the power that has been bestowed upon you: choosing your beliefs vs them being chosen for you.
- Salma Summers
- Jan 24, 2020
- 3 min read
when love is done right it is the force that creates life.
the other day, i was walking around the park when i saw a man who was talking to himself and looked a bit distraught. i immediately went into judgment mode and a sense of fear came over me - right after i felt what i like to call a GOD SHIFT.
all of me shifted and i realized the truth at that moment - that my fear was a lie because it was coming from a place of “something can be taken from me” when in reality, nothing can ever be taken from me.
this, of course, is a perspective - one i have adopted and learned because it serves me.
if i come across a belief system that serves me, i adopt it. this is the beauty of learning to unlearn and being okay with change and growth.
this is not about what is right vs what is wrong. perspective is subjective and so is truth. i do believe there are objective truths like the laws that govern our universe but for the most part - truth is subjective.
truth is for you, whatever you want it to be for you. since our brains filter out what we see in life based on our past experiences - it is no surprise that two people can go through the same thing and have differing truths/perspectives.
organizations that rule our world such as religion, science, government, media, are all in the game of programming people.
it is no wonder that we have a world of 7 billion people who, for the most part, all think the same.
this could be a good thing - for one, it creates order. rules keep people in check, governments and religions create these rules.
on the flip side, what happens is that our autonomy gets taken from us - we are told that we don’t have the capacity to choose for ourselves how we want to govern our own world (body).
the body that has been assigned to your spirit is your world, you are meant to govern this body by balancing order and chaos - the god within and the devil within.
most people have not been taught to do this, most people have been taught to externalize both the devil and god.
hence, the very dogmatic ways in which we love and hate(fear). the dogmatic ways in which we box ourselves in by believing that we are being righteous and following the rules.
when people talk, if you really listen, all you hear is them justifying their own beliefs.
when we don’t choose our beliefs we have an attachment to them that makes us flip if someone comes near questioning them. deep down we are afraid because we don’t have a grasp on our beliefs - we are afraid that if we question why we believe what we believe, we will go to the place of losing our “self.”
when we do choose our beliefs, we aren’t threatened by someone with differing beliefs - we hold space for all perspectives and we listen with an open mind. we can do this only because we have gone to the place of losing the "self," and by doing so we have realized that we are one with all.
this is the entryway to true freedom.
this is the entryway to true love.
everything is perspective and everything that you choose to be true for you will be true for you. that is a lot of power that has been bestowed upon you, use it to create your world.
and remember that love is the force that creates and fear is the force that takes. any perspective that is aligned with love, will create life.
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