We're only comfortable with what we are used to,
until it ceases to be comfortable.
We get stuck in old patterns.
A friend of mine is being a foster 'parent' to a rescue dog.
This dog has lived his whole life in a crate.
Wasn't used to being in a house, being around people,
or even going on walks.
When this dog realized that life can be different, he adapted to it.
There's no way he'll ever want to go back to living in a crate.
We are like this. That's why I used this example.
A lot of us are used to living in 'crates'
that we made for ourselves with our own thoughts.
We don't have to live in these crates.
When we experience what life can be like
When we start living outside these crates,
there's no way we'll want to go back to living in our crates.
We start getting used to having new experiences
and the feelings we had when we were having our old experiences
will be replaced with the feelings we will have
when we have our new experiences.
Like someone who hasn't ever had (this or that)
won't know how it feels to have (this or that)
until they have (this or that).
Someone who hasn't ever had (freedom, love, acceptance - whatever)
won't know how it feels to have (freedom, love, acceptance - whatever)
until they have (freedom, love, acceptance - whatever)
We have to experience it to know how it feels to experience it.
Another thing I've been thinking about:
Choices we make don't affect who we are.
The outcomes of the choices we make don't affect who we are.
The only things that anything can affect are
how we choose to react to it, or respond,
what we choose to think about it or (how we choose to interpret it,)
how we choose to feel about it.
So the only things anything can affect are our choices
and it's a choice whether or not those things can have any affect.
Sometimes it feels like we don't even have the choice.
That things just affect us the way they do,
but we always have the choice.
We just have to choose to make that choice.
Most of us don't choose to make any choices about anything.
Choosing not to choose is still a choice.
We can choose to turn the light on,
We can choose to open our eyes.
Maybe the reason why it gets so dark
is just because our eyes are closed!
When my son was learning how to play hide and go seek...
His idea of hiding was simply closing his eyes.
He thought that if he couldn't see me,
that I couldn't see him.
People can be this simple minded.
No matter what age they are.
People think that what they think makes sense
when it makes sense to them,
but it doesn't actually make any sense.
People who have lived in the dark their whole lives
might not be able to handle stepping into the sunlight.
It could be blinding for the very first time.
It could be terrifying.
Even knowing there is an unknown is terrifying to most.
But how can someone who has never 'seen the light of day'
ever know what the experience is like?
They can't describe something they have never experienced.
When the light is shed on something, you can see it clearly.
The light enables us to see things as they actually are.
But to be able to see things as they actually are,
we must FIRST want to see things as they actually are
or we'll only see things as we want to see them.
When we only see things as we want to see them,
We are like little kids in dark bedrooms.
We see shadows and monsters in every corner of the room and of our minds.
Are the shadows really monsters? Or are they only a glimpse of something
we can't see clearly until we can look at it in the light of day?
If we look at ourselves as those children, afraid of the dark...
If we look at those unknowns (shadows of reality) as what they really are
and then we can identify those things for what they really are,
then fear means nothing. For there is no reason to be afraid.
"When there is no reason to be afraid, there is no purpose for fear."
If we want to see things clearly, we have to turn the light on.
Or we can choose to keep ourselves in the dark
and choose to keep being afraid of the dark.
But we don't have to be in the dark,
and we don't have to be afraid of it.
We're only afraid of it because of the things we think are in it with us.
That aren't actually there.
It's like I've said about imagination.
Either we use it, or it will use us.
Our imaginations can run wild if we let them run wild.
Our fears are mostly imagined. Created for us, by us.
Either we make our imaginations work for us, or they will work against us.
The minute we decide not to choose anything,
then we choose not to choose and the experiences will change.
We still are who we are and always have been.
The choice doesn't change us, at all. Neither does the outcome,
but the thing that does change is the experience of either making the choice
or the experience of not making the choice,
and the outcome of the choice that was either made or not made.
Those are the only things that change. According to the choices.
We are still the same people. But we change as the result of the experience,
not the choice or the outcome of the choice itself.
If the choices we make don't reflect our desires,
then the outcome will not be desirable.
If we choose not to make a choice that reflects our desires,
the outcome will not be desirable.
The ONLY way to have a desirable outcome
is to make the choice that reflects our desires.
Otherwise, the outcome will be undesirable.
So what phrases come to mind when we think of light?
"Let there be light."
"Shed light upon..."
"...Saw the light."
"...Came to light."
"...Brought to light."
"Make light."
And it doesn't even have to be a physical light.
It could be "light" as opposed to "heavy."
Like how things can be simplified.
Things are only as complex as we make them in our minds.
Sometimes making light of a situation
helps us see the situation "in a whole new light."
