Life Really Is Up To You


Ishvara:

We live in a world of abundance, but the abundance is out of balance. A few have everything; many have almost nothing. The few may not want to share, but for this world to continue its existence, greed, selfishness, and separateness must come to an end. Humans need to be inspired to share, through connection, through awareness of a greater possibility. I daresay that if this lesson is not learned, those few that "have" will become have-nots, because the planet cannot continue to sustain greed and selfishness. The planet is alive; it is not a dead, inert orb, but an organism of Life and intelligence. Just as your body will not sustain an imbalance for long; neither will the world. As long as imbalance exists, there will be disease, life will be dysfunctional, and if that is not corrected, there will be death.

Seeing this, you can recognize the importance of awakening to The New Consciousness. You can recognize the importance of accepting a new operating system, a new way of seeing the world, a new way of being in the world. In recognizing this, you leave behind the past; you forgive the mistakes. Forgiveness is the way, because as long as people seek revenge, there will be death, and there will be no end to it. Revenge poisons the brain, destroys the intellect, to the point where all one can see is retaliation, getting even. It is very selfish and separative.

Forgiveness begins in yourself. You forgive yourself for all the experiences of limitation and selfishness, for all destructive tendencies and patterns. You develop the whole arena of forgiveness within yourself. You chalk everything up to a learning experience, to learning how energy works, and when you do that you quickly realize there are certain things you don't need to do again. You apply the experiences of the past to the present. What you have gleaned from Life is your teacher; it has taught you how things worked. It has revealed to you greater possibilities, and hopefully has revealed to you that spark of you that knows, that can, at times, see through the dilemmas of existence and recognize that there really is more to you than you realize.

There are moments when you know that you are very capable. There are moments when you know that you are unselfish. There are moments when you know that you truly care for the world, for humanity. There are moments when you know that connection is the only way to survive. Those are moments of greater awareness and transcendence.

There are many problems in the world, but I realized long ago that these problems cannot be solved at the level of the problems. Somehow, some way, there must be a transcendence. You must move to a bigger place, a more connected, transcendent awareness, where you realize greater possibilities. If you try to solve the problem at the level of the problem, you just create more problems. If you try to make somebody do the right thing, they feel compelled to make you do the right thing, and then you feel compelled to make them do the right thing. This applies to war: you bomb them, they bomb you; you bomb them again, and then they bomb you again. Finally, you bomb, and there is nothing more to bomb; it is the end. That is the height of ignorance and foolishness. Retaliation and revenge don't work.

At some point, one lays down the weapons of destruction--whatever they might be. Mostly they are religious beliefs and concepts. When you look to see what underlies the conflict in the world, you discover that much of it is belief: "You must believe this way, or else. My religion is right, yours is wrong. In order for there to be peace, you must abandon your religion and embrace mine, and if you don't, I have weapons to prove that yours is wrong." It has been an age-old battle, with each nation praying to their "God" to wipe out the other nation. What's a God to do? Nothing happens, except destruction.

So you move beyond that arena. You recognize it doesn't work. The New Consciousness shows that the old operating system is dilapidated, destructive, virus-ridden, full of worms, and there is no way it can ever work. The change happens now. If you resonate with this, you know what needs to be done. If you resonate with this, you are inspired with hope for a greater possibility for yourself and for the rest of humanity.

You probably won't recognize the particulars. Those come in the moment. When one lives through inspiration, when one lives with this new operating system, this new way of seeing, things are very spontaneous; you see them in the moment: "Now, it is time to do this. . . Now, it is time to do that." It bypasses the intellect to a great extent, because the intellect is clinging to the old system, but in time even your intellect accepts the new operating system, because it recognizes the benefit of connection, higher awareness, transcendence, and the ability to flow with greater information, accessing higher intelligence and greater possibilities. You are capable of it. It is within you. It is possible. It is up to you. Life is really up to you.

There is no arm twisting here; there is no song and dance to convince you. It really is up to you. If you resonate with this truth, you are already a part of The New Consciousness. You are proceeding to install the new operating system, a way of being in the world where you see things in connection, where you always see greater possibilities for any situation, where you transcend limitations of beliefs and concepts "about" something outside, and you embrace what is inside. You embrace what you see is possible in the moment.

The only path in Life is the path of allowing, and it takes place in presence; it is a thing of the moment. It is spontaneous, yet resides in a reservoir of information, of intelligence, of absolute knowing, seeing the bigger picture, and it has the wisdom to implement each step in each moment. That is who you are: a manifestation of Life, of intelligence itself, living beyond separation, living as a unique expression of a greater possibility of Life, moment by moment.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on June 12, 2005. - TG.

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