Maat, in ancient Egypt, the personification of truth, justice, order, morality, and the cosmic order. The daughter of the sun god Re, she was associated with Thoth, god of wisdom. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation, thus bringing the union of true love and harmony in the individual.
Woman is a healer, bringer of harmony, she brings out the best in man without degrading herself into a lower being; she must be patient and blossoming in her heart, to thus be the best and also bring out the best to herself and to any relationship she accepts into her life. And man is the protector, must have a clear and harmonious mind to higher thought, and so refrain himself from selfish desires and all sorts of corruption of mind and body. They both, man and woman, help each other and rise in the fruits of love without solely indulging in the superficial affections which tend to bring jealousy, violence, anger, and the rest which separates people and creates an abyss of darkness and disgust in the heart, into any soul sacredness.
This must be the ideal, and for this the mind must be rid of fear–i.e., where there is fear there is room for a corrupted “love.” And the problem is that many women are not accessing their higher calling as nurturers and healers, but they are using their bodies solely to attract men and find a quick path to some false security. While men are stuck in their lowest instincts, trapping women into their false affections, but in time robbing them of their highest calling, deviating them. Both seem to be at each other’s throats like enemies at some point; when it all starts passionately and with great desire to make the union work, like children with their new toy that soon become bored and toss the toy aside to never enjoy it anymore. Why is this…?? Why can’t man and woman really embrace love and become it–true love which never dies…?? Do they know their roles…?? Do they grow together as one….?? Do they work on lifting each other up, or do they compete…??
These are serious questions, because relationship is not love, but relationship is human, society, your design; so, if anybody is to build a relationship which works, if man and woman is to unite in harmony, their whole lives, they must know their roles. Healer and protector, partners who help each other, two human beings which must be one–because lack of affection and all the ugliness may only exist in a relationship if there is competition… Knowing their roles then creates and keeps the atmosphere of love, so the eternal essence may bathe them both through all the challenges they might encounter…
If you want to keep the love flowing, alive, burning constantly, deep and mature, make every day an adventure–prioritize adventure. The human mind gets bored and lazy with routines in relationships and in life in general, so bring a challenge to your mind, behave consciously, assume your role as woman or man of deep emotional understanding. This has to become more important than routine, otherwise affection will wither in time.
Whatever we do not tolerate, or find truly annoying or disruptive in others, is a mirror to ourselves, it speaks to our higher conscience, it tells us that we must adapt, tolerate, or just walk away. A mirror to ourselves is a reflection of something WE have to change within ourselves, something that we see in others and annoys us (annoys our ego); but, of course, the ego, which is always seeking to blame others and seeking to feel comfortable itself, as a measure of security, conditioning, will tell us that we must not change but that others must change to fit our own lifestyle or own daily living.
Your mind, your ego, is the one which finds faults in others, and which feels frustration, and which feels anxiety and all anger, is it not…?? You are in charge of your ego, are you not…?? So, change! Take responsibility for what you think, for how you feel. Your mind expands with understanding, and in understanding and accepting others you are understanding and accepting yourself. Can you see this yourself…?? “We are one” is not just some spiritual or New Age philosophical saying or romantic phrase that’s popular. Have you ever thought about it in deep…?? I know you have heard about “we are one.” So what does it mean then…??
How did Osho, or Jesus, or Buddha, or any Enlightened Master talked to a group and yet the message felt as if directed to each individual…?? They only knew themselves, they didn’t know you; and yet they knew you and all of society from all ages. How…?? With observance of others, with tolerance and appreciation of others’ flaws and strengths, the conscience becomes illumined, the ego is thrown off its throne, you become patient and realize that in others you see your own thoughts, your own feelings, your own soul. If you truly observe the behavior of others without ego, without the voices in your head which complain and bring anger when something irritates you, you will realize what I am saying here, you will come to a deeper understanding than any intellectual one can give you.
