Never go to Sleep

This morning Ed and Janice joined me earlier than usual. They caught me dripping with toothpaste (I still don’t know how people brush without a mess!) instead of my more polished, fresh hello. After chatting and giggling with them about the beautiful morning and my intentions for the day, the moment was sliced by a thought -- ”This is not normal.”

You see, Ed and Janice are pigeons.

But WHY is this seen as abnormal or crazy?

No one says anything to children when they speak to animals, see characters in the clouds or wave with excitement at the guy who just flipped their mom off while driving because they think it’s a Star Wars greeting. So why enters the thought that having pigeons as friends are something to keep quiet?

I assume the obvious answer to the above is that children are children --it’s expected, they’re oblivious to the “real” world, they’re young…leave them their innocence.

In my opinion, Children are the ones in touch with the real world and it is WE who have lost the plot. Children are wide awake. We are fast asleep.

Don Miguel Ruiz speaks about ancient Toltec wisdom in his book The Four Agreements.  He familiarizes us with the authentic self and speaks about the lie that we buy into as we grow and we stop creating our lives in step with ourselves. We focus constantly on what we should be doing and what needs to be improved and what we can know, etc, etc, etc. Sound familiar? Ofcourse it does, because you have to know everything! Otherwise you’re not important… Sound familiar?

Ruiz also speaks of how struggle and unhappiness in life is created in this lie and that it is in shedding this and beginning the journey of rediscovering our authentic self that we truly live as the perfect beings we already are. We experience how everything is connected and created by our thoughts and that our dreams in the night are the same as the day and that we have the power to create the day as our mind creates the night. When we are not switched on to that, is when we are in fact asleep.

It is very easy to sleep. Sleeping requires very little of ourselves. Never go to sleep.

Dream.

Imagine combining the child-like freedom to create and dream with the wisdom and intelligence of experience…now that’s exciting! I can’t wait to share with Ed and Janice tomorrow morning!

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