When something is looked at for the first time it is seen for how it is, but constant looking at it builds up an image in our mind and it is this image that has been built up that is seen and not the thing that is looked at. Sometimes evil becomes another familiarity...
This familiarity is one aspect of the masks we build up over time; some of the masks are forced upon us by society, in the schools we went to, by our family, friends and culture to name a few.
Take language for instance: in childhood, we absorb how others say things in a certain way and so we mimic them and learn phrases and ways of speaking that are used over and over and often in this way we lose the art of thinking for ourselves, or never really learn it.
Our minds have tracks to run along, well used expressions that are fallen back on and become our way of communicating. It is not until awareness happens perhaps from travelling away from the familiar is all this realized and the mould broken out of, which usually happens in an organic awakening over a period of time as you become more aware of the confines of linear or system thinking.
It’s a strange thing, the masks that are worn over all to portray an illusion, and the funny thing is, although the masks hide the real inside, it also clouds the outside seeing by the very act of wearing them and seeing through them.
When the mask slips momentarily, things are seen for what they are, clearly, and sometimes this can come as a shock and cause fear, to be losing control of a long-held reality only to find it was never real but only the perceptions of our upbringing and culture.
When the mask is taken off it can be likened to another dimension where things are the same, yet not the same and are seen as they are and not coloured by the layers of the mask.
Some drugs will blast you right out of your comfort zone into be here and now of it all but can be a harsh shock to the system.
Meditation on the other hand will give you an awakening but in a gentle way where you unfold at your own pace and can feel the masks dropping away as you find your way back to yourself.
For some, the masks they wear are taken for who they are and confusion happens when anything comes to expose this belief and often the masks are put on tighter to uphold their way of seeing things.
It is a cause of increasing concern to more and more people that those who are governing society wear the biggest masks of all and are being seen as the blind leading the blind.
To be seemingly lost in an inescapable illusion of conformity must feel like a straight-jacket that confines the soul in the mundane circles of perpetuated beliefs and repetitive thinking that is such a distance from our authentic selves.
The consciousness of humanity is rising and the masks are slipping off one by one as awareness of who we are is becoming known to more and more; and those who hang onto their masks will be seen for what they are by those who have taken the mask off.
It can be difficult to remove the familiar mask that has been for so long how we have seen our-self through and has been our protection against the harsh reality we would be protected from.
We will find our-self vulnerable without the mask as a creature suddenly exposed to the sunlight, or for some it will be a doorway they go through into a magical place.
Those still wearing masks will throw judgement and ridicule and dismissal at those without a mask, but with courage, this very vulnerability will be strength to live a life of integrity that comes from a place of love where the mind has finally quieted enough for the heart to be heard....
When something is looked at for the first time it is seen for how it is, but constant looking at it builds up an image in our mind and it is this image that has been built up that is seen and not the thing that is looked at. Sometimes evil becomes another familiarity...
This familiarity is one aspect of the masks we build up over time; some of the masks are forced upon us by society, in the schools we went to, by our family, friends and culture to name a few.
Take language for instance: in childhood, we absorb how others say things in a certain way and so we mimic them and learn phrases and ways of speaking that are used over and over and often in this way we lose the art of thinking for ourselves, or never really learn it.
Our minds have tracks to run along, well used expressions that are fallen back on and become our way of communicating. It is not until awareness happens perhaps from travelling away from the familiar is all this realized and the mould broken out of, which usually happens in an organic awakening over a period of time as you become more aware of the confines of linear or system thinking.
It’s a strange thing, the masks that are worn over all to portray an illusion, and the funny thing is, although the masks hide the real inside, it also clouds the outside seeing by the very act of wearing them and seeing through them.
When the mask slips momentarily, things are seen for what they are, clearly, and sometimes this can come as a shock and cause fear, to be losing control of a long-held reality only to find it was never real but only the perceptions of our upbringing and culture.
When the mask is taken off it can be likened to another dimension where things are the same, yet not the same and are seen as they are and not coloured by the layers of the mask.
Some drugs will blast you right out of your comfort zone into be here and now of it all but can be a harsh shock to the system.
Meditation on the other hand will give you an awakening but in a gentle way where you unfold at your own pace and can feel the masks dropping away as you find your way back to yourself.
For some, the masks they wear are taken for who they are and confusion happens when anything comes to expose this belief and often the masks are put on tighter to uphold their way of seeing things.
It is a cause of increasing concern to more and more people that those who are governing society wear the biggest masks of all and are being seen as the blind leading the blind.
To be seemingly lost in an inescapable illusion of conformity must feel like a straight-jacket that confines the soul in the mundane circles of perpetuated beliefs and repetitive thinking that is such a distance from our authentic selves.
The consciousness of humanity is rising and the masks are slipping off one by one as awareness of who we are is becoming known to more and more; and those who hang onto their masks will be seen for what they are by those who have taken the mask off.
It can be difficult to remove the familiar mask that has been for so long how we have seen our-self through and has been our protection against the harsh reality we would be protected from.
We will find our-self vulnerable without the mask as a creature suddenly exposed to the sunlight, or for some it will be a doorway they go through into a magical place.
Those still wearing masks will throw judgement and ridicule and dismissal at those without a mask, but with courage, this very vulnerability will be strength to live a life of integrity that comes from a place of love where the mind has finally quieted enough for the heart to be heard....
Good analogy of the masks of the persona that can be removed so that the self shines through.