Thank You Patrick for sharing such honesty & truth

Thank You Patrick for sharing such honesty & truth......for these ears on this day.

Words of Patrick Wise
"I've experienced a whole lot of judgment when I stand up and truly be me sometimes..... and also a lot of love from those that see they are that too. The more I accepted me, the more I was judged. This is why people have such a hard time just allowing themselves to be all that they are, both the light and the shadow because of how others will treat them. Especially spiritual people, because they really want to be spiritual and they really want to be only of the light, because that's what spiritual people are....right??? I am loving, hateful, judging, accepting, kind, rude, happy, sad, moral, perverted, up, down, spiritual, worldly, self-righteous, humble, successful, failing, truthful, lying, right, wrong, good, bad, quiet, loud, smart, stupid, beautiful, ugly, brave, cowardly, significant and a nobody, a doer and a be-er, hypocritical, virtuous, controlling, submissive, powerful, weak, comfortable, uncomfortable, rich, poor, fat, skinny, open, closed, inspiring, discouraging, peaceful, full of rage, Divine and Profane and everything in between. Sometimes all at once in some cases or moment's apart in others. It's called the Human experience. Ahhhhhhh...I am all of it and none of it. The biggest gift I have been given is to continuously face that shadow and said hey I have a shadow and wow it's ugly and I don't really like it so much but you know what it's there and it's ok. Then sometimes, courage comes in and I even share it with others. It's not always so popular with some because in the process you show other's their shadow and I'll be the first to admit it's not easy to accept. I'll be the first to admit, I do it too...all the time. It is much easier to point fingers at others and say they are so horrible, they are so this or they or so that....then it is to say wow I am that too. When we do this we end up judging others, reacting to others from our own insecurities, fears and hurts, mis-perceiving others, persecuting others and we continue the cycle of passing hurt and it continues and it continues. If we all just sat down when we got really triggered or scared and came into the present moment by focusing on the breath and said I am this too and I can't accept it, please help me there is nothing I can do about it.... We would see an entirely different world. It starts with me and it starts with you, it starts with WE. This is the true spiritual practice. We are shown day in and day out what we have not accepted inside of us by what in others makes us uncomfortable and lash out. It may hurt like hell, it may burn and it may be a whole lot of uncomfortable but it is the biggest gift you are given. It takes courage and lots of it! I don't care what "state" of consciousness you think that you are in....if you can't see yourself in the behavior you condemn in others then you are fooling yourself. It will happen over and over and over until you get the message. You are that too, I am that too. They aren't joking when they say there is only one of us. Do we want to invoke courage or do we want to continue to act like we are the good ones or the right ones and that other person separate from us over there is the problem? Let us stand up together and invoke our oneness and our courage and actually live our spirituality instead of saying one thing and doing another and making ourselves feel better by passing our hurt to others. This is true love and it is time! We are all in this soup together my friends, let's start acting like it ;) Please bless me for continued courage and I will do the same for you!!! WE ARE ALL ONE!