Karen Monroy

Just for a moment, go back in your mind ten years.  It’s summer of 2000. What was life like? What were you doing? What was important to you at the time? What was your dream?

Breathe yourself back into this moment.

The dream then-is it the dream today? I don’t have to be clairvoyant to bet you probably not. That is because most of our dreams, conceived in the quagmire of our human experience are not Soul dreams; they are relative dreams with an expiration date proportional to our experience of the time.

Egos will have you notice the dream isn’t everything you thought it’d be. Egos never want to admit the Truth of Relative. Ego’s want good or bad, it happened or it didn’t. It will settle for the muddle of ‘I can’t remember” the dream, ten years was so long ago.

Relative, as a Spiritual Principle involves a perspective outside of the mini me. Mini me is the cobbled together me from your conditioning and indoctrination of your culture and times. Mini me is your past, your memories, the story you tell about the whole shebang of your past-but it isn’t You. The stuff mini me knows is relative. There is nothing absolute or fixed about it. This is how you have a family growing up together in the same house, with the same conditioning and indoctrination, and yet each person has completely different experiences.

Much of what we call dreams are not really dreams. They are desires, wishes, perhaps even obligations we believe we must full-fill that we label as a dream. What I have observed with folks who are living Sustainable, Peaceful, Joyful lives, is the dream emerged from the willingness to walk the path, not from what was planned.

Look to your own experience. The things that work for you, the ones that you are happy with—did you plan those ten years ago? Ten Years ago, what you thought would make you happy-is it happy today?

Looking at my experience, I could see in my life how plans I have had, have all led to something unplanned. The Divine flow of the Universe is always at work and what has slowed or sped the plans along is my thinking I know what the dream looks like and trying to “master-mind” the how.

I caught myself reminiscing one day about a special time in my childrens life-a tender time when they were very young. That was part of a dream. I certainly had moments I was aware I was living the dream-but 25 years ago they were sporadic. Today, I can look at my life and despite the one or two things I would tinker with to suit me better-the Soul dream I realize has found me. Like the flourishing expanding lushness of a garden, it has been in me and around me all along. The blooms changes, with the seasons and that makes the living the dream all the sweeter.

I invite you to free yourself from the constraints of a relative dream. Welcome the Universe like an old and trusted friend to flow deeply into your life by recognizing the Soul dream finds you, as you are present to life, stepping into life each minute.

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I want you to imagine for a minute you are crossing the highway. You think it’s ‘all clear’ and as you reach the middle of the road, a huge semi appears out of nowhere. The semi is bearing down upon you.

Would you:

Ask why this is happening to you?

Wonder how you attracted the semi into your life experience?

Moan about how this always happens to you when you cross the road?

Get the opinion of other folks as to your best course of action?

Second-guess your choice to get the f*ck out of the way?

Insane as the above questions appear now, sitting at the comfort of your computer or mobile device it’s how we become Spiritual Road Kill.

Substitute crossing the street for learning to manage your power through choices.  Instead of a semi appearing out of no where, substitute the myriad of forms that come at you in life.

Ego minds get lost in the world of form. The antidote is choice. Choice builds the Muscle of the Authentic Self. At times we don’t like our choices and get lost in the negative. At other moments We LOVE our choices. Past the appearances of the form is our attachment to the form.

Our attachments lead to our suffering.

Lord, I am guilty. I want my books to be #1. Oh, yes my books are fantastic and help people. I managed to get out of the way long enough, to allow Spirit to guide me and get the words on paper. But that isn’t why my ego wants to be number one.

When I ask myself why I want my books to by number one, my answer sucks. Whatever you want in life, your answer sucks too because it’s the same as mine. Egos only have one answer.

My ego wants to be number one because it is conditioned to believe number one is good. Just like your ego. We are further conditioned that having two, and three number ones would be even better. And after that? Being number one for months, years at a time. We have no proof this is true. In fact we have scads of proof that with each desire fulfilled, we form another attachment and create more suffering.

