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Decentered human existence vs. embracing true Divine self

Definition of DECENTERED HUMAN EXISTENCE:  having lost the true center of human identity in loving union with God, attempting to determine for itself the nature of its own being.*

Each one of us is created to experience our truest Self and deepest purpose through an intimate and loving union with God at the core of your Being.  When we play god in our lives, this union is lost.  We become self-referenced beings who have abandoned the center of our true identity in God.  And we see ourselves as APART FROM God instead of A PART of God.

Many biblical stories share this theme of decentered human existence.  In fact, a main example of this happens in the first chapters of Genesis.

After Cain murders his brother Abel, he "went away from the presence of the Lord, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden".  Notice that God did not abandon Cain.  Cain turned his back on God and the result was extreme decentering in Cain's life.  He finds himself in a land of wandering (the Hebrew term Nod means "wandering").  He has no firm center of identity, no solid foundation of meaning, and no root of purpose.

When we identify our Self as separate and apart from God, we distance ourselves from others and the consequences of our destructive actions.  We can see in our world today the consequences of this kind of thinking.  The FALSE SELF is fearful, possessive, manipulative, destructive, indulgent, and self-promoting.  This is why abandoning the False Self in order to cultivate conscious awareness of our true nature is essential.  We must move beyond the wounds and agendas and entrust ourselves to God's flow.

By finding and maintaining our relationship with God, we know our relationship to all things and we wander no more.  We are practicing the presence of God. Our loving union with God is put first and foremost ("You shall love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength"). 

When we embrace our true Divine self, our souls know the healing, love, and light of the Divine.  We are beholding the Lord.





* = This is a term I became more acquainted with as I read M. Robert Mulholland Jr's book The Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self.
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