Becoming/Attaining

Becoming…. Good? Becoming = Attaining. Attaining = “Getting Stuff” - Better
home, more money, better job, more powerful, more better more better…..
If we Attain wealth – become wealthy; Attain power and become powerful;
Attain knowledge and become knowledgeable. What we attain, we become, and
what is attained becomes an extension of the Ego, whether that is strength,
knowledge, or affluent, because the Ego incorporates that fact.
So “Attaining is the Self’s process of “Becoming”. Becoming is intricately
woven into the nature of time and the mechanics of Thought. BOTH which
support the fabric of Fear, which in turn is the barrier to self-awareness.
The driving Force behind Becoming is our feelings of insufficiency. We feel
that we are insufficient to the task of living.
Look deeply and honestly within yourselves and see your inner truth. As a
species, humans are empty, fearful, lonely, and isolated. Mankind has
isolated itself from the world, constructing barriers to isolate ourselves
even further. We hide away in our artificially climate-controlled
environments. Separated from nature and each other. We imitate those whom we
believe know more than ourselves, and we shun those whom we judge to have no
value to our own ambitions and pleasures.
We fear Death, and we fear Life. We tie together, pleasure, security, and
need, calling this package “Love.” We are self-centered and concerned with
our own welfare, even to the detriment of nearly everyone else. The world we
have created is based upon possessiveness and ambition. And if we are TRULLY
honest with ourselves, we can see that we are really empty shells, playing a
role in this reality of our creation. That is not living, it is existing.
So, in our loneliness, we reach out and through attainments, we seek to fill
our emptiness with possessions, power, knowledge, talents, prestige, or the
love of others. But this is a vain process because that emptiness is the
ABSENCE of Love. True Love, which is the love that blooms within us when we
are able to realize the true reality of ourselves; The reality of the Divine
within, and make that connection to that spark of the God-dess within all of
us. The Void within is the absence of this connection to Spirit, and no
amount of power, or wealth, or prestige, or “STUFF” can fill that void.
In most of us, that void is the driving force of Attainment; the root of our
never-ending desire to become what we are not. So the process of endless
becoming is endless attaining, and that is the obstacle in the path of
self-understanding.
That void within can only be filled with LOVE, Perfect love, Divine Love.
And it begins with first understanding and loving the SELF, which we ARE.
Through that acceptance, we can connect with our Divine Self and then
recognize Divinity in others. Other creatures, beings, plants, the cosmos,
and through that understanding, we can make the connections to ALL that IS
because we are a part of and connected to all that is. We are God. We are
Goddess. We are Divine. We ARE…

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when
there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exup’ery