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{August 25, 2009}   Are you Willing to Pay the Price of Transformation??

Enlightenment is anything but easy.  

What is your motivation for enlightenment??  What does enlightenment really mean?  

What does it REALLY mean to be FREE?  Are you willing to surrender fully?  To let go of everything?

Are you really willing to pay the price of transformation?  Let me tell you the costs may be well beyond any you have imagined or experienced thus far, but do not forget the benefits.  The benefits?  How does “Heaven on Earth” sound to you?  Serious benefits :)

From one of my favorite songs by Nickelback:  “What’s worth the price is always worth the fight”

Have you been on the path of spirituality? higher evolution?  letting go of ego?  Do you feel that you are just not getting the results you had hoped for??  For some great daily practises to help your journey, Craig Hamilton has an awesome website:

http://www.integralenlightenment.com/pages/practices/index.php

Transformation requires a DEEP TRUST –GIVE yourself to this:  align yourself with truth and with your own deepest recognition of what is true,  with your own deepest knowing of what is possible.

If you were to align yourself with your own deepest spiritual purpose what would that mean for you?  

What is my ultimate purpose?  How can I really KNOW?  According to Craig Hamilton, if you are still living through the context of your ego, it is very difficult to come up with your TRUE  higher purpose.   You will need to start by applying spiritual work to decontruct the ego and the barriers to awakenment; work to awaken to the higher, deeper impulses running through the cosmos and the answer will be very different.  

Lift out of ego; have the freedom to contemplate these things.  Those of us that have the luxury to contemplate these things have the luxury to live our life for a greater purpose!!  Otherwise you would not be contemplating them in the first place!

Find your unique place, gifts, and role.  To do this Craig Hamilton suggests you to get in touch with the “heart beat of creation” and allow that to guide your life, which may be more effective than simply asking what your purpose is.

My favorite quote to live by is from Ghandi: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

As you begin to wake up, you may feel compelled to be an example of all the best attributes of what it means to be human.  Become living, burning passion.  

How would your life change if you took it upon yourself to be the example for all human beings to follow?  YOU –  to be the ultimate human expression?  What does the ideal person look like and how do they live?  We’ve elected YOU- to be the one who is going to be the example for all to follow–you will have a camera following you 24/7, broadcast worldwide – the whole world is going to follow you as “THE Enlightened Person”.  Try that for one day.  How will it change the way you behave??

The SCARY thing is that we already ARE that for our children!  They are watching our every move!  Start by being the example for your children of what it looks like to be the ideal person, parent, spouse… or simply, the ultimate human expression– to live a balanced life of courage, integrity, joy, commitment, and purpose.  Identify your core values and then practise living them – minute by minute.  It WILL take focus, commitment, practice, and most of all LOVE.

If anything, I’m thinking or perhaps even KNOWING that my calling is about enlightened child-rearing.  Children are born “Wonder-Full”, innocent, and enlightened!  WE;  parents, teachers, society, etc. destroy their perfectly enlightened and innocent souls… don’t get me started on how my heart aches in this regard…

I can’t even fathom what more I need to go through in order to “get there” as I have already been through pain, sorrow, heartache, confusion, despair, desperation, health issues, and challenges to all my beliefs about relationships, money, parenting, discipline, work, emotions, health, spirituality, love and so much more and in more ways than I have time to write about right now.  

Letting go of my ego has been a constant struggle as I wish to become the best form of human expression possible –  a wonder-ful role model for my children – which to me is always and all ways ALL about LOVE – my thoughts, words and actions always and all ways come from a place of LOVE!

Please, Live for a greater purpose; help create Heaven on Earth!

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