The New Essenes: "What If?"

You may think we are dreamers… And you would be right! That may be how our favorite question is “what if?” The two little words have an uncanny way to stretch the imagination and take us through the looking glass. Once on the other side, what we find is the Self, which is not necessarily who we think we are! Indeed, what would it mean to find the One you’re looking for? We will have ample space to feel into that theme, as it is the question asked by the 4th chapter of our New Essenes’ ebook, which we are now entering. What if – these words again – what if you were the One you’re looking for?

“Yes, but,” should you wonder, is the nullifier for “what if?” As soon as we use a “yes, but,” we have the permission to remain in the narrow place in which we live: we may not like it there, but, at the least, it is safe! “Yes, but: finding the Self would place an end to my quest. I wouldn’t have any more excuse to not be me! I couldn’t distract myself anymore looking for LOVE out there… I would have to be response-able!” Yes, we hear you: it is “human” to be ambivalent, sometimes looking for enlightenment and, at other times, doing everything to not be the light! Until something happens, like being sick and tired to be sick and tired! And then you decide to go for it, that is, to go for you!

Here is a paradox: this decision is not about you, although it totally is! While it seems that we spend a lifetime attempting to prove that we are special, we all have known loneliness, sadness, fear and anger, and we all have resisted feeling these dark emotions! The more we relate to the story of pain being the same for all, the more we can embrace our own pain, and vice-versa: the more we embrace our pain, the more we relate to the One story of pain.

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