The Creator Factor

Stop The What If’s And Focus On The Now!

Reginald Sinevet — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:37:16 +0000

I sat with a new friend today, who told me how she loved by blog by the way, and blurted out that I did not know what the next topic was going to be.

She was telling me about a her friend who always have what if moments. The topic of this post came to me as soon I as I said, “She should focus on the now and forget the what if’s.”

I tell you the background of how this post came to be, to tell you this…all we have is now, the present moment. Nothing else exists outside of that. All there is is the present.

Try this with me…you’re wanting to think about the future, whether it be what you’re going to cook for breakfast or whatever. You see, you’re thinking about it, and that’s great. But, cooking and having breakfast happen only at the moment you’re doing it.

I can say that I had a few what if moments, thinking about a contingency plan, or having plans A, B, C for an important decision. However, none of those things get executed until the moment when you are knee deep in it.

The past and the present both live in thought and consciousness. You can’t go back or forward to either one of them in the present state. But the present, that’s where the magic happens. And you can make different decisions in the present based on what is going on, in the present moment. Do you see a pattern here? Of course you do.

So, the lesson here is, don’t dwell too much in the what if moments and let them stop from living your life. I know it’s harder to do than said. However, you’re the only one who has the capability to change you. Experiencing life is the best teacher of all. Dreaming about it or thinking about it is just that, dreams and thoughts.

Dream and plan for a little bit, but then go out and live, in the present.

Namaste!

Calming A Restless Mind

Reginald Sinevet — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:01:48 +0000

It has been a few weeks since I’ve not been sleeping well. I’m not sure if it started before the quake in Haiti, but it sure got worse since.

My mind has not been racing or pondering about anything in particular when I go to sleep, but it takes me a long time to fall asleep. It had started to bother me, until I realized one thing that I was not doing consistently…at least as consistently as I used to be. I’ll get back to what that is in a minute.

The mind if a funny thing. Consciously, everything could be fine. But, the subconscious could have all sorts of things that it’s dealing with that you’re not aware of…and most of the time, that’s a good thing. Take, for example, the beating of your heart. It is the subconscious that drives that function and all bodily functions that you’re not consciously in control of.

Imagine if you have to consciously regulate all the bodily functions and let alone add day-to-day tasks in order to live? I’m not sure any of us could handle such a responsibility. I’m very happy that I do not have to worry about that. There are enough things to deal with living as it is.

I saw this quote earlier today from someone on my twitter list and it read:

“All symptoms are important attempts by the body to communicate…They are signals to change.” ~Percival

I can tell you right now that there are probably a lot of things going subconsciously that I’m not yet consciously aware of. But I’m starting to see a glimmer of my mind and body telling that they’d like to communicate with me and that I better pay attention.

Are you experiencing some things in your life that you’re not quite sure about? Are you feeling any physical or emotional stresses that are causing you to worry?

I think these are important questions to consider if you are experiencing some issues that you don’t currently have answers for. By asking questions, the subconscious mind if forced to work on answers on our behalf, without delay. But the thing is, will we be ready to receive the answers to the questions that we receive.

By ready, I mean will we be consciously aware of the synchronicities or “coincidences” that surely will cross our paths.

Back to what I realized I was not doing consistently much of…meditating. Meditation allows you to drop the mind. It’s a concept that hard to explain, but it’s something that you’re never going to forget once you experience it.

So, if you’re dealing with issues in your life that have you unable to sleep like me, start asking questions. Your questions will eventually get answered through people, situations, and events that cross your path. Ensure that you’re conscious enough and “awake” for the answers. Also, incorporate meditation to your life.

Let me know if that approach does the trick for you.

Namaste!

Disasters And Understanding Death

Reginald Sinevet — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:18:46 +0000

I recently lost my cousin to the earthquake in Haiti. My family is coming to grips with the loss because we four months ago, my grandmother transitioned. This is hard to take in a four month period.

I started to think about how life and death are different sides of the same coin. Death is always near. I don’t like to say death because the real essence of who we are lives on. Our bodies may no longer be functional, be we transition, we shed our bodies in order to be free of the confines of our current existence. I know we gone living because our true essence is spiritual. We come in this existence to learn the life lessons that we’ve chosen to learn.

I’m not going to post much but wanted to quote something from my teacher, Osho, about death.

