I was contemplating what was the original sin anyways that got us cast out of Eden (paradise) ?
Pride comes before the fall... Is what kept popping up in my mind .
Pride - I feel is a symbolic play on words .
It represents our way of thinking that we are the top of the food chain, much like a lion in the jungle.
Healthy pride is to be proud of your work, accomplishments, partner, belongings, the people we love and care about .
The shadow side of pride is what brings about the sense of separation. That becomes a slippery slope of hierarchy or superiority that something or one is "better " or "less than" yourself.
We give our power away or start to believe we are all powerful and start to loose our unity consciousness that all things & beings are inter connected.
When we have the inner standing that every plant, person , element in our natural world and the cosmos are all a beautifully woven tapestry of connections and reflections of each other.
Then we truly have love , compassion, respect, trust and true sense of being connected to all beings & the Divinity within all.
When we allow our pride / animalistic or our reptilian (fight /flight ) shadow sides of our nature to take over .
We become out of balance, order and harmony with the Divine and our natural world.
That becomes the birthing place of the 7 deadly sins to follow .
What we do to ourselves (the one ) we do to all others beings .
This would be the marker of the fall of consciousness into the murky labrinth of guilt, anger,shame, fear ect...division and discord in our inner and outer worlds.
That would cause us to loose our pure connection to our higher selves and the Divine .
By maintaining a state of child like wonder, unconditional love and humility, we are now in a place of inner / outer harmony and inner/ outer peace ......Eden.
Our peace ( mind , body spirit (heart /soul ) is our Eden (paradise ) and becomes our own unique version of heaven on earth
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