...taken from "Spiritual Liberation" by Michael Bernard Beckwith
Evolved people understand that there's a celebration going on throughout this great Universe and that a cosmic celebration can be localized within you when you realize that life is not a problem to be solved but a magnificent mystery to be lived. When you function at this octave, you realize that in a state of God-consciousness, problems are dissolved.
Let me describe what I mean by this. When you walk into a dark room, you don't beat the darkness out with a stick. You turn on the light and realize that the darkness didn't really exist; it was only an absence of light. This is what happens when we dissolve a problem. A problem is like the darkness: when we switch on the light of awareness, we see that the problem didn't really exist; it was simply an absence of the light of understanding, of discerning clarity. When we expand into a deeper level of understanding a paradigm shift occurs that makes room for a new response to enter our awareness. What was earlier a "problem" is dissolved because we have aligned ourselves with our inherent luminosity, our inner light, which knows only possibilities to be discovered and activated. Problems are a human predicament, not a divine one.
Let me describe what I mean by this. When you walk into a dark room, you don't beat the darkness out with a stick. You turn on the light and realize that the darkness didn't really exist; it was only an absence of light. This is what happens when we dissolve a problem. A problem is like the darkness: when we switch on the light of awareness, we see that the problem didn't really exist; it was simply an absence of the light of understanding, of discerning clarity. When we expand into a deeper level of understanding a paradigm shift occurs that makes room for a new response to enter our awareness. What was earlier a "problem" is dissolved because we have aligned ourselves with our inherent luminosity, our inner light, which knows only possibilities to be discovered and activated. Problems are a human predicament, not a divine one.
When we are immersed in the depths of a problem, our situation is like the baby chick encased in its shell. As the chick evolves, the shell becomes a polluted and claustrophobic enviroment where its space, mobility, and plentitude are challenged. God does not step up to the plate and "solve" this problem for the chick. The solution has already been placed in the seed of the chick's existence - the chick pecks its own way out when it has sufficiently evolved to maintain life outside the shell. And so it is with us. All that we need to peck our way out of any challenging predicament is already within us, awaiting activation, by our taking self-responsibility.
Our human problems are emblematic of areas where we are being called to grow to peck into a new paradigm. So when we are in the midst of a challenge, if we stop long enough to meditate and remind ourselves of our innate gifts of intelligence, wisdom, and peace, we contact that place within us that also knows there are no problems, only human neuroses which can be healed by spiritual discernment.
Think back to before you got immersed in you all-caught-upness of how serious life was supposed to be, before someone said "Stop playing around and get serious." Before you bought into that nonsense, you had a highly charged sense of enthusiasm, joy, spontaneity, and lightheartedness. Even in the face of challenges you may currently have, your inexhaustible life force hasn't gone anywhere. Your innate capacity to handle all that comes to you in life hasn't gone anywhere. You just temporarily halted your awareness of it by getting hooked into your problem. Consider this you permission to stop being serious and resume play-volving - a high state of creativity - and celebrating on the great playground of life!
Our human problems are emblematic of areas where we are being called to grow to peck into a new paradigm. So when we are in the midst of a challenge, if we stop long enough to meditate and remind ourselves of our innate gifts of intelligence, wisdom, and peace, we contact that place within us that also knows there are no problems, only human neuroses which can be healed by spiritual discernment.
Think back to before you got immersed in you all-caught-upness of how serious life was supposed to be, before someone said "Stop playing around and get serious." Before you bought into that nonsense, you had a highly charged sense of enthusiasm, joy, spontaneity, and lightheartedness. Even in the face of challenges you may currently have, your inexhaustible life force hasn't gone anywhere. Your innate capacity to handle all that comes to you in life hasn't gone anywhere. You just temporarily halted your awareness of it by getting hooked into your problem. Consider this you permission to stop being serious and resume play-volving - a high state of creativity - and celebrating on the great playground of life!