Who are we really? What are we here for? Why do we exist? Most of us can’t answer these questions because we live within a physical body that constantly needs our attention. “Life is what happens,” as we were told by John Lennon, “while we’re busy making other plans.”
What we do know is that we’re often trying to control the events in our lives to make it the best life possible. When we explore the answer to the above questions, the first thing that we realize is that we need to let go of the thought that we are in control of our lives. While we think we’re in control, we might think of a higher wisdom as an additional assistant to who we think we are.
But when we explore this more deeply, we can come to realize that this higher wisdom is more in control than we are. What we discover is that when we attentively listen to the realizations that come into our mind from this higher wisdom, we can begin to understand life more clearly, with more patience and more love than we thought we could express.
This is what waking up is all about. It’s the time when we begin to realize that we’re not as aware as we thought we were. This new awareness comes into our mind when we’re ready to accept that we don’t know everything. This is when answers can come in ways we hadn’t thought of, in a flow of energy that can make life sweeter, kinder, more respectful of our soul, than we could ever think would happen to us.
Life can then unfold in a way we would never have dreamed possible, taking us in a direction we would never have known. It’s only when we let go of what we think is our control—learning to patiently wait, trusting that only the higher wisdom can know exactly what’s best for us—that we can come into our ultimate expression of all that’s possible from within us. This is beyond our wildest dreams, because no one could have predicted such an outcome.
Only after patient listening, trusting, waiting for relief from any challenges that life gives us, can we experience true resolution. It’s only when we have completely let go of the outcome, while staying responsible for all that we must care for, knowing that any outcome is ultimately out of our hands, that we can begin to experience profound relief.