Nobody is a stranger

What if you begin to sense nobody is a stranger, that everyone you think you do not know is actually an old friend you temporarily forget? What if you enter unfamiliar settings as a willing participant in bigger things?

The experience of awakening to the nature of dreams and sensing the limitlessness of mind can shock the conditioned mind.  Many people feel this kind of expansion shifts to a sense of being and knowing forever. 

Part of you is forever present, spontaneous and fearless. True nature of existence invites you to release self from individualistic attachments and misperceptions of freedom.  Choose instead to be open, naked, flexible.  Take responsibility for who you are.  Be receptive and grateful for opportunities to transform.

Comments

[Rizal Affif - The Soul Sanctuary]

And what if everyone is no one but yourself--taking different individual role?
Everything becomes beautiful dance of infinity.

[Liara Covert]

Rizal, the simplicity of awareness enables a person to awaken to games the mind plays.

[Building Bridges and then Jumping]

When something is strange, one is disconnected with the situation. One has expectations of how the Moment should arise. We can then sit down and make sense of the scene by opening up to our senses. By rising to the occasion we make friends with the Moment. If we notice something unexpected....we are shocked into the opportunity of paying it attention. When we expect the unexpected, they cancel each other out, and strangers transform into intimate relations.

[Kaushik]

"The experience of awakening to the nature of dreams and sensing the limitlessness of mind can shock the conditioned mind. "

Interesting...perhaps this is why awakening is not abiding, until it is. We keep running back to the conditioned mind, from shock.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,

I just read a tweet about the same subject stating how we never dream of strangers, they are people we have met at some point.

[Liara Covert]

Bernie, to dissolve all expectations is to transcend doubt and fear and recall only self-acceptance.

[Liara Covert]

Kaushik, beyond conditioning, calm-abiding exists to reassure and reground those who chose to feel it.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, one view is everyone and everything mirrors an aspect of self. Those people and things we resist are like shadows within that invite us to re-integrate them into our fragemented whole.

[Hilary]

Hi Liara .. we are the same .. and therefore not a stranger .. makes so much sense - especially if we can put it into practise .. and realise we each need to realise the others' side of things ... thanks Hilary

[Liara Covert]

Hilary, as you stop craving, everything you want comes to you. As you feel comfortable by yourself, you have opportunities to learn how life works from the centre of your universe. Wisdom is within.