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It's A Wonderful Life
February 3, 2007 by Andre Best
Life is a wonderful teacher to those who are willing to learn. It gives us what we need, when we need it, for the reasons that we really need it. Not what we think we want. Not what we think we need. Not what we prefer or desire.
But most people simply don't listen to the words that are silently being spoken to us. In our dreams. In our experiences. In our relations with others. In our communication with the world.
Not the obvious actions. Not what we can see, only. Not what we were told, or heard.
But just what is happening to us. What is being shown to us.
There are so many silent dynamics that are occurring in every one's life that even scientists are only just now beginning to delve into what is and has been working silently beneath the surface of Life for eons now.
But, of course, as the arrogant humans that we are, we think we know better. This author included.
To many, it comes down then to doing, wanting, having, and pursuing.
But those aspects of life are not the way to come into communion with Life itself.
The way into that place is to be open enough to allowing the possibilities to be seen by the watcher.
Seen by you, if you're so receptive to what is existing behind eyesight.
There are so, so many subtle dynamics occurring when even just two people relate to each other. We've all heard about them.
The silent body signals.
The chemistry, whatever that is, between the two people.
Their silent Souls.
Their thoughts and thinking processes.
So much going on, but yet there is something that is occurring at a level that is removed from all this.
Life.
It is working away bringing us mere humans the life experiences that we need to be able to live a full life. The Life we were intend to live on a daily basis.
And it is working ever so hard every single moment of our existence, tapping us on the head waiting patiently for us to hear what it is silently saying to us and efforcing us to 'see'.
Again, through dreams.
Through the subtler dynamics between the relationships we have with others.
Between the life experiences that are brought our way on a daily basis, every moment of the day.
Behind what happens, and what doesn't happen.
But, unfortunately, most are too busy in their head, their mind, their thoughts, their life, to hear and see, and observe, and pay attention to what is happening all around them. All the time.
Why is this of any concern?
Well, I've found that this silent relationship we have with existence is what is speaking to us and yet if we were to only listen to what it is working so hard to tell us, that our life would be very very different from what we have managed to create it to be.
And it would be different in ways that we can't fathom yet. Why? Because they are not part of our existence; otherwise, we would be living them.
Life shows each of us so many things every day.
Life speaks to us volumes every day.
Life wants us to wake up to ourselves, our-self, and see what it is offering us. The Right place to live our existence.
It wants us to see that there is another way to live Life. There is another level that exists beyond the world we live in.
There is a space in the silence that is so full of life, if only we are able to hear it, then we could enter. At any time we so wish.
And, oh how full our life would be. More than we can imagine.
Many spiritual teachers throughout the eons have worked so hard their entire awakened lives to help people understand that the life they are living is not the only life there is.
I believe what they say. I believe what they have experienced.
Is there a way out of human turmoil? I don't think so, except only to minimize it greatly through exposure and awareness.
But there is a way to live one's life such that the experiences that are brought to it, the people that are brought into one's life can be used, in a good way, to learn about the life one is meant to live.
Think about what happens to you during a day. Do you really think that what happens to you is everything that you have worked so hard to create? Think of all those so-called coincidences. Those dreams. Those pains. Those problems.
Do you actually feel responsible for all of that? Of course, we all want to blame the other.
But if each of us would only step back, and realize that everything that happens to us is there in our lives for a reason. The people. The events. The experiences.
And beneath all that are the lessons.
The insights.
The silence.
The silence is speaking volumes to you. Right now.
Do you want to listen to what it has to say?
Do you want to learn to understand what Life is bringing to you for the reason it is bringing it to you?
I know it's a tough thing to do. Many don't want to. This author included, at times.
But, this approach to life is so out of the ordinary that it truly brings one a wonderful Life.
Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
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Posted by Andre Best at February 3, 2007 7:30 AM
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Great post. I'm curious to know, what do you mean when you say that everything happens in our lives for a reason? Does that include the weird random crap too? And are we responsible for what actually happens in our lives, or only for how we respond to what happens in our lives?
Posted by: Miko at February 6, 2007 3:55 PM
Miko,
Thank you for your question. It's a good one.
I believe that everything happens to us in our lives from Spirit. Whether that be good or what is called 'bad'. It doesn't matter.
We have come into our life what we have called into our life by what we have given in our life. It's kind of like the concept of karma.
No one can begin to deduce what the 'reason' is for what happens to people; however, there is always, ALWAYS, a lesson that rides in on the back of every event. We just have to be open to that lesson, and we will then see the reason.
You are correct about responding to life. I too believe that the only thing we can control in life, predominantly, is our 'reaction' to what happens to us in Life.
Again, that relates to the reason behind the events. We can't stop that, but we can have input into our inner and outer response to the event.
Great question Miko.
Thank you kindly.
Andre
Posted by: Andre at February 9, 2007 6:23 AM
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