A section from a book I wrote back a few years ago and have yet to publish... It still feels at times too simple, the language part of me judges it as imperfect, but the Intent was heartfelt when I wrote it, as it still is now: I want us all to Wake Up...
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Your / my long list of known addictions (alcohol, food, lotteries, exercise, sex, drugs, rescuing etc.) as well as any of our potentially habit ruled “doings” (reading, thinking, relating, Web browsing, acting, driving, et. al.) are all compulsive, autopilot attempts to shift into the Grace of the playful divine Self. Sometimes they may help you connect consciously with that Joy we are,often they probably don’t...
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Autopilot’s rationalizing, constricting voices / sub-personalities (“one more cookie won’t hurt...” etc.), those automated “doings” of your usual attending processes (which sound like paternal scoldings or indulgences!), are the sources of each addictive, compulsive search. “They” make you desperate for any possible return to Grace you can manage. These conditioned elements of self that you’ve come to think and believe yourself to “be” are actually: The Problem. Hence the classic, inaccurately understood religious instruction to“deny yourself”, “kill” the ego, “transcend” self...
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Accurately, you need to shift your identification with the Autopilot world view, that usual sense of “numbed, boring normalcy”. Your Autopilot was shaped (by well meaning others) to believe / feel that all of who you are exists inside a rationalistic, randomly objective universe which has no intimate or permanent connection to your daily life. Based in that nightmare, your potentially expansive knowing is truncated into visions of futility. Without the fluidity of Who You really Are, you’ve felt your whole range of intimate sensings of life are destined to end in Death...
As one neat blog I was on today summed it up differently: there was or is a purpose to You Being on This Page if it's touching you... :>)
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