Then it doesn't seem like such a load to bear as it once seemed.
until it ceases to be comfortable.
We get stuck in old patterns.
A friend of mine is being a foster 'parent' to a rescue dog.
This dog has lived his whole life in a crate.
Wasn't used to being in a house, being around people,
or even going on walks.
When this dog realized that life can be different, he adapted to it.
There's no way he'll ever want to go back to living in a crate.
We are like this. That's why I used this example.
A lot of us are used to living in 'crates'
that we made for ourselves with our own thoughts.
We don't have to live in these crates.
When we experience what life can be like
When we start living outside these crates,
there's no way we'll want to go back to living in our crates.
We start getting used to having new experiences
and the feelings we had when we were having our old experiences
will be replaced with the feelings we will have
when we have our new experiences.
Like someone who hasn't ever had (this or that)
won't know how it feels to have (this or that)
until they have (this or that).
Someone who hasn't ever had (freedom, love, acceptance - whatever)
won't know how it feels to have (freedom, love, acceptance - whatever)
until they have (freedom, love, acceptance - whatever)
We have to experience it to know how it feels to experience it.
Another thing I've been thinking about:
Choices we make don't affect who we are.
The outcomes of the choices we make don't affect who we are.
The only things that anything can affect are
how we choose to react to it, or respond,
what we choose to think about it or (how we choose to interpret it,)
how we choose to feel about it.
So the only things anything can affect are our choices
and it's a choice whether or not those things can have any affect.
Sometimes it feels like we don't even have the choice.
That things just affect us the way they do,
but we always have the choice.
We just have to choose to make that choice.
Most of us don't choose to make any choices about anything.
Choosing not to choose is still a choice.
We can choose to turn the light on,
We can choose to open our eyes.
Maybe the reason why it gets so dark
is just because our eyes are closed!
When my son was learning how to play hide and go seek...
His idea of hiding was simply closing his eyes.
He thought that if he couldn't see me,
that I couldn't see him.
People can be this simple minded.
No matter what age they are.
People think that what they think makes sense
when it makes sense to them,
but it doesn't actually make any sense.
People who have lived in the dark their whole lives
might not be able to handle stepping into the sunlight.
It could be blinding for the very first time.
It could be terrifying.
Even knowing there is an unknown is terrifying to most.
But how can someone who has never 'seen the light of day'
ever know what the experience is like?
They can't describe something they have never experienced.
When the light is shed on something, you can see it clearly.
The light enables us to see things as they actually are.
But to be able to see things as they actually are,
we must FIRST want to see things as they actually are
or we'll only see things as we want to see them.
When we only see things as we want to see them,
We are like little kids in dark bedrooms.
We see shadows and monsters in every corner of the room and of our minds.
Are the shadows really monsters? Or are they only a glimpse of something
we can't see clearly until we can look at it in the light of day?
If we look at ourselves as those children, afraid of the dark...
If we look at those unknowns (shadows of reality) as what they really are
and then we can identify those things for what they really are,
then fear means nothing. For there is no reason to be afraid.
"When there is no reason to be afraid, there is no purpose for fear."
If we want to see things clearly, we have to turn the light on.
Or we can choose to keep ourselves in the dark
and choose to keep being afraid of the dark.
But we don't have to be in the dark,
and we don't have to be afraid of it.
We're only afraid of it because of the things we think are in it with us.
That aren't actually there.
It's like I've said about imagination.
Either we use it, or it will use us.
Our imaginations can run wild if we let them run wild.
Our fears are mostly imagined. Created for us, by us.
Either we make our imaginations work for us, or they will work against us.
The minute we decide not to choose anything,
then we choose not to choose and the experiences will change.
We still are who we are and always have been.
The choice doesn't change us, at all. Neither does the outcome,
but the thing that does change is the experience of either making the choice
or the experience of not making the choice,
and the outcome of the choice that was either made or not made.
Those are the only things that change. According to the choices.
We are still the same people. But we change as the result of the experience,
not the choice or the outcome of the choice itself.
If the choices we make don't reflect our desires,
then the outcome will not be desirable.
If we choose not to make a choice that reflects our desires,
the outcome will not be desirable.
The ONLY way to have a desirable outcome
is to make the choice that reflects our desires.
Otherwise, the outcome will be undesirable.
So what phrases come to mind when we think of light?
"Let there be light."
"Shed light upon..."
"...Saw the light."
"...Came to light."
"...Brought to light."
"Make light."
And it doesn't even have to be a physical light.
It could be "light" as opposed to "heavy."
Like how things can be simplified.
Things are only as complex as we make them in our minds.
Sometimes making light of a situation
helps us see the situation "in a whole new light."
Then it doesn't seem like such a load to bear as it once seemed.
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