Blog – Carl Bozeman

The Matrix and Such Things - I just accept that “something” is having this incredible human experience and what “it” is loves it completely without question or judgment.
Bozebits - Stop trying to know what is going on. You don’t and never will. No one does, and everything you already believe you know about life should be put aside, as well, because life fools the one who thinks they have some control and unfolds beautifully, albeit mysteriously, for those who know they don’t. Observance has significant effect but is also a constant surprise.
Bozebits - Weakness in others is always more apparent than strengths, as we are conditioned early on to be aware of our own, making it easy to point out in others. However, “pointing out” is a deflection from yourself and presumably a haven from others’ discovery that “what you point at” is what you are. You create those you attack just as you do those you uphold and praise.
Bozebits - What you say about anyone says more about you than the reality you think you are expressing. There is but one side to any one of us worthy of expression, if at all, and that is, we are Gods, steeped in human form and experience. You can be the love that is only expressed in the God you are or the human who is judgmental, egoic, and easily waylaid by collective streams of consciousness.
Bozebits - Your search for truth, enlightenment, awareness, or whatever you call it is comparable to procrastination, which is little more than a purposeful pursuit of comfort and safety while fully aware that you are wasting time. It is never about what you may find. I
Bozebits - The desire to understand is, in itself, an obstacle to understanding. It wraps things up in descriptions, rules, expectations, and processes that become the focus of fulfillment, all of which can never be because wants and wishes live in the future, which does not exist.
Bozebits - The unbridled abandon, purity, and innocence you entered life with is what YOU are. Believe nothing or believe everything, but don’t pick and choose. Love expresses everything and cannot divide anything into chunks of good and evil. You can’t screw this up, so let go! Experience isn’t the same without you, the “wild child!”
Bozebits - Preconception is nothing more than recycled “old” information. It makes no room for newness or clarity, and humans are exceptional “preconceivers,” masterful junk collectors, and generally blind to anything that lies outside their rigid inventory of life lessons. Simply stated, reality does not show up in any mind.
Bozebits - I can’t help what you believe. However, I can believe in nothing, which opens me to everything believed and not believed by you and everyone else. Mystery lives on without any particular emphasis (belief) that anything real came from a belief in it—just pure surprise.What you believe is a low and restrictive form of living … Continue reading "Bozebits"
Bozebits - Sadly, humans have reached the point in the three-dimensional experience where, for the majority, “being present” is being in a different and often awkward place. Do you see? We have become so far removed from reality, e.g., “what is, right now,” it’s a surprise when we encounter it.Yet, paradoxically, presence is always present, and so … Continue reading "Bozebits"
Bozebits - We speak of expanding consciousness, but your mind is incapable of that. All your mind can do is alter what it is conscious of. In other words, what is it that sleeps without any awareness of body or mind? It is the only question worthy of answering, and only you can do it.
Bozebits - YOU are neither subject nor object nor is anything you perceive as a human. YOU do nothing, yet are everything. YOU always enjoys the ride, but “you” may not. This is why it is necessary to override you with YOU. While you are searching for the perfect, end-all ride, YOU will enjoy the ride but never leave the fairground.
Bozebits - Humility starts with YOU and ends with love. Do you know YOU? Only “love” knows. Peaceful day, Carl
Bozebits - Knowing what YOU are, or as many gurus label “Self,” you suddenly see with infinite eyes. That is eyes that cease to perceive things as separate from the perceiver without the division created by descriptive language, education, and social and religious background.
Bozebits - There is no path to awareness through your mind. There is nothing you can do, think, or say, and nowhere you can go to unmask “what YOU are.” Living your dream is what is right now. Assuming it can or should be something else is “the” only nightmare you will ever encounter. Reality is not about you; it is YOU, and it shows most clearly without the mask. I see YOU; truly amazing!
Bozebits - Be grateful not for what you have but for “what YOU are” that precedes everything long before you could identify with having anything to be thankful for. YOU are the “perceived” but, too, the perceiver.
Bozebits - You can act surreptitiously to make your experience appear other than it is, but you live a hell of your own making in doing so. Life passes by those who try to make it what it is not, and what it is not is anything you think, believe, or even know it is.
Bozebits - There are wonders to experience in the most routine and imposing human activities if you detach from those activities and any collective narrative that espouses them. “Know thyself,” and all that’s left is love and mindless abandon that allows the world to show itself in ways you, otherwise, could not fathom. It’s an incredible day; “let go” and enjoy it.
Bozebits - Most searchers are impulse buyers. That is, they have an idea of what they seek and pay the price that such a search requires. Do this or that, and call me in the morning, and if you don’t get the results you’re looking for, you’re doing something wrong. Next, let’s try this, etc., etc.
