Rumi says to protect ourselves from our thoughts. Immediately we see that our Self is not our thoughts. Let me explain why. When the mind is in its egoic state, it is actually cut off from our true 'Self' - from the true reality of our being, which means when thoughts form in and as the mind, they are in fact false images which in turn go on to give life to false manifestations such as disease and poverty etc.
When the conscious mind rises in the creation of thought, it rises out of the subconscious/soul, meaning it is no longer present in its temple to receive intuitive guidance from its true Self as Spirit being Soul aka I AM. If the conscious mind which IS thought, is no longer present in its own Soul, it becomes unconscious of anything other than its own mind created thoughts. These thoughts created by a consciousness (conscious mind) that is cut off from the fullness of its consciousness, from the body of its true and full consciousness (Soul) are called false images. These false images create an illusion of being that is not actually being. It is theory. Theory is not experience. It is an idea of experience but not experience itself.
Understand that the subconscious/Soul is always in all ways present in and of the NOW. The Now is experience. Anything outside of Now is theory and not real. The conscious mind if it is to get real with itself must stay present in it temple of Awareness aka Soul so that it is directed by its true and full Consciousness aka Spirit. The minute the conscious mind rises in thought, it rises out of the temple, rendering itself unconscious to its true Being, cutting itself from intuitive guidance and all the gifts of Spirit.
When cut off from Spirit and Soul, its true mind and body, the conscious mind creates from the mental realm as opposed to the Spirit realm. The Spiritual realm is where we know our connection to each other and all creatures great and small. It is where we have dominion over all being while exercising free will. The mind realm when not connected to its true Self is dual and limited with no life of its own. In this realm, we have life, but we also have death for the mental realm is subject to time and space in which the true Self is not. We experience polarizations of the ONE seen in sickness and health, life, and death and a disconnect to not only our own truth but the truth that we are connected to each other and the planet too.
~ Tracy Pierce
Comments