“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~Rumi

Blessed are those who truly embrace these words. One of the greatest treasures I’ve found on the spiritual path, is this wisdom, that there is absolutely nothing and no one outside of myself that creates my reality.

This is often one of the most difficult spiritual concepts for people to grasp and accept. It was Aaron Abke’s 4DU course, Master Your Mind, that taught me, fear is the ego’s most prized tool. It uses our innate capacity to project, in order to cast blame onto others or situations outside of ourselves. Just like the man pulling levers behind the curtain, the ego does this to remain undetected and in control of what you think and feel, and thus, how you react. When I earnestly looked within, I found this to be true.

The ego has its place. It works well when dinosaurs chase us, but it was never intended to become the projector of our realities. I am the projector, not my ego, but like most, I failed to realize this was going on, right under my nose. This is why in spiritual studies, there’s so much emphasis around taming the ego. It’s a process of remembering that we are the projectors of our realities, not it.

Everything was birthed out of the core frequency of creation. We refer to it as love. Love, too, can be projected! In my own process around all this, I’ve increasingly aligned with love. I remember more and more often to remain aligned with love, and thus, my world – the reality I project – becomes one of love. It’s really that simple. As I remember that I am the projector, what I choose to project, becomes the world I live in.