Life is interesting as it is complex and yet simple at its core. We’re exploring the theme of Self Mastery this month and I’ve chosen Wholeness as this week’s topic. Our inner being as humans is made up of various essential elements such as our consciousness, thoughts, emotions and feelings and ego. How we relate to our own inner self will dictate how we relate to all else on the outer in our life.
They say life is all about perspective. I remember Julia Roberts character in the movie Notting Hill so precisely telling her co-star, Hugh Grant, “It’s all about perspective.” Depending on our beliefs, habits, experiences and core values, each and every person will access a given situation from their own perspective.
One of the challenges we face as we grow in spiritual maturity is to surrender the dictates of the ego to a higher perspective. For at the center and core of everything is an Infinite Force that is running this universe and beyond; and quite frankly it is well beyond our human understanding. Admitting this to be so, allows us to soften our perspective. It allows us to stop and acknowledge that there can be a higher calling or reason behind the ebb and flow of Life.
Life is inclusive, meaning It includes all. What we might judge as negative or unnecessary or unwanted, must have a purpose. When we can relinquish and release our hold on our judgments, we are set free. Didn’t the Master Teacher, Jesus the Christ, tell us in Matthew 5:38-39: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.”
Jesus was a teacher of Love – pure and simple and that, in my opinion, is at the core or essence of all. Love is the cosmic glue that creates, transmutes and is the basic wholeness of Life.
Say with me: “I soften my perspective this day to judge with right judgment. I recognize and realize Life is inclusive and Whole. This sets me free to explore with childlike eyes and wonder and for this I am grateful. And it is so.”
— Rev. Gay Beauregard, Alpine Church of Spiritual Living
