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Our Divine Thoughts

As you read through the articles, you may be thinking to yourselves, “Where does this guy get his ideas from?” Well the answers lies within the self. Knowledge and belief is born within the self. Often times these thoughts, beliefs and faiths are a product of nurturing and education, in the sense that our community and family help foster these patterns. But in the end, if we look at it from the point of view that we are born with the knowledge of everything then those thoughts and beliefs must have been born from the self before the fostering of our peers. In this sense, we can say that our identities are created as an agreement before we are actually born. But here’s the problem: It is great to say that I believe in something that isn’t traditionally believed by the many, when we observe it from the perspective of experience. In order to believe in something, anything, we must first experience it. We often have faith in what someone is trying to tell us, or teach us, but it isn’t until we’ve experienced it can we begin to truly believe in it.

       In my argument, I discuss that we were born with the knowledge of everything, and then we help nurture and cultivate a specific belief and thought process based on our environment. In this sense, if you were born Muslim, and you shared many of the same beliefs as Islam, then you will choose to be born in that environment, where you will better learn and experience the culture and the faith. And the same can be said for any belief.
       We must first begin to see ourselves as a manifestation of thought. A thought created us. The argument then would be – who’s? Who’s thought created us? Our own? The Egg before the Chicken? Our parent’s? They originally made the agreement to fall in love and have a child – if you happen to be a product of that union. But not all children were born in a loving family, and out of a loving union. A woman or a girl who’s been raped by her father/brother/cousin/neighbor/stranger, and gets pregnant from that union didn’t necessarily make that agreement to become a young mother. Yet, should you be the product of that union, are you then a part of her agreement? Then where was that agreement made? Or even when?
       The answer to this lies within the understanding of the self and of creation. Creation, if we were to look at it as an extension made up of the same particles as we are - for we were born from it as we were born from the same genetic make up of our parents and fore parents – then we would see that all things are the same and only differ in the perception, which is an attribute of thought, of that thing. As we take and observe creation, and the universe and all the things that exist there in, and beyond, we begin to see that all things are equal, and are merely different based on the observation of the observer. A star is hot and large, and made up of different gases and elements that are far too hot for our human bodies to withstand, but when you break that star down, it is composed on the exact same elements as we are and when the star dies, which they do, as we do, it becomes something totally different – yet in a way, the same. Because it is still composed of the same elements and it has only changed in the perspective of the observer. In this sense, only the number of particles and the weight of those elements have changed – like us shedding a few extra pounds for bikini season… Yet, with us losing a few pounds, and the change in our physical appearance do we not remain the same? Yes. All these attributes are products of a relative universe were we gauge or measure everything around us based on our understanding – understanding being a product based on education and belief. And when we gauge something, or determine that we believe that one this is true and the other is false, then aren’t we creating an agreement with that thing, which is the subject, where we are the observer? Then if that is true, isn’t that then a product of thought?
       If we approach the relative world with the belief that all things are equal, and that we are an extension of creation, which we can call God, G_D, Allah, or what have you based on your particular belief, then are we not equal to that fabric that we call divine? And in that, if we are a part of that divine thought, doesn’t that make us equally divine? Then why do we not believe in our divinity?
       Well first, we must create an agreement that defines divinity. For that fact, we must first create an agreement that defines every word, every thought and action. In this way, when I say something, we all understand it the exact same way based on that agreement.
       But in the real world, what we have is confusion, in the understanding of the definition of these words, thoughts and actions. We interpret based on our individual understanding, belief, education and personality. What may be understood by you may not necessarily, or exactly, be understood by the person sitting next to you. And this is what I call confusion. Does your confusion limit you in caparison to that person sitting beside you, or limit them in your eyes? It shouldn’t and it doesn’t. It is a definition of what makes us all unique. We aren’t meant to see everything the exact same way. When that day comes, the world, the universe, all of creation will cease to be. Therefore, it is our uniqueness that makes us all divine, because no matter what, we are all still connected to that divine center, which you can call God.

       My error begins in the definition of my thoughts. These articles are an expression of my thoughts, born out of my ego. I see the world in a certain light and I feel a need to describe and express that light. But in the end, I’ve only helped to foster more confusion, because my understanding of what that light means is based on my existing beliefs, understanding, faiths and education. In this sense, I’ve used my own limitations to describe what is limitless. But in doing so, I’ve helped myself better define what I feel and sense to be true, or the truth to my self. And this isn’t an error, because in the end, I am merely expressing an opinion, a belief that something is true that may not necessarily be shared by the larger population. But there is hope that there are few who do see things differently, but don’t know how to begin observing it, expressing it, or experiencing it. And in the end, this is my intended service. I don’t mean to foster or propagate confusion, in the sense that pulls people away from what they should believe to be truth, but instead, I aim to give them the tools, through argument, on how to observe and challenge the boundaries of their own beliefs and perspectives.

       Where do my thoughts and beliefs come from? The answer is, the self, but my environment fosters those thoughts and my learning is fuelled by my ego. In the end, it is the self that sees what is the truth in all things and then my intellect picks out those truths, founds within the vastness of confusion and begins to piece together those fragments to build a greater picture. I only begin to understand what I believe to be the truth when I experience it. And the expression of that experience is vastly different for every person.

       We invite trouble when we reject or add limitations to a thought or belief. Often times we may catch ourselves saying that a certain person is foolish for believing in something that they believe in. But what we are doing is rejecting that person’s divinity, and ultimately we are rejecting our own. This rejection is caused because we fail to see and accept what we perceive to exist. If all things are an expression of Divinity, then is it not divine? In the same sense that isn’t a wine stain on your white shirt still wine? It’s expression has changed in the sense that you may not want to sop up the stain to drink it, or you may not be able to get drunk off the renderings of that stain, but in the end, it was still the wine from your glass that created that stain.

       When we begin to embrace the self and the individuality of each and every person, then we can begin to experience what is the truth. There is after all only one truth, We are Divine.

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