Let’s assume that everything as we know it will end tomorrow. As we speak, markets are crashing miserably and people are losing their platform of security; jobs are lost, and homes foreclosed; lots of commodities we have taken for granted are suddenly going to disappear. What does that really mean for us?
Who are we, really? Are we the body we live into? Are we truly the person we think we are?
Many years ago, an old lady asked me these very same questions, which started the amazing journey to discover who I am and what the purpose of life truly is, beyond the illusion.
Faced with earthly uncertainty, many people choose to go within to find the true meaning of life.
We have come to associate who we are with what we have. Sadly, our identities have become so intertwined with material possessions and we have been conditioned to associate our self-worth with what we own.
Most people—if not all—have gone through at least one major crisis in their lives. When all is said and done, and the crisis has run its course, which part of us has really been affected? Was it our soul, our spirit, or merely our outer shell?
When relationships fail, the economy crashes, and the world as we know it unravels, the part of us that’s affected is the earthly persona our spirit uses to exist on this earthly plane.
The real us, our soul—the silent watcher who humbly lives within us and watches as things unfold—remains untouched.
Most people, regardless of their spiritual beliefs, will agree that trials and hardship teach us lessons; in the greater scheme of things, tribulations are constructive rather than destructive. Looking back, we realize that our spirit was never injured by the hard times we lived through, only our ego.
The real person inside of us is a timeless, ageless, birthless, deathless, genderless being, which is directly connected to the amazing mind of Spirit.
When we become lost and fearful, it’s good to realize that it wasn’t Spirit who abandoned us; we abandoned ourselves by becoming too focused on what does not truly matter and forgetting who we really are.
