The Youniverse

Life, above all else, is the flow of passion and desire, expressing constantly. Each of us carries the energy of passion within us, and with it the potential to connect to the flow of Life. As each of us fully expresses our unique expression of the energy of passion and desire, we connect with that flow. This is why passion feels so good; it is Life giving and Life connecting.

When you are firmly and fully in your passion, you are at One with all Life, and you fit with everything else in existence. When you are in your passion, you are also automatically abundant, because you are connected to the flow of Life that brings you whatever it is that you truly require to continue to express your passion. 

The answer to “What is my purpose in Life?”, then, is simply to express your connection to Life by fully expressing your unique passion. In other words, your purpose is to be you, as fully as you can. Your purpose isn’t out there somewhere. Nobody can tell you what it is. (No, not even this post that you’re reading. I can encourage you to fulfill your purpose by following your passion, but I cannot tell you what your passion is.) Your purpose is found right here, right now. It is found in doing whatever makes you feel passionate and alive right now. If that includes reading this post, great. Read it with passion and with excitement. Understand it. Soak it in. However, if reading this post isn’t your current passion, let it go, and go do what is your passion, no matter what it looks like. 

This is Life we’re talking about here. Life is infinite possibilities with an infinite number of expressions. It’s ludicrous to think that Life can only express through University degrees, or stable 9 to 5 jobs or any other single type of expression, as our society tends to think. That’s not to say that University degrees and 9 to 5 jobs cannot be the form that someone’s passion takes, however. My point is that it’s up to each of us though, to truly decide for ourselves whether they are our passion or not. It’s time for us to loosen up our definitions on how we think we must live Life. It’s time for each of us follow our true passion with no expectations and see where the flow of Life leads us. 

The fact that I am inspired to write this post, in order to remind people to follow their passion, is a sign to me that most of us are not doing so. To me, our society is in a sad state, because we have created it to resist the flow of Life. In other words, we have created it to be a predominantly fearful society, rather than a passionate one.

The majority of the members of our society resist their passion, because they have been taught to invalidate themselves and their expressions of passion, by association. So it’s no wonder that they anxiously look instead to how others tell them to live their lives. As a result of this, many people live desperately while feeling like crap day in and day out, wondering why Life turns out the way it does. The answer, of course, is that they aren’t really living Life; they are resisting it. That’s why they feel like crap. They are afraid of following their passion, which means they are afraid of Life itself, ludicrous as that may seem. Yet it is ultimately their fear that is making them sick and killing them; not their passion. 

One of the most wonderful gifts of Life is that each of us has a direct connection to the flow of Life. It’s also equally wonderful that the expression of this connection is unique for each of us, which means there are an infinite number of ways to express this connection. Isn’t it time for each of us to acknowledge the gift of this connection by expressing our passion as fully as we can? 

Are you avoiding the realization that you are living your life in a way you don’t prefer, so that you can avoid the feelings of anxiety, anger and fear that come along with that realization?

Are you covering up your desperation with a smiley face? Does that smiley face include your job, your possessions, your friends and loved ones? Do you cling to them and use them as a mask to cover up your deep feeling of anxiety, or your deep feeling of not being enough? 

Are you documenting (including posting online) all the so-called “great” experiences you’re having in your life in order to convince yourself that they are in fact great and that you’re happy? Is the greatness of your experience based on the number of likes it gets on Facebook (or whatever social network(s) you use)? 

When it comes down to it, is your life a reflection of your deep sense of joy and happiness or is it a reflection of your anxious attempts at attaining a deep sense of joy and happiness? 

What about the rest of the world? Do you feel that humanity’s actions are reflective of the joy it feels, or the insecurity and anxiety it is trying to cover up? And what about humanity’s interactions with you? Is humanity’s attempts to fit you into its definitions of what you should be coming from its joy and love for you or from its own insecurities? 

Ask yourself these questions and feel the emotions they bring up. Begin the process of becoming your authentic self. Drop that smiley face and find the true joy within you. Allow your life be a reflection of that joy.

Not asking these questions is risking not becoming your authentic self. Not becoming your authentic self is risking that you’ll live a life of quiet desperation while “smiling” all the way through it, only to realize at the end that none of it truly made you happy.

The path to happiness is the path to authenticity, and the path to authenticity is within. 

Many of the common things people enjoy today were once perceived by others as “wrong” or “weird”. I mean, it must have been pretty weird to watch the first-ever basketball game for example. Imagine seeing people throwing balls at a peach basket for the first time. But if the players stopped playing because it was weird for some people, there would be no basketball today. And that’s just one example. Almost every new type of music, sport, clothing, or any other expression was initially ridiculed by someone, somewhere. That ridicule didn’t stop those who loved the new expression and that’s how change has always come to be. It takes a commitment to continue doing what you love regardless of what others may have to say. 

