Life on a Stage – The Revelation of Awareness

The best actors pull you into their role. You are seduced by their persona because they are able to get into the role so much that they actually become that which they acting out. The best plays are the ones where you forget you are a watching a play; everyone on the stage is so involved in their role that everyone in the room gets wrapped up in the drama.

Life is like this performance where all the actors (each one of us) and the audience (others) is the absolute best at what they do (convincing themselves of the role being played). They feed off each other to create a perpetual environment of the actors feeding off the audiences emotions and the audience providing even more drama by watching the enthralling display on stage. In effect everyone is part of the cast – sometimes being more of the audience and at other times taking center stage.

Suppose for a moment that all of us on earth are just players on a stage. Our acting skills so good that we have taken ourselves into our own persona. We are so good at getting ourselves lost in our role on the stage that not only do we fool everyone around us that we are just actors on a stage, but we also fool ourself.

As the play unfolds if we remain completely in the role and forget we are in a play, the emotions are real. We feel hurt, pain, anguish, lust, greed and all the emotions that are tied up with drama. This is how the great actor brings them self to tears or creates that joyous glow. This is the game we play in life. Continually losing ourselves in our own plot of how we see our life unfolding – the stage drama of life.

You realize that at the end of the play the protagonist and antagonist will hug in the back room and come out together, along with all the other players, to take their final bow as one – one cast, one team, one part of the universe living through a human experience as spiritual beings. While you think of your own role as independent, you realize that your role would be nothing without everyone else.

Even after we are aware of this idea, and can set aside many of the trivialities of life and simply pass them off as part of the play, we still may slip into our role from time to time when the drama of the moment pulls us in. Even after we become aware that this is just a temporary role – our place on the stage – in this body, it is still possible to phase in and out of this awareness.

Those that have this awareness about life chuckle under their breath when asked by people “What should I do?” Or “How do I attain peace?” They do this not out of disrespect but because they know that everything is really going to be ok. Peace is available the second the person realizes that he/she is simply an actor on the stage, seduced by their own skill at losing them self within a role.

With our conscious memories being erased by a phase called death, we then reemerge with a soul that contains previous wisdom attained but is not consciously accessible, until in the new life time (on this plane or another) it is re-accessed.

If we look at life as a stage, what does this teach us? How can this way of looking at world help anyone to find peace?

It teaches us that life should not taken seriously. Enjoy yourself. You should treat life sincerely – make improvements, evolve your role, there is no need to worry about things as much – as it is just not that serious. Eventually, you, your best friends, and your worst enemy will take a bow together, as one. Your roles will have completed and the play will have ended. Come to that realiztion now and it becomes clear that you do not have enemies, you do not have struggles. You are more than that.

You are not a role in a life, you are not what loves you, you are not your job or your income level….You (capital Y) is the awareness of life on a grand scale, soul, divine creation and most importantly You are one with everything, You are what You love. Just as a great play the stage would not be complete without each person playing their role, but in the end the play finishes and it is far better to realize that you are in a play now than to wait till death.

By realizing this you can still play the role you are acquainted with in life, but with this awareness you will be more free to enjoy it through all circumstances. You also realize that you can change your role in the play. Improvise, make an improvement here and there. Use the awareness when you need it and can step out of this awareness when it does not suit you. Let yourself fall in love, experience an adrenaline rush and be in the role for the things that you want to be part of…do anything you want and play the role to the maximum. Then when you need to step back and become aware, you can. The more you incorporate this idea, the more you realize you can actually Live (capital L) even though it seems like this idea may rob you of a real experience. By adopting this model you are more able to love and experience because you are aware of the grander picture – you actually are connected to everything and thus if you love anything, you love yourself, and you love everything. But this model lets you face perceived fears head on, do things that you didn’t think you could do, and handle any situation with ease

It is your stage, and you ultimately determine how seduced you will become by your own role.

Draw your own conclusions on this.

Cory Mitchell