I am talking about an emotional understanding which is not guided and ruled by your ego. I am talking about an emotional mirror where you can actually see your own faults and the changes you must make within yourself when you truly observe others. Your ego fights, argues, gets irritated, blames others, and so it depresses you; and if you step out of your ego then a deeper understanding of yourself will light your conscience–i.e., an awakening of conscience.
Relationship is our human lives. Relationship is all there is, with ourselves and with others. Relationship with others is a perfect reflection of the inner relationship we have with ourselves; thus, when you hate or get irritated in relationship with others is because there is something nagging you inside, your own ego disrupting your peace of mind–which you must realize within yourself and change yourself. This brings you a deep understanding of you and everybody else. This brings you an awakening of conscience.
Life itself is the most natural and divine organism, an ongoing process, something which moves forward and brings rich lessons–from pain and joy–always to learn to experience true love and happiness as unique individuals. And we may say that it is all for the sake of physical experiences to have. The human mind is a whole different creature though, conditioned, full of lust, anger, passions, selfish ideas and concepts, bias views and beliefs; so, we may say the human mind is not natural as life in its purity is. The mind in this state of ignorance is always trying to find answers and fix what is not truly broken–“What is the meaning of life?,” “Who or what is God?,” “What lies for me after I die?,” “How do I become Enlightened?,” “Why are women so delicate and emotional?,” “Why are men so stubborn and violent?,” etc. etc.
And exactly all this pointless questioning makes the mind dull, busy, confused, always going on a loop which feeds the ego and brings more questions, more seeking, more opinions, more concepts, more pointless knowledge. All this conditioning creates an abyss, a distance between life itself or its reality and the reality this mind has built out of its own content; so that now life is not beautiful anymore, because this abyss or distance brings frustration and does not allow you to actually enjoy it purely. While the mind is busy fixing moral dilemmas and philosophies, asking questions and arguing answers, while it is trying to understand the complexities of a relationship, while it is seeking God or a meaning of life, you live in your own little world which prevents you from absolutely seeing the beauty of a simple tree on your yard or celebrating the fact that you are breathing.
And so, because the mind is always trying to fix and find solutions, arguing and trying to be superior, then stress and problems cloud judgement and vanish purity. Now life passes you by while you are drowning in your own egoistical activities. So your mind becomes your experience of life now, and your mind is full of confusion and questions. Is this your experience of life…??… So, perhaps your mind must be stopped and emptied from so much questioning, and believing, and conceptualizing; and from ruling your life, so you get to be free from this mental sickness which only stresses you and distances you from experiencing bliss in your own life.
Life is not as serious and complicated, as ugly and threatening, as the mind makes it to be; but this is the content of our minds making it so, this is the pointless seeking, questioning, doubting, the arguing, etc. etc. You must empty your mind from all this pointless garbage, be free of it and bring new energy into your life, new characters, new moods, more positive views.
What are you allowing yourself to be each moment you live, right now, for the next situation which arises, for this and the next thought…?? You choose how you project yourself and how you behave in each moment, do you not…?? What percentage of you is love, understanding, and moral character, would you say…??–And do you act or behave accordingly in all situations (not in the situations which you like, but in all of them)…??
Your moods, your mental stress and frustration, your indecision, your poor choices–they all are about you, about the essence you allow to fill your mind. Of course, life challenges you, you feel pressures, you feel loneliness, neglect, the past coming back to you; however, all that you are as a human being is your own mind, so you allow yourself to be love and live or to be fear and die in your mind.For example, I may regret my marriage, or my hurtful words to someone, or my overall poor education, or my current health status, but what defines me is really my mind right now preparing for my next step, my next choice.That is, what defines me is my present mind content, my present feel, my present behavior; because all this is the content that will project me and take me onto a better behavior in the next step I take or situation in which I will be.
The proportion of your being, of your humanity, of your character, is measured by what fills your mind right now, either fear or love; and so, that is why self-awareness is so important, because you must know the very content of your own mind in order to be truly free. If you neglect to fill your own mind with love and understanding each moment and so choose to allow your outer circumstances and situations to dictate your mind’s content instead, then you will make terrible mistakes and fail over and over again–and, worse, you will be confused as to why your life is not progressing and you are suffering.
