Reality Unveiled

by Ziad Masri

that the void inside can’t be filled; not because it’s too vast, but because it’s an illusion. It’s not really there.

This is getting interesting already

immersing you in a world of wonder, while revealing the evidence that supports every surprising concept.

to be willing to openly examine your own beliefs. Are they truly yours?

“If you want to know the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

Remember the purpose of this whole illusion we call reality in the first place. There is one and only one goal we all ultimately have: to learn to become unconditionally loving and return home to our true essence, having expanded the spark of divinity that we all are. And when looked at from this higher perspective, we realize that what we do in the illusion is always secondary to how and why we do it.

How to obtain this love? Feeling some disenchantment in my quorum meeting right now.

A parent who is unconditionally loving with their children and truly gentle and kind to others on a daily basis is doing more to help free the world of tyranny than someone who is heading a massive nonprofit organization that fights injustice on a global scale,

Agree!

In reality, we exist in all states in the eternal now, which is all there really is.

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simply being the expression of the love that you already are as best you can. That is our real mission.

Hate and envy is a product of deep rooted fear.

reflecting the unconditional love that is your ultimate nature. When you do that you are being of utmost service to the world and living the awakened life,

1600 yrs ago one said to "pray....with all the energy of heart that ye may be filled with this love"

“to be happy.” Sure, there can be many other things we want, like romantic love, a close family, children,

we chase so compulsively our entire lives, is often nothing more than the internal demand that screams, “Meet my desires!”

Even seeking deep romantic love...

In the case of romantic love, we’re saying, “I’ll only be truly happy if I find someone who I love and who loves me as much.”

On the surface it seems inate and noble

it’s the fact that we give them complete power over us by equating their attainment with happiness. And what happens when you give something the power to provide you happiness? It can just as easily take away that happiness and bring pain and suffering. Think about it, how many “true-love” relationships end in heartbreak? And even if they are the “real thing,”

Seeking romantic love without inner love from the ultimate source of the infinite well of love...

if we give complete power to anything outside ourselves to make us happy, then we are at the complete mercy of circumstances to decide if we’re happy or in endless suffering.

True happiness comes from the perfect brightness of pure love.

When we equate happiness with having our strongest desires met, no matter how noble those desires seem to be, we are trapped in the pleasure–pain principle. If I get what I want, then I feel happy. If I don’t get what I want, then I suffer.

How?

instead, we turn to the infinite source of joy within ourselves and draw from that, we break free from the trap of being emotionally enslaved by our life’s circumstances. And that changes everything.

How?

are by design, it would make sense that they are meant to be used for learning purposes instead of being shunned as something undesirable. Remember, if you had already learned the lessons you needed to, then you would not be incarnated in human form in the third density with all of these limitations to begin with. So the limitations are not bad, and they are not to be judged. They are purposeful learning mechanisms. For instance, if you have an anger problem, then you likely hate the fact that you get angry so much and probably even feel a lot of shame around it. I know I’ve personally dealt with this issue throughout my life. Thankfully, I never had the issue of expressing my anger physically and hurting others, but lashing out emotionally toward others and myself has been something I’ve dealt with since I was young. For the longest time, I felt a tremendous amount of shame because I didn’t want to be angry; I wanted to be kind and loving instead. This shame intensified when I became more spiritually aware because it felt like such a contradiction to understand all of these grand truths about reality and yet still get so angry on a regular basis. Internally, it felt like hypocrisy. But then it all finally hit me, and I suddenly understood. I now understand that anger is not some weakness or inadequacy that I should judge and feel bad about. Looked at from the higher perspective, my Spirit Self knew what I needed to learn in this life. It knew that a most challenging lesso...

