When I Listen To My Silence

When I Listen To My Silence

When I listen to my silence, I can hear clearly the voice of Truth. There are no lies and everything is so clear and transparent. I can see, through all the faces, and I see the true face who is eternally looking back at me. I can listen to the words and, behind them, I can hear their true meaning. Sometimes through their lips I hear one thing, but their true meaning  reveals a totally different story.

When I listen to my silence, I can feel the pain that I have been carrying for decades: thinking that there’s no other way to live. I had created a world of pain and suffering that only I can see and feel.

But behind all that, there’s this  silence where there’s no pain, there’s no suffering, there’s no lack, there’s no loneliness, there’s no sadness, there’s no sickness, there’s no hell, there’s no darkness, there’s no difference between you and I.

Behind the silence there’s this huge possibility of becoming one with the Creator, He/She/It has given us the freedom to create our pains, sorrows and  darkest moments. Everything that comprises our life is our own creation. We create it all  and at the same time we can make any aspect of it disappear.

Our loving Creator has given us the power to make a mess out of our life as well as  the power to heal, transform, and created it all—we are limited only by our limited ability to imagine.

How happy can I make my life?…Happiness is only a thought away.

How much money can I attract into my life?… Wealth and abundance is only a thought away.

How healthy can I be?… Health and wellbeing is only a thought away.

How successful can I became?… Success is only a thought away.

And this list goes on and on. What’s stopping us from becoming the wonderful beings that we already are? I believe we have given over our power to others allowing ourselves to be victims, instead of the powerful beings with many   wonderful gifts that God has given us from the moment He created us.

Because of circumstances in our history we have been afraid. It seems like in order to hide this wonderful gifts we have created an educational system that leave us little room to look inside and find for ourselves our true potential.

We have created religions that keep us in fear and full of guilt, leaving us with an uneasy feeling that we are less than what we really are.

We have created a society that  binds us and keeps us competing against each other. This system encourages us to try to be the first, better, smarter,  richer and  bigger .

Reflect back on your own history. Who was the author of the books you grew up reading? Who was behind the pulpit you grew up listening to and worshipping before? Who was in charge of your education and behavior? If those people didn’t  reflect the joy, wellness, wealth, freedom of expression of their true selves, then we should start checking our memory bank to see what we have learned about money, love, health, freedom, and God. If there’s something in our life that we want to change, go back to our past and reflect on the people who taught us the believes and behaviors that are causing us pain or suffering.

There’s no reason why we should not be happy, free, wealthy, and healthy....  For one reason or another we have given our power to others who have given their own power as well. We do not need to repeat those patterns, we need to take control of our lives and start anew in order to experience our own beautiful and free “true self”.

Others may feel insecure if we do that, but at the end we will be showing the way how to get rid of usessless rules, systems and laws that had kept us afraid, fearfull and powerless.

There is hope, we can take our selves out of the darkness and  slave position that we have created around us for so long.

Close your eyes and imagine that you are as happy and healthy as you can see yourself. Don’t limit your ambition -- It is not bad to be ambitious. Have you seen  beautiful scenery with all the colors and richness that  knows no limits? Well, the same life that runs through them is in you. So you have ALL the right to be as luscious as you want.

In nature, there’s nothing lacking. You are part of the same nature. There’s nothing you or I  lack. Perfection is our birthright and we have to claim it TODAY.

We deserve to be happy in whatever shape or form we believe happiness is.

Go to your silence and find the beauty that belongs to you and claim it, see it and live it.

Never say, ‘I can’t” -- because you will create what you believe you can’t be or do.

Never say “I can’t afford it”, because you will create the inability to afford anything.

Never say “I’m not happy,” because you will never be happy.

Never say “I CAN’T” because that will be a command you send to the Universe, and the Universe will not give you anything more or anything less than what you command of it.

With Love,

Patricia Elena Garcia

I can be

I can do

I can afford

I can learn

I can  accomplish

I can grow

I can love

I can forgive

I can start all over again

I remember who I really am

From My Dear Friend Janice

I ACKNOWLEDGE YOU – PATRICIA – A TRUE FRIEND

1.                 I am aware and acknowledge your wisdom.

2.                 I am aware and acknowledge your serious nature.

3.                 I am aware and acknowledge your care and concern for your fellow “travelers” in this world.

4.                 I am aware and acknowledge your care and concern for this earth, because you know the gift it is to us.

5.                 I am aware and acknowledge your sense of humor and the joy that dwells deep in your heart.

6.                 I am aware and acknowledge your friendship and find it to be a great honor, as it is not given in a frivolous manor.

7.                 I am aware and acknowledge that there is a future of mystery and excitement ahead of you, waiting for you to unwrap it a layer at a time.

8.                 I am aware and acknowledge that at time, I hope not too often, that I try your patience-not always on purpose, and hope you forgive me for those times.

