Religious Holidays and even the ones where we have been taught to pretend there is an Easter Bunny seem very odd to me now. Their tangibility is ungraspable.
When the belief disappears; there is nothing to hold onto.
Knowing that only a belief held it in place makes it even more crazy.
The holiday is a thought.
With other thoughts that hold it in place.
Mostly anchored by your willingness to believe this thought.
These holidays would not exist without your thoughts.
Isn't that odd?
Without speaking about the religious content of Easter or Easter bunny....the day is a day of family and dining.
Of relaxing and enjoying each other.
When a religious person enters....expectations and/or judgment arise.
Their beliefs proceed them into the room.
It appears to overshadow the casual contentment of being.
As hard as it is to believe...beliefs in religious holidays and religion alone for that matter, eclipse the individual and now moment in time.
I am not sure I can even write about my experience of the difference between believing and not believing and how not believing is so much more loving and peaceful and accepting.
The heart that follows the mind is so constricted....compared to the mind that follows the heart.
The difference is very minuscule but vast in how reality appears.
When your life has to follow the pattern of thoughts; it leaves no room for accepting and being in the present. It has to judge reality up against its mind's expectations and desires.
When you wholeheartedly believe a thought and have a strict belief....you will only see the world through this thought pattern.
Everything else is non-existent.
When faith (belief in thoughts) comes first...all other matters are unseen.
Unfelt.
Untouched.
Family gatherings without thoughts are pure connections.
Pretty dresses and a bowl full of candy....and a sweet soul enjoying this moment in time.
