Hi,
I'm Bassem.
Thank you for joining me.
Internally,
You don't need law.
You know right from wrong.
Intimacy guides you,
Your movements,
Your words,
Actions,
Guides your feelings through the sense of being.
Your sense of being is the sum total of heaven and earth and all that is in between.
But since early childhood,
The muscle of our attention has been trained to focus externally.
This is what this is all about.
We measure whether we should feel peaceful on what's happening outside.
People are getting their guidance from inside.
They don't cheat.
They don't lie.
They don't kill.
They don't rape.
They have no reason to.
Raping,
Killing,
Cheating,
Lying,
All of this,
These are ways of trying to ensure that the world behaves in the right way for you to be happy.
I don't feel good about myself because someone smiled at me in the street or gave me a compliment.
I feel good about me because I can feel the pulse of the universe in me.
I'm looking out,
Attuned to my internal processes.
I'm feeling my body as I'm speaking.
Why do I have to check outside to see how I feel inside?
When the identity structures that are built on what's happening outside start to fall apart,
As painful as it may be,
That's a wonderful time because it means that you're ready to turn inward.
This is the home return,
The soul return.
This is the point where the prodigal son,
The prodigal daughter comes home from the world.
It means that you're waking up from the spell of external identification.
It means you are stepping into abundance.
Abundance is the realization that happiness is what you are.
Can you begin to feel your internal reality?
Make that your standard.
Every moment you catch yourself looking externally to see whether everything is okay,
You turn inward.
You start to retrain yourself.
It may take a day,
It may take a week,
It may take a lifetime.
Sooner or later you'll have to do it.
Right here,
Right now,
Can you look inward?
Wake up to the truth of being.
Feeling your hands or your feet.
Can you feel the beingness of you?
You might put some attention on your belly.
Can you listen while feeling your belly button?
If you need to put your hand on your belly to feel the warmth,
That can help.
