3 Levels of Self-Realization and Their Divine Action (Blog)

We begin to work for ourselves when we are awakened to, and then start to struggle -- consciously -- with our negative reactions, including all their finite forms created by identifying with the useless suffering they engender.

We begin to work with others, our “neighbors,” as we realize the following truth: they are not responsible for our negative reactions; rather, each troubling relationship is created to reflect and reveal the presence of a lower level of consciousness that would rather see others suffer... than have to suffer itself.

We begin to serve the world as we realize that who we are -- our true Self -- is our “neighbor,” and that living only in the service of our self-centered interests... serves no one, let alone ourselves. Only then do we discover that serving a greater Good is the same as serving what’s Good for one and for all.