Beloved Osho,
When I was coming for discourse, my heart was trembling with fear; I felt as if I was going to die. Death seemed to be very close. Later in the discourse, I felt an infinite joy from some unknown source. Are these just two colours of love for you, or is it something else? Will you please comment?

haitanya Bharti, death is always close by. It is almost like your shadow. You may be aware, you may not be aware, but it follows you from the first moment of your life to the very last moment. Death is a process just as life is a process, and they are almost together, just like two wheels of a bullock cart. Life cannot exist without death; neither can death exist without life.

Our minds have an insane desire: we want only life and not death. We don’t look at the existential truth, we always cling to our own insane desire. Any desire that goes against nature is insane. And this desire is in almost every living creature, not only human beings. Even the trees are afraid of death, but trees can be forgiven. They are not conscious beings, they are only unconscious – fast asleep.

But you are a little bit awake: you can sense the presence of death. Hence the possibility opens for a deeper understanding, that life and death are all together, two extremes of one energy. Life is the active force and death is the inactive force. Life is the positive electricity and death is the negative electricity, but they cannot be separated.

You are saying, “When I was coming for discourse, my heart was trembling with fear; I felt as if I was going to die.” Those who are aware that death is possible at any moment – the very next moment and you may be gone – this awareness is going to help you to live this moment as deeply as possible, because death can cut your roots without informing you, without any previous intimation that “I am coming.” It simply comes. You know only when it has happened. But it is not the greatest misery. The greatest misery is when there was the chance and the opportunity, you did not live – you went on postponing.

Life is an opportunity. Death is the end of the rope. If you understand death your life will become intense and total. But instead of understanding death, you become overwhelmed by it. Hence the heart starts trembling with fear. And fear is not going to help at all, fear is going to cloud your mind even more. Out of fear, there has never been any understanding.

So whenever you feel fear, it is a tremendous opportunity to understand that life is momentary, it is ephemeral, it is made of the same stuff as dreams are made of. How real the dream looks when you are asleep – in fact, more real than your experiences when you are awake. You may never have thought about it, but while you are awake you can doubt: “Perhaps what I am seeing may be just a dream.” I may be a dream, you may be a dream, this whole communion may be happening just as a dream. Soon you will be awake and you will find, “My God! It was just a dream.”

There is the possibility when you are awake to suspect, to doubt the reality that surrounds you. But when you are asleep, you cannot even doubt the existence of the dream. It is so real, it is more real than reality. Have you ever doubted any dream, thinking that perhaps what you are seeing is a dream? The moment you doubt, you are awake, and the dream is immediately finished. The dream can remain there only if you are totally asleep, so deep that no doubt, no suspicion, can arise in you.

But to those who have understood both life and death as nothing but two aspects of one reality, the dream and the so-called reality of your waking consciousness are not basically different. Just as in the morning you wake up and the dream life is finished, one day in death you wake up into another reality and all that was real up to then – for seventy years – becomes just a dream. Not even a trace of it is left anywhere in your consciousness.

Death is a constant reminder that, “I can come any moment. Be prepared.” And what is the preparation? The preparation is: live life so totally, so intensely, be so aflame with it that when death comes there is no complaint, there is no grudge. You are absolutely ready because you have lived life so totally, you have known all its mysteries – there is no point in living anymore. Death has come exactly at the right time, when you may have thought to die yourself. I call that death perfect which comes at the moment when you yourself may have thought, “It is enough.”

Death comes and you understand that life has been lived totally, so now there is no point to go on breathing and go on waking and sleeping unnecessarily – because nothing new is going to happen. Now everything is past and there is no future. In such a moment, death is a welcome guest. And unless you are ready to welcome death, know well that you have missed life. Those who feel sadness and fear about death are the people who have missed the train. But in our unconsciousness, we are all continuously missing the train. The train is moving every moment, just in front of you, but somehow you go on missing.

I have told you about those three professors, all belonging to the Department of Philosophy. And they were talking, standing on the platform. They had come to send one of them off for a long journey, to give him a send-off. But they got so involved in their talking and discussions that the train left. It was only when the last compartment was moving just in front of them that they all three became aware. They all ran. Two jumped into the compartment, one could not.

