We Are the Actors

Imagine this: Planet Earth is a canvas. Here, where the mystery of life is created, we are each actors. Even before we were born, our stage was ready, awaiting our arrival.

Don Miguel Ruiz explains it this way: “We are what we are. When we learn to speak, we become aware of the acting, and we grow up surrounded by people who criticize everything we do. Then we have peer opinions — everyone who lives around us — and we judge everything. We especially judge ourselves.”

He adds that while we must adapt to these changes, we also must understand that we are not alone in the acting. “We have a whole company of actors,” he says. At home, at work, at play, we are all acting — and facing our critics.

“Once we understand this,” he adds, “it is easy to adapt to any change on the stage. We don’t have to lose our happiness or love or joy. We just keep going and going. Until the moment when we stop acting, when we leave our physical bodies.”

His solution? “Ultimately, it’s all love — the way we love and learning how to love. … With awareness, that love will little by little turn into unconditional love.”

Learn more about Ruiz’s beliefs in the April 2021 issue of Science of Mind magazine. His latest book, The Actor, is available on his website, https://www.miguelruiz.com.

Living In the Unknown

If the past year taught us anything, perhaps it taught us what it means to live in the unknown. We were set adrift without a map, being asked to navigate a new landscape as we went along.

Renee Peterson Trudeau, on the website https://kripalu.org, examines the gifts of living with the unknown. Some of the opportunities the unknown can provide, she writes, include the opportunity to:

1. Examine what matters most to you.
2. Practice gratitude.
3. Live in the present moment, practicing mindfulness as you find your stress-free zone.
4. Build a support network.
5. Focus on breath work, yoga and conscious movement as essential tools to navigate uncertain times.

And imagine the possibilities that lie ahead.

Follow Your Inner Guide

By Ernest Holmes

We need an inner guide. The miracle of it all is that we already have this guide. … We should take time, through meditation, to affirm the presence of the Divine Man, the whole man. This is something no one can do for us but ourselves. But the one who will take the time, in sincerity and simplicity, to affirm the presence of Divine Intelligence guiding them will soon discover that those moments spent in meditative prayer are always followed by a better in circumstances. …

Yes, there is a Divine Presence at the center of your being. There is a Spirit in man and to each one of us it comes fresh and new and wonderful every day, and more wonderful as the days pass, that thing thing you really are and I really am, because God has willed it this way, that thing which is the gift of heaven and the decree of God.

Nothing is more important than that we should know ourselves.

— Excerpted from the April 2021 issue of Science of Mind magazine.