wars.

News

Who said it’s true, just because it is in the news? Who said it’s relevant, just because it is talked about a lot? Who said the most interesting of the new in the world is in there at all? Who ever had the idea that the way it is presented is neutral?

Who said reading the newspaper is important, and what motivation did they have for saying so?

When we choose to be influenced by view points and opinions, we choose to be influenced by a culture, too. Be careful to agree with what the culture you choose to listen to stands for, before you accept it too far into your life. Even if you are very, very conscious, it will color you.

Misplaced

Don’t waste love on people who aren’t capable of receiving it well.

Misplaced attachments will drain you, and in the end, when you are exhausted, the person sucking you dry will throw you away as if you were worthless. You will end up having supported a person who spreads pain.

Give your love to people who can appreciate it, and heal the world instead.

clarity

To realize that you are a part of the problem, when you have trouble with people close to you, and to have the clarity to know how to change your own thoughts or reactions when they run down old paths, and the strength to actually change them,  is to change the world.

relationships

The world is full of paradoxes.

Here’s one: until you are  fully able to live on your own and thrive in your own company, you aren’t really ready for a relationship.

Yet, until you are fully able to give unconditionally to a partner, without demanding anything back,  the relationship cannot survive.

allow

Love is a force of nature.

Do we dare to let it blow us away?

who are you

Or rather – who were you meant to be?

Live that person and you will be back in the world.