As It Is

To free ourselves from our habits of mind, to live beyond the barriers of our personality, we must begin to accept life precisely as it is; to accept every experience in the moment, as reality

 When we begin to accept reality, we allow the meaning of each event to shine through. We illuminate and enlighten our every interaction and embrace life’s offerings without reaction

 Reality is that which actually exists, not what we want it or need it to be. When we are willing to see and accept what is true, we step into the light and begin anew

 This is the blessing that reality does offer, an opportunity to heal and to grow; for every experience is created perfectly for us; to bring to light our unconscious shadow

 Our shadow is one of our greatest teachers, the parts of self that have yet to be known. Our shadow is cast by what we do not yet see and reality is the bestow-er that holds the key 

 The master key to freedom; to live beyond who we learned to be. The freedom to live present and aware; no longer an absentee

 Enlightenment is an undoing, a letting go of forgetting who we are.; to remember once again, that we are the only ones, that can dim the light that shines from within

 Shine your light, no matter what, no matter what another may say. You are the One you came here to discover and reality will show you the way

Laurie Helgeson