Like the water needs its well
the soul needs her body to realise herself

True nature

 More and more I start to understand what my inner teacher meant when he incited me to be a rebel, years ago. It is not necessary to sit on the fence. It is not necessary to worry about government rules, which seem by definition unfriendly in popular speech. It is not even necessary to demonstrate for world peace anymore. I am only on this earth to uncover and to live my true nature.

A rebel

Be a rebel. Knock down all taboos inside of you. Do not play the game of the collective any longer. Be in the world, but not of the world. Do not let yourself be guided by fear. Fear, which is not you, but inserted in you the moment you were born. Fear of being not good enough if you do not play your part in the game. Fear of lack if you do not fit into the undefined laws, which by now are determining our group code. Fear of being an outcast if you do not walk with the crowd and have assured yourself of a good salary and an index-linked pension. Don’t misunderstand me; there is nothing wrong with a good job. On the contrary, we are in the world to share our unique gift in the work we do. Labour is the way par excellence to express the essence of our being. Payment, in any way, is a logical result. Money however does not create our happiness. Happiness is what we experience in walking the path, in the essence of the work itself.

Chaos

Be a rebel. Free yourself from fears, which prevent you being love. Which prevent you living and experiencing your true nature. Dare to differentiate yourself from the masses by refusing to join the endless drivel about things that are not essential: the amount of National Health contribution, the -yes or no- anti contraceptive pill in the National Health-package. Go ahead, fill in the rest of the line…

The outer fight against the evil without dealing with the root cause more chaos in and around us. Chaos, which becomes more and more visible. Everything hidden and dark seems to come to the fore. Old structures are falling apart. Do not get discouraged or tricked, it is only part of the game. The game of illusions, the shade-working from mind in the substance. A game we once have chosen to play here on earth, and which finally will lead us to awakening.

Enlightment

We feel more or less attached to the substance and we like to preach the message of love and light. At the same time, we blame our brothers and sisters because they are not showing their anger. Or are we patiently waiting for heaven to come, for the next energy-input, which is going to manifest itself soon, so that it finally can happen? What happen? Well, we are getting closer to enlightenment, right?

Open mind

Nonsense! That enlightenment is already there. In the here and now – in this one moment – there is no second one. You do not even have to strive for it. On the contrary, it will only lead you further away from the truth. Masculine and feminine are of equal importance. Denial of one pool makes the other inaccessible. ‘I am only light’, a man reacts in full conviction. I reply: ‘Congratulations, I am not that far’. In this manifestation, I am light and dark. Because I know by now that the dark is not my essence, I am no longer afraid of it. I step into my fears with an open mind and a lot of humour. I do not try to deny it any longer, not to project it on my neighbour or who-ever. I try to look at it in myself. Not to judge but to see the quality that is at the base; pure spirit. In the kernel of anger lies the seed of the un-conditional love, which I Am.

Therapists

 They allowed me to be at a therapy-session. Expertly and honourably, the therapist is discovering all in-completeness in the client. Matter to work with; it keeps us therapists off the street! Suddenly I realize that the therapist in me has quit existing. I do no longer feel the need to rescue or correct. I have taken more the role of the present one. When I look at people now, I do not see their shortcomings. I see their potential, their beauty. Okay, sometimes nicely covered with a variety of human or even un-human acquired behaviour, but anyway, when I dare to see the inner beauty of people and I appeal to their possibilities, they feel themselves being seen and loved and begin to remember who they are. Their essence will grow stronger. The illusionary outside starts to disappear and the shining inside remains. We radiate increasingly more of our true being. This happens when the person is ready for it. Not before, not afterwards. I am just the sower. The time to awaken is the choice of the soul and everything I do in it is part of the game. The I Am inside of me is only the do-er.

We, in the west, have time for endless therapy. It is one of the many addictions we cherish. It is not good or bad. It is all part of the game

Being yourself

Dare to be a rebel. Dare to say that you do not like to talk about silly things, which spoil the energy. You feel more alienated, and the collective fear will amplify. Okay, it is scary that first time, but every time it gets easier and your energy will strengthen itself. Moreover, your choice will open that pathway for others.

