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We Are All Messengers

With my past few posts, I feel that I was not sharing enough of my true self with you guys, my readers. I was failing to share my own “take” on the topic, my own experience and what I have learned from it. I had rendered my posts distant and wrote them as if I was an all-knowing source of information, providing concrete ways to achieve desired results. This, however, is obviously not the case. Life is a process of creation and self-discovery. Things are constantly changing, we are always growing and learning. I too am going through this process with you. As I continue to grow and change, it is my aim to share my own experiences, ideas, beliefs, and discoveries of what has worked for me, with you. I would like to do this because I believe that I, and you, are messengers in this world. We are sent to carry a message about our true identity to the world and to share it. We share this in whatever way we choose, each and every day, and most effectively through the choices we make about who we choose to be. For these reasons, I have created this blog to be a messenger, sharing the message that we have heard from many people, from many different sources, in many different ways.

With this in mind, I have decided not to delete my old posts. Instead, I will leave them. As I grow and continue to develop as a person, so too will this blog. I will be able to look back upon my old beliefs, thoughts and ideas. I will be able to observe the changes that occur to them as I continue to develop. As time passes, I expect my writing to change, the topics I cover to change, my beliefs to change and my understanding of who I am to change. Many other unforeseeable changes are also certain.

Although the future is uncertain, I have made the decision now to share as much of my own experience as I can through my posts. I want to help others grow and learn while being able to relate to my own experience. I do not want to write a step-by-step article, guide, or how-to that has no personal meaning. No-one is perfect, we are all continually developing, each and every day. With this, I remind you to be transparent with the people in your own life. Be honest and show them your true feelings. Do not feel insecure, showing your true self will not render you powerless. Embrace honesty and it will make things flow more smoothly. Others will understand where you are coming from.

For these reasons, I would like to share with you who I am, and some of my own growth so far.

Me

Although my Being is eternal, my body is young. Really, I am only 18 years old. At the time of writing this post, I just graduated high school only a few weeks ago. The great thing is that age is not a determining factor of what I have to share, as we are all growing each and every moment. I too face many of the same conditions in life as you. I ask many of the same questions, share many of the same experiences and feel many of the same emotions. The way we choose to define ourselves in each and every circumstance is a continuing process that never stops.

As for my past, I grew up in a household with strong Catholic influence. My sister and I were brought to Mass most Sundays by our parents. I was always a self-reflective, shy and quiet individual. Sitting there in church, I eventually became very focused on developing an understanding of God, of life and of the way things work in the world. I continued my Catholic education by attending CCD in grades 1-10, learning more and more about the Catholic faith. Following my Confirmation, I decided to become a Lector at my church and to read from the Gospel once a month at Mass. Over the years, I always was open to new ideas about the biggest questions of life and I began to form my own thoughts on the nature of things.

I have had problems with anxiety at times in my life and present moment awareness has helped me to overcome it. I have had panic attacks and worried immensely over things I couldn’t control. Also, I have cared far too much about what people think of me, my reputation and other egotistic attachments, seeking security in the exterior world.

I am now more in touch with my own self and am able to access my inner abundance. I now care less about many of the superficial things I once cared about. It has allowed me to access a freedom I always possessed but previously chose to ignore. I have a deeper faith in life itself, knowing everything is perfect just the way it is.

Vunty

I first founded Vunty with a programmer located in India who I found via Yahoo! Answers. After almost a full year online after launch, we had slow growth in new members, slow website development and a blog with little content. Since the founding of Vunty, the co-founder and I became friends, sharing our own experiences as we worked on the site. After struggling with the site development, which was being built around the BlogEngine.NET blogging application, I felt that we were trying to “re-invent the wheel” so to speak and our site wasn’t even fully functional. It was hard to promote a social networking site for bloggers when it wasn’t built around a blog itself and the network was nothing extraordinary. I emailed Sethu and we agreed to change the aim of the site. I was always interested in Personal Development and Entrepreneurship so I knew I could write in that niche. I was also excited to be able to share my spiritual growth through the blog. I began researching blogs and noticed that WordPress based blogs were far more visually attractive and appeared more user-friendly. (Read more on WordPress vs. BlogEngine.NET) I installed WordPress on my website host in late May of 2010 and began researching how to blog effectively. Since then, I have been able to make some money on the side by using my blog to launch my online services to my clients. I have done work as a social media promoter and hope to make an additional stream of income from Vunty as well. So far, I have set aside my profits to spend on my college expenses. I continue to enjoy the new Vunty I have created. I seek to improve it as I improve myself each and every moment.

Reconciling My Beliefs With My Actions

It is true that I struggle with the idea of making money from this blog. It is something that I would like to do, however at times I feel that I am being selfish about it, who am I to deserve great wealth? It’s not like I am not already living a comfortable life. I have reconciled my conflict by seeing the value of my blog, the sharing and the help that goes on here, the effort I’ve put into it and the fact that there is plenty of wealth for the world to share. I comfort myself with the idea of not becoming too attached to the money. I have decided that it is “ok” to make money from Vunty but I continue to monitor my true desire for writing each and every post.

I often struggle with displaying my highest spiritual beliefs about who I am in a practical daily manner. I know that this is accomplished solely through what I choose to Be. It is in the choosing that I can demonstrate the highest truth about who I am.

I believe we are all messengers, sent to literally BE God’s message in action, as we recreate ourselves in each and every moment. I believe we are all one and that there is no real division amongst us, only perceived differences. A belief that we are different from one another creates divisions which do not reflect our truth.

I believe we are here to experience ourselves in the realm of the relative and to remember all that is true about the nature of our Being. I believe that our beliefs should not divide us but that we should be united in our differences, realizing that we are all one.

I am at times dishonest, however I believe honesty is the higher choice to display my truest self. I display hatred at times, even though I believe love is what we truly are. At times, I do not display my highest belief of who I am to the world, but I know that it is all right because life is a process of change, and I am continually growing on my path to Mastery.

I am that I AM and always will be.

Messengers

I have had some of my most eye opening experiences through reading the Conversations with God Books
(affiliate links) by Neale Donald Walsch and the books The Power of Now and A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. First off, Neale’s books have helped me to see the wonder and the joy in all of life and the truth in those books resonates deeply with my soul. They are some of the most hope filled writings on the human experience I have ever read. The books have helped me to realize many truths about life and how truly great it is. We are all one, everything is perfect just the way it is, we are life, we are eternal and we are change (just to name a few).

Eckhart’s books have shown me that living in the moment is a liberating and truly amazing practice that helps you to live a life without many of the “problems” created when living within the mind.

I am truly grateful for finding these books and the way they have influenced me.

My parents and my sister have been some of the most influential messengers in my life. My family displays an unconditional love for me that I truly am thankful for. On a day-to-day basis my parents are there for me and they added “fuel to my fire” when I was curious about the nature of things in the world. Sometimes even their honest display of lacking an answer was just what I needed to continue to search for my own. I know my sister and my parents want the best for me. In fact, my entire family wants the best for me.

I would like to thank everyone who as been in my life for what they have helped me to remember.

I am on a mission to give others back to themselves through the way I choose to be.

I have adopted the same mission for this blog: to give others back to themselves through remembrance.

I hope the posts in this blog can be passed on from its readers to many others throughout the world.

I know that my life is a reflection of my truth.

-Sean

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