Look back at your life, all the changes that have taken place, all the changes, major and minor, that you have gone through. Hasn’t there been something deep within you that has been aware of all these changes, that has witnessed or watched them, that hasn’t changed? Something deep within you that is silent, constant, and changeless that is reading these words right now?
I call this “the big R Reality” to differentiate it from the relative reality, which is everything we experience in our daily lives, everything that changes. People who have discovered the simple truth of happiness have found their identity in this, the “big R” Reality. They have realized their true nature and now they know themselves as aware, conscious beings. They are identified with the changeless, and not what is always changing. While they have a name, an ego, and a story, they don’t draw their identity from their name, their ego, their thoughts and stories, or what they do in life.
And yet they participate and engage fully in the “small r” or relative reality of the world. They live normal lives, but they no longer suffer, they are no longer caught in conflict. They are always, basically, at peace within and in the flow of life, responding creatively—with an open and loving heart—to the needs of the moment.
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