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Enlightment Almost Pushed Me Out of Bed!
By Sonia Miller | June 22, 2008
Success with the Law of Attraction requires an understanding of “oneness.” I used to hear the term “oneness” tossed around quite a bit in spiritual circles, but could not quite wrap my brain around it. That is until years of study and contemplation accumulated enough that I started to “get it.” Since that turning point I have consistently sought to “be one with Source,” understanding that my well-being, spiritual and otherwise, was rooted in this highest truth. As a result, my daily affirmation is and has remained, “Source expresses in me, as me, and through me.”
But… you know how you can go through life thinking you comprehend something when out of nowhere a crack in your thinking gets big enough to shine the light of understanding on your misunderstanding? Well, last night, while I was reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert… yes, I know the whole world has beat me to it, and, no I haven’t been living under a rock… the crack in my thinking almost split my skull open. I had such a big ‘Aha’ that I almost fell out of bed.
In her book, Gilbert writes:
- “I don’t know how many times Swamiji said it during his lifetime, and I don’t know how many more times my Guru has repeated it since his death, but it seems I have not quite yet absorbed the truth of their most insistent statement:‘God dwells within you, as you.’AS you.
If there is one holy truth of this Yoga, that line encapsulates it. God dwells within you as you yourself, exactly the way you are.”
Within those few lines of prose I realized that no matter how much I “thought” I was walking my talk about “oneness,” I wasn’t. An avalanche of epiphanies fell upon me.
I realized that I was still thinking and feeling as if God was outside of me. I was thinking that the As Me consciousness was reserved for the prophets that have walked among us. I thought, “Yeah, I’ve evolved a bit through To Me, By Me and Through Me stages of spiritual growth, but As Me, well, I’m not going to worry about that because I don’t expect to rise to the heights of Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, or Guru Mayi in any lifetime soon.
But with Gilbert’s emphatic reinforcement of AS YOU, I realized that I had been missing the boat.
Source expresses AS ME, right now, exactly as I am. Source is IN ME. And Source is ALL THAT IS! So, All That Is, is in me right now. This new level of awareness got me beyond excited for the next time I would meditate, because now the stillness would be about so much more.
Meditation is not just about quieting my mind. Meditation will no longer be about summoning higher guidance into my body from some external location in the cosmos. Meditation is now about allowing enough space and silence to experience, perceive and hear the very highest wisdom already inside me!
How about you? What would it be like if your connection to your God were never again delayed until you reached some arbitrary standard of enoughness, nor separated by some illusory distance? The Universe truly resides within you. And it is in the willingness to even acknowledge this possibility that the limitations created by our minds begin to fall away!
Choose Your Reality!tm
Sonia
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