Afraid of Nothing
What is this feeling I have? Am I afraid to let the silence be [silence]? Am I afraid that that maybe silence is all there really is?
God breathing in — God breathing out. What of that brief moment in between? Where was God before time was if not in this in-between moment? What did God feel in this moment, experiencing the singularity of all there is before there was time and space for the universe to expand into?
Have I forgotten that with each breath I re-experience that in-between moment as I choose again and again to re-create all there is, just as it is and as it is not. Have I forgotten that I choose to re-create the illusion of time and space with each breath? Have I forgotten that I create each moment by coming from nothing? Have I forgotten that “nothing” is just the other side of all that is? Have I become afraid of nothing, afraid of the silence?
Only when I can be with nothing can I truly be with all that is. Nothing is just there in each moment to remind me that I AM that I AM. Being okay with nothing, being okay with the silence is the place from which I create everything. Out of being afraid to be with nothing I only create fear of everything.
Michael,
I’m reading this post for the 3rd time and it strikes me as still so incredibly poingant. Fear is the basis for many of our decisions when we are not in a concsious state. From that fear manifests all the suffering of humanity yet still we cling to it.
I see this as a direct result of a flawed world view espoused by many of the world’s religions which sets the world in dualistic opposition to itself. This illogical point of view would have us to believe that “good” is to be cherished while “evil” is to be shunned completely ignoring the obvious fact that for either one to exist, so must the other. In my concsiousness, I can’t even begin to make sense of this paradigm yet it is held by the vast majority of human beings.
I put it out as a challenge to all those who call themselves enlightened to expose this paradoxal world view whenever they encounter it. One consciousness at a time is how we can change this world we’re in. Thankfully, it doesn’t take much of a shift for many people to come to this realization. A tiny nudge made with love at the right time can forever alter the course of one’s journey. Such was the case with me.
Yours in existance,
Jeff