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DARE TO BE: CHOOSING

You must dare to be

Dare to be. Dare to be. To be, you must dare. This is the same as saying, consciously choose. Every moment is a choice, whether you know it or not. If you are not aware of making choices, then you have chosen to be unaware, delegating choice away from your authority. This is also a choice. Maybe it is easier for you to believe you are helpless, and to take no responsibility in your life. That way, you can still have the release that comes from blaming someone else.

Dare to be; an orangutan in reflective mood

Who am I blaming?

The next time you hear yourself complaining about anything, ask yourself: who am I blaming? What am I refusing to take responsibility for? What is it that I don’t want to see? Become visible to me. There is nothing that I cannot accept.

If you are aware of not making choices, you will feel helpless, disempowered, and may spend a lot of time indulging blame, envy, jealousy, regret and so on. Realize that all this is just another way of choosing. You might feel angry that you can’t make the decisions you want to, that you haven’t got money, you haven’t got time, or you’ve got too much responsibility. But tell me what of anything in your present condition is not the result of some previous choice of yours.

$Dare to be; fractal exhibiting beauty in seeming randomness$

Nothing is random

Hold onto that for a minute. What of anything in your present condition is not the result of a previous choice of yours? Everything you are now living is the result of some previous choice. Nothing is random, everything is asked for, and given as asked.

All is given as asked

This is a very freeing thought. Once you have accepted that your attention to it created all of it, then the mind leaps very quickly to the exciting corollary: I could create something better.

I could create something better

I could create imperturbability, evenness, balance, all those names for what is lacking in our experience now, which is peace. If I have created all this without conscious thought, imagine what I might do now, with conscious thought.

How could I create these things?

By becoming them. Ask that every cell of your physical form be tuned into stillness. Let your physical apparatus be called to joy through particles of light in every cell.

Dare to be

Through particles of light in every cell

ATTACHMENT TO OUTCOMES

Only a powerless entity

Your attachment to outcomes is an excellent opportunity for ego to project fear and blame onto you. What is attachment to outcomes but a thinly veiled form of fear? Why do you care so much about the way a certain situation comes out? What is an outcome but a miniscule moment in eternity, soon to be superseded by other outcomes, and still others? Why are you so intent on seeing a particular one?

Only a powerless entity would be frightened of an outcome.

Is there a burr beneath your saddle?

Right now, think of a situation that has been bothering you, that you would say you wanted a solution to. What is there now that is a burr under your saddle?

Now bring this situation to full consciousness. Usually it is at the sides of your consciousness, nudging you along in the way your ego wants you to be: anxious, worried, and completely open to all forms of manipulation. Put this uncomfortable situation in the forefront of your mind and let it have its full sway over you. Experience the range of emotion that this situation calls forth in you. Experience the sway attachment to outcomes has over you.

It calls forth anger, hatred and blame. But underneath that is the fear. Fear is what feeds all these other devils. Fear is the fuel.

Fear is the fuel

Now confront that fear. Give it a name. Fear of being alone, fear of pain to a loved one, fear of losing someone, fear of being naked, isolated, or despised. Thank you for being here. Thank you for showing yourself. I have looked at you thoroughly, and I also know you by your fruits: anger, blame and hatred. Get you gone now. You have nothing good to offer me. Go away empty-handed, fear.

Leave my house now, fear

And remember as you send this fear away, that the outcome you are afraid of represents only a miniscule, meaningless fraction of all the possibilities in inifinity. Everything you can imagine does exist. Do you think you could imagine more than God?

There is an infinity of outcomes: choose

So instead of using your consciousness in the service of fear, which has nothing good to bring you, would you not rather spend it in the service of imagining beautiful outcomes, outcomes that inspire awe and wonder and love. Realize there is an infinity of what you call outcomes, and you can choose whichever you want.

Picture yourself in front of a massive shelf of books, and you take out a book called “Harmonious Family”, and think to yourself, I am going to read this book. And imagine what sorts of images and feelings were in it. You could stay and peruse that book as long as you wanted, bathing yourself in warm, visual images of how “harmonious family” could present to you.

Love the guiding principle

ARGUING HAS NO MERIT

Arguing with someone is conceding that their point of view has merit. It has enough merit that you would spend energy on refuting it. It has enough merit that you, who could be focusing on anything, give it any time at all. It has enough merit that you think you must try to combat it. You are giving it merit with your attention.

If you really believed it had no merit at all, you would not register it.

You would dismiss it once and for all, like you would any other outdated idea that had been shown not to work. You would not give it any of your focus. You would deliberately turn your focus to what you did want to see more of, whether rationality, peace, security, it is all your choice.

Fractal of a human-like figure spreading its arms wide, as though imploring you to choose.

It is all your choice

If you really believed an argument, or point of view, had no merit at all, you certainly would not engage with it, or try to use rationality to combat it.

To the irrational, the rationality of others is a useful tool that can be used against them. It is a stalling tactic. Do you want to be stalled?

A dolphin jumping over a wave to head out to sea

Do you want to be stalled?

What is to be done when we are confronted by evil? with danger? with fear?

This is the question. Firstly, do not be delayed by arguing about what is right and wrong. There can be no question about this.

Focus upon deeds more than words.

By their fruits you shall know them

Matthew 7:16

Their deeds will tell you everything about who they are. And, once you have ascertained who they are, act accordingly, in compliance with all your laws, which were set up to protect you.

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