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_I: "To love the world for what it is, and not for what I hope it to be." I understand that hoping for something to be implies expectation, precisely what always makes us live in a world of utopias and not manifest it here and now. But if I love the world just as it is, what is the point of its transformation?
_AM: Does loving a baby prevent you from making plans for its future? Does wanting to see the spring flowers make you hate the plants in other seasons? Does accepting a partner as they are today not allow you to make plans to live together, travel together, start a family?
_I: I see your point... The issue is believing that working for a better future implies not accepting the chaotic world as it is now. When in reality, it's the opposite; accepting the world as it is, without denying it, is what sparks the love to help it transform.
_AM: When you hold a baby's hand to take its first steps, you don't highlight its inability to walk, but its willingness to move forward. When a baby cries, you don't complain wishing it to always be happy, but you prepare to help because crying is the only way it knows to communicate. Accepting the world as it is, with its cries, pains, limitations, is like accepting that growing baby, learning from the world and itself, and you are there, knowing what it's capable of, guiding it to discover, without denying what it is.
_I: Oh... I understand now... It's just that, as humans, we often complain about things we don't like, seeking to improve them, leaving behind the bad, without understanding that what we are today is part of the process to become what we will be tomorrow...
_AM: To cross a threshold towards tomorrow, it's necessary to recognize the yesterday from which you come. To go towards the light, you need to acknowledge your shadows. The Self is in the midst of it all, in the midst of all the processes; the Self is the eternal articulation between each step, each system, each process you live through. Therefore, I'm not asking you to love war or hunger, betrayal, corruption, despair, ignorance, but to love the Self experiencing them.
_I: Each person I meet is living a unique moment of this Self, evolving step by step. Each individual, creature, living being, and even the inorganic, goes through diverse processes. All so different that we see it as chaotic, and so diverse that they even seem opposite. Thus, we consider conflict, not wanting to confront what we are today, wishing to find a better version of what we will be...
_AM: And by doing this, all you achieve is belittling the steps that lead to a destination of clarity and success. That better version could never be a version without having first gone through the constant practice of diversity. As you know, the verb 'to be' is one of the most complex, especially in Spanish, but also in most languages. In Latin languages, the origin of the verb comes from the Indo-European "ess", which describes the idea of being. Another Indo-European word gave rise to the verb 'to be' in Saxon, Slavic, and Nordic languages, which is "bheue" (to exist), in other words, to be outside. This verb describes all the positions of an individual in time and space, not describing the process or instance they live, but reminding that it's just a step through the constant of time-space. Therefore, 'being' can only refer to the "Here and Now", where 'here' is any place and 'now' any moment.
_I: Saying "I Am Here and Now" then doesn't speak of the present, but of the full acceptance of the stage where I find myself, an eternal stage in constant transformation.
_AM: And because this is a constant of the verb 'to be', you'll understand that everything that exists, that is in a place or moment, are just aspects of the same concept. For example: if you place your entire family, friends, partners, pets, with their different ages and forms in a large space, you'll see that each one occupies a place in the constant of space and an instant in the constant of time, in other words, each one is an aspect of the verb 'to be'.
_I: Indicating that beyond the differences, we are all one...
_AM: Exactly. Each individual, each "being", is an aspect of the eternal constant of existence. A single being expressing itself diversely in thousands of versions of the universe.
_I: Reflecting upon itself, like a mirror...
_AM: As you know, 'to reflect' means to turn upon oneself, to fold, to create a fold in the constant, a fold of self-reference, self-observation. The universe is the unity to which all versions return, in other words, everything expanded returns to the Source. And each version fractured itself, multiplying into various paths (at least two), being called "diverse". The diversity of Being, then, is the number of times a single individual can fracture into different times and spaces.
_I: So, every person and entity I encounter is a version of myself...
_AM: And that's where you see that the conditions that control each one's idiosyncrasy are nothing more than choices of processes, experiences, that shape the great being that you are.
_I: And there I discover unconditionality... Because I see myself beyond the conditions of the ego, of personality, understanding myself as just a version of myself...
_AM: You discover that being everything, you must accept everything. Here, two things happen: from unconsciousness, you feel trapped in a grand existence from which you cannot escape, being an inevitable part of others. And from consciousness, you find the freedom to know that you are everything, and everything that happens to you is because of yourself. Without guilt, without enemies, without unique loves, you recognize that everything goes beyond appearances, because everything that exists is, and everything that is, is eternal, and therefore, you are, so you are eternal.
_I: That's why I can love everyone equally... That's why in this emotional consciousness, I can be others, feel others, as part of me, as the unity that I am, and no longer as "others", but as myself. It's when I feel a complete love, a love that doesn't arise from serving others, but from the connection with others, from the essence.
_AM: Essence... The capacity or attribute of Being. The essence of things is what describes the main attribute of existence, recognizing that all organic and inorganic forms are essentially part of the universal being...
_I: And what unites us is the void, that is, the possibility of being...
_AM: "To Be or Not To Be... That is the question" (Shakespeare). Being is a choice, the choice that conditions your existence. In Not Being, in the void, you are nothing, but you are the potential, the dream of what you will become. "Quaerere" (to seek, search) is the origin of the word Question. The action of seeking to be, is what activates the will to make the unmanifested manifest. It's the will to seek, to question, to move from where you are walking towards another state of consciousness, towards another reality. And the more I find, the more I become, building thousands of beings, thousands of moments, capacities, and attributes of being. All for the search, for the question of to be or not to be. You decide what you are, what you decide to be, and what you decide not to be, what you want to become. The choice is free, but once made, you must live it. Thus, this existence you experience is not your freedom to be, but the result of your choice, and the people with whom you live what you are, are your reflections of what you seek to incorporate and transcend.
_I: So, I don't possess freedom to be in matter...
_AM: You don't have freedom from personality. When you cling to what you believe you are, when you say "this is me, but this is not me", you are limiting, conditioning, your own expansive essence, and this leads you to be a prisoner of your own choices. A free being is everything, without any limitation, because it understands that each being, each experience, is nothing more than an inflection on the path of existence. Being is the first verb of the cosmos, the most used, the most varied, I Am is the first verse versed in the diversity of the universe. The poetry of existence.
_I: "I Am You, and You Are Me"... "Who Am I? I Am" I recognize that we are all one, that the path of Being doesn't exist in separation... We are all one, and that's the only reason.
_AM: From Nothing radiates a song, resonates in Everything like the beating of a heart, inviting its parts to extend to the heavens, singing the song of convergence. In the question, it found an answer; in the origin, it found the end; in existence, nothing lives; in the void, universal reality. I Am, said the Whole, and in its path, its voice resounded, traversing space and time, enamoring every being with its radiance. How beautiful it is to meet through this song! That vibrates high, recognizing every heart. The ego found silence, the Mind awakened its feeling, the Body became an idea, and the Soul elixir. I see my eyes in the sparkle of their eyes, in the mirrors I must expand. And in love, I remind them, to the sound of my reflection. Thus, I sing the verses that I will connect, singing of infinite beating, that in everyone will vibrate: in the eternal path I am, and in my steps sounds I Am, I Am, I Am."