July 19, 2022

THE TWO TRUE CHALLENGES OF LIFE

The challenge is to purify ourselves in such a way that we can clean those fogged-up filters through which we see reality. Instead of seeing fear, hate, resentment, and malice, we must see compassion, love, and peace. We have the power to see what we want to see. The laws of the ego are totally opposed to the laws of love. On one hand, the more one gives to the world, the less one has; however, the more love one gives, the more one receives. In itself, love could be seen as the detachment from fear. The essence of love is to be able to give of it without limitations. Only in this way can we experience the limitless miracle of love and kindness. This is achieved by understanding how love has no limits, and how we can give of it without the fear that it will run out.

It's time to start looking beyond our current reality and enter a state of clarity where we see ourselves as masters of our own destinies, subject only to ourselves, capable of changing ourselves and the world we live in. It's time.
The harmonization of the human being leads to their purification and vice versa. Neither of these is achieved in isolation from the other. The important thing is that these are the two most outstanding tasks of work regarding the internal development of the human being. It is essential to apply our energies and time in favor of the transformation of our beings, since true revolution begins from within. It is not possible to share with the world what we ourselves do not possess.

While inner work involves an effort towards personal development, outer work entails applying our energies to the development of society and the world we live in. It is neither possible nor desirable to direct our efforts solely towards ourselves. Humans are not islands. Personal growth occurs precisely as a consequence of a dynamic of interrelation with our environment. Effort towards the development of others is part of the development of the individual being, as the well-being of the whole is one's own well-being. There is no division. There can be none since we are integral parts of the whole, and at the same time, the whole is composed of its parts.

It must be clear that the development of the individual depends on the development of the collective and vice versa. To create a healthier world, it is necessary to create healthy individuals with balanced consciences, free from the ties imposed by our egos. It is, therefore, the responsibility of these individuals to help transform our collective reality by contributing what they have learned and, at the same time, receiving the necessary feedback to continue developing themselves.

We are what we believe. Our belief system is based on past experiences that are constantly superimposed on the present with the anticipation of it happening in the future.

Our perceptions of the present are so controlled by the past that it's almost impossible to see things without distortions and limitations. With willpower, we can reexamine who we believe we are and achieve a new, deeper understanding of our personal and collective identity.

On the other hand, the purification of the human being implies the elimination of the ego, which is undoubtedly the biggest obstacle to our personal evolution. The ego is an illusion that each of us constructs with the intention of defending ourselves from perceived aggressions from others. It is an illusion because it changes from one day to the next (that is, it is not permanent but transitory) and is based on fear: the fear of failure, the fear of loss, the fear of the opinions of others, the fear of being vulnerable, the fear of dying, etc. Fear distorts our vision of reality and constantly confuses us. It's as if we were wearing very dark glasses that prevent us from seeing things as they truly are. To the extent that we eliminate fear and, consequently, the ego from our lives, we will experience a very profound transformation.

Understanding that life is a continuous flow of experiences to which we are constantly subjected, it must be the responsibility of each human being to live them, learn how to assimilate them, and turn them into lessons through which we can grow and evolve. (It goes without saying that otherwise, being alive would make no sense.)

Many experiences appear to be arbitrarily on the surface, scattered, without connection or relation, but this is not the case. There is a very precise sequence and order in them, each one adding to the previous one, and if we pay attention to them, they could help guide our lives, allowing us to build a framework for individual and collective overcoming and transformation. The understanding of this thread of experiences is perhaps the most significant challenge of our lives, and to be able to achieve this, it is essential to create a coherent vision of the totality, in order to understand where we fit in as living, conscious, and evolving beings.
At first glance (although solely for the purpose of further clarifying the topic), that thread could be divided into two great universes of experiences. These, in turn, would represent the two main approaches of our attention in which we must invest our time and energy if we want to take advantage of the opportunity we have been given to be alive. Said approaches constitute the internal and external worlds.

Inner work involves the harmonization and purification of the human being in all their aspects. On one hand, inner harmonization implies integrating all the physical, emotional, mental, and intuitive qualities of a human being to form a balanced and whole totality where no single aspect (or several) stands out to the detriment of others, thereby disrupting our behavior, attitude, outlook on life, etc.

At first glance (although solely for the purpose of further clarifying the topic), that thread could be divided into two great universes of experiences. These, in turn, would represent the two main approaches of our attention in which we must invest our time and energy if we want to take advantage of the opportunity we have been given to be alive. Said approaches constitute the internal and external worlds.

Inner work involves the harmonization and purification of the human being in all their aspects. On one hand, inner harmonization implies integrating all the physical, emotional, mental, and intuitive qualities of a human being to form a balanced and whole totality where no single aspect (or several) stands out to the detriment of others, thereby disrupting our behavior, attitude, outlook on life, etc.

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