Wednesday, March 27, 2024
If a loved one dies, it initially feels like a loss. That’s why the pain feels like something being ripped away from you. But there is no loss. The person that seems to have been taken from you was never yours. Love doesn’t possess property. Love releases and expresses with a fuel that is eternally sourced from the wholeness within you.
Gain and loss are perceptions of the ego. But since there is essentially no you, there can be no “yours.” The essence of a human being is intangible, invisible, and cannot be possessed. You are in essence God expressing as you. That expression is unique, but the underlying cause is the animating presence that expresses itself in all.
Essentially you are whole and cannot gain or lose; therefore, there is no loss when someone dies nor is there gain when they appear. You cannot take away nor add to what is divine.
Yes, you’ll miss their idiosyncrasies, but remember that’s just their outwardness. Death is a reminder that outwardness is temporary. Awakening to your eternal nature brings peace when you realize nothing can be taken from you. The only thing that seems to be removed in so-called loss is the veil of ignorance. But even your darkness, your ignorance is as divine as your enlightenment.
I don’t know why the inevitability of death surprises us when it comes. When someone dies we tend to believe it’s personal. The personal nature of personhood is ephemeral; but the inner nature of all people is forever. Pain is an admonishing truth that you are essentially wholeness and life everlasting playing a unique, temporary role that you call “me.” That role will be over one day, but that essence, the I AM that plays all the roles lives eternally and can never be taken.