Life is Just a Stage

Imagine that your life is just like a movie, and you are an actor playing a role. Will you still care so much about your life? How would your perspective change?  Whatever your roles are in this plot, you know that in the end it is not real.  Even if you play a bad guy in the movie, you won't feel guilt but instead you will be proud of your performance. As you know, good actors win movie awards, it is not important whether they play the villain or the hero.

The psychologist E. Graham Howe once said that every completed life needs to be applauded, no matter what. This is certainly true. Think of our egos as the roles we play. You never know why people do the things they do, everyone is a product of their environments. Will an actor have an opinion about the character he is playing in the script? Certainly not. He just knows that he brings a script to life, but deep down inside he knows who he truly is.

Just imagine the incredible peace you are feeling when one day this personality blanket will be lifted from you. If you want to interact in this world you have to have a persona that binds you, otherwise you would be just drifting off in a different world. Jed McKenna once described an awakening process when he felt he was disassociated with his persona but then he realized that in order to come back he needed one, so he merged with his own because, as he said, he kind of liked it. So it is not that you are any different from others when you discover that you are just an actor, you are still very much in it, but this realization that life is just a stage gives a peace of mind that you always can change movie plots at your disposal. It also gives a curiosity to see the next chapter unfolding and an intensity to live your life in a way that you will be recognized in the next Music Academy Awards.

Our life is just like these movie scripts.  We are asked to play accordingly.  We are assigned roles but they are just there to discover who we truly are. When you reach this realization you are naturally willing to let go of your agenda and merge with the Flow. Your mission in life is to bring your Self to the fore and your life script was written just to make that happen.  You are perfect, complete, and shining eternally!  Discover the real You as you stand in the spotlight under the rolling camera. Believe us, the One who wrote your script is the best director in the industry.

By Su Zhen and Christian