Change is the single only constant in life.
Adaptation is the norm.
It is crucial for our survival to adapt.
Control is a toxic illusion we fall for.
It’s counter-intuitive because it suffocates our ability to innovate.
If we resist change, we are suppressing an important survival mechanism.
Lifting the Treasures
Yesterday morning I found out that the digging is over.
It’s time to lift the treasures.
Everything is right here. There is nothing to invent or prepare but only to retrieve. Probably it has been that way all along.
Lost or determined? With the bold answer to this short reflective question the year 2024 ended for me.
For the longest time I have labeled myself as lost – until I understood that my ‘getting lost’ is my determination to dig deeper.
It literally came tumbling down on me throughout this New Year’s transition: It is time to lift the treasures!
My own treasures were buried deep down inside beneath disbelief and discontent.
All of these past years I have been digging and digging and digging – until I have discovered light amidst the darkest of tunnels. I have recovered the hidden treasures of my underworld.
Am I lost or determined?
The answer, finally, became so clear to me – I would like to scream it out loud (it has been for a lot of people around me):
I am determined to explore truth!
To me this means to embody all of human nature, all my emotions, every bone, cell and fibre of being alive.
I’m determined to lift the treasures here and now.
Decoding Enlightenment
I don’t want to make it easier for you, actually I want to make it harder.
There is no easy path, no walk in the park that leads to enlightenment.
Yes, some of us are born enlightened. That’s a different story.
But, as you have found the way here, I assume you are none of the second group. You are a seeker. You are passionately, wildly, silently screaming for answers. Answers you can never find, because you don’t get the clues you are expecting to get.
I tell you why this is: You don’t see the wood for all the trees!
Literally, there is so much advice out there.
Abundance seems to be just around the corner. And that is the biggest lie of our times.
Abundance is nowhere outside of yourself and for sure it is not around any corner.
Abundance is within you.
It is right there beneath your self-doubt. The path is right there – the next step, beyond your self-sabotage. Beyond your striving, your ambition, there is an abundance of resources.
Trust me. Or should I say: Trust you?
Can you feel it? This tingling sensation in your chest. This subtle vibration that’s keeping you alive? This is your path to abundance and thus your path towards enlightenment – the liberation you are so desperately seeking is right there.
So, what am I aiming for with “Decoding Enlightenment”? What is this about?
I guess it’s kind of a reminder of what I am here for.
I consider myself as a bridge builder, a translator of wisdom. A spokesperson for the broadly misunderstood, the spiritual misfits. I am not sure if I deliver, but whole-heartedly, I can say: I am working tirelessly on getting it ‘right’.
I am developing an understanding for the all, because I believe firmly that this is the only way to spread all-embracing compassion – the type of compassion our world needs right now.
So, without comprehending the scope of this post (maybe it is marginal): This seems to be the mission I’m showing up for: I am decoding enlightenment with you.
Contain And Release
It’s the season of discernment.
What wants to be released?
What wants to be contained?
Where are you heading?
And what do you leave behind?
The Antidote
It’s the opening factor.
It’s the missing piece.
It’s the glue of all connection.
Love.
It’s astonishing how convinced I am that love is the only answer there is.
How can this be?
Because I can feel it. I can lean towards it and she always receives me well.
It’s a healing force that is bringing me into union – instantly.
Where there is resistance there is love too! It’s within the fraction! It’s within the contradiction!
Always – there is a way to love.
Always – there is love all the way.
That’s the antidote. That’s the healthy destruction of violence.
Let Greed And Anger be Your Opponents
Let greed and anger be your opponents and not your motors.
Fight a war in the name of love.
Respond. Cooperate. Unite.
Embrace the supposedly opposites.
The only war you will ever fight is the war within yourself.
Blame or Claim
Do you blame or do you claim? Do you choose freedom or do you lose your power over indecision? Do you try to fit into the standards of your surrounding or do you choose your own liberation over the patterns of the past?
Do you choose the freedom of your senses? The power of your intuition? Your intuitive knowing that always finds the way…
I came to terms with the fact that I am the one in charge.
I can’t have it all. Everything in life has its price. It’s just a matter of what I’m willing to pay. Do I pay with my freedom or with my insanity? Do I earn my liberation by choosing my free will at all costs?
No, neither do I select my thoughts nor do I choose my upbringing. But I am the one who responds. And this is how I change my life.
Yes, some things might not happen – and some things never will. Life is not what happens in my wildest dreams. Because life is not what happens in my dreams in the first place.
Life is what happens when I choose to be myself now and in every moment. Life happens when I allow myself to listen and when I forget, for a moment, where I’m coming from and what I have been told.
That’s when I invent myself anew: When I forget the story that has been told.
When I claim instead of blame…. This is when I open up to possibility. – And this is when no one else gets harmed.
Feel Love
Feel how it feels to love this love.
My Inner Critic Lives in The Future
My inner critic lives in the future.
I can’t see him here.
Recently I’ve finished my inner critic micro habit challenge and I still owe you (and me) a conclusion.
How can I continue the conversation with my critic in a constructive way? This was kind of the question that arose towards the end of the challenge a week ago.
The short answer: There is no such thing like a ‘constructive conversation’ with my inner critic, because the critical voice is not productive by any means.
What has happened since then?
Honestly, this past week has been a crazy ride. Now that I’m typing I want to use the time to sum up what’s happening, because I witness that this week has been big for a lot of us.
To me it feels like a huge energy wave is rolling over us all – business closures, new beginnings, re-inventions, death and rebirth. This seems to be the pattern for a lot of us right now – if we are aware of it or not.
I’m sure, whoever is reading this, agrees: We live in wild times right now.
So, apparently I had started the inner critic challenge at a crucial point in my personal and professional development. I can witness a huge shift in consciousness within myself and others – and this seems to reflect in the material world.
More details about that will be revealed over time and most likely, in one way or another be shared on this blog.
All of a sudden – I’d say exhilarating – possibilities come floating (that’s the word that comes up – again) into my life.
Again, I’m learning that things do fall into place if I let them. I have worked freakin’ hard over these past couple of months – that’s partly what made me start the challenge, because I realized that my inner critic is not really, mmmh, let’s say… productive?!
And yes… Now I know: My inner critic is not here to be productive. He is here to warn me – and, to be honest, that’s an euphemism!
Actually I can’t really find any use of the inner critic apart from criticizing ‘unfoundedly’.
As I mentioned in my previous post: The critical voice doesn’t live in the present moment.
If I want to be the best version of myself, I better be present now. That’s where the magic happens.
So, what could be a takeaway from this challenge?
Raising awareness for the internal voices has helped me to see my own potential and my own value much clearer.
My critic doesn’t appear to me like someone to have constructive conversations with. It’s more like an invisible twin, a voice that immediately mutes as soon as I center myself.
Also: The critic does not really leave room for play. That’s something I identified as part of my mission on this earth. To play, spread lightness and eliminate pain.
So, all I can do is to cultivate more awareness and a nurturing environment for my ‘productive’ self, which is the spark of energy that lives in my physical body.
Wisdom is Nothing to Achieve
It can’t be learned. It is inherited.
It’s hidden in the within and in the inbetween.
It can only be cultivated in silence and harvested in devotion.