Is there a pilot in this plane?

Patrice Julien
4 min readFeb 7, 2025

The Source of Life is not a capricious businessman; our rituals, beliefs, prayers, all that has no influence on the laws of life… In the best of cases, it is just able to have an influence on us insofar as praying, repeating affirmations or meditating can allow an opening of oue hearts to the vastess of the mystery…

In fact, life is a co-creation, Universe provides the materials; a sort of LEGO set… It’s up to us to combine the elements… We can use these neutral pieces to create chaos or harmony… It is possible for everyone of us to use a knife to prepare a good meal or to murder someone… For the Source, what we do with our lives is indifferent…

Do you really believe that the Intelligent Force we call God has secretarial angels who pass on to him the billions upon billions of prayers from all the beings in all the galaxies for him to find order made solutions?…Humans who think that are simply like children who still believe in Father Christmas…We need to wake up. Father Christmas only exists in our beliefs…

Life cannot have several sources

Whether it’s Ho’oponopono, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam or any other creed, the message is the same: Go back to our origins, remember your true nature…Throw every belief away. All the chaos we create comes from just one thing: our thoughts, in other words our beliefs.

These are inherited from our ancestors, our parents, our past lives, our education, our religions, our conception of spirituality. Evidences are illusions. No exception … In short, from an “outside”… But inside us, when we are silent, what is our inner voice saying? I mean the real silence and the real inner voice, what are they telling?…

How can we recognize our true inner voice? Quite simply because it’s always positive. And why is that? Because life always moves forward according to laws of internal harmony. You only have to look at nature to see that. Everything is perfectly orchestrated, from the movement of the planets to the dance of the atoms. Our presence is the product of those laws.

But who worries about those natural laws? Humans. Who pollutes the seas? Humans? Who create wars, conflicts, theft, murder, etc.? The answer is always the same… In fact, the pollution of the seas is even infinitely less serious than the pollution of our dualistic minds.And this invisible but outrageously negative way of thinking is very often carried by humans who consider themselves as “spiritual people” who imagine they are in charge of the harmony of the world…

Collective consciousness is the addition of individual consciousnesses. Self-mental pollution is what disrupts everything. Our minds are constantly on the move. There’s always a part of us talking, judging, reacting, anticipating, programming, trying to manipulate life to adapt it to our agendas…The result on a global level is the actual state of our world. It is the mirror of the state of consciousness on our planet.

Nature is always right.

How does a tree, a rose, a grain of wheat, a bird or a fish think? It’s simple… None of these creatures compares to the others, each lives its life in its own sphere… Each has its own GPS and accepts things as they come. The heat, the cold, the seasons, the situations. Natural world’s response to everything that happens is ‘YES’. Pure unconditional acceptance. Only humans practice the ‘NO’ as an answer to life’s happenings

When a problem arises, whatever it may be, we have to start by accepting it to integrate it’s meaning. A problem is always teaching something, we need to say “yes” to be able to grow in self-consciousness. Resisting means saying ‘no’ to the laws of life. Everything that happens happens for a reason, and it doesn’t matter if that reason escapes us.

There is no “why?” to look for. The important thing is to ask life: ‘How? How can we live in harmony? How do we go on? How to survive?… Life has an answer to all the so-called ‘problems’ because the Source is the source of everything, it’s our GPS, it’s ourcontrol tower. If the pilot of the plane does only as he pleases when a problem arises, the passengers have to start worrying…

It’s a metaphor but let’s realize that in fact each one of us is constantly connected to the control tower and is on a different and unique flight in the cockpit of a plane where all the seats are occupied…

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Patrice Julien
Patrice Julien

Written by Patrice Julien

Patrice Julien & his Wife Yuri run a retreat center by the sea in Miyazu, Japan. Patrice writes Self-Help books and gives trainings in Zen and Ho'oponopono.

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