Humility and Discernment

The speaker has recently gained insight into the concepts of ego, authentic self, purpose of life, and love. They feel enlightened but acknowledge the need for humility and discernment. They hope to share their knowledge with others but understand the importance of being discerning and allowing others to come to them. They emphasize the power of living an authentic life and inspiring others through positive energy. The speaker also mentions their own journey of suffering and the importance of timing when sharing these ideas. Overall, they believe that humility and discernment are key in acting out their newfound wisdom. I feel like I have taken an enormous leap recently in coming to grips with this concept of the ego and the authentic self, the purpose of life and giving and receiving love, duality and relating all of this to my own Christian beliefs and struggles. I feel like it's been a very enlightening period for me and so I guess once you have this new power, this new wisdom and understanding, and it is wisdom because everything I've learned in theory I've been applying to my life, my 35 years of life, and that's the learning and the application of that to experiences is the wisdom. But the issue for me is one of humility now and discernment. Humility in that although I have this insight, that just gives me the tools to play the game and there's still many, many ups and downs to come, there will be failures, there will be struggles. What I do have now is a sense of purpose and a sense of understanding that I didn't have before that that is all. So I certainly, I do feel an enormous sense of humility and my hope and my prayer is that that sense of humility stays with me because there's very, very many challenges ahead of my life. In terms of discernment, that's about in some circumstances we may have the opportunity to share this insight with others and to bring them along on the path and even if it's not the whole way, just to enlighten certain parts of their life and of course the best way to do that is just by living a love-filled, authentic life. I think just by default people will want to be around and they will feed off that energy and there will occasionally be times where people are interested and want to find out what I've learned and what my thoughts and ideas are and I think that's where discernment comes in. People's ego will naturally be challenged if I'm living a radically different life under radically different principles and goals and belief systems than what they hold. That challenges someone's ego and it's just a matter of being aware of that, being discerned in who I discuss these ideas with and how much, you know, there's a part of me and maybe some of this is coming from my own ego that I want to share all this knowledge. I've sort of worked it out, I want to share it, I want to enlighten other people, I want to, friends who are struggling, I want to bring them into the loop, but it's just not that simple and basically the things you can do are just live an authentic life and that will naturally inspire people and bring positive energy to people. And then to the extent that people do want to get a bit more specific, or there's the opportunity to get a bit more specific in terms of some of the ideas and learnings, then it's a matter of being very discerning, let people come to you, let them ask, feed them a little bit of information, if they're still interested and they're open, I'll come back and want more, and that's how it works. It gets back to the idea of one of the reasons this is so powerful in me, this last period, is that firstly I've been toying and tossing around these ideas for a long, long time and I've been at the gates waiting to get in. A lot of this stuff wasn't totally new to me, it was just, it just put the pieces of the puzzle together, but also I went through a period of suffering, I was at a need of change moment. I got to a point where I just, I don't have the answers, I need to get away, put this all in perspective and trying to put these ideas onto people when they're not in the place is not the way to go. So I just think it's a radical, enlightening period, but the way to act that out and to fight against is through humility and discernment.