SPIRITUAL STRENGTH EQUALS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

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In a flash she was transformed into knowing and seeing Universal Consciousness in everyone. This is the reality of the Universal Consciousness that we all share. It was as if someone had turned a ‘light switch’ from off to on in her. Before this happened it was as if she was asleep. Now she was awake. This was like ‘morning dawn’ for her. She was blossoming. She was astounded. She was thrilled. She had braved the ‘hero’s journey’ of knowing her Self. She had told herself the truth about herself. She was accepting herself. She had accepted her unique Self and body. She got rid of her unrealistic fantasies for the future. In this flash of permanent awareness she realized that she truly loved her Self. This Self-Realization experience of illumination made her realize that everyone was basically just like her inside. She discovered our ONENESS. No matter how others appeared to her, she realized that everyone else was struggling to understand humanity like she was. She realized that everyone else was suffering albeit at different levels. She realized that she was not separate from other people. She had a profound understanding that our thoughts, feelings and actions affect everyone. She realized how little time that she had left in her life. She realized that she would keep on improving herself for the rest of her life. But what led her to this Universal understanding about our human nature?

She Had Deeply Surrendered

In her alienation from others, that started long ago when she realized that she could lie, she realized that she could be dishonest. She thought that others could not prove the dishonesty and meanness coming from her because she strategically disguised it. What she did not realize was that other people could feel her dishonesty. Others felt the impure motives that stemmed from her alienated selfishness. Others felt the envy, jealousy, revenge, greed, competition, etc. Others felt her lack of awareness of them. It was her against the world. Because of the repetitive feedback from others telling her about negative aspects of her character, and the constant sorrow that it caused her, she began to tell herself the truth about herself. She hit bottom. Now she was on the road to balancing herself. She started to truthfully bring into her mind the repressed memories she had of others telling her that she had hurt their feelings. This truthful delving into her consciousness guided her into the Universal Realization that others had feelings and are not objects. She realized that we all have feelings whether we are in touch with them or not. She was becoming emotionally intelligent. She was now clearly getting in touch with her thoughts and feelings. Clearly, and truthfully, getting in touch with her thoughts and feelings caused her to be mindful of how she constructed language. She realized the true power that resides in the use of words. She realized that word-power needs to be strictly and purely championed for the good of everyone and everything. She was entering the reality of her Universal Connection with everyone and everything. This is Cosmic Consciousness. She realized that up until this point she could not help the bad things that she had done to others because she was not aware of our intimate connection. She was now truly becoming conscious of herself among others. This dawning of her Self-Honesty was the true beginning of her deep SURRENDER TO THE UNIVERSE, or to CREATION, GOD, etc. She realized that she needed to be non-attached to things. She realized that she needed to really “be in the world and not of the world.” She realized why saints and yogis retreat. She realized that true Self-Honesty leads us to true spiritual strength.

Now she realized what true character development was all about. It is about telling your Self, and others, the truth, as best as you can about everything that involves you/us. This is how we become balanced emotionally and physically. This is how others become attracted to us. This is where we become really confident. We become strong and face matters that seem hard for us. This is where we relax while realizing that we do not have to control everything. We become the Tao. In confident awareness we flow with nature with the good of all in mind.

Published by Gary Hobbins

I was born in Wisconsin to a Roman Catholic family. My mother June was a talented writer and started her own service club. My father Joe was a Right-of-Way agent for Bell telephone. Joe was an avid golfer and overall sports enthusiast. Joe would play sports with me and I became a life-long athlete. I was known as a rebel and was expelled from the Catholic school I attended at the age of fourteen. I was arrested at nineteen for being a thief and was placed on probation. Around this time, not being happy, I turned inward. I worked at different jobs that did not satisfy my budding inner life. I traveled down south several times reading books trying to find myself. In 1980, at the age of twenty-seven, I enrolled at a local college. I was now in an interesting environment. I was curious about almost everything and I eventually majored in speech and psychology or speaking and thinking. Many people told me that I was funny. I was able to make them laugh about unusual subjects. In the summers of 1981 and 1982, while still a college student, I traveled to Minneapolis and pursued the art of stand-up comedy. During these summers I would write comedy, run twenty-five miles a week and perform comedy at night. I was also a juggler but did not juggle in my stand-up act. I took up Hatha yoga and studied nutrition. In Minneapolis, I interacted with the local up-and-coming comedians. Minneapolis at that time had a small close-knit comedy culture that produced a good number of comedians and some became quite famous. I was making audiences laugh shortly after I started. During this time I was also performing comedy in other cities. I planned on being a professional comedian. Catholicism conditioned me to have a clear inner voice. I had to make people laugh and the only way I could see to do it was to be brutally honest with myself. I thought honesty would align me with common reality. The Sisters of St. Agnes, who taught me, always told me to tell the truth. So I was continually examining myself and weeding out delusional thinking. This became my way of life. One day in 1983, I was alone at my parents house and all of a sudden I had a massive spontaneous kundalini awakening. The awakening of this spiritual energy made me realize my self. I achieved the ability, among others, to see through other peoples egos or read their hearts. I was forever changed. In 1983 there was no internet or otherwise easily accessible information for me to be able to find out what had happened to me. Because of the massive explosion of energy my nervous and digestive system had to rebuild. Due to what happened to me, I changed my plans and soon moved in with my best friend and her son. We lived together for many years. I hid out in college going on and off for thirteen years. I read one book after another to understand what happened to me. I eventually received an M.A. in Speech/Rhetoric and also amassed many extra college credits. Currently I am an investor and forever a student. I am repentant of the trouble I got into years ago and the embarrassment it brought to my parents. People that knew me when I was a kid remark that I sure changed my ways. I went through what I call psycho/spiritual/physical alchemy or I transformed myself by healing the past and living in the ongoing present.

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