From Invalidation to Acceptance

There could be no other exhausting activity to a spiritual ego than having to be the one that is awake in a world of other egos and having to spend all your time correcting everyone. Eventually we all wake up from that burden.

-Matt Kahn

It’s amazing the degree to which our egos will attempt to invalidate and resist various ideas and concepts.

For example, our spiritual egos may try to invalidate various ideas such as separation, illusion, duality, the reality of fear, other people’s opinions and dogmas, our emotions or innate humanness, misperceptions and misunderstandings, etc. You know, all those things that only *totally unenlightened and egoic people* would believe in…

We may come across something we perceive to be “The Truth” (whatever that is to us… or to “no one” if you wanna get into all that silliness) and invalidate various other ideas and perspectives. Why? Well they’re not the Truth! *Those ideas* are distorted, misguided, and incorrect. They arise from the ego! or the devil! or [insert your scapegoat of choice here]. We need to correct everyone! Oh boy… Talk about not accepting others and invaliding who they choose to be!

Many people do not want advice. The world will teach them the lessons they need. You don’t need to go and correct everybody. It’s not your duty. Just take care of your peace.

-Swami Satchidananda

Once we realize we are both All That Is and All That Is Not, anything or anyone we invalidate is seen to be an invalidation of ourselves, of THE Self. This is not Love. Remember, in order to judge or invalidate another, you must first bring your energy down to the level of judgment or invalidation. Thus what you do to another you do to yourself.

Our minds may want to divide things into either/or categories. Duality. “This is a valid perspective. That is not. Thus I must find the correct perspective and adopt that as my own.”

Yet what happens when we see that ultimately ALL perspectives are valid given that they are all equally aspects of the One. They are all simply perspectives of mind arising within the singular consciousness. Now I’m not saying that some perspectives aren’t more in alignment with Oneness or whatever else than others. I am simply suggesting that given the understanding that everything is an expression of the One, invalidation of any thing may not be the best strategy. Every thing and non-thing is an integral component of All That Is, for without every single thing in existence, All That Is would not be ALL That Is.

Invalidation resists and divides.

Acceptance allows and unifies.

Where do you choose to make your home?