An old man, a porter on the railway station, was watching the whole scene. And this man standing there was looking so sad that the old man said, “I can understand that you missed the train, but don’t be worried, because within two hours another train will be coming.”

He said, “I am not worried about myself. I am worried about those two fellows who have entered the compartment. They had come to send me off…” But such was the rush – and everything had to be done so quickly.

This is our state. It can happen to anybody, just because our actions arise out of our unconsciousness. Your heart trembling with fear is nothing but your misunderstanding. As far as death is concerned, what you experienced is true for everybody, every moment, until you die. It is not true only for those who are already dead. In one thing they are better off than you: they cannot die anymore – no fear, no trembling of the heart. They just lie down and rest in their graves. Nothing is going to happen to them anymore.

But as long as you are alive, the possibility of death is absolutely certain. Only the timing is not certain. But the happening is absolutely certain. What does it matter whether you die after seven days or seven years or seventy years? One thing is certain: that you are going to die. Life is not something that you can go on missing. Otherwise at the moment of death, you will feel the greatest misery and pain, the deepest agony, from missing the whole opportunity that was given to you.

And existence gives so abundantly, it is not miserly. You are just not alert enough to use the opportunity to transform yourself into something immortal, eternal, into some experience which will make you beyond the reach of death. Just fearing death is not of any help. If you see that death is following you, it is time to start searching deeper into yourself for that point which is beyond death. We have been calling that point satchitanand: the truth of your being, the ultimate consciousness of your life and the tremendous blessing of your coming to flower.

You are also saying that as you sat in the discourse you felt “an infinite joy from some unknown source.” There is nothing mysterious about it. You came to the discourse trembling, overwhelmed by the fear of death, and here you saw laughter and music and you became one with the commune. You forgot your tiny ego and its fear of dying. You fell into deep harmony with all who are present here.

This harmony is the source of your joy, not any unknown source. This harmony is the source of your infinite joy, and this harmony is also the source of your deep feeling of love for me.

It is not something unknown, it is something very clear, you just have to be a little more conscious. Then this clarity will give you all the clues to things that go on happening in your being, but you don’t know from where they come, where they are going. Everything seems to be a misunderstanding. But out of harmony, out of love, out of joy, arises understanding.

Namaste!

Haiti – A Country Of People Like Me And You!

Reginald Sinevet — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:17:22 +0000

By now, I’m sure you’ve seen the news about the devastation that occurred in Haiti over the past 24 hrs. It has been incredible to see the disaster and the suffering that has been coming through the news and internet. Particularly, it has been hard for people who are from Haiti, have family there, or have friends who are there currently. More importantly, I think it’s been a situation where you can empathize and sympathize with people there.

I don’t want to get into a history lesson about Haiti. There are plenty sites that can provide that information if you want to know more about the history. What I want to cover is what I’ve seen from folks on the internet about the plight that the Haitian people are going through. I am Haitian, however I put myself in every other person’s shoes because I am every person I see. How many of us do really do that these days?

So, back to the different things I’ve seen on the net and how that type of thinking does not serve anyone, except for the people making the statements.

There is a commentator and religious person that have used this disaster as a means to polarize people and make news for themselves because of they have hate and politicized the event. I’m not going to mention the names as I’m sure you can find those individuals relatively easy online.

The thing that I’ve seen, and that I’m not really surprised about it, is the politicization and polarizing comments that have been coming through. However, all the comments come down to trying to show that we’re all different instead of uniting people and showing how really the same that we are.

The people that are affected by this tragedy could be from any other country in the world. Can you see yourself or your country being affected by such a tragedy? Wouldn’t you want help and assistance from the international community to help you deal with your current situation? Would you want the hate, politicizing, and religious condemnation to distract form the help that you need in order to survive and bring focus to you plight? Well, that’s what some people have been doing in the same of “trying” to make a point. I say trying because it has not been happening nor taken that way by those who are empathetic to and affected by a people or country’s plight.

Why would anyone try to politicize and make this a polarizing type of situation? What you have to understand is that we are all the same. People make it out to seem we’re all different because we look different, speak different languages, or are from different countries, and have different cultures.

There is nothing different other than what we see. We are all one and the sooner and more we realize that the easier it’ll be to put ourselves in each other’s shoes and not polarize and politicize such events. I’m sure you would want help as quickly as possible. Put yourself in that person’s shoes and now you’ve felt what it is like for them. And if you can’t feel for them, then you have no heart. Plain and simple!