Bozebits - YOU are not your body, mind, or consciousness. Form hears only the call of death. Awareness of “what YOU are” outside of form “is” life. Always life. In silence, you know this; in reality, YOU are this. Smile at your body, and all the nonsense it attaches itself to that all, eventually, disappears. YOU are forever!
Bozbits - The “middle way” described by Buddha is often mistakenly presumed to mean placement somewhere between this way or that, or that “truth” is found between the extremes many humans take sides on. It’s not that at all. The “middle way” describes a “path” that cannot be followed. In other words, there is no way.
Bozebits - Quantum physics tells us that matter (particles) pop into and out of existence for no apparent reason or predictability. In to and out of human existence is much the same. It happens for no reason but begins the process of every “problem” humans face. Do you see?
Bozebits - You can’t “know” the unknowable, nor can you travel somewhere to find it or go through great suffering to pay for it. What YOU are precedes the observer; thus, it is unobservable.
Bozebits - Awareness comes not in the “opening” of your mind. It comes in the closing of it. Your mind loves its platform, knowledge, and ground rules. Life knows none of these things, so it knows no bounds. Neither do you when you are silent and free from what your mind loves.
Bozebits - Being present has nothing to do with what is happening now and focusing on specific things in your experience. It is knowing “what YOU are” at the moment regardless of any particular happening and allowing it without judgment or commentary.
Bozebits - The reality of living is that anything you do through whatever process you came up with to do it will do. Your “choices” carry anything but your control. Make them (choices) or not; you still live a mystery. Besides, “surprises” are the fun of it.
Bozebits - Turn it off altogether, talking and thinking. That will give the world a chance to unfold as it does and take you out of making assessments about its unfolding. It will also alter your mood to one of you, happening to the world rather than it happening to you. Best of all, however, is the quiet you experience when you’re not talking.
Bozebits - What most call “newness” typically includes the old descriptions into which anything “new” must somehow fit. Do you see? Humans fancy what they know, even though it stands in the way of what is real and “new.” When you act “because” (whatever your reason), you prevent the beauty of new reflection and undefined awareness from entering reality and, likely, do so under the guise that your old descriptions offer some safety and security. It’s being stuck in words, concepts, and definitions.
Bozebits - Right now, in this moment, you have everything. That is, NOW closes the door on any journey you think you are on. Why would you squander present moment effort trying to be somewhere else?
Bozebits - All your “reason” does is attach you to something unreal and unimportant and provide the reasons for yourself and others to keep you bound to your monsters. It’s not freedom, and it’s not humility. It’s fear, and fear always bows to your “reason” for the wrong reasons.
Bozebits - The “road less traveled is still someone else’s road. Do you see? The road “best” traveled is the road “not” traveled. In other words, look before and behind you; if you notice any semblance of a road, you’re on someone else’s.
Bozebits - Every moment is a dance with the infinite, and the infinite is a complete mystery even to itself. Your mind is constantly comparing “what was” to the puzzle before you “now” and translating it into something that just isn’t.
Bozebits - What are “you” when your body sleeps and consciousness has disappeared? Is this your state before you appeared on Earth? If you can say you don’t know. If you know, you can’t say.
Bozebits - Humans give away too much power to the confusion generated by their minds that seek “reasons and whys” where none exist. They even buy into the added confusion sown by others doing the same thing.
Bozebits - The heart and soul of impeccability is “I don’t know.” That supplication frees you from every imperfection you or others think exists. Any other meaning assigned to it is words inflated by concept and belief, typically designed to make the expresser feel important.
Bozebits - The world will never be at peace until you are. Do you see? It’s always, and only about YOU!
Bozebits - All that is is enlightened—even you when labeling otherwise. However, it would be best to accept that you have yet to see the beauty in such places. That is, bearing your un-enlightenment is the only way to transform it.
Bozebits - Everything you think or believe fades into unimportance when you know what (who) YOU are. That realm of “unimportance” is the blossoming of all that is beautiful, and yes, it’s ALL beautiful.
Bozebits - Nothing you experience is orchestrated, planned, predestined, or set before you to learn cosmic lessons; therefore, everything happens without meaning. You navigate experience with noise and make-believe or with silent wonder and surprise.
Bozebits - Stop listening, start smiling, and extend your love to anyone struggling to hear, e.g., everyone. The path to peace foregoes your mind and travels only your heart. Start there.
Bozebits - You have plenty to experience right now at this moment that has never existed before and will never exist again. Give the present your all, and you will never want for anything else. “NOW” is your treasure.
Bozebits - Nothing you do is important. Knowing what YOU are is. Sometimes, keeping your heart means losing your mind and all its preparations for what may or may not come.
Bozebits - The guardian of mystery doesn’t protect you from the unknown. It walks you through it while the guard keeps you tightly locked up and secured from it.
Bozebits - Your best is the unjudged action you take to live each moment as fully as possible, and “who deserves what” is never a consideration. “I deserve” cancels, “I AM.”
