By far the most difficult teaching is that all of Life is God and as God, we create our own Reality – that we are responsible for the Life that we have. In fact, our challenges are brought forth by way of our own creation. This ruthless teaching demands that we take full responsibility for our lives. In fact to even voice this teaching to those who are not ready to hear it, could be considered an act of blasphemy, an act of arrogance, and seen as completely insensitive to the lives of billions, because this teaching lives outside of the agreed upon collective conscious norm.
The reason most of us do not want to hear this teaching is because we are still lost in the grips of our egoic mind and still identified with being a victim. In fact to even say that someone is being a victim is similar to yelling at a baby for not being able to walk. But if we are willing to look at Life, not from the victim mentality of our egoic nature, which says that things are happening to me; but instead to look at Life in a huge way beyond our egoic nature, we will see that what we are is Divine. We will see that Life is Divine. We will discover that because we are in no way separate from the Intelligence and greatness of God, and that the world is Good and infused with Divinity on every level and yet, paradoxically also, a world of growth and evolution. When we give ourselves permission to be this large; when we give ourselves permission to step outside of the norms of the collective consciousness, we will give up the egoic belief that life is happening to us; that life is bad, that we are victims.In fact intuitively if we give ourselves permission to come into our hearts and ask, “why is this pain, sadness, grief, painful circumstance happening to me?” Our heart will always surprise our ego by replying, “For our Growth. So that we can learn compassion, strength, equanimity, peace etc.” This fact is shocking to our ego, because our ego always sees life from the perspective of me vs. other. Our ego’s limited vision is one of fear and survival. Our heart’s vision is one of Love and Unity. If we know that we are truly Unified with God, Unified with Life, then does it make sense for us to blame Life for our life circumstances. Does it make sense to see Life as something separate from one’s self? If we know that All is one, that God is Good, that God is Intelligent and that we are one with God, does it make sense to blame. If All is one, that means that nothing is outside of or separate from Us.Knowing that we are one with Life and that we are one with God, and that God creates reality with his or her thoughts. (God created this entire Reality out of nothing but Thought.) Then we as Divine beings, who are made in the image and likeness of God, we too must have this power to create a Reality with our thoughts. If this is True and I encourage you greatly, to deeply inquire into this yourself, then who creates our lives, if not ourselves. If we create our lives, then how can we blame anyone for our lives circumstances? This powerful teaching forces us to take total responsibility for our lives. The good, the bad and the ugly aspects of it. Whenever this teaching is mentioned, someone will always say, “But I did not ask for this pain and hardship in my life.” And I would completely agree, you (who are identified with your egoic nature) did not ask for this pain. Egos ask for the easy way, the pain free experience. But is it possible that your higher nature, your Divine Self the one who lives beyond the fear of pain, the one who is excited to grow and evolve – is it possible that, that one attracted life’s painful circumstances so that you could learn to embody: strength, compassion, unconditional Love, forgiveness, mastery, equanimity? Is it possible, that this is the case. Or do we want to take the easy way out and simply blame and continue being a victim. How else would we ever learn something like unconditional Love, if it were not through tremendous pain, heartache and sadness. How else would we learn that who and what we are is deathless and indestructible, than by living through pain, despair and destruction. How else would we learn that we are a conscious creator of Reality, than by us waking up to this gift through mastering our thoughts and emotional minds, despite being born into a collective conscious victim mentality. I once deeply resisted this teaching until I actually took the time to examine it. I could not fathom that my pain was my own creation. Yet someone once challenged me to see if I could manifest a cup of coffee within the hour. I said ok, and inwardly thought, I don’t like coffee or want any coffee. Within five minutes a lady walked up to me and said, “I just bought this slice of coffee cake and cannot eat the whole thing, would you eat half?” I laughed at my resistance to this teaching and cried as God slapped me in the face. Yet, as I reflect upon my life, I see that time and time again, that my life has been a series of ongoing manifestations based on my constant desire to know total freedom. When we ask to know total freedom, God will often bring us total hell, so that we may discover a freedom beyond feeling; a freedom in every circumstance. It is easy to see how our thoughts are reflected in our outward life, in regards to our simple material desires, it is a whole other depth of realization to discover it in regards to our freedom, empowerment and Divinity.