• We have imagined a world where animals are kept in cages.
• We have imagined a world where pets are bred on one hand while others needlessly die in shelters on the other.
• We have imagined a world where slaughterhouses exist.
• We have imagined a world where there is such a thing as third-world countries and first-world countries.
• We have imagined a world where militaries exist.
• We have imagined a world where students learn about the world by being told about the world instead of experiencing it first-hand.
• We have imagined a world where 9-5 workdays exist.
• We have imagined a world where caffeine is needed to jolt us from our sleep and keep us awake during our unexciting days.
• We have imagined a world where one person makes less money than another for doing the same job, just because she has different body parts.
• We have imagined a world where nature needs to be “developed” and where polluting our air and water for industry is good economic practice.
• We have imagined a world where sweatshops and child-labour exist.
• We have imagined a world where people are dying from over-eating in one part of the world while people are dying from not getting food in another part.
• We have imagined a world where people who imagine things differently are mocked and ridiculed.
• We have imagined a world where being unhappy, overworked, underpaid and stressed out is considered normal.
• We have imagined a world where we produce more than we can consume, and throw out the excess as a solution.
• We have imagined a world where our seniors are banished to die isolated from the rest of us.
• We have imagined a world where we are separate from it and where the world is out to snuff us out of existence.
• We have imagined a world where all these imaginings seem to be out of our power to change.

The reality is that we have the capability and the responsibility to imagine a different world, if we are unhappy with the current one. We can imagine a world that is reflective of our desires instead of our fears. We can imagine a world where we are self-empowered. It starts with imagining a different world, and validating and following that new imagination. It’s all up to us. 

The second step is believing it is possible to experience it at all. 

The third step is to imagine the feeling of what living in heaven on earth feels like. In other words: get in touch with the joy and ecstasy within you, while making a commitment to creating an experience reflective of that joy and ecstasy.

The fourth step is to act on the inspiration rising from the joy within you. Do what brings you joy. Help to create social systems based on joy. 

As reality continues to naturally expand, so will the idea of money. The current use of money to represent limitation and lack cannot work, because it clashes with the expansive nature of reality when used in this way. 

As you expand the idea of you, reality must also expand. Each human being is born with the inherent ability to expand itself through the use of its imagination. As each human being naturally expands the idea of itself through the use of its imagination, so does reality.

The trouble is that human beings are not familiar with the nature of themselves, and so they limit themselves to an idea in the mind, which then consequently limits reality. This is why getting in touch with the reality of humanity and the reality of reality is so absolutely critical to our happiness and our well-being. 

Money bends to the nature of reality, not the other way around. Living realistically- by validating and following the true desires born in your imagination, allows reality to expand in order to bring symbols of abundance into your experience to fulfill those desires. These symbols of abundance may be money, or it may be something else, but something must show up to fulfill  the new reality of you. The important thing is to allow reality to support the new you by avoiding to limit it through imagined expectation. Reality can expand in an infinite number of ways. Let it do so by simply being who you desire to be and getting out of its way. 

The current ideas of competition for a limited number of resources, or the idea that your abundance will take away from another’s abundance are delusional ideas that clash with the nature of reality. There is enough for all because each person belongs, as proven by the fact of their existence. 

Reality expands itself each time a new desire is born. It’s up to us to let go of limiting ideas on abundance and allow that expansion to take place. 

Everything in the Universe belongs and is intelligently created, except for human beings, the thinking goes. Creation’s only mistake is that we as human beings are cursed with the defect of escaping reality through dreaming and the ability to create our personalities. These aspects of us are mistakes we were created with and we must make every effort to forsake them. We must restrict our free-flowing imagination, get our heads out of the clouds and face reality, or what others tell us is reality. We must limit our identities to what others imagine we should be, because that is the only way to be a “normal” human being. 

For a moment, let’s forget what others tell us is reality and really take a look at the situation. The first truth about reality is it is always changing. Whether we’re talking about the reality of the natural world or the reality of our social systems doesn’t matter. It always changes. So when someone talks about reality as a fixed thing, they are not talking about true reality at all.

The reality of being a human being is that we can dream and that our experience of reality is a reflection of what we dream ourselves to be. We have usually been dreaming ourselves as separate from our Universe, as an accident of sorts, and we’ve played up that idea so much that our experience tends to reflect that idea. The reality is that we are one with the Universe and that it supports us, which is ludicrously lucky, if we are the accidents we may believe we are. The reality is that each of us is a localized point of the Universe, supported by the whole in the experience of ourselves through seemingly separate perspectives. 