And this is where we really are road kill. Our attachments are hurling themselves down the road of life at a million miles an hour. And the ones we like transfix us and sooner or later they flatten us. Either when we f*ck them up, or when they dissolve because they are unsustainable.

There is nothing in this world that can sustain the Authentic Self. And yet, we’ll try a thousand times in a month to prove the Truth wrong.

When we are on our knees, it’s a relief to know we had things all mixed up. We are willing to give up our illusions when we connect the misery dots. Try to take away the good illusions? Ego mans the battle stations at this thought.

Listen to your own mental chatter to verify this: “but I am fulfilling my purpose!” ego whines. “I like shoes and purses” it wails. “My soul mate completes me,” it cries. “If life isn’t about things, then what is it about?” it forlornly sighs.

Exactly.

If you consider for a moment how many times you were attached to something: a person, a diet, a tribe-and you consider further how at some point what worked for you was the very same thing that no longer works for you: “he’s got such a wonderful sense of humor” becomes “he’s a child and won’t ever grow up” you can begin to see the illusions.

It’s all made up. It’s all a story. The good and the bad. Amidst the ego’s clutching onto the good, we miss the better, the Miracle. In fact we miss the Sea of Miracles. Under all the form, packaged as good or bad is energy. We are meant to be the wise stewards of this Energy in duality. Leaning to govern your own power is your purpose.

It’s amazing how resilient we are. We lie to our self a thousand times a day and yet here we are. Finding happiness anyway. Bumping into Joy here and there.

I am not telling you anything your Authentic Self doesn’t know. Use this self as a compass. Your awareness of the illusions and it forms comes from this True Self.

No you are not being ‘tested’. The Divine Universe is good, presenting us with opportunities (choices) to use our power. Or not. It’s called free-will. Yeh, it’s a bitch.

It is our own resistance to remain fluid and formless – to “flow” as energy, in a universe of energy – that creates the illusion of being tested.
These semi-trailers that seem to come up from “out of nowhere” are actually projections of the fear-based ego mind when it perceives that we’re coming close to something that could, if we master it, accrue our Power.

At the point of form hurling itself down the road, we mostly choose to disconnect from that powerful self. Five-sensory perception clouds the entire windshield of our vision and splat-there we go again.

The resilience miracle IS the Authentic Self-and formless: It uses ALL things for good, even what form intends as ‘distraction’. The Mystics call this non-duality.

The basic structure of duality (the world of form) EVERYTHING has it’s opposite. Up has down, in has out, good has bad, love has fear. The world of form is a spectrum of Polarities–we choose which part of the spectrum we occupy via our thinking, beliefs, attitude and judgments.

In the Formless there is NO opposing. There is only Love.

Illusions are powerful in the effects, but remain causeless. So if fear is ‘real for you’ because you are in the illusion (which let’s face it we mostly are!) then the illusion will have power over you. The semi hurling itself down the road of life will flatten you.

The miracle is ‘non-duality’(the Divine Oneness) knowing that Angels, Higher Power, Source Energy is all there really is, always was and will always be.

Divine Oneness is so powerful it transcends duality-IN YOU. You don’t make the miracle (the shift in perception to see the form has hooked you) you get out of the WAY of the miracle because miracle is your Natural state of Grace. The Sea of Miracles is your True Home.

Until we can perceive the Universe – no separation-only Oneness and include our self as a part of that Oneness, we stand in the road waiting for the next semi, in it’s seemingly infinite forms.

When you feel like cosmic road kill, I’ll remind you that you live in a Cosmic Sea of Miracles. That no matter how badly you have messed up in the world of duality, Oneness or non-duality is present. It’s Present In You.

Let go of your meaning, let go of your story and Ask this Authentic Being to guide you.  Only it can sustain you.

My Peace about everything in life comes from the Cosmic Sea of Miracles. Knowing that how my ego perceives is just an illusion. It’s not personal. It’s just all the ego is capable of-illusions.

*special thanks to @amyoscar for the great input

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