Day 255 - A Year of Spiritual Awakening - In the State of Oneness...
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Lesson 255: In the State of Oneness...
“In the state of Oneness, the idea of security, safety, protection, stability also drops away. Everything changes. Happiness is an internal state, not based on externals. It is hard to see this, until you are there.”
Today we are to think about what makes us feel secure in life… is it money? Family? Material things? What is the one thing that you think cements your future? If that all dissolved, the question is posed of would you still exist?
I think I’ve learned that materialism gets you nowhere. All the shoes, handbags, make-up.. would have never really made me feel secure in life. All those objects are really temporary happiness fixes. They are not really long term. I guess like anyone else, I was taught that building a future with a high paying job is what makes you feel secure. I think money definitely helps in placing a roof over your head and allowing you to have enough to eat. I get that the lesson is teaching us that we are so much more than these things, and we will in fact exist if we didn’t have all these things, but the truth is, we are products of our environment. If I could live my life without money and still function in this city, I would do it but it’s really not realistic. The idea of Oneness is great, but it doesn’t place a roof over my head. I need to be logical and practical. If I one day I quit this lifestyle and moved to a remote village to live off the land, then accepting Oneness would be easier. You would not live with the constraints of modern society. That’d be nice but possibly not achievable unless society changed.
I’m probably taking this lesson further than it needs to go. If I could be free to live a life without security in certain things such as money, it would be really nice. I think I could only enjoy it if I moved to a place where money doesn’t exist and just be. That’d be the life. If everyone could be without these constraints that we live in, then Oneness could be embraced.