One thing that I do know however, is that we are a family. If we’re not here to help each other, no matter what the seeming differences may be, who will help; who will we turn to? It is unfortunate that it takes an even such as this to bring people together. Let us strive to be one regardless the situation.

Thank you all on behalf of all people struggling around the world for your positive thoughts and support to raise us up.
Namaste!

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Namaste!

Are You A God Fearing Person? Why?

Reginald Sinevet — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:15:44 +0000

I could never understand the statement that some people make that they’re a God fearing person. I’ve tried to understand what they say, and even the explanation that have been provided to help my understanding. I must say, however, that it has not worked. I’m still stumped and baffled by the statement.

I’m not sure if it’s something that was developed through their upbringing in the church or if their priest or pastor drilled it in their heads that God is something to be feared. I remember when I was younger and going to church, and passages from the old testament were read, how negative and fearful those words were. I could not understand it, and I still don’t.

It was not until I embarked on my own journey did I come to understand of the different levels in which the bible and other religious texts were written. The majority of people just take the stories literally and do not go deeper for the real meanings.

If you’re one of those people who is a God fearing person, I ask you to think of this…there is an absolute Intelligence that created this universe, the sun, me, you, so forth and so on. I would say that creation exists out of love and only through love could something so awesome ever be created. I’m sure you know where I’m going with this, but if you don’t, just follow me a bit more.

Out of love we exist; and your kids, family, and everyone you know exist because of that same love. If it is all love, where does the fear come from? I can see if one would say that they are in awe of God, or that they are reverent of God – I am fine with either of those statements – that would make sense to me. But, to be in fear of the Spirit That Is is not compatible.

Let me ask you this…do you love what you fear or are you afraid and are angry with what you fear? I surmise that it’s the latter. Look at the world today and tell me that most people are not a fearful bunch. And out of that fear, all sorts of things are being done under the guise of keeping us safe. We don’t understand and are therefore fearful. This fear makes us mistrust others, which makes us guarded. Do you see how that thought of fear has basically morphed into other things?

I have a few suggestions and they are simple ones to follow if you choose to follow them. Number one is to stop taking for gospel what the priests and pastors tell you on Sundays. Follow your own path to arrive at your truth. I’m not saying to completely discount they say, because you can always pull nuggets of goodness from other people. What I mean is for you to open yourself to others, meditate to get the wisdom from within. All you need to know is within you.

Number two is to remove the word fear from your vocabulary as it relates to Source Energy. As I said before, we are here out of love, so how can we be fearful of the Spirit that Is? Once you remove the fear, love will start to pour out of you. The fear is no longer there to inhibit the flow of love. Being in fear does not fit the God part of you. Remove the fear in order to reconnect with the power source that’s inside you that’s all love and completeness.

Number three is a passage that you should really take to heart. “Love thy neighbor as thyself, for thy neighbor is thyself.” You are your neighbor…meditate on that one. It is something I’m going to talk more about in future posts as it relates to consciousness.

Namaste!

Avatar – A Lesson In Connectedness

Reginald Sinevet — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:13:36 +0000

I’m not sure if you have seen the movie Avatar. If you have not, I truly recommend it. The computer graphics if out of this world, specially when you see it in 3D. The story is pretty good as well, if you can see beyond the visual effects and really get into it.

Some people, I’m sure, will be captivated by the graphics and the, “wow! that’s so cool” effects of the movie and miss the lessons. I’m not going to give the plot of the movie away if you’ve not seen it, but will relate what I saw to what I know.

Do you ever wonder why the Native Americans and the eastern cultures always talk about our connection to each other? Do you think they know something that the rest of us don’t know or refuse to see and understand? I’m going to answer that and say that it’s both.

Most people, upon hearing that we’re all connected, will dismiss it as something hokie. That initial dismissal brings about the refusal to see and understand what is said. Why is that? Is it because we’re more logic and science minded in the “West” that we don’t believe in the unseen?

It is a bit interesting putting it in those terms because most of the “west” belong to some type of religion that talks about faith and people that faith believe in the unseen. So, why is it hard to believe in the underlying spirit that unites us all?

