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So in conclusion
when I talk about having it all,
I want to say more about "it". What is
"it"? It's actually about
having all of me. And it's about you
having all of you.
So much of us gets separated off in trauma.
The deep disappointment of not having
received what we needed to receive when we were children;
the world being harsher and more brutal
that we wanted it to be; as children we come in
as these bright lights, as this embodiment of
innocence and we love everyone and everything. And we taught to discriminate,
we're taught to dislike, we're taught to judge,
and we're taught to hate. And with
each moment where we have
either been hit physically, verbally, emotionally,
sexually; disciplined
too harshly; told we're not this or we're expected to be that;
then we lock a little bit more of our essence away.
And so having it all is about recovering.
Recovering and
reviving parts of us that
died. Parts of us that became lost
in the dissolusionment of early childhood
and growing up. Parts of us that became lost in hatred.
Parts of us that believe that we could never recover,
either from a difficult childhood, or from violence, or from *** abuse,
or from the harshness of the world around us.
And so having it all is about having
all of us. Our complete selves,
our own magnificence, our own radiance,
our own innocence. And so success,
however you want to define that,
can never be complete without
a spiritual component. And the spiritual component
also has a psychological component.
It's about doing important foundational work, finding the parts of ourselves that are
lost. Some people are trying to resolve all of their issues through transpersonal
work:
through meditation, through spending time with their guru,
through consistently thinking of God and the light;
which is an important part of our individual work, to have that spiritual
connection.
However, very often the split from the wounded child
from the shamed individual becomes deeper and greater
and wider. And then we wonder why our relationships are not working for us.
Because the heart missing. And so having it all is about having
all of us. It is about the realisation of our
own magnificence. Our
own exuberant effervescent
life force. Throughout my life I've had
experiences that have been very intense, either spiritual experiences, encounters
with
what one might call God; encounters with the world of spirit
and in the near-death experience i spoke of in another video,
that magnificence
was affirmed. For I emerged
with a broader greater perspective of awareness that
I could call 'God' if I wanted to, in which I experienced
how each and every individual,
every human being, is
not only loved - and love is such an impotent word,
it had no meaning there, but words like
cherished, adored
exquisite, precious;
these are words
that barely describe that experience.
And so inside
each and every one of us, inside of you,
inside of me, and each person has it,
is a magnificence that is awaiting
to be expressed.
Waiting to be expressed. And
from what I saw, from what I experienced
in that merging with that broader greater awareness where
I experienced all time and all things all at once,
there is no way in which that magnifience
is expressed as better than another.
Meaning there are no tasks there are no things that are more spiritual
or have more value to God than anything else.
And so if the expression of your magnificence
is through baking the world's best cupcakes,
then that is that, because in that magnificence
comes the generosity to share that
which gives you joy. And when you are joyful
that gives other people permission to be joyful.
And that is true abundance. Abundance is not measured
in pounds, shillings and pence or dollars and cents, or yen,
or bolivars, or whatever currencies that there are out there in the world.
That is one way measuring it. But true abundance
is allowing our magnificence,
true magnificence, to shine. That's not convincing yourself that you're very
good at something.
Magnificence is an inner light. It is an inner light
that is authentic.
And that authentic inner light,
which is deep within the heart, and also very deep within our belly,
has no opinions. The heart
has no opinions. Opinions are a function of the mind.
And so when we are in our magnificence we are
in awe of the magnificence of others.
We don't try to be better than others. We simply are
owning the essence of who we are.
And so for me that is having it all.
Having it all is having
all of ourselves. And so the rich,
deep, authentic part of ourselves is the magnificence that we came
in to being for.
We came into being to
announce ourselves in our own magnificence.
To unfold our own magnificence. To express
our own magnificence. Not
to convince ourselves and others how good we are.
Not to stand in front of the mirror and say "yeah, you're great, you can do it".
But to do the work that is required,
to as Rumi talks about,
ours is not to seek love, but to seek out the barriers that we have held against
it.
To do the inner work that we need to do in order to dissolve
every barrier that we have put up
against our own magnificence. And why do we do that?
Because as human beings we consistently choose
long-term suffering in favor of short term pain.
And so techniques and modalities and methods
and motivational
speaking, sells very well.
It's a pain free antidote. What is standing between
you and your magnificence? It's not a thought.
It is at the essence of who you are. And where is your essence?
Where is your essence?
And in most human beings, our essence is locked away
under layers of shame and guilt and self-hatred.
And that is the invitation. That is my invitation.
That is my invitation, to meet that.
And sometimes we fear that that might even kill us,
that we might die. And what I say to you, is the
only thing that will die is everything that you have constructed
to keep all of that in place. And so I say die.
Let it die, and what is left over?
The light and the truth who you are. That is what's left over.
And then you have everything.
Letia: Thank you Shavasti Shavasti: You're welcome