All The World Is A Stage

All The World Is A Stage

We are consciousness masquerading as the many and varied roles that we play. This is a meditation to drop temporarily all the roles we play, to let them die, in order to experience the consciousness, the life, that we are beyond the roles, and to realize we have a choice to play a role or not. What is it like to consciously pick up the mask of friend, play that role for the moments it's required, and when the role has finished, retire the mask of friend? Instead many of us become completely identified with the roles we play, and we forget we are playing roles.
When our "show" or the moment ends where that role is necessary, we continue fully costumed playing a role forgetting who we really are, the consciousness animating that role. The invitation is to take stock of all the roles you play and to let each one die. Die in the sense that you detach yourself even if it's just for a few moments from each of the roles. While you're detached examine each of your roles as a non-judgemental observer and then put them aside. Know that you can pick up the mask and play a role whenever you need to, but that you can also take that mask off and just Be. Feel the presence of who you are when you have dropped all roles. Feel the lightness of your being, the alert consciousness you are. The roles we play become more effective when we are truly a conscious presence behind the masks, the scenes, and on the stage.