Everything and Everyone Is
God in Disguise #godindisguise
“Fall on your knees. Oh hear the angel voices. Oh Night
Divine!” Have you ever wondered why the song “#Oh Holy Night,” proclaims: OH
NIGHT DIVINE? In a dangerous place where soldiers sought to kill the Christ
child, Mary and Joseph found room in the inn, in the night, where the stars
seemed to shine so brightly that they led the wise men to the stable.
Night or darkness metaphorically has always been an omen of
death and danger. The Dark Night of the Soul is a time in
someone’s life when he or she reaches bottom. Yet, it was in the dead of the
night the Savior shined light onto the world, in a stable where no soldier assumed
he would be born. The night and no room in the inn brought a palate of safety
and obscurity, from which the painter found the perfect place for the anointing
to brought to life.
As I look back into my own life for answers, I know that the
darkest nights of my soul have always led me to my greatest epiphanies. In the #Tao
Te Ching #Lao Tsu writes three beautiful paradoxes:
“The wise man is one who knows what he does not know.”
“If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it
and you will lose it” and
“The further one goes, the less one knows.”
From this same scripture we learn that the Creator gave
birth to all light and life in the holy darkness.
The night holds mysteries unseen. Only those who sleep
through the challenge of the day, walk in the night. I remember a time in life
when I would take a 2-hour nap in the middle of Saturday afternoon, so that I
would have the energy to stay up until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. I don’t know if you had every done that, but certainly
the challenge of the night took much energy. The busy sounds of the thumping
disco beat, the bright indoor lights, the menagerie of bodies swarming close
took energy I could only face with some extra sleep. In the night was always
the place where alcohol, drugs, and sex seemed lead people from the
consciousness of day into places they wouldn’t normally tread.
A few times, I woke up the next morning, hung over and
sleeping next to someone I didn’t know. This is a scary thought now. But then,
the intrigue of doing something that wasn’t allowed beckoned louder than my own
common sense. I have had many friends have sex without a condom during times of
blackout, get HIV or a sex-related illness. Some of them are already dead.
Facing the night, not only takes courage, but it takes a clear knowledge of why
you look for our treasure in the darkness.
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month, as not every person on my list reads the blog every day. If you have already
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Year to CLEAR Challenge:
(Please Know: You Can Join Us At Any Point in the Year
Challenge.)
The masses search outward for things that qualify them as a
person, but I always go inward for that which quantifies me for greatness. At
twenty-five I preached on street corners in NYC as an in-the-closet Pentecostal
minister. One day I heard a still small voice say, ‘God cannot be contained in a
book or a law or even in a religion. Dig deeper, reach further to find me, and
you will find your authentic Self.’”
A Year to CLEAR Challenge!
The acronym CLEAR
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engulf readers in a weekly study that will transform them by removing blocks,
promote self-growth, and give them wings to fly freely into daily life. Each
week, by going to BoSebastian.com and choosing the Year to CLEAR Challenge tab,
a new challenge or thought to provoke conversation, growth, and group
functionality.
My vision is to make Finding Authentic You the book to
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As a yoga teacher and student of the Ayurvedic tradition, I bring
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us in nature. Finding Authentic You offers a gradual change perspective,
looking at the triune aspects of change as in yoga: Body, Mind and Spirit.
Accessing the
ability to change and finding
yourself actually pursuing change must be a daily search, which I call
getting to the “observer mind.”
In this frontal cortex of the brain we find the anatomy of
change and the power to counter every negative trigger of the human process.
The workings of Hypnosis, NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) and EMDR (Eye
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Every aspect of FINDING AUTHENTIC YOU fulfills this
constant need for diffusing the negative past and dreaming of a fulfilling
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Step 1: Recognize That Change is Inevitable
Step 2: Release from Resistance
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