Caught Up In A Play Of Reflections
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
― André Malraux
Human beings are masquerading through life, hiding who they are under a façade of deceit. They fell in love with their masks, because it reflects the image they want to see of themselves, and not the one that is true to who they really are. We don’t see what there is to see – we see what we want to see. By lying to our own brain on the regular, we’ve desensitized ourselves to the numbers of lies we make ourselves believe. Our self-image isn’t the product of our own judgment, but rather the one of others.
Our self-worth fluctuates in correlation with how much praise we receive from others, how much money there is inside our bank account at any given time, and how inflated our ego is. Apart from seeking eternal validation, we seek the all too comforting confirmation that we’re perhaps just as amazing as we think we are.
Just like in vehicles there’s a mention on the side mirror on which is written "objects are closer than they appear ", we ought to remember that our perception of ourselves and of the world outside of us is not an accurate copy of what our minds makes it out to be. I mean, hey, if the mandala effect is enough to make us doubt about the credibility of our faulty memory, how dare we rely on our mind to tell us the truth, and nothing but the truth?
I’ll take a full portion of truth but with a side of double standards please! We lie to ourselves all day long, yet ironically expect the person we lie to (in that case being, our mind) to tell us the truth! We clearly could not be worse team players. But hey, does it really matter if we’re full of shit if we never in our lives come to see it? Drunk in our personal bubble of delusion, we’ll keep on drinking the content of our lies till reality will perhaps smash our drunkenness away.
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What's your opinion of Nelson mandela's opinion?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Ouh! Interesting!!! You know what I like the most about this passage?:P This particular line:
“It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. ”
As my current reading of Osho's book is awakening the shit out of me in so many ways:P But he wouldn't agree with Mandela's words on that one;)
I need to read that book. I like to get many perspectives.
I remember that the Tibetan Book of the Dead says something like the individual consciousness, at death, if it cannot merge with the Clear Light of the Void, is then driven back into rebirth in darker material realms by its fears of what are really just the phantasms of its own unconscious.
Who knows? I'll try to check it out when I die. But I suppose one has to die consciously. Not an easy trick for us humans that faint at the sight of a mouse :-)
Nelson Mandela does have a point though. It has been my observation that many, many people are restricted in their possibility of greater manifestation by a sense of unworthiness.
its crazy you mentioned the Mandela Effect, that shit blows my mind! But I have read somewhere that our bad memories, being able to forget so easily is actually one of our super powers.... Because if we couldn't forget we would never forgive ourselves or others and any type of emotional pain would be long lasting... We as humans should always "live in the moment" and that is why our memories suck so bad! ;0)
That is so true wow! And it makes so much sense. I have read about that too. We have a biased way of recalling past events yet we don’t realize it.