to thine own self be true: moving from interfering to interacting
- Salma Summers
- Jan 22, 2020
- 3 min read
this life is experienced as split. everything is dualistic and the only way to sanity is to find balance between the opposites - the paradoxes that makeup, YOU.
you are either interacting with life or you are interfering with life. interfere (enter fear) is the state most people choose to live in. they are constantly letting others come in between themselves.
you are made up of many contradicting parts of self - you need to do the work to bring these parts together in harmony and balance. but you can’t do that if there is something always “interfering” and pushing you to enter fear.
this is what happens when you are running from your life - when you are escaping and allowing others to dictate your reality. the moment you become conscious of your choices, you become an active player in your own life … this is when you move out of interfering and move into interacting.
the interactions i have with the lovely people in my life are teaching me more about myself. and isn’t that what life is meant to be? a playground to self-learn - to find out more about what you like and what you don’t - to experience.
“to thine own self be true”
being true to yourself is the key to life; this is how you establish responsibility, self-control, boundaries, compassion, awareness and all the things that keep you flowing in life.
this is how you begin to step into your observer, the part of you that does not cling on to what you are experiencing but rather observes it all.
i often think about life as a movie, movies are meant to be experienced and then left in the moment.
we always have the opportunity to look back at the lessons we learned while watching the movie, but we don’t obsess over keeping it playing longer than it has. this is literally how life is meant to work too - allow yourself to experience every moment for what it is and when it is over, let it be over.
allow yourself the gift of knowing that the experience will be something that lives on forever and at any given moment you can access it because it lives in your memory.
humans suffer because humans cling. all things in this reality have an expiration date, all things erode. this is how this reality works; from another perspective, nothing actually ever dies, endings are only beginnings. they are opportunities for us to move forward and to tap into new experiences.
we have all experienced the pain of wanting to hold onto something that we know is over. we have all experienced the opposite of this as well; letting go of something not knowing how we will deal with it but surrendering it to the universe - and every one of us knows how much everything works itself out when it is surrendered.
but we have egos, and the ego is the part of us that expires. it doesn’t want to expire, it is in conflict with it’s own reality. that is why it creates conflict outside of itself. as long as we are in a state of ego, we will suffer because we will not allow ourselves to grasp the truth.
when you are in spirit, you are inspired. you are creating a life around the truth; which is that you are eternal. you aren’t in a fight with your own nature, you aren’t at war with yourself. this is where we aim to get in life, this is the state of enlightenment.
and regardless of what the guru’s say, this is not an impossible state to reach. it is actually quite simple, be true to yourself and be honest. radical honesty will move you into enlightenment.
truth is your savior.
be true to yourself.
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