As Little Children

The mind is fertile ground for concepts, ideas, and opinions. If someone tells us a lie and we believe it, that lie takes root in our mind and can grow big and strong, like the majestic oak tree. One little lie can be very contagious, spreading its poisonous seeds from person to person when we share it with others.

The voice in our head doesn't belong to us. When we are born we don't have that voice. Thinking comes after we learn --- first language, then different points of view, then all the judgments and lies. The voice of knowledge comes as we accumulate knowledge.

Before we eat the lies that come with knowledge, we live in truth. We speak only truth. We live in love without any fear. Once we have knowledge, we judge ourselves as no longer good enough; we feel guilt, shame, and the need to be punished. We begin to dream lies and separate from our true spirit.

The concept of heaven exists when our spiritual eyes are open, when we perceive the world through the eyes of truth. Once lies hook our attention, our spiritual eyes are closed. We fall from the dream of heave and begin to live the dream of hell.

There mere importance of having nearly a pure mind of a child, unblemished by millenia of social, family and religious tranditions and knowledge, is important to our mental, physical and emotional stability. I say "nearly pure" because we only possess the purity of mind and awareness but once. However as the authors, creators, and artists of our own story, we are able to rewrite and change our story.

Yet just as with a computer, while we continually rewrite our story, there will always be residue of the first files written on the hard drive, on our brain. Sometimes these will be buried beneath layers upon layers of our story and its changes; though just the right word, circumstance or event will cause them to come forward to our present consciousness and awareness.

To become as a little child does not mean to act or possess the behavior of a child, but rather to posses a newly aware childlike perception. Meaning that each moment in life becomes a new experience untainted by the past and its perceptions. Yet that in and of itself does not mean we proceed with wreckless abandon. Instead we use the lesson of prior experience to guide our present action. As some would say . . . to be twenty again armed with the lessons and knowledge of what I know at eighty!

A very simple mental exercise and challenge is to begin to attempt to notice or become aware of at least five new things each day. When five becomes easy, double it to ten, when ten becomes easy, double it again. These don't have to be some monumental or earth shattering. They may be the simplest things such as a new flower, the shape of a cloud, taking a different way to the conrer store. Use all your senses to experience life each new day. Another good part of this exercise is that with five senses, try to use each sense for one new thing.

Silver Eagle