Come out of the circle of time

into the circle of Love.

-         Rumi

What if you were not who you think you are and you went through life living an illusion?  What if you were not the only one?  What if the illusion continued only because everyone lived the same illusion and believed it was real?  What if we were all naked behaving like we wore Emperor’s clothing?

What if someone came along who knew that everyone was living this illusion and simply said so?  What do you think would happen then?  You would probably do what many people do.  You would continue with the illusion and go one your not so merry way and live not so happily ever after.

What would be the one thing that might make you want to live beyond this illusion?  It might be the experience of suffering.  If you suffer enough you might ask the question, “Is this all there is? Is my life worth anything?”  It is this sort of question that gets you turned on.

This is not our usual understanding of what it means to be turned on.  The experience of being turned on is what is known in the story of the Hero’s Journey as The Call.  This is The Call to fully express your unique way of being in form.  It is a unique question.

When you begin to become a questor it is not the answer that turns you on but the initial question.  Wisdom teachings say that the quality of one’s character is known by the questions being asked.

Certain kinds of question lead you on the adventure of what it is to feel Divine within form.  Other questions lead you deep into the prison of time.  You might be comfortable.  You might be called successful.  Yet if you think that who you are is this body living in time, space and form, you are living the illusion of one world.  The world of separateness.

Ralph Waldo Trine writes beautifully about this in his book In Tune with the Infinite. This is what an Anam Cara invites you to tune into.  Only before that can happen you have to get switch on.  Getting switch on means you get passionate with the intention that this passion aligned to the Infinite blossom into compassion.

Most, if not all of us, will suffer in some way in this world.  Suffering can lead to breaking the chains of the illusion of the separate self.  If this happens, and it does happen, then suffering is seen for what it is.  It is not a punishment.  It becomes an invitation to transcendence.  What is worse is suffering that has no meaning.  Who give it meaning?  You do.

To turn on you need to ask a real question and commit to living it.  This is the question. What am I passionate about? Now you can live this question and you will miss.  This is because there is a second, companion question.  This question is the second question. How am I going to serve? Put together they begin to look like this: How am I going to use my passion to serve humanity?

I will guarantee you that if you commit to learning to live and Love this invitation that you will get switched on and tuned in.  The illusion that you are separate from Love will begin to dissolve.

Do you know what you are passionate about? Do you care enough to find out?

What makes you feel angry?  That is a pointer but not an excuse to act irresponsibly. Anger is no excuse.

Most people want an easy life rather than a passionate one.  Passion does not mean being fiery all the time.  It is the full flow of emotional response in tune with the Infinite.  It becomes compassion in Buddhist terms and Love in Christian terms.  When it is available you know what to serve and how to give yourself away.

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