‘Let’s blurr the lines a little’. I woke up this morning with this statement. As I sat still in deep meditation my mind raced around trying to figure out what did this mean 
As I closed my eyes and went back into myself tapping into a place where there is no – mind and stillness, I realise it was around a conversation I’d had with someone around people not questioning things enough to make decisions for themselves. She was an elderly lady and had been a master of the English language and was struggling with the way life was heading forward with regards to mainly technology and the madness out there.
While I agreed with her I happened to bring up a teaching I had read around the impermanence of things and life. – this teaching was from a Buddhist writing. I noticed her freeze and I realised where that was coming from. We are not taught about impermanence from an early age, we think life will last forever. Our learnings are all around our goals and achievements in life. No one teaches us the meaning of life and that nothing, absolutely nothing lasts for ever. The difference between what we have been taught and the teaching I had read, was we see people that die and our failures and bad circumstances as losses, whereas in actually fact they are releases and changing of cycles.
If we follow the cycle of Nature we see she teaches us that everything is impermanent. The leaves, the clouds the weather, the plants the colours of Nature how everything breaks down and falls apart, everything changes sometimes in seconds. The signs are there all the time. We would live closer to this understanding if our classrooms had been out in Nature we would have gained this wisdom from an early age.
Can you see how we’re got it all muddled ? Instead, we sat in little chairs, in four square walls for 12 years of our lives and focused on building our minds and identity and not growing our spirits and emotional intelligence – and it will get worse as now the kids sit with their heads in a little screen and dream up fantasy worlds. While structure is a good thing it restricts us in understanding that there is a much deeper more spiritual, magical and mysterious world at play out there in Nature.
Blurring the lines means relaxing our guards about beliefs and systems and allowing us to learn from different teachings, like what and how other cultures expand their spiritual consciousness. Expanding our understanding that things are never what they seem, perhaps even really gaining a deep understanding of the teachings of Jesus and how he exercised compassion, love and acceptance of what is. Do we really have a deep understanding?
Instead of limiting ourselves to conditioning that divides and concretises the mystery of life it is time to blurr the lines of our beliefs.
We are so much more than we can ever imagine, more than our small limited minds which is where most of us live.
Breaking out of societies mould and blurring the lines has been the most expanding thing I have ever done. Not always by choice but by circumstances that forced me to look out of the box out of a system that limited me, that made me feel stupid, lonely, rejected and not fitting into a society that thought differently to me. Actually even our families can become a mould, where we try to fit in and never belong, this can also limit or stunt our growth.
Blurring the lines allows us to open our hearts to finding that there exists a much greater depth to us.
For example we were never taught about meditation 
. In fact when you mention this word a lot of people freeze. This is what it means ‘ to engage in contemplation or reflection.’
See, how simple that is but because we have had concrete and stuck thoughts about it we limit ourselves.
By blurring the lines from my beliefs, I myself have found a deeper peace, stillness and a real love and compassion for all things. I found an inner strength that I never knew was possible.
So yes, I am saying by Blurring the lines between our beliefs of all cultures and religions we will in the end see we are all the same, one and impermanent. After all no – one is getting out of this life alive. Only love is ultimately real no matter what our beliefs.
There is so much more than hiding behind systems that ultimately keep us small and don’t allow us to see and experience that all life is impermanent and no – one and nothing is more than the other. This includes seeing that Nature is our true teacher and the sooner we blur that line and realize that Mother earth, pachamama is far greater than any digital technology that we may encounter. Mother earth is 4.5 billion years old. 
And we get excited because a watch can count our steps and tell us how long we slept for at night, really !
We have lost the plot completely ! Yet, we raise an eyebrow to cultures that honor Mother Nature. I was called a weirdo the other day because I was saluting the sun when it came up and honouring the 4 directions of the Earth. How weird was that weirdo that called me weird. 
can you see what I mean ?
My lines are blurred. In fact I have to remember there are lines and this allows me to experience a fuller life and to live from my Intuition and my heart.
When we blurr our beliefs we are more accepting of others and of things that occur in our lives. I have first hand experience with this, when my beautiful 91 year old Mother was on her last, she squeezed my hand and told me she would miss me and I said the same back to her, it was like she was saying to me I will miss you in this human form, in this life time. Then she said a profound thing, she said but ‘I will be everywhere and in all things’. She left me with this deep insight of knowing that spirit is what we will return to; so surely in this life that should be included in our daily practise. To experience this while we are alive !
I realised the lines for her were blurred as she could see and experience true freedom as she released herself from the constraints of this human existence as she merged into the oneness with all. If only we were taught that this is what you experience in meditation .
Mom was a religious, spiritual being and I thank her for teaching me to blurr the lines from an early age – did she know all of this, of course not, Mom also grew up in a society that limited her thinking like the rest of us.
But it was who she was and what she had returned to and so will each of us. Mom, I realise was my greatest teacher and believe me she was super religious 
So, it’s no use sweating the small stuff we are stressing about, it’s all impermanent and no one can argue because it’s absolutely true. Even our own existence is impermanent. In fact we have all heard the saying ‘this too shall pass’ .
Practise presence in our day to day life, learn to meditate, to blur the lines and expand the beautiful beings we are. Question things we are not sure of and understand how our Intuition works.
It’s time !
Love Marlene
P.S. You may find my latest book, A Dance with Life a helpful reminder to be patient and learn to take new steps when life throws challenges in our path.