Episode 266: Candle Of Life
As you know, brothers, I love a good story. Stories are the way in which we process the world around us, and I hope that today’s story is jarring for you. Not jarring as in uncomfortable or unpleasant, but jarring you into awakening; jolting you into action. Because when we are stagnant, we are stuck. And when we are stuck, we cannot live in abundance. Today, I want to show you what life is through the analogy of the candle: the candle of life. You see, there are three spheres or three planes of existence: the egoic (physical) plane, the soul plane, and the plane of full awareness; of oneness. Now, the candle itself, that’s the physical, that’s the ego, that the thing that wants to be in control. The wick? Well, that’s the soul; that’s your life’s fuel and purpose and strength. The flame is that third plane, the plane of full understanding, oneness, and surrender. Here’s the problem, brothers. We are so caught up with being the candle and trying to be the best candle, the thinnest candle, the happiest candle, or the most spiritual candle, that we forget that none of that really matters. That is all background noise. The only thing that matters is the eternal flame burning bright. That is life. Everything is the flame. You are the flame. I am the flame. The birds, bees, trees, and mountains are all the flame. This is what it means to understand the universal truth that we are everything and everything is us. When the candle (your body) comes to an end, there’s nothing to fear because the flame burns on and is eternal. We suffer when become attached to the form, when we are stagnant in our understanding of oneness. The call today, brothers, is to unburden yourself from the constraints of the candle. You are so much more than wax! You are the wick that sustains. You are the fire that gives life. We are all one fire and that fire cannot die, so there is no need to fear what happens beyond the body of wax because, just like the flame, you will live on.