SACRIFICE

We don't have to sacrifice anything to be in a state of godness;
Godness is how we arrived here.

Don't confuse "godness" with "holiness" --
"Godness" is the state in which we declare "I am...."
And become everything we add after that
So that we can experience it.
We all do it,
Mostly without being aware of it,
Every moment of every day.

"Holiness", by contrast, is an ego trip;
A heightened state of delusion
That results when we take detachment and "rightness" to an absurd extreme
And manage to elude being discovered
To be barking mad.
"Holiness" is also an appellation given to another
In fake humility
By people who won't own their own supreme godness.

Our first mistake as babies
Was to think we had to give up something in order to be happy.
And some of us are still doing it decades later!
But maybe that's because we've never seriously challenged that assumption
That Happiness is something that needs to be somehow acquired or obtained:
It never was,
And still isn't.
There are just some things that we came as,
That we've forgotten we still are at some level of our being,
And always have been.
"Happy" is one of those indelible states of being
We may turn our back on, and lose track of,
But will never be further away from us
Than an "A-Hah!"  of re-cognition.

Here's a dangerous idea --
Sacrifice is not necessary to Godness.
Watch whatever now rushes to address the danger of that idea,
Rather than address the question --
"What if this were true?"
What if Sacrifice was a con-job perpetrated on us
By "holy" creeps who wanted us to stay "less-than"?

I look back on my life and realise
I have (so far) never met anybody who claimed to be sacrificing something
Who also seemed to be ecstatically happy about it;
Quite the contrary......
"Stoic" would be the highest and lightest they've managed to rise..
And those who do appear to me to be happily being-without something
For the good of something- or someone-else,
All swear they're not sacrificing anything.
"Sacrifice" is neither in their vocabulary or their attitude..
I believe them.
I've come to a conclusion
That Happiness and Sacrifice never go together,
And that whether or not we're sacrificing
Must depend on our point of view.
Victims sacrifice out of a scarcity consciousness;
Non-victims share out of abundance.

Sacrifice is a refuge of the "holy";
Godness is the birthright of the Responsible.

Come to think of it --
Whenever I have considered myself to be "sacrificing",
Under a thin veneer of nobility, I've always secretly resented
Both the need to sacrifice
And the ungrateful buggers I've sacrificed myself for.

We're at a crossroads:
Holiness or Godness?

We don't have to give up anything to be happy.

And we have to allow ourselves to embrace everything
To be God.