Stillness

Most of you run around in your lives. You act like you’re at a train station where, for reasons unknown, the trains are always late, and you run around bewildered, trying to perform all the duties which you impose upon yourself along the way “on time”. And then, when you catch the train, you sit down comfortably in your seat, you look out the window at the sunny day and realize you still have enough time, and maybe you can now get some rest. But this break is short because, through the window, you soon see something new, something which rouses inside you a new desire, and you quickly start working out which train you should get on now to make it “on time” to that place where there’s just that thing which you simply cannot do without in your life. Or, if you’re aware that you can manage without it, you tell yourself that you still feel an irresistible urge to have it, and that there’s no point in living this life without treating yourself to that thing. While chasing around your life like that, you forget the basics. One of the most important things you forget is your life, and you.
The happiness you want and the stillness you desire don’t come from the things which are around you. They come from within you, from your depths, so well-hidden and beautiful that if you were to come across them, you’d stand before them for a very long time, as you would with a painting in a museum. The human hand will never be able to create anything as beautiful as you. But still, you look at yourself so briefly, just long enough to fix your hair and check out your new clothes. By not looking at the beauty which lies beneath everything, by looking for it in things around you, you walk past each other, you walk past genuine beauty. Do you really believe that a car or a house, a shirt or a pair of shoes, a TV or a cell phone… do you really think that they can be more beautiful than something that carries within itself all that you seek—wisdom, memory, knowledge, and love?
You look at each other and see faces, but not what is hidden behind those faces. When you look at yourself, you don’t see yourself, you see what you want to see, which is most often all your flaws, all your shortcomings that are bothering you at the time. Even when you look into your own eyes, the windows to what lies within, you see the color or the wrinkles around them, remembering with regret the years which have passed by and dreading the years lying ahead.
Try now to stop and think about what you’ve just read. We’d like you to fully understand what we’ve just told you, not just to understand it mentally, but to feel it with all your being. We want you to feel that prison you’ve put yourself in willingly, to feel all the limitations you’ve set yourself just because it’s easier for you to travel like the majority of people in your world—even though you’ve never asked yourself if that’s the right direction.
When you’re sure you’ve understood what you’ve just read, and when you’ve felt a restlessness in your body, maybe pain and a sort of heaviness, read on—you’re ready for a new beginning.
Every being has the right to live. Even though you’re currently in a world with rules, you have the right to your life. That’s because life is within you; it’s within you where its creation begins, and then, it manifests itself in the material form of things, people, and phenomena which surround you. And that’s why you’re the creator of your life, your thoughts, and your actions. Even though many of you know that, at the same time, many of you don’t quite understand it. You believe that it’s difficult and impossible to master your life, you continue along a path you neither understand nor enjoy.
Life is simple, and you make it complicated. Even when you hear there’s a solution, you may reject it if you think it’s too simple. But that’s exactly what solutions are like—simple, like life itself, they can’t be anything else.Only you can decide that you want a change, and only you can bring that change into your life.
Here’s an exercise that can help you in your daily life:
“Inhaling light and exhaling darkness”
Imagine that with every inhale, you’re breathing in light, not just through your nose and mouth, but through every pore of your body; every single part of your body “sucks in” light with each inhale. Then, with every exhale, you release darkness from all your being; you let everything that has accumulated and that is dark to leave every part of your body.
It doesn’t matter where you are when you do this, because you’re not breathing in external light from your material world but rather light from the source, from the place you come from, from a dimension which doesn’t know darkness. Your very intention to breathe in energy from the source and release darkness will connect you with your being, with that which you are, and it will allow you to regenerate. As you do this, you can say silently to yourself “I’m releasing fear” when exhaling, and “I’m taking in joy” when inhaling, or “I’m releasing pain” when exhaling and “I’m taking in strength” when inhaling…
After only a few minutes, you’ll begin to feel better, lighter, and more optimistic. All your roads lead in only one direction, and you can only make it out of this life one way. The sooner you realize that this game you call “your life” has been prepared for you, the sooner you’ll see all the signs which you’ve set up along your path, and which can make your journey easier, guide you in the best direction, and bring you messages.
All of that can only be seen in the light, because in darkness, everything looks the same and it’s easier to get lost along the way. So, try to bring into yourself as much light as possible and release as much darkness as you can so that everything can become clearer to you, and so that you can see the beauty which surrounds you. Don’t allow yourself to spend your entire life in a room full of darkness only to see in the end that there was a lamp right beside you the whole time, and that all you had to do was turn it on to realize that all those frightening shapes which surrounded and threatened you all your life were not all so frightening or insurmountable, that they were merely things which you had created with your own fear. So, get up and turn that light on, look around you and head down the path which you most feel belongs to you, the one where you’ll see the most light. Your willingness is what drives you, your strength is your engine; you were given all of that when you arrived in this body. Now, turn on the light and go; don’t allow yourself to stand in your own way.