Helping others become even better versions of themselves
Showing up in our own lives to be our true authentic self takes a great deal of bravery.
We are all very good at pointing out to others that they should ‘just get on with it’.
Yet, we rarely apply that to ourselves.
However, once we start down the path of showing up, each time we do, it gets a little easier to do. We build our bravery muscle by keep doing it.
However, it needs to be done at our pace and on our terms, after all, it is our journey and not somebody else’s.
I know nothing.
I have for most of my life thought it was important to know everything and even if you didn’t really have the first fucking clue about something, pretend that you knew and have an opinion, based usually on our own prejudices or what others say, who also had no fucking clue either.
Groups of people have great debates on subjects whereby none of them has a fucking clue and they make what they think are the right decisions based on that.
The only thing we know is ourselves and the things that we actually experience and even then, when we are in our unconscious mind-obsessed state, we only see what our mind wants us to see. In this moment now is the only thing we really know, when we are awake and conscious, seeing the world without any evaluation.
We do not have to have an opinion, we do not have to know and it is better to listen than to know.
The more we listen, the more we understand.
Inner peace, joy and a conscious existence, just being our authentic soulful true essence, comes from the freedom of knowing nothing, not evaluating everything. Knowledge is a burden because what we think is knowledge is most often thought and opinion within our own heads or from the collective mind.
Knowledge creates this false righteousness, as we believe our knowledge to be the absolute truth that our egos will force us to defend at all costs.
The opposite where listening, understanding and not knowing everything creates connection, respect, freedom and the liberation from the pressure of having to know and having to defend that knowledge.
I am increasingly becoming less knowledgeable.
Philip Dodson 