Don’t Let Your Eyes Betray You

            The reason that people and events are like strangers to you is because YOU are a stranger to yourself.  Yes. I said YOU are a stranger to yourself.  YOU DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND EVEN IF YOU DID, YOU WOULDN’T RECOGNIZE IT BECAUSE YOU AUTOMATTICALLY ASSUME YOU know WHAT SOMETHING IS BEFORE IT HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVEAL ITSELF TO YOU.   You decided somewhere along the way that you are aware of your actions, thoughts and words.  Which in fact, you are not.  Remember?  I told you: You are asleep. Is a sleeping person aware of anything? The fact is: you are not paying attention to the still small voice inside you that waits patiently for you to recognize and respond. I’m not talking religion.  I’m talking your authentic voice you so cleverly shut down years ago when it interfered with your plans of instant gratification. Your eyes became fixed on the outside. You started to believe what you saw instead of what you knew to be true for you.  You have too many voices living inside your head {other people’s opinions} vying for your attention. Your eyes are constantly looking at the apparent situation you are currently engaged in while measuring it for appropriate and worthwhile merit. The problem is:  you are measuring with inaccurate measuring devices.  Your tools are defunct!  You are looking at a camel and calling it a rooster.  You don’t know the difference because your sight is too emotionally colored.  When you’ve already established unwavering negative or blissful guidelines, it’s hard to see anything but what you choose to. “You’ve already made up your mind: you KNOW what color red is and nobody aint gonna tell you any different.”  The problem is: there are countless multifarious shades of red, tints, of red, hues of red ….Guess what?  YOU really don’t want to change your mind much less your circumstances. That’s right.  You’ve grown so comfortable in your misery and depression that any other possibility of living life scares the hell out of you. So, why are you whining and complaining?  It’s automatic, I told.  You’re on automatic pilot.   “But, Paula Andrea,” you may ask,  “IF what you are saying is really true, how do I go about altering my vision, re-creating my surroundings, re-setting my barometer of choice, re-selecting another lens for better focus?”  It all begins with a declaration of intent that you acknowledge clearly and purposefully that your confinement is your release.  “What??? Are you out of your mind?”  I thought you were going to show me the way out.  I am.  The only way out is in.  The only way to see is to shut your eyes and mouth!  Put a muzzle on it.  The only way to have a potently instructive vision is to experience the opposite as truth. Stop. Observe yourself. See how much of your present life is being lived in a zombie state.