To Remain In Our Lonesome Shell Or Not: That Is The Question

There is always something we can do when we're faced with the loneliness and alienation in the Western culture. Prayer and asking for Grace help immeasurably. Yet another powerful key is loving ourselves enough to be honest and transparent with ourselves first and then with others. Naturally every situation is not safe for complete and utter honesty but some difficulties are healed through increased transparency. Once we experience how light we feel when we are gently honest rather than self-suppressing, we want to feel that way again and again. Premasudha tells her students that if they can open and honest with her, they will find that this spreads to the rest of their lives. This is what living in integrity is all about. Being gently true to ourselves as much as possible, in every possible way.

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The great Persian poet Hafez has a poem where he talks about how Mother Moon and Father Sun are fighting over who gets to put you to bed.

That is how loving the universe really is.

But you know the truth of it is we might not feel this at all.

We might feel quite alienated from our truth and when we look out at what's going on in the world,

Obviously a lot of other people feel alienated from the creator within them because they wouldn't be acting this way if they felt it.

So what to do?

You know,

What to do and what does a teacher do if they're wanting to communicate how loved you are when maybe you didn't feel it growing up?

Or you haven't felt it in a long time?

What to do?

You know,

And the joke or the irony or the crazy thing is in a way there's nothing to do.

You know,

I got the feeling from within to make this video today.

It came from warmth and a feeling of wanting to fan the flames of love within the hearts of maybe people who are feeling,

Some of you are feeling kind of down or lonesome or lost.

Just wanting to strengthen the connection to the source.

But it's not really me doing it.

It's just coming through me and it's in you.

That same energy is in you.

Yeah,

It's in you.

Just now as you are,

You might not feeling it,

But it's actually knocking on the inside of your heart going,

Hello,

Wake up,

Hello,

You're loved.

The creator exists.

You can live it,

Even in this world,

The way it is right now.

Actually,

It's kind of good that it's going so crazy because it's easier then for us to fall back on ourselves,

Fall back on the heart.

We kind of get disillusioned with the rules so much.

We just fall back on the heart more.

And of course,

If the rules,

You know,

The rules are,

You know,

Christ said the most important commandments was,

You know,

Love thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul.

And that's the creator within you.

You love that and serve that.

And then you serve it in everybody else.

You serve it in all the animals and the plants.

And the other one was,

You know,

Do to your neighbor as you would like to be done to.

So,

You know,

Treat others as you'd like to be treated.

If there are any rules,

It's those.

But what I'm wanting in this video is that maybe there's a,

You feel more of a flicker within,

You feel permission to relax a little bit,

Relax inside,

To kind of relax into your true nature.

And then,

You know,

An action that really helped me,

And you have to make sure it's safe,

But,

You know,

Safe inside and outside,

Was I just started telling the truth more.

And that really helped.

That really helped me make friends with my true nature over time.

Yeah,

So some situations,

You know,

Wasn't safe to,

But more and more the way my life went,

It became more and more situations where it was safer and safer to just speak from the level of truth within me,

Even if it meant kind of exposing some of my vulnerabilities.

And again,

Be careful.

But as I say to students,

You know,

The more that they can be like open and honest with me,

The more they can,

That will,

That innocence will just start expanding into the whole rest of their lives.

And they'll find their freedom.

And,

You know,

Spiritual practices are really important.

But if we're doing spiritual practices,

And we're not seeking to be as honest and transparent as we can be,

You know,

Carefully,

But,

You know,

So many of us,

Our minds and egos just need to go into self protection.

And it just leaves us lonely and defended.

And we just pass on those patterns to our youngsters.

And it doesn't help the world.

I mean,

If everybody's walking around in a protected,

Like tank,

What's the point?

You know,

Even our suitcases,

You know,

We've got hard shells on our suitcases.

I see hard shells sometimes in younger people.

And I feel for them because I go,

Oh,

It's just the cost.

I mean,

What is going to hurt for those shells to melt for them to find themselves.

But,

You know,

If a lot of us are just quietly praying,

Doing our best to move into truth to express love,

There's a quantum effect that then makes it easier for every individual in the whole world to just come from more truth.

And,

You know,

There's a point to,

You know,

When bad things happen is to wake us up.

So maybe we could all wake up now.

Anyway,

Bless your hearts sending lots of love out to all of you to the world to all of you constantly.

Yeah.

And may it become easier and easier for you to just relax into the truth of yourself and find safe places where you can be yourself.

Yeah.

Okay,

Bless your hearts.