Today, I decided to have a talk with the Universe.
Because I want to develop a better relationship with it than I have.
Up until now, I hadn't been trying to develop it.
It is up to me to open the lines of communication with it.
No, it didn't talk back to me. That would be too crazy.
The conversation was basically me telling it that I want to trust it.
And that the reason I haven't been able to was because I've been afraid to.
Then I started reading this book again.
The part that was next was about trust, actually.
And in it, there's a part that is about fear.
If this isn't the Universe 'responding,' I don't know what is.
Yes, that sounds crazy. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.
I'll let you in on the good parts.
Part of it is a 'response' to what I was writing about the frustration.
"Part of the process is developing the trust itself.
As you observe this more, you'll see from experience
that every time you try to set your experience to go in a certain way,
there will be frustration and pain."
Then it goes on to say:
"The freedom and expansion will come every time you see
how you are limiting yourself.
When you see that, the trust will develop more.
When you really trust your essence will emerge
in better ways than you could have anticipated."
"When you have experiences like that, they will increase.
Finally, you will see that trusting isn't about trusting in anything,
it is just the trust itself.
It will take time for the trust to mature and deepen."
The part about the fear is next:
"When we have more fear, we tend not to trust.
We tend to stick to our walls more.
When we see, over and over, that it is fear more than anything else
that makes us stick to our walls, we tend to let go of our walls."
"The walls are the personality,
are made by the personality, fueled by the personality.
The personality is nothing but these boundaries."
Here's the question for today:
"Which way is broader? More expansive?
1) To be free while your environment is the way it is now?
2) To be free only when it changes?"
Anyway, the perspective of allowing....
Is so big that it goes beyond the fact of there being walls or not.
It doesn't care about the walls that are there
or if there are walls at all.
It sees and allows the walls to be there.
Working through issues happens in that space. In allowing.
Because we have to allow ourselves to work through the issue.
Allowing is a freedom that is just a freedom, wall or no wall.
The thing is that restrictions appear the same time
that we are open to see that we are restricted.
So they go together. Oddly, enough.
So how can we be restricted by them
when we are open to see that they are there?
Our personality sees it in another way.
That the walls have to come down to be free.
That freedom only lies on the other side of the walls,
it's always there, always will be there. Regardless of whatever is 'in its way.'
So technically we are FREE to BE free.
Isn't it good to know that?
Knowing these things actually feels good,
and that good feeling is experiencing 'freedom.'
Whether we realize it or not.
It gets deeper, and a lot better than this. Ready?
"When you understand the space of allowing completely,
that there are no walls, that walls and openness are the same thing,
then even freedom loses meaning. You're free FROM freedom.
We stop saying 'I'll be free' or 'I am free'
because you're free from that."
When we say we want to remove a restriction,
we are creating a restriction.
Because we say 'I want it this way, not that way.'
This is done by our personality. The creation of restrictions.
I'm great at creating restrictions for myself.
"The moment you take any stance, you are structuring.
Putting up a wall in the space of allowing."
"The freedom is so free that it allows boundaries."
"As long as there's a part of you that wants to go someplace,
or finds another part unacceptable, there is no freedom."
So now I begin a new chapter... Physically, and psychologically.
But as I do this, I'm aware that the last chapter is over.
I don't write the chapters I read. I write ABOUT them,
but I write my own chapters. You write your own.
People can write them together, if they so choose.
But wanting to write a chapter with someone
Who isn't on the same page as you are, is like creating a restriction.
Because you want them to be on the same page as you are on.
You want to be on the same page, together.
When most of the time, what we want isn't possible.
And we have to allow for them to catch up, if they really want to.
Otherwise, keep writing your own pages.
If they are meant to catch up, they will. In their own time.
Not because you want them to, but because they want to.
And I can allow them to choose, because they have the freedom to do that
and I have the freedom to allow them to do that.
Because I want to develop a better relationship with it than I have.
Up until now, I hadn't been trying to develop it.
It is up to me to open the lines of communication with it.
No, it didn't talk back to me. That would be too crazy.
The conversation was basically me telling it that I want to trust it.
And that the reason I haven't been able to was because I've been afraid to.
Then I started reading this book again.
The part that was next was about trust, actually.
And in it, there's a part that is about fear.
If this isn't the Universe 'responding,' I don't know what is.
Yes, that sounds crazy. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't.
I'll let you in on the good parts.
Part of it is a 'response' to what I was writing about the frustration.
"Part of the process is developing the trust itself.
As you observe this more, you'll see from experience
that every time you try to set your experience to go in a certain way,
there will be frustration and pain."
Then it goes on to say:
"The freedom and expansion will come every time you see
how you are limiting yourself.
When you see that, the trust will develop more.
When you really trust your essence will emerge
in better ways than you could have anticipated."
"When you have experiences like that, they will increase.
Finally, you will see that trusting isn't about trusting in anything,
it is just the trust itself.
It will take time for the trust to mature and deepen."
The part about the fear is next:
"When we have more fear, we tend not to trust.
We tend to stick to our walls more.
When we see, over and over, that it is fear more than anything else
that makes us stick to our walls, we tend to let go of our walls."
"The walls are the personality,
are made by the personality, fueled by the personality.
The personality is nothing but these boundaries."
Here's the question for today:
"Which way is broader? More expansive?
1) To be free while your environment is the way it is now?
2) To be free only when it changes?"
Anyway, the perspective of allowing....
Is so big that it goes beyond the fact of there being walls or not.
It doesn't care about the walls that are there
or if there are walls at all.
It sees and allows the walls to be there.
Working through issues happens in that space. In allowing.
Because we have to allow ourselves to work through the issue.
Allowing is a freedom that is just a freedom, wall or no wall.
The thing is that restrictions appear the same time
that we are open to see that we are restricted.
So they go together. Oddly, enough.
So how can we be restricted by them
when we are open to see that they are there?
Our personality sees it in another way.
That the walls have to come down to be free.
That freedom only lies on the other side of the walls,
it's always there, always will be there. Regardless of whatever is 'in its way.'
So technically we are FREE to BE free.
Isn't it good to know that?
Knowing these things actually feels good,
and that good feeling is experiencing 'freedom.'
Whether we realize it or not.
It gets deeper, and a lot better than this. Ready?
"When you understand the space of allowing completely,
that there are no walls, that walls and openness are the same thing,
then even freedom loses meaning. You're free FROM freedom.
We stop saying 'I'll be free' or 'I am free'
because you're free from that."
When we say we want to remove a restriction,
we are creating a restriction.
Because we say 'I want it this way, not that way.'
This is done by our personality. The creation of restrictions.
I'm great at creating restrictions for myself.
"The moment you take any stance, you are structuring.
Putting up a wall in the space of allowing."
"The freedom is so free that it allows boundaries."
"As long as there's a part of you that wants to go someplace,
or finds another part unacceptable, there is no freedom."
So now I begin a new chapter... Physically, and psychologically.
But as I do this, I'm aware that the last chapter is over.
I don't write the chapters I read. I write ABOUT them,
but I write my own chapters. You write your own.
People can write them together, if they so choose.
But wanting to write a chapter with someone
Who isn't on the same page as you are, is like creating a restriction.
Because you want them to be on the same page as you are on.
You want to be on the same page, together.
When most of the time, what we want isn't possible.
And we have to allow for them to catch up, if they really want to.
Otherwise, keep writing your own pages.
If they are meant to catch up, they will. In their own time.
Not because you want them to, but because they want to.
And I can allow them to choose, because they have the freedom to do that
and I have the freedom to allow them to do that.
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