No Need To Look Outside The Cup
I went and saw the film Eat Pray Love on opening night. I read the book so expectations for the movie were low, books are always better and I didn’t see Julia pulling off the Liz Gilbert role. Well, she did pull it off and the main message I took from the book came out in the movie. In the protagonists search for peace and wisdom she discovered God was within, not something outside of herself but rather dwelling within.
We do this don’t we? We search to be filled up with love, wisdom, peace, anything. We look outside of ourselves to fill up that empty space. We shop, we eat, we sleep, we drink, we exercise, we try this self-help book, we see a counselor, we pray to something above us, beyond us – out there. All in aspiration to feed that hunger within.
Yes, I personally believe in a power bigger than us, in a God beyond us, but I also believe that God resides within us.
So if God resides within, so does the love, the wisdom, the peace we are in search of beyond us. The need to look so far and to turn away from ourselves is defeating the search. The answers are within. It is just up to us to clear away the gunk to hear the wisdom, to discover the peace and to find the love.
It starts with giving yourself time to sit with yourself instead of running. Not easy, definitely scary, but oh so possible.
Start slowly. Feed yourself something healthy, pray without words, just be. Then love yourself as you are instead of wanting to fix parts of you. That’s what God does. She loves you as you are not wanting you to find a cure, but instead to delve down into your soul and fill yourself up with love.