“What if” We Stop and Breathe

“Fear is like a wildfire.  It starts in one place and then spreads rapidly, at times out of control.  It waits in certain spots, gathering oxygen and just the right conditions to spread some more.  Without the fuel, it cannot spread.

Your thoughts are the fuel.  Fear feeds on fear.  It naturally arises from your human instincts of safety and survival, but the human is a funny creature.  Unlike animals who respond only to immediate threats, humans are very good at going to “what if”.

‘What if’ can be helpful in planning, but it is a fear accelerant, like throwing gasoline on a fire.  Rein in your thoughts and become present.  Is there an immediate danger?  Deal with it after taking a breath.

If the threat is not burning down your door, take more than one breath and assess your thoughts before ‘hair on fire’ becomes your present behavior.  This too shall pass.  May this be your mantra as you find the place of peace within and flow with what the great drama of life presents.  What goes down must come up.  It is the law.

You are so very loved.”

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Witness Consciousness

“If you want to achieve peace in the face of your problems, you must understand why you perceive a particular situation as a problem.  If you’re feeling jealousy, instead of trying to see how you can protect yourself, just ask, “What part of me is jealous?”  Once you clearly see the disturbed part, then ask, “Who is it that sees this?  Who notices this inner disturbance?”

The very fact that you can see the disturbance means that you are not it.  The process of seeing something requires a subject-object relationship.  The subject is called “The Witness” because it is the one who sees what’s happening.  The object is what you are seeing, in this case the inner disturbance.  This act of maintaining objective awareness of the inner problem is always better than losing yourself in the outer situation.

This is the essential difference between a spiritually minded person and a worldly person.  Worldly doesn’t mean that you have money or stature.  Worldly means that you think the solution to your inner problems is in the world outside.  You think that if you change things outside, you’ll be okay.  But nobody has ever truly become okay by changing things outside.  There’s always the next problem.  The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness and completely change your frame of reference.”

Michael A. Singer, “The Untethered Soul,” pages 15-16.

Glowing – Suzanne Giesemann

“Picture a gas stove.  There is a pilot light, and there are various burners.  Can you envision your chakras, the energetic centers that serve as a bridge between the physical and the so-called non-physical bodies as these burners?

Each is like a light or flame, and with intention you turn up the intensity with which they glow or burn.

Do you wish to access greater wisdom and connect more clearly with higher consciousness?  Turn up the lights, the flames!  Know that these energetic centers can get a bit blocked, just as the burners on a stove do, with bits and pieces in the form of lower vibratory thoughts and experiences.

Clear them often with your awareness and burn, baby, burn, in the highest possible way:  as Love afire.”

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Love Arises In You – Osho

“Love makes no conditions, no ifs, no buts. Love never says, ‘Fulfill these requirements, then I will love you.’ Love is like breathing: when it happens you are simply love. It does not matter who comes close to you, the sinner or the saint. Whosoever comes close to you starts feeling the vibe of love, is rejoiced. Love is unconditional giving – but only those are capable of giving who have.

One of the most mysterious things about man is that he goes on giving things which he doesn’t have. You go on giving love and you don’t have it in the first place, and you go on asking for love from others who also don’t have it – beggars begging from beggars.

Love first has to happen in the deepest core of your being. It is the quality of being alone, happily alone, joyously alone. It is the quality of being a no-mind, of being silent. Contentless consciousness is the space, the context, in which love arises in you.”

Osho,  The Guest, Talk #5