Bozebits - There is no time now or ever. There is only YOU, spoken in time but inhabiting forever and forever unchanged. All that is emanates from YOU and is sealed in eternity. You cannot change that. Look at your hands. It’s ALL written there.
Bozebits - Do not resolve to do anything that puts you at odd with your humanness. That is, accept what you are and embrace only that without any of the filters you view life through.
Bozebits - Everything you believe is a description of something unreal coupled with the addition of hope that “it,” whatever that may be, somehow, is real. In other words, your beliefs are the highway to nowhere and the Fastrack away from what, actually, is real.
Bozebits - The application of how the moment, e.g., “what is happening,” is “spiritual,” undoes any possibility of spirituality.
Bozebits - The “mood” of ego is its preservation, and it will alter reality to hold its position of dominance over your experience regardless of any impact it may have on your experience.
Bozebits - Turn again into the light that only disappeared when you turned away from it. There’s nothing behind you but weakness and fiction. Your life is your presence; NOW!
Bozebits - Hypocrisy subtly shows itself as your reaction to someone else doing what you would never do for their reasons but militantly and aggressively doing it for your own.
Bozebits - Mastery of life is living this moment without conflict with what you think it should look like.
Bozebits - When you are without expectation everything falls perfectly into place.
Bozebits - Your fixation on improving or learning something in life should go no further than developing to a high degree your ability to experience your experience more fully.
Bozebits - Live as though everything matters, but knowing that what is not or cannot be known on the plain of human experience shakes the foundation of intellect.
Bozebits - Awareness is seeing exactly “what is” without any thoughts or explanations accompanying it. In other words, any explanation of “what is” is its undoing.
Bozebits - You have so little time to experience this miracle of life that anything you wrap yourself up in as important blinds you to its treasure.
Bozebits - There are few things you must do, and unless you give the green light to do them, they have no power over you.
Bozebits - Nothing you do in any walk of life is important. That you are “what YOU are” while walking is. YOU have no measure in human “being.”
Bozebits - Ego feasts on all mind-made judgments of “good and evil” and dooms everyone because of its various distinctions between the two.
Bozebits - What you want is always right in front of you.
Bozebits - You cannot blame the depth of ugliness humanity reaches on any individual, collective, religion, politics, or ideology. You can only blame yourself for your contribution to it. What is is you. It’s that simple.
Bozebits - In other words, your thinking is not the harbinger of reality but its destroyer.
Bozebits - Love cannot be expressed by hating those who don’t love what you say, think, believe, or do.
Bozebits - Wonders you will see even amid so much importance given to the unimportant!
Bozebits - YOU are perfect now; it is the only place or time you will be. So, right now seems like an excellent place to begin your perfect reality.
Bozebits - No collective is worth your loss of wholeness and connection.
Bozebits - Transformation comes without explanation or reason and is indescribable in any language and non-transferable.
Bozebits - Life works; it just does, and you, without understanding a thing about it, “work” too if you simply live and love what is right now. You can’t learn anything if you don’t know the subject, and life offers no subjects. That’s all you need to understand.
Bozebits - Humans have reasoned that we can improve what we have failed to see. We’ve concluded that we’re smarter than the creation that allowed us to experience the created; thus, in our hubris, “we will fix it.”
Bozebits - As wise ones have said, the ground you stand on now is “holy ground.” Solid, firm, and real. Will you undermine it with yesterday’s unfulfilled expectations or tomorrow’s dreams of what isn’t? Stand where you are and be present.
Bozebits - My joy, your suffering. Your point of view, my judgment. My anger, your glee. Your lowliness, my arrogance. My awareness, your blindness. Your love, my hate, my politics, your religion, your education, my weak-mindedness. My loss, your gain, and on and on and on. See a pattern? All because what’s “yours” is believed, and what’s … Continue reading "Bozebits"
Bozebits - Remind yourself often that “what YOU are” stepped down to have the “human” experience you are currently having. In other words, “what YOU are” is infinitely more than the human form you occupy.
Bozebits - Any significance you attach to yourself, the human, and what humans do is insignificant, yet, like the leaf on a tree, its beauty is infinite and not only dresses the tree but the ALL.
Bozebits - No part of your experience is happening because you believe it is for your good, bad, or unfolding some purpose you want it to have.
Bozebits - YOU are here now, and it is the sweetest place in the universe if your mind is off and your heart is on. Live well, smile, and be your best. You’ll never have to be or do anything else.
Bozebits - “I am right, and you are wrong” as a context for living doesn’t seem to work. Maybe we should try “I am wrong” and leave it at that.
Bozebits - You don’t need “more” in life; you need less of what you “think” it should be.
Bozebits - Let the words of your experience disappear so that each moment contains a blank page on which you will write anew, a life whose only expression is wonder and awe.
Bozebits - The top of the mountain is a myth told