9.                 I am aware and acknowledge you, my friend, my advisor and my mentor.

10.     I am aware and acknowledge my heartfelt thanks to you, my friend.

Freedom

Freedom

Freedom is a concept that few human beings have been able to experience. There are those who live in countries that claim to be the freedom fighters for the rest of the world. But seeing it up close, we can be more slaves than those who never knew this strange form of freedom.

Under the name of liberty we bind ourselves to a prison, such as being bound to a daily routine, in order to get the things that will  enslave us even more. Because when we obtain these things we need to keep them in perfect condition by maintaining them. This enslaving effort is so that we can make sure theses things are not stolen from us. We acquire houses, cars, jewelry, clothes, and more things that, instead of giving us freedom and happiness, they enslave us and robbing us of our inherent peace.

Coupled with these things comes competition, e.g., my things are of better quality than the things of other people. If I have more than the rest; if I have this then somehow I’m  a better person. We feel more important and we live by  the notion that “more is better.”

We can also say that we have nothing, so we are free. But maybe we have bad habits and routines yet without them we can’t function well on our daily life. Our daily cup(s) of coffee to wake up; our favorite foods; and the use of pharmaceuticals or drugs to soothe our endless human sufferings. We even hold the belief of maintaining a healthy diet to lengthen our life of enslavement.

Or, we maybe addicted to toxic relationships that oppress and bind us to a life of pain and anxiety.

We go from one relationship to another looking in others for what we can only find inside ourselves.

We may have mental chains; we may be imprisoned in an emotional prison of pain, resentment, hatred, fear, intolerance, or sexual obsessions.

So who can say that they are really free?

We drag our chains disguised as masks; we may feel we have a more beautiful mask than others; we may have stronger arguments than others; and we may say that our chains are lighter than others. Or, we find sacred arguments to show off our chains. But at the end of the day, what are they any way?

They are chains.

We have the silly illusion that those who are deprived of their freedom are only those who are behind bars… but where are our chains?

We can be outdoors receiving the sunlight, but in our mind and in our lifes there are walls and fences higher than those in a maximum security prison.

We have convicted ourselves, and the funny part is that when we serve our sentence, we impose yet another one.

It goes something like this: “When I pay for my car, when I pay for my house; when I finish school; when I get married; when I get divorced; when I win the lottery; when I retire; when the democrats rule the congress; when my family believes like I do when I get a job; when I quit smoking; and when I leave jail.” When, when, when, when.

An unconscious life is an imprisoned life: We are the worst judges we could find to hear our case and give our judgment and sentencing.

What binds you? What drowns you? What worries you? What hurts you? What is overwhelming? What is it that sometimes takes your breath away and makes you feel like something is  oppressing your chest, and leaving gasping for air?

God created us free. But, all by ourselves and with no help at all, we have gotten into our mind and cells using the so-called “Free Will.” We have chained ourselves; we have divided ourselves into categories of races, creeds, nationalities, social groups, and all sorts of other with endless labels, divisions, and barriers. It’s them versus us. 

We have set up ourselves with goals, thoughts, beliefs, and other such nonsense, which takes away our freedom.

Not even on the spiritual path do we allow freedom to guide us, because we allow the spiritual path form to impose upon us many rules, commandments, and precepts that, instead of giving us light, they obscure our true thoughts, and our minds became narrowed. Sometimes we have the absurd idea that our spiritual path is better than those of others. Maybe we think that our way is better than the rest. In some instances, we even believe that we are the “Chosen Ones” by a god who acts like a mortal human. We have tied ourselves even more, by becoming spiritual fanatics… thus, the walls rise higher and we become more absurd.

In order to experience true Freedom we have to abandon all preconceived notions and ideas related to EVERYTHING in our life because what we have chosen provide us with no Freedom or Peace!

Surrender to God –completely - for He is the only One who really knows what true Freedom is, He is intrinsically free. He is pure Love and He created us the same way.

Even though now, we may be behind bars, we can still experience freedom because freedom is an innate condition of our inner eternal Spirit. We will never find freedom on the physical plane, but we can experience it while in the physical reality.

So let’s release our chains; let’s open the doors of the mental prison we have placed ourselves in. Let’s FLY! LET’S BE REALLY FREE!

Let’s place our minds in the hands of the Holy Spirit, or whatever higher source we believe guide us. Let’s stop  limiting ourselves, and instead, let’s call our angels, our guides, our God, so they can clean us up. They will heal us. They will help us free ourselves. They will guide us as to how we can do a spiritual overhaul. Only then we will achieve true freedom, regardless of where we are physically or spiritually right now.

We can be called a slave and have a master, but we can also be truly free. Because in truth our mind and the spirit that we ignorantly use to chain ourselves with…  are intrinsically… always free.

With Love,

Patricia E. Garcia

We are free. The door is wide open, but we unknowingly locked the door and forgotten where we  placed the key.