A bird of paradise!

One of the challenges of your adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems: wars, religions, nations, destructions, refusing to be a part of them and instead expressing the higher self.

In his little book Messiah’s Handbook, Richard Bach writes some very interesting thoughts. The one above makes me think about what I say is a challenge. Certainly war and hatred are great challenges; I see the results of distorted beliefs and wonder why so much destruction? I see religions painting themselves in the color of a belief and I wonder why. I know we are all different, but do we need to destroy each other for the sake of justice? Is it the challenge of life to be right using dead systems or is it the challenge of realizing that there are other systems that are full of life and I exist in more than one system at a time?

Richard uses the term higher self to express another system, another consciousness that is within me. My outer ego shows just one of the many consciences that make up what I call my self. The external dead systems that I believe in keep me separate from these other aspects of me and I try to find peace in this human system of separation and fear. I search through the history of nations and religions and try to find answers, but find what I put there because of my own true beliefs. My story repeats itself creating suffering as a response to happiness. I don’t have to suffer unless I choose that option. I can change my thoughts and change my challenge.

“A cloud does not know why it is moving in such a direction and at such a speed. It feels an impulse… This is the place to go now.

But the sky knows the reasons and patterns behind the clouds, and so will you when you get high enough to see beyond the horizons.”

Once again Bach explains the challenge that lies ahead. If I reconnect with my inner self and allow it to guide me, I start living in another system. My inner ego is the sky and my outer ego is a cloud. My sky knows what my cloud does; in fact, it creates the patterns and shape of my cloud. By accepting myself as the sky and the cloud, I change my challenges. I live in the system of love, not death. I become the horizon and meet another aspect of my consciousness in physical form. This system is full of questions, but it is also full of answers; The answers I seek and never seem to find.

Living in this system I am united in consciousness with all nations, all religions and war is called acceptance of diversity. I express myself in sync with all life forms and I do so with gratitude. The energy of the universe compels me to face my challenges as lessons, so that I can grow and expand into a greater version of this connected system of love.

I am a brilliantly feathered bird of freedom soaring through the clouds and becoming one with the sky and living a connected conscious existence loving the self I call. I am a bird in the system called paradise where there is always room for more consciousness.