You are what your mind is at this moment, so remember that all the time: You may lie with your words to someone, you may even tell yourself that you are fine, perhaps you smile all day and show yourself nice to the public, you may go to group meditation and follow all the nonsense they teach you there; however, this is superficial, a pitiful front, a mere facade, the beauty of a red apple which perhaps is rotten and filled with worms inside… Don’t wait for a better situation in your life to fill your mind’s content with love and understanding; life is right now, your mind must be right now…
Every situation, every second you live is measured and dependent on what your mind contains right now, thus your life is right now. Forget and forgive what happened a moment ago, if you do not it can only infiltrate your mind and corrupt the next moment you live. Learn to fill your mind with a rich content of greater love for what you do and a deeper understanding of your happiness right now. Not a moment later, not when things get better, RIGHT NOW.
What is justice…?? Is it the pompous and rash healing of resentment and anger…??–“an-eye-for-an-eye” type idiocy…?? Can justice become an art if we use greater empathy and less anger, if we follow truth and not society’s conditioning of what the proceedings of justice should be…?? Are you truly just in your everyday situations and relationships…?? Is justice born out of your ego or out of absolute truth (beyond any ego, revenge, or anger you may harbor within)…??
Society has taken sacredness and serious matters into mockery and corruption, like God, truth, love, freedom, peace, and justice; and so, this corruption has been conditioned into the weak minds of people like yourself, and now their meanings, their depth is lost and vanished for you, so you follow the news, the media, your family, your own ignorant and crooked beliefs on all of these. Individual thinking is no more, and yet you desire to be awakened, illumined without emptying your mind from all this nonsense; and so, you expect that by reading and hearing enlightening words you will become awakened and just in these matters. Is this your foolishness…?? Are you lying to yourself about this even now…??
“She hurt my feelings, so I must hurt hers!” “He cheated on me, so I am free to cheat as well and hate him forever!” “Immigrants are ‘stealing’ our jobs, so throw them out with ‘humane’ violence and break their families!” “My heart must be hardened when treating with any sort of crime.” “Animals are ours to eat and do whatever we want with them, they are not human beings like us so they do not deserve the same justice.” “My family does not have the same views I have, so I am building my own life away from all of them!” And more nonsense fill the minds of the stubborn, old fools who follow their egos and the garbage society has introduced in them since childhood.
And this is because societies, your family, you, have built and kept all justice distanced from truth and deeper understanding, thus you use your intellect/your ego to create meaning; consequently, you lose all empathy and understanding in love, in justice, in truth, thus you are confused and lost without the enlightenment of your very conscience. Is this the way you choose to live then…?? Nothing real in you, but everything borrowed and dead… Whoever amongst you understands this, do not just agree with me but CHANGE! Become better!
How is it really helping you being upset at someone…?? Is it because you think that somehow you are punishing them with you childish attitude…?? Are you really so full of fear and hatred to keep that grudge and resentment alive, and so allow your ignorant ego to guide your moods and behaviors…??
Rain must pour and shower, be really heavy and cold, in order for an awakening, an illumination, a deeper understanding to reach your very conscience; however, it is your choice to remain stubborn in your ignorance and reactive ego and miss the rainbow the rain brings, or it is your choice as well to understand the role the rain has in your life and see that colorful rainbow which changes you for the better. And for this better change and illumination to reach your conscience, you must allow it to happen; yes, allow it, because the automatic mode or program of the mind is to resist and not let go, so you have to be self-aware and change the program thus allowing change in you to happen–thus allowing illumination to happen.
If you do not do this then you will infect yourself with the darkness of fear and resentment, which only affects you and not others; and without illumination in the relationship things will slowly crumble to dust, you might lose something important to you because of ill will to change. You see, it is not about them (even though society teaches so); it is about you, it is all about your own mental peace and harmony. Why…??Because in all aspects of life (romance, friendship, education, finding a job, etc.), to thrive and become successful in all, you need love, comprehension, discipline, a good and happy attitude; but you can only invite all these into your mind if there is already peace and harmony there.
