Focusing on the Journey, not the Path

Focusing on the journey, not the path

Written by Mathew Naismith

Yes, every bodies #path is different, but the #journey is the same be it human (material) or spiritual (immaterial).

What this means is that we experience the exact same journey while on a different path of that journey, in turn experiencing a different reality of that journey. For myself, I don't experience my journey as in negatives and positives, however many people do which changes the way they experience the journeys reality from people like myself. Each path, even though of the same exact journey, is of a different reality of the journey. No path is truly negative or positive, simply a path that one can traverse or not. Of course anyone of the paths of perceived negatives and positive, will see paths of the journey as being either negative or positive, bad or good, wrong or right, etc. Of course for the #ego to judge in this way is in line with our own path traversed, for example, my path is positive therefore other people's paths different from mine are negative!!

While experiencing the exact same journey, paths traversed within this journey can be of a controlling ego or simply ego or a balance of ego and egolessness. No path traversed within the journey is totally egoless, for to be on a path within the journey is of the ego.

Now, imagine just simply being of the journey in the absence of a path being traversed. Negative and positive, bad and good, wrong and right, black and white simply don't exist, only by experiencing a path of the ego can they exist. The only reason I am aware of a journey in the absence of a path traversed, is by remembering certain parts of past lives. Compared to other lives experienced by my soul, what my present life has experienced beyond these paths is minimal. Most of what I am aware of today comes from past lives, of course by remembering these past lives experiences, makes these past experiences of the present. It is though I have lived one life segmented into various variables. It is easier to comprehend this if you look at all your lives experienced like a play divided by separate acts of the one play.

When you focus on the journey instead of the path, there is no separation of #energy; all of what is becomes one be it of negative or positive, bad or good, wrong or right, etc. All of the ego perceived negatives and positives, bad and good, wrong and rights, black and white, etc, simply become one source of energy within the journey in the absence of paths. Only within paths of the journey can these ego perceptions exist.

So what is this journey?

Some say it just is. The reason for this lies in that once you take away the perceptions of the ego, everything simply becomes just is. This state is also known as a state of pure awareness, where the separation of energy by the ego is impossible. It is the separation of energy that keeps us in an unaware state. The journey, in the absence of paths experienced, is also known as a state of #God where it seems even the negatives, bad, wrongs, etc, are loved no matter what. In this case the journey itself is God and the paths are ego (man). However, as there are no ego perceived negatives and positives, etc, in this state of God, there is no hate or love either!!

Acceptance or the being of one energy, not separate energies, can seem like love to the ego. This makes sense in a seemingly endless reality of hate; of course the ego will perceive anything of the absence of hate being of love, be it that the ego needs to perceive it to be of one or the other!! To the ego, especially when in control, the absence of hate is of course love. If you have even remotely focused on the journey in the absence of paths experienced, the absence of hate isn't love, it is simply undivided energy or consciousness or simply a God state in the absence of ego.

It is important to remember that at no time, while experiencing a path, can we be only of the journey, of God, of pure awareness or a state of just is. It is also wise to be aware that only the ego in control desires or even has a need to be only of the journey......