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Sincerity occurs spontaneously (without having to work at being sincere) when we are more aligned with the guilelessness of our true nature. Living in this presence, we are naturally open and freer from the pretensions of the inflated or deflated ego.

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If we are religious and believe that our true nature is the ego, then we will not be able to avoid assuming that we are the misdemeanours of our ego, and calling ourselves sinners.

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The outer situation is basically secondary to the primary state of our true nature. If we live assuming the outer situation is primary, and our true nature is secondary, we may find it difficult not to live out the role of a victim.

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The average person spends one third of their life asleep, which most of us give little thought to. And we all consider the two thirds waking part of life to be the main part of our lives. But what if our sleep part was actually spent in a dimensional existence, where time was timeless or did not exist, or perhaps time in this other dimension had a different quality, such as for example, a day on earth was lived ten times slower there (but not in slow motion). In other words, our existence in another dimension whilst we are asleep, could potentially be far larger and more aware than our existence spent awake on earth.

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We live in an increasingly fast paced society. However, if we examine this fast pace, we realise that it has a tendency to increase self-centred, ego responses along with stress to ourselves, and in our overall attitude to life. Rushing around can make us impatient, which leads to frustration, being reactive and angry. A fast mind can easily lead to such states as anxiety, confusion, control issues, being overly competitive, worry, overwhelm, stress, lack of patience, frustration and anger. Whilst a fast or overworked body leads to burnout, adrenal fatigue, heart attack and other heart disease, premature ageing, nervous exhaustion and so on. The antidote to a fast pace is clearly on the other end of the spectrum, where we slow down and thereby largely lose our ego through such things as meditation, Tai-chi, yoga, contemplatively experiencing nature, mindfulness, and mindful artistic and creative pursuits.

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The smallest thing or experience is often considered of little or no value, but frequently it can point to a greater realisation.

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The selfishness of a small mind, is probably the world’s greatest evolutionary challenge.

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A smile appears to be the focus of the light of love in our heart, and can reawaken others to the lightness in their hearts.

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A genuine smile, which includes our eyes (such as we see with the smiles of the Wodaabe tribe in Africa), causes the obsessive, emotionally dominated thinking mind to stop! For we cannot smile, and think or embody, negative thoughts at the same time.

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Unless we are tuned to larger possibilities surrounding any situation in life, there is sometimes a danger that we can take one mental or emotionally-based snapshot, and then decide that we know it all. (Please see contemplations on Assumption).

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