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What are you choosing to believe in?
Hello world. The following was written 4/18/2016.
From the moment we are born we are taught to judge and be judged. To seek out the judgments, labels and opinions of those around us. To accept whatever it is they are telling us, is the absolute Truth. They see it, so it must be true. It merges into the belief you are wrong and they are right. In everything you are the one who must change and conform to their dictates. This is the basis of the egoistic thought system of beliefs we are brainwashed to believe in as the Truth.
Something to consider is you have nothing to defend, EVER! In my defenselessness my safety lies. Anytime we believe we need to defend ourselves from another’s words we are handing them our power to define ourselves. We get to choose what it is we are going to believe in, not them.
“I am not what you think I am. You ARE, what you think I am.” This statement is very clear. When you judge another, you are in Truth judging yourself and not them in the moment. Recognize, if they are judging you in the moment they are telling you what it is they believe about themselves. “When we are upset, it is not the picture outside of us upsetting us. It is how we interpret so react to the picture which is really upsetting us.” It is our judgments of what we are perceiving which upsets us.
We are the ones judging everything we perceive and experience. We are the ones picking and choosing what is or is not the Truth according to what we believe to be true. Everything we…