"When all the illusions about whatever social story you have been told about being male, female, about being a white person, black person, brown person red person, yellow person are gone, when all the shallow ideas about what religion means are gone, then, you are yourself. You are it. We call that it God."
-- Ananda Abinou
Ideas are seductive traps. Especially ideas about who you are, about who anyone else is, about who God is, or about what the world is. Most ideas are just prejudices in drag. Prejudice = to pre-judge. When you prejudge, you already know. Or think you know. You're not living in the present moment, you're living in your head, the home of illusion.
When you let go of all you know, here you are. Yourself. It. Unrefined and undefined. You have not divided and dissected either your self or the world. You are one with it all. You are God.
No, not you're ego. It isn't an "I'm God and you're not" kind of thing. It's an "I'm God and you're God and it's all God" kind of thing. No boundaries. No illusions. Just what is -- the Divine.
Try it. Try letting go of all self-definition. It may take awhile, but you'll eventually get the knack. Caterpillars don't butterfly in a day. But one day they do. And you will, too -- escape the cocoon of self-definition and fly into Unity.
For today, just gently let go of your attachment to defining yourself, to separating yourself. Be willing to be in the world without prejudice, without the baggage of beliefs. Relax into being your deepest self. And if you're lucky, if the stars align and grace abides, just for a moment you may experience that you are indeed it, all of it, self without end. Amen.
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