When there is any resentment and jealousy, upset or anger, in your mind, then fear is there. This is why you must welcome the rain as a blessing, let it shower you while you remain alert in this downpour, keep your mind steadfast to invite love and higher understanding to illumine you. While it rains, think about yourself and your own inner peace, immerse yourself in the heart of the relationship or situation instead of letting the thunder and lightning to fill you with pain and anger–and maybe become someone you do not want to be!
Challenges and moments of confusion, arguments and disagreements in absolutely any relationship must become sources of illumination to you, seek the further understanding and the wiser acceptance; otherwise your mind will agitate and you will react out of fear and anger, perhaps even ruining all your possibilities for further growth.
You must realize what is really important in your life. You must make a conscious decision between what your intellect tells you and what your heart tells you. A good and prosperous life is not a life guided by intellect, but one guided by the empathy and understanding of your heart; thus, you must live and love untainted by the rigidity and vanity of the ego.
Be aware of the people around you who is decent and who desire the best for you, quite often not perfect but with a pure and honest heart; for these persons might not be well-educated or even have the same ideas, aspirations, and beliefs you have, but they may bring you the emotional drive you need in certain moments of struggle.
History is full of people whose vanity and pride was so big that they left behind their loved ones and the people who truly cared for them just to follow their egos and chase after superficial conquests–i.e., women, men, money, higher class, more hours at their job, etc. etc. Sometimes what we chase is not better per se but pure vainglory, because we are trying to escape our own emptiness, insecurities, feelings of inferiority, and any fears perhaps from past memories.
Honesty is the best policy and so you must be honest with yourself, and make sure you surround yourself with the people that truly loves you and cares for your development; and no matter what happens learn to understand them and forgive their faults, because no one is perfect and we all need each other… In a world which is so vain and superficial, where family, friendship, and love is just the second-class citizen, you must raise yourself above this and become a free and compassionate individual–i.e., remember what is truly important, be guided by your heart…
And I believe love is this incredible but truly mysterious thing beyond desire and passion, hidden in the simplicity of a deep gaze, lived by the purest and most honest individual, and created by all beings in the Universe. And I saw that creation in front of me, O I felt it like miraculous light into my very conscience, and as this one brought me to magic healing, to a sort of wholeness I had never experienced before. She was falling in love as I was, and perhaps our losses had unite us; but, however, I really saw us not “falling in love” but rising in love, because in my days, and during my nights, all I knew was the experience of this divine and powerful rising within me, just like the Sun in the skies rises life with its glorious energy of love and warmth each morning and night on earth.
As I hold her…
I know pain was just part of love, a higher love ever rising, higher and higher. Because, can you really rise in love without knowing pain as a step up…?? Our loss had vanished, the attachment had been the vanity which had kept us in constant pain, because we had been wretches who never had known love. But the beauty on her face was the beauty of her divinity which had been clouded and lost under weights of tremendous sorrow. But the maturity and positivity in me had been bashed and squashed under all my self-pity and tears. We had been denied warmth and succor when we had needed it the most, they had stepped on our hearts, lost souls we were. But the loss of love we had in our lives had forged our paths stronger, and so two souls met as it had been written in the stars above.
As I hold her…
I understand now that our souls were One even before our bodies had met, and we find ourselves now transforming great pain into everlasting joy; for we are the children of ourselves, and we are always together playing freely in the fields of the Universe. Pain is but a door into that great essence of the magical and mysterious creature of love, sitting on a throne of gold and waiting for us mortals to wake up from our great illusions! Can you not see that?! Yes, she believes in me and I believe in her now, there is no pride or insecurity, because the eternal moment is what bonds us with the powerful adhesive of love. But a deeper and mightier love which is not tied to our silly aging and shifty thinking, nor to our mere desires and ugly accusations. And who dares speak ill about this profound love which transcends this mundane body-mind…?? As I hold her in my arms there is nothing in my heart and mind but her soul and mine born stronger together out of the pain, out of the struggle we have each of us endured…
Have you ever wondered what the Egyptian sex scenes painted in the ancient pyramids and temples mean…?? Have you paid really close attention to the symbolic stories of The Bible like the story of Moses or Jesus’s Crucifixion…?? Can you see the symbols hidden in the way nature behaves all around us…?? What about in the very nature of man, the destruction, how it unfolds and how humankind evolves, how it all turns the pages of time–can you see…??
