“The greatest gift we will ever receive in our life is the wisdom that everyone whom is a part of it reveals insights to the mystery of who we are. ” – I Saums
The Perfect Illusion
One of the greatest lies ever invented in our society is that we are separate and alone. Though we live in a world with billions of people, we tend to accept this belief. In doing so, we engender and even enable a reality of separatism and loneliness. We may believe that this is what gives us our strength, our purpose and will lead to our destiny. We allow ourselves to become devoted to this belief, even with our spouses, our children and our family.
Such is the paradigm of the “reality” in which we have been programmed and conditioned to live our lives. It is the realism of life that has become more of an oppression and less of a liberty. We have become dependent upon the very lifestyle many of us condemn. Sure, we may wake up once in a while make some noise in our frustrations of how things are and how we don’t seem to have any control over them. Yet, after the anger and upset subsides and the daily distractions kick in, we search for the artificial security blanket that our authoritarian society is more than eager to provide.
We hand over our personal power because we simply do not know what to do with it or how to be it. We are terrified at the notion of experiencing it, let alone living it. We entrust it to people, organizations and things that we believe (hope and pray) will protect and provide for us. All the while running a racket of self-distraction with our denial, egotism and our self-imposed victimization. These are the delusions of our daily experience. The most effective illusions are the ones we accept and adopt as our way of life which inevitably becomes our reality.