The reality is that each of us does choose our identities, by choosing which ideas we resonate with and which we do not. We are not like the animals in this way (not that we’re better), because we have complex personalities consisting of ideas and beliefs, which creates a greater difference between two of us than any two animals. The reality is we use our inherent freedom to choose the idea of ourselves as a limited identity. 

The reality is that our identities are created from contrast, and so we need the lovely contrast provided by other personalities in order to forge our own. This means everything we are not makes us who we are, which paradoxically means we are everything we are not. The reality is that without contrast, each of us would cease to know ourselves as a distinct identity.

The reality is that each of us is in existence and that is proof enough that we belong, as we are. We belong with our ability to dream, to choose preferences and to be free to be whatever type of person we prefer to be. We wouldn’t dare think that it’s a mistake that birds can fly so why do we think this about our ability to dream? Validating our dreams and following them is akin to validating the bird’s ability to fly. It’s the natural thing to do. It is our birthright to desire what we desire and to expand in whatever way we prefer. We may choose to hide our desires and preferences, but they will always remain a part of us.  We are never inherently stuck in a situation; our desire to change the situation is proof of that. 

The reality is that we have created many of the restrictions we think we are born with. Countries, religions, classes and other systems are not the true reality of the world. They are our experience of the reality of the world. This experience is created out of our wonderful imagination of what the world must be like. Our day-to-day experience is created by us, and most of us do not realize it. We create this reality where it is not acceptable to truly be who each of us prefers to be. We create this reality where violence and competition is more acceptable than love and compassion. We create this reality where we work at jobs we hate for most of our lives. We create this reality of pollution and environmental destruction. We create all the experiences of conflict, pain and suffering in our reality. 

The reality is that we can just as easily create experiences of joy, peace and abundance. The reality is that joy, peace and abundance are not pie-in-the-sky ideas with little hope of being applied to our lives. They are experiences created out of our ideas, just as violence, competition and suffering are. 

Allow yourself to live the truth of reality, instead of what we have thought reality must be. Express your inherent freedom to be whoever you prefer to be. Create systems that reflect the ideas you prefer to incorporate within your personality. Allow reality to change in ways you prefer. It isn’t as rigid as you thought it was. 

It is our deep desire for less work and more free-time that has driven the development of our technologies. We have decided and continue to decide that work sucks, and that we’d rather have fun doing things we truly enjoy. 

The truth is most of us hate getting up in the morning and working at some boring, mind-numbing cubicle, or assembly line, or white-walled store. So we have developed the means to free ourselves or limit the amount of time we spend on that type of work. 

Through automation we can now produce more food, clothing, shelter and medicine than we know what to do with. This reality is obscured by our inane love for competition, which produces an illusion of scarcity. In actuality, we produce so much stuff that we feel more comfortable throwing it away rather than saving it, probably because we are implicitly encouraged to do so. We have so much stuff that many of us spend our time convincing others to buy it. We have so much stuff that we need larger and larger homes to keep it all, and now have an influx of storage facilities for overflow.

The reality is that we now have the capability to be free of work and follow our true joy like never before. And the unstoppable, strengthening momentum of technology is leading us to even less work. Others may tell you this is a bad thing, that we need jobs, otherwise people will be homeless or whatever. These people are looking at our development from an old perspective. They cannot imagine a world where people have the freedom to fill their days with enjoyable activities. They resort to calling us “free-loaders” or “lazy”, as if our desire for less work is wrong or that we should actually desire to be productive little humans, mindlessly producing what we are told to produce. They forget the reasons we have developed as a society at all. 

Make no mistake about it: we are progressing to create less work and less stress, not more. Don’t let the older generation’s limited imagination convince you that we cannot create a world of increasing enjoyment. Our desire is strong enough. It has always been strong enough. It has been and is still leading us to where we want to go. We will get there faster if we each allow our desire full expression and stop listening to the naysayers. We only need to believe in our desire. History is on our side. The future is bright.

Each of us is a social engineer. Our state of being and the choices we make determine what kind of life we live and what kind of society we live in.

At this point in time, most of us are amateurs, unaware of the tools we are using to create. In our ignorance we’ve gone about creation haphazardly, developing society without first understanding the mechanism of how we are developing it or why we are developing it the particular way we are. 

Because of our ignorance, our creation has almost taken on a mind of its own, seeming to be something larger than its creators. 

Now, we must realize that our creation is not larger than us and that it is very much within our control. We must realize our power and our responsibility in creating our society and we must do so quickly because we are reaching a threshold where numerous important decisions must be made; decisions that will affect the very nature of our lives as human beings.