It is all Infinite Intelligence, divinity, hidden symbols and messages in each tragedy or joy, but specially in tragedy; however, it cannot be understood and seen clearly by the egoistical mind, by the mind which is not innocent and creative and emptied of the ways of man and his “rational” knowledge. The ways of nature are not the ways of man. The ways of Infinite Intelligence or God are not the ways of man or mammon. “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” ~ Matthew 6:24.
The moment you fall into depression pay attention; there is a message hidden you must make conscious in you mind. Whenever you become confused about love or any direction you must take in any aspect of life; there is a symbol you must hold consciously to be guided. As you feel empty inside, perhaps lustful, greedy, angered, betrayed, alone, meditate on why this is so, discover life’s hidden messages. The worst mistake any man or woman can make, and many do make it everyday and thus feel lost, is to follow explosive emotions and intellectual outbursts; for this is like the child who throws a tantrum and allows himself to be overwhelmed by his own desperation.
But study life, be life, allow it to enter you and be One with you; for symbols and messages are everywhere, and if you stop yourself, your rushing mind, if you empty yourself from the ignorant and foolish ways of the everyday man, you can see the mysteries and hidden messages with your inner eye… The riches of life are represented in symbols and hidden in the ways of The Infinite; He who has eyes to see then, must see…
Life is a set of hidden symbols and divine messages for man to become awakened, but most do not see them because their minds remain veiled and buried, blinded by a lower consciousness state/a lower dimension in existence. But we as part of Creation, as human beings, carry and are symbols as well. Our anatomy hides symbols. Our physiology hides symbols. Our nervous system. That is why it is said in ancient Egyptian tombs and throughout pyramids, “Know Thyself and You Shalt Know The Gods.” That means know not only your spiritual realm beyond your humanity, but also know your very humanity–i.e., your biology, your mental states, your cellular micro-world, and all of it. This is deep knowledge; the only knowledge to really free you completely, to transform you from a mere human into a true god–i.e., “Know Thyself and You shalt Know The Gods.”
“Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” ~ Confucius.
Are you emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually expressive, free, balanced, healthy…?? Is any type of fear blocking you, depressing you, affecting you in any way…??
The subconscious is where our experiences, beliefs and memories are stored. Self-knowledge, the understanding of our thoughts and behaviors and their influence on our lives, will make the unconscious conscious; however, quite often people repress things, avoid expression, ignore how they feel and think, and they remain trapped in themselves with bouts of sadness, embarrassment, moodiness, anger, and all types of anxiety… Ever happened to you that your subconscious knows something but your conscious does not fully, or that you feel you cannot quite express yourself or be free from a feeling you have deep inside…??
Liberation, inner revolution, deeper knowledge through drawing or mapping your inner images, visions, or feelings; and this is tapping into your own subconscious to access that repressed sense you have, and this not only frees you to feel better and direct your life with greater vision and confidence but it enables you to communicate more openly with others while you make your unconscious conscious through your art/through your divine expression… Map your business strategies. Write down how you feel about a certain situation. Describe your mental images on paper. Work on freeing past memories. Whatever you do, make your unconscious conscious always.You can see better if the pond is cleaner.
For example, I used to wake up in the middle of the night and write my dreams; and so I found many answers I was looking for in that moment of my life–by making the unconscious forces of consciousness work to my advantage I liberated myself and opened my own conscious mind to greater understanding. As in dreams, one may experience certain unbalance, unhealthiness, trapped emotions during day or night, and this may disturb us; and so, in those cases making use of our inner abilities for artistic expression is what will make the difference between slavery or freedom.
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ C.G. Jung; Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.