Hello and welcome to five minutes in nature with me Liz Scott out on a really cold day.
It's nighttime and the wind is blowing icy cold.
It's actually quite cloudy at the moment which usually means it's not as cold as it would be without the cloud but it's still got a real chill in the in the wind itself.
I'm actually in the village walking up my village road so you might hear the occasional car go by and I actually just want to reflect a bit more on this quote which comes back into my world often.
It's one of those beautiful quotes that resonates so deeply for me and it's by a chap called Jack Pransky and he came across the Inside Out Understanding.
He very much was involved in community work and was quite astounded when he realized the power of the Inside Out Understanding or the three principles in community work and if you're interested in the three principles then there's a course on Insight Timer called an introduction to the three principles that you might find interesting.
But the quote by Jack Pransky sums up what I feel is really important when it comes to living life and it's this.
He says all we are is peace love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that we're not.
All we are is peace love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that we're not.
And when he talks about all we are he's talking about the absolute wholeness of who we are and that goes way beyond me as an individual and you as an individual and us all as separate beings.
All we are,
All we are is the energy of life,
Is that creative energy of life itself.
It's the God energy,
Spiritual energy taking form as human beings and that energy is made of peace love and wisdom.
That's the essence of who we are,
All of us,
Before we then put on the mask or the costume of our individual identity or our ego.
And because we're human what happens is we also have the capacity to create who we're not and we have the power and the illusion to create who we're not through thought.
So all we are is peace love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that we're not.
So we create a really powerful illusion that we're not peace love and wisdom.
And I find it really helpful just to reflect slightly on what an illusion is or what is illusory.
You see a rainbow is an illusion,
There isn't actually a band of light that arcs in the sky.
A rainbow is the refraction of light and raindrops that creates this image that looks like a band in the sky,
A band of colours.
It really looks real but you can't get to a rainbow,
You can't touch it,
You can't feel it and that for me is a great illustration of what an illusion is.
It looks real and when it comes to the power of thought,
Thoughts can create scenarios that absolutely look and feel real but they're not real.
This whole life is illusory.
What we see with our eyes,
What we hear with our ears,
What we sense with our touch,
What we smell,
All of it is created through the power of thought.
It's filtered through our senses,
Our senses and perceptions and that creates the illusion of the world.
It creates the illusion of separation and both are good.
I'm not saying you've got to say it's an illusion and then go okay well let me just give up on life or if it's all an illusion there's no point for me to do anything.
On the contrary,
When you realize the illusory nature of life,
You really tune in and feel empowered and touched by the realization that you,
Me,
We are made of peace,
Love and wisdom.
So the quote today I just love you to reflect on is,
All you are is peace,
Love and wisdom and the power to create the illusion that you're not.
How would it be in your world if you deeply,
Deeply saw that to be so?
