What a pithy way to sum up the human condition.
My extraordinarily good friend Stewart Emery provided me with the above quote the other night over a great dinner of grilled salmon, asparagus and a lovely 2003 Cotes du Rhone. The dinner was a backdrop for one of the more fascinating conversations we've had over the years.
How do you view and experience your world? My experience of most people is that life is taken far too seriously. As a species we have an unswerving bias to identifying everything we encounter in terms of its impact on us. As a consequence most people seem to experience life as something that happens to them.
What if we approached life as if it were all good - no matter what "it" was? What if we approached life as if everything was a creation of our consciousness - not our egoic self's consciousness, but of pure consciousness itself. A consciousness that is perfect. A consciousness that is using our sensory ability to uniquely experience this reality.
How we define "I" is important! To the degree that my definition of who "I" am is experienced as someone distinct and unique in the world that "I" will be at effect of what goes on in the world. We will come to experience separation from the totality of life as the normal human condition. If, on the other hand, we can awaken to the experience being intimately connected to all of life - to each other, to trees, to fish, to earth - we can come to experience all of life as an energetic field that is extending itself through us and us through it. No separation - only being with life!