We shall not grow when we keep confirming each other of old behaviour. We are not in this world to be stuck cosily in relationships. We step into relationships to grow from each other and to bring out the highest in ourselves and each other. Stop trying to be nice. It is absolute un-natural, and it constrains. Just dare to be yourself. Dare to be honest and authentic with your sunny and your less sunny sides.
There are so many groups, which see it as their vocation to send love into the world. At the very first conflict, they fall apart. Yes of course, we all stay human! As we aim for conflict-less situations, we are manifesting more conflicts in and around us.

There is no good and no bad. Those are labels, which we like to stick on situations to control them. Everything we like to control becomes finally uncontrollable

Fear

 We have fed our collective consciousness with so many unreal fears, that we have imprisoned ourselves in a kind of a vicious circle. Depending on our sensitivity, our choices are more or less influenced by fear. However realistic it may feel when you experience it, fear is always imaginary and has on its own no right of existence. Fear is a projection of our thinking, based on memories from the past and fantasies of what could happen in the future. Fear is a result of our sense of separateness and is always connected with time. When we have to face death, when we find ourselves in a crisis, there is no time for fear and we act immediately without thinking: here and now.

At the base of every fear lays unaware the fear of death. However, death is an unknown phenomenon; in essence, we cannot be afraid of it. The true enemy is our imagination I, our ego, which we associate ourselves with. We are so fearful to let go of everything and everybody we are dependent on, that we literally are dying out of fear.

The only way to transform our fears is no longer to evade them, but to look them straight in the eyes and to penetrate the repressed pain. At that moment, the armour, so carefully built around our heart, breaks into pieces. We step through the gate, get in contact with our immortal source of love and enter the infinite area beyond time and space. No longer, there is space for any fear. We embrace All That Is without fantasizing about what should be…

Surrender

 How is it possible that people, living in much more primitive circumstances, still like to share from a feeling of abundance? I think I know the answer by now. As long as we feel separated from the source, we will persecute our needs and everything we collect will fall into a bottomless well.

Life has everything to do with belief and faith, and above all with surrender. We discover that you and I are one and that we are all part of the same source. From an inner conviction that our being has no limitations, we reunite with that source of unity and we can draw the water abundantly from the well itself. Life has everything to do with dignity.

I am worthy to receive that which I already am. I am worthy to radiate the love I truly am and I will manifest this love into every cell of my physical and other bodies. It is not necessary to do more than that. The effect to my environment will be endless

Lord and master

Situations are coming and going. We cannot do much to change that. We can however deal with it in a different way.
A Surinamese boy, living in the Netherlands, has no arms. He does not want to be dependent. His feet took over the function of his hands. He cooks, cleans and has a full-time job as a computer expert. He is a shining example in his environment. Another one in the same circumstance is constantly worried as to why for heaven’s sake this has to happen to him.
Two people are sitting in the same train. The train gets a breakdown and it seems to take hours before the disorder is arranged. The one person is constantly moaning about the bad services from the railway. The other uses his time to be in the moment and to strengthen his source of love.

In both situations, the circumstances are not that important. The point is how we use the circumstances. Do we feel like a victim and run away when there is a conflict, or are we lord and master, and use every conflict to become more love.

Our own sound

Love is ‘All That Is’. There is nothing but love. You are love and I am love. Together we are the visible expression of the divine flow, which is constantly creating and expressing itself in different forms. Together we write books, we make sculptures, we compose the nicest music and sing the highest song.

Let us not use that form for our own purpose. Dare to be flexible. Dare to let go the form the moment it has done its duty. May our message of love by means of our books, our sculptures, our paintings, our helpfulness and our music flow into the world, so others can feed themselves as it has fed us. Let us do this without any attachment. After all, it really is neither your gift nor mine. It is the gift from the father and the mother, the gift from all of us.

Waking up. We do it at all the right time. The creation and the creator are one. I do not have to change that creation – I just have to sing my own sound in that creation so we can all together sing the highest hymn

Om Shanti,
Yasmin