Your Own Guidance

We're all products of someone’s guidance so no belief, idea, concept, or view can truly be called your own. These are all derived from some outer guidance so someone else's life is mostly lived…

The view that’s developed over the course of time makes life what it is, but this isn't to say one view is right and another is wrong or that one is better than the other. I'm just stating a fact that we’re mostly a product of someone’s guidance and what view we have in place is only there because of that guidance in our life. Not one single moment that's in the past can be changed so there's no reason to ever give that view a second thought. Giving it a second thought is just a waste of our limited precious time, and unfortunately that's the base of the guidance most people have. The past will always be the past and nothing will ever change it, but we don't have to be guided by it.

There comes a time in every life when you know the only place to find what you've been looking for is within yourself. When there’s awareness of this, what's usually revealed is what's been sought has always been there. This is the inner view that needs to be cultivated if you’re to ever be free of the guidance that was put in place by others. There’s so much that molds and shapes our entire existence and until there’s awareness of this, the view in place will be someone else's. Truly look at this, mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, teachers, friends, tv, radio, and so on, everyone of them had some guidance on our current view; no belief, idea, concept and view can truly be called your own.

The importance of awareness is it allows the breaking free of this conditioned guidance. How you do this is by sitting and allowing a settled mind to become your guidance. This won't happen overnight, but with perseverance the guidance of others will slowly lose its grip and the guidance of the heart (love) will become your new direction. This just so happens to be who you truly are without the guidance of anyone else, and this is the view where you can begin to truly live your own life…