genetic makeup that is predisposed to having a personality that would become excessively angry, because it would require a lot of compassion and self-love to accept this angry self and not feel shame or judgment toward it. From another perspective, I also understood my anger to be due to not receiving unconditional love in my childhood. This is not because my parents were unloving. On the contrary, I have wonderful and very loving parents. But the reality is that none of us received unconditional love as children because we were all raised by parents who were lost in the role of their physical selves and therefore unconsciously acting out of fear rather than true love much of the time. In addition to this, physical reality, by its very nature, cannot be unconditionally supportive. Parents cannot possibly respond to every single need of a child instantaneously and, on an emotional level, each unmet need results in strong emotions becoming trapped in the very cellular structure of the growing child. When this is also added to the fact that we all come into each incarnation with the soul memory of many previous lifetimes and all the pain and suffering that they entailed, it’s not surprising that anger is a common denominator among so many people. And if it’s not anger, then it’s some other limiting emotion that we judge as bad and shameful, and want so desperately to get rid of. But what does it truly mean to be unconditionally loving? It does not mean that we are perfect in ...

“It’s OK.” What else could unconditional love say other than “It’s OK”? Indeed, it is OK. It’s always OK. You are simply learning. And even if you hurt another person, beating yourself up doesn’t change anything. In fact, it does nothing more than keep the guilt alive that then, as Freud showed us, gets unconsciously projected onto others and causes nothing more than the repetition of the same pattern over and over. 49 But when you find compassion for this human who you experience yourself to be, then the chain is broken. You no longer get stuck in guilt, and you no longer project that guilt onto others and find fault in them to keep the negative cycle alive. So as counterintuitive as it may be, forgiving yourself, even when you hurt others, does not condone the act or give you permission to do it again but rather releases the guilt that would keep the whole cycle intact, therefore truly moving you in the right direction. And what about those times when you do catch the emotion before you react unconsciously (which will happen more and more as you practice daily)? You realize that it is simply an emotion, it is valid, and has a right to be there. Even the most negative of emotions that you may judge to be bad because you think of yourself as a good and spiritual person are valid. They are simply arising in the moment and as such have validity. This doesn’t mean that you get sucked into the story they’re telling you. When we do that, we go from the direct experience of emot...

those emotions mean. That’s the trap. If someone wrongs you and you experience anger rising, then experiencing the anger with awareness in the moment doesn’t have any bad consequences. In fact, it allows the anger to express itself and dissipate. The anger stays only when you start telling yourself a story about why you’re justified to feel angry with that person. Now it’s no longer a natural temporary emotion but rather a mental story that has taken on a life of its own and fuels a whole slew of negative emotions from which you have no escape. WELCOMING WHAT IS The reality is that there is another option apart from outwardly expressing and inwardly repressing emotion. Welcoming the emotion and feeling it fully without outwardly expressing it (shouting, swearing, fighting, etc.) or internally suppressing it (burying it in your heart or ignoring it) is the way to experience strong emotions without giving them control over our lives. Outwardly expressing and internally repressing keep us in slave mode. We either react without thinking or we hold it in until one day it all blows up when it becomes too much to bear inside. To be truly free, we must feel our emotions with full acceptance. Willingly embrace them no matter how uncomfortable. What you’ll find is that they quickly dissolve. Why? Because embracing and fully accepting them is an act of unconditional love, and darkness dissolves in the light of love. And this brings me to the final concept

I want to share here, which is that it is not what happens in our life—nor the emotions we experience—that is ever a problem, but our resistance to them. Quite simply, as Carl Jung told us, what we resist persists. When we learn to welcome everything that happens in life, and to welcome all our emotions, we learn what true freedom is. We understand that life truly is not about manipulating and controlling circumstances to fit our desires but rather about surrendering and fearlessly accepting whatever arises in the moment, whether that is a seemingly negative or positive event or emotion. It is this equanimity toward life (both externally and internally) that is true freedom. Then we are no longer this small physical self struggling to have its needs met, fearful that it won’t get its way. Rather, we go through the human experience in the understanding that it is a deeply meaningful classroom designed by none other than our larger aspect of Self for our own benefit. And in this light, our greatest enemy is our greatest teacher, to whom we should be very thankful. Of course, I’m not implying that any of this is easy to do. I often still find it difficult too. It’s all too easy to ...

everything that happens is happening for your own ultimate good. So relax. Relax, and learn th...