When we are logic and science minded, we have accumulated knowledge and we think we know when in reality, we don’t know anything. How do you believe you know anything? Things change so quickly and yet most think they know. Knowing is not accumulation of knowledge. It is something deeper, something that is innate once we get logic, science, and mind out of the way. I talked about that a few posts ago. Check out it here

So, the interconnectedness that I’m referring to is the one energy that we have our being in. It is all that there is. As it says in the bible, “Man shall live by bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

Here’s a different explanation of the above quote. Yes, we do need food to survive…not really, but we’ll go with that notion for now. But, we also need the spiritual energy that permeates everything. Word is not the actual word that “religious officials” would have you believe; that you need to attend church in order to hear “the word” in order to live. Word is energy that comes from spirit…the only source of it all.

I will end with this quote from Buddha, “All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?” We are of the same source and hence are the same. Change your perspective and see yourself in others because you are the other.

Namaste!

Being At Peace In Your Aloneness

Reginald Sinevet — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:12:26 +0000

Have you ever tried not saying anything at all for a few hours? If you have, what has your experience been like?

The reason I ask is because I’m looking to see if people may be experiencing the same thing that I have. I spend a lot of time in the bookstore reading or doing some internet marketing training, all in silence, not saying much to anyone else there. I have found solace in my aloneness even though I have people around me who are in conversation.

In those moments, I’m not thinking of anything, so mind my is just synthesizing what I’m seeing. At that moment, there is no ego, no personality, except peace. That peace is love. I find comfort in that space where I just am.

I believe that to be our true nature. But we’re so afraid of it because we’ve always been around people starting from birth. We’ve not been able to stand alone or have not made it a bother to stand alone. Most are unable to be alone and mistake being alone as loneliness. Why are most afraid to be by themselves? There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. Unless you have spent time with yourself and gotten to know yourself, you’ll think they are one and the same. They are not!

I have learned so much in my aloneness. The peace I feel is total and the knowing that I talked about in my previous post is absolute. One can most feel what I’m talking about by experiencing it through meditation. By just sitting and doing nothing, zazen, you can experience the peacefulness, this aloneness, that is the real you.

Namaste!

Developing Intuition

Reginald Sinevet — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:09:53 +0000

In thinking on what to write the other day, intuition immediately jumped out at me. This is the process I go by when I do the post, by the way. I ask myself what to write next and whatever jumps out, wins.

Anyway, back to developing intuition. I want to first differentiate between knowing and knowledge. Let’s start with knowledge first.

Knowledge to me is very burdensome. I don’t know about you, but I’ve accumulated a lot of stuff in my head that really don’t do much for me in the day to day. Everything is more compartmentalized when you have knowledge of something. That thing is now put in a category. That’s how we build our reality, isn’t it? Our reality, our idea of truth, is filled with nothing but things that are separate. With knowledge, we have the object and the subject. We have a divide between the knower and the known and there’s really no way to create that bridge between the two.

I never really understood this, but what’s written in the bible is absolutely true that man has fallen through knowledge by eating from the tree of knowledge. One would say that knowledge is good but I believe that knowledge has created an unbridged distance. How can that be good? They mystery and wonder are lost when you think you know.

Let’s talk about knowing for a little bit. Knowing is wholeness. There is no division anywhere with it because it’s an experience. Knowing is a spiritual process. Without verbalizing or compartmentalizing you experience and that experience gives you the knowing, the ownership.

How does one develop intuition based on this little information about knowledge and knowing? The thing to remember is that you want wholeness. No more acquiring theories or information to further create divide in you.

I know that I don’t know it all. Anyone who does is foolish! There are so many things that we’ve not experienced and am in wonderment just thinking about it. This is where knowing lies, in mystery, in wonderment. I’ve been able to become a lot more open minded through meditation. In meditation there are no divisions, only mystery. Everything is whole through meditation because you are not accumulating knowledge; there are no divisions being created and formed.

If you have read my previous posts, you know that I put a lot of emphasis on meditation. I think it is the great equalizer to going back to being spiritual and bridging all the divisions that have occurred with us. It is something that I truly recommend that one does on a daily basis. There is no magic to developing intuition. You just have to get out of the head and into the heart and you do through meditation. So, go meditate.

Namaste!

