We all have this amazing ability, but yet we look past it, not seeing it for what it is: the treasure that it is. We are more focused on 'result' or 'the prize' or 'the culmination'. We are so involved in our endless internal struggle that we don't see the struggle for what it is; what it is actually made of. We look 'beyond' it and thereby miss the diamonds in our pockets. We have what we are looking for, but we don't realize it. We are the beauty and the scintillating bliss that we seek. It is our birthright. We have had it from the very beginning. We have been told that we are poor and tawdry and we believed it and because we believed it that was our experience or in the very least that was our 'demon' in our head that we have been in constant struggle with to a greater or lesser extent. It was all a lie to keep us away from our divinity.
Awareness, conscious awareness, is our key out. This awareness doesn't try to 'change' anything. That is the trick. We have been told that we need to change everything about ourselves, about our lives, about our reality; that we are flawed and have to 'fix' it. It's just simply not true. It is the constant search for answers outside of ourselves that misleads us. The truth is that we already have the answers that we seek, but it is closer than our breath, which is why we miss it. Can you be aware of all of the movement within yourself from moment to moment without trying to act 'on' it? Can you be aware of all the reactions and all the images that thought is constructing within you all the time without trying to 'stop' them or 'contradict' them or 'school' them? Can you just be aware of them with no block? You cannot do this if you do not have the freedom to look. You cannot look at all of your biases if you are calling them out as 'wrong'. Can you just look...at your prejudices, at your judgments as they arise as well as the reactions to them without schooling yourself as the task master. Can you watch thought in action as it twists and turns and contorts itself with all of these masks that it wears without calling any of it 'wrong' or 'bad' or 'judgmental' or 'superior' or any of the labels that it wants to place on things? This is the conundrum that we are in.
We are constantly concerned with 'controlling' thought or 'stopping' thought or 'blocking' thought or 'censoring' thought or 'quieting' thought, when we are looking at it in the wrong way; the wrong direction. We are wasting energy when we are doing this because we are fighting within ourselves and where there is conflict there is a wastage, a dissipation of energy and that energy is needed for Insight. We cannot see when we are fighting ourselves. Stop fighting and observe without choice. Observe it all. You are the Awareness, the Joy and the Peace. Be quiet. Be still. Through this action comes the answers you seek. You will look down and see the Diamonds in Your Hands.