Fairness and Unexpected Gifts

I was told by my mother that “we always have to be fair”. I thought that meant that everyone in the world had to be fair. You can’t imagine how shocked I was when I found out that everybody did not get the same instruction as me. I rebelled and cried out, “That’s NOT FAIR!

But, What Is Fair?

What feels fair to one, can feel unfair or unjust to another. I was confused so I walked away to let my thoughts settle. The next day I read the article below.  My thoughts immediately returned back to fairness and how painful and confusing it can be.

Mooji’s Thoughts: No Force on Earth Can Manipulate or Bind You

The text is long but worth the time to read.  If the word God does not fit your beliefs, substitute what ever word works for you.  The following was posted January 18, 2015 on Mooji’s FaceBook page:

“I am going to tell you something now that you don’t hear very often in the world,
and I use myself as an example for you.
If you want to go all the way, give up the sense that you have any rights in life.
Have no right at all. Have no rights for anything.
Then everything is a gift.
When you don’t deserve anything, everything is a gift.
Just try.
Just for you. Okay?
This is not a political decision.
Give up this sense that you have rights, that life owes you something, and feel the space that remains. Maybe, initially, you will feel vulnerability like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t stand up for my rights. I will be abused.’ But go beyond this feeling.
Sacrifice it for a greater truth.
You must begin to think with your God-mind.
God does not have rights.
God does not need any rights.
You have to be like God.
Give up this sense you have rights.
You wish to go all the way?
Give up pride also.
Give up future too.
If you give up future, you give up past also.
Just for you. You don’t have to tell anybody.
And give up this dependency, ‘Who will be here for me?’
And give up projections such as, ‘Yes, in two years time
I will be in a solid relationship and I will own my own apartment.’
There is nothing so great about that.
It just keeps you being a sucker.
You don’t want to be a sucker.
There is greater than this to come.
You miss the full adventure and power
that comes from the Holy spirit if you start to choose for yourself.
If you feel to choose for yourself, He will leave you to choose for yourself.
But as soon as you give up this sense of rights; if you say,
‘You give me the sense of choice. You are my choice,’
then something else will happen.
In the world nobody tells you this.
There you have to be proud and say, ‘Listen, I have rights!’
When I have rights, the world has done me a lot of wrongs.
Give up pride.
Pride in being a woman.
Pride in being beautiful.
Pride in being accomplished in something.
Pride that you are a certain race, religion or nation.
Give up all of these things.
They belong to the devil.
They don’t belong to you.
And experience what remains.
A great space will open inside your Heart.
Huge humility.
Huge acceptance, love, wisdom and freedom
as you experience integration with the cosmic being.
And no force on earth can manipulate or bind you,
because you have made yourself empty of all that makes a ‘person’.
Why think it is so great to be a person?
For a while we have to taste that state of personhood,
but there must come a time when you return to purity.
Come back to your purity, your original being!
You ask, ‘How?’
Collapse at God’s feet. This is no ordinary fall.
It is not falling down.
It is falling upwards into the embrace of the Living God.”

~ Mooji     

My concluding thoughts:  What if I have No Right?

When I believe I have a right to something (my just rewards), and I don’t get it, then I feel like something (life) or someone (boss, partner, friend) is being unfair. But what if I stopped believing that I have a right as suggested?  What if I stopped thinking that I deserve … that job, that relationship, that money?

Oddly, I felt a huge relief. If I have no right, then I don’t suffer the pain of injustice. A shift in perspective creates a new emotional reality. Suddenly, I can see that all that I receive from life and in my life is truly a gift, including this article by Mooji and all the opportunities for insight it offered.

I accept the gift and I wrote it all here for days when I forget.  Thank you for the gift Mooji.