Create Your Own Path and Be Free

Reginald Sinevet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:07:26 +0000

I remember when I was in high school in Brooklyn, NY, and my classmates were taking the SAT and applying to college. I was going through the motions preparing for the next phase of my life. I remembered wanting to study computer science cause I thought it was sexy and a good path to take once I finished college to get a job…you know the typical stuff of worrying and preparing for the future.

There was one thing that bothered me about the whole thing though. I could not put my finger on it, but deep within I knew there was something else I had to do. So, what did I do, or in this case, didn’t do? I never applied to any colleges. Instead, I visited the Marine recruiting office and talked to a recruiter about opportunities available in the Marines.

I felt that I had to follow my own path even though my parents had ideas about they thought would be best for me. I had different ideas of what I wanted to do, which was to take charge of my life. I know, I know, joining the military is not the best way to really take charge of one’s life because you give up so much to be part of the collective. However, joining the service was a path that I decided to take and it was my intention to make it work for me.

Jump ahead a few years and I arrived at another major decision point and this one dealt with the whole issue of religion and spirituality. I remember when I was around seven or so, I started asking myself questions about God and was curious about the rituals that were always performed in church. The rituals did not make any sense to me even though I learned about them all in catholic school. I’m older now and have more understanding, but I still find them to be too philosophical. I’m now wondering if my classmates, family, or even friends questioned some of the rituals and what they thought about it all.

One thing I read a while back and I recently reread by my favorite teacher, Osho, asks why we don’t question or have stopped questioning the things we learn instead of taking them for face value, especially all the dogmas of religion. This was what got me thinking to write this post. In a way, I guess I was early to the game of questioning the things I was being taught. An over the years I was able to see life in a different light.

Everything seems to be hand-me-downs and no one questions whether or not if that information resonates with them and if it’s something that should still be followed, or if different paths should be trail blazed because of questioning that brings new insight and experiences.

As Osho puts it, “It is only in questioning our beliefs, assumptions, and prejudices that we can begin to uncover our own unique voice and heal the divisions within us and without.” You can start with a belief, but I think it is through questioning that you get to really “know.”

I see a big change that has been occurring for a quite some time now. People are no longer interested in the dogmas of religion, of its philosophy. Why go on analyzing and dissecting when you can synthesize. Let’s look at the big picture and become conscious. How do you do that? You start by making an intent to create your own path, going from believing to knowing, and by asking questions of the things you’ve have learned and accepted without reason.

I know there are some who not agree with me on this issue. And that’s good! Now you should ask yourself why you don’t agree. As you ask questions, you’ll be on your way to creating your own personal path.

Namaste!

Are You Providing Value To Others?

Reginald Sinevet — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:38:40 +0000

I’ve been involved in internet marketing for little while now, and have seen all sorts of products and courses, that try to help people move from pain to pleasure. People have things that they’d like to take care of, and that’s the reason why courses and products are developed – to help them fix a problem.

The “gurus” out there have always talked about providing value to people. They always say to give your stuff for free and people will more apt to follow you, ask for your advice, and really want to your product then.

Providing the value was not something that was lost to me, but my issue was, what can I offer of value to people being in the internet marketing community. I was not one of those gurus and I was learning, am still learning, about that industry. However, that lesson, of providing value, is tried and true in many areas of life.

So, what does providing value have to do with Spirituality?

We are all here to serve each and to help each other remember the reason why we are on this Earth. As Yogananda Paramahansa puts it, “To forget God is to miss the whole point of existence.”

How often do you think of Her on a daily basis? Do you meditate or pray in order to feel and enjoy Him?

We should all strive to arrive at a point in life where material accumulation is not a factor or the reason for being. Yes, we need stuff to live, but living the simple does not require the excess or the constant striving to accumulate things.

God does not and do not want to impose on anyone. God wants us to return to Her and it’s our decision whether or not we do. One things to remember however, is that we have our being in God. We are an extension of Him, for She is all there is. Give thanks and meditate on these things.

I hope have been able to provide value to you. You in turn should strive to provide value to others through whatever means you’re able to. We think we are the wave, but really, we are part of the ocean. We only feel this way because we have just felt separated. This is a metaphor often used by Yogananda that often helps me remember by connection to everyone, everything, and God.

Reconnect with the One in whom you have your being; meditate; provide value to others and help them reconnect, for we are each other; we are One.

Namaste!