Who Makes Things Happen In The World?

The only way to function in life is to pretend that you’re doing something.

The reality is that there’s only awareness which is aware, which is experiencing that which we call physical reality. There is solely beingness.

There is no “you” that’s doing anything. There is no chooser. There is no decider. Choosing and deciding are something that just happens. They’re simply an autonomous aspect of the unfoldment of creation.

It is the false ego self, the impostor, who does the deciding and the choosing, as well as all doing, and then claims that it is “I” who is doing any of these things.

There is no separate “I” in life. “You” as an individual being don’t actually exist. The idea that you do is one of the most fundamental illusions of all life.

Even if there is no one who is doing anything, don’t we still need to make goals in life? Don’t we still have to do something useful with our lives?

Certainly! Even with the recognition that there’s no “me” doing anything, life keeps going. It doesn’t stop and neither do we.

You need to act as if that there is a goal-maker, a chooser, who is deciding things. You need to play that role and pretend that this person exists, but there is a constant awareness that this isn’t actually “you.” It’s simply a role that you’re playing.

As long as you know you’re just acting (being in this world, but not of it), there are no problems and there is no suffering.

Problems only arise when you forget you’re just acting and actually believe that this sense of identity IS you. Adopt a limited sense of identity and you suffer. It’s as simple as that.

Let go of all identities as if they were absolute Truth and all suffering ceases. Why? Because there is no one there to suffer!!

Then you’re free to come back in this world and PRETEND that you’re doing something, but there’s the awareness that there’s only awareness. Awareness watching an actor perform on stage.

There’s no need to try and deliberately stop anything that you’re doing in life. The doing will continue on its own. Thinking and decision-making just happen for you without you necessarily having to consciously think about them, right?

Of course. Allow them to do this. This is how the body is designed.

Simply notice that doing and thinking are a program that’s running on top of the background of awareness and that they are not you.

Nevertheless, act as if there’s a chooser. Act as if there’s a decider. Act out that role. It’s fine. It’s natural.

Setting goals without anyone there to actually set them:

Let’s say you’re ready to set up a goal.

You know that in the end, the goal may happen. It may not. You do not have control over every single thing that happens in life. You may plan to do one thing and then something else pops up so plans change accordingly.

(Yes, you are the creator of your reality, totally, but there is much that we are ‘unconscious’ of on a physical plane, on a practical level. There are things that are essentially beyond our control for all intents and purposes as an individual self moving through the world.)

So we can recognize that our goal may happen. Or it may not. Things could change before manifestation and they often do so we let go of attachment to it and enjoy the process. We enjoy the actions that are taken towards the goal and recognize that no matter what does or doesn’t happen, it doesn’t affect the background of awareness. Either the goal happens or it doesn’t.

Have intentions but no expectations.

The cool thing is that once you start enjoying the process itself no matter WHAT happens, your goals happen to start manifesting more often and more quickly. By letting go of all resistance and suffering, you become a manifestation MACHINE!

The suffering is what causes the interference. By going beyond suffering, life becomes more and more like play!

What happens when most people don’t get their goals is that they try to ANALyze what happened. “Oh this means this! The world is like that. I’m never going to be able to do this or that. It’s always going to be this way.” and yada yada yada. People make up all these huge stories from nothing and then create suffering for themselves when events are simply life unfolding. It is what it is. All meaning you create for it is totally made up, a product of your own choices, and they have no inherent validity in and of themselves, no matter how much evidence you have to support it. It’s all in your head. No exception.

Functioning happens all by itself. It doesn’t need your help. As you begin to let go, all suffering begins to drop away. Letting go of the doingness allows the reality of the beingness that you are to shine forth, to make things happen.

You can choose WHAT happens, but you don’t have the power to MAKE it happen.

You, the personal self, have the authority by virtue of your own free will to choose what happens. Only the universe, or beingness, actually has the POWER to make things happen.

You on your own have the power to make absolutely nothing happen. Nothing at all. It is only through your connection to Source that anything happens.

I can of my own self do nothing, it is the Father within me who is doing the work. And as I hear so I speak and it is not me who is speaking, it is the Father within me who is doing these works.

Source has the power to make anything happen, but the authority to do none of it. The free will you have is what grants authority to turn potentiality into actuality.

Thus it is up to the free will that you have within “you” to “choose” how to manifest in this world.

There is no chooser. There is no one behind the scenes making things happen. There is only awareness watching awareness.

Nevertheless, we can pretend that there is a person here, that this personality has something to do with us, and so that’s what we do because that’s how this reality we live in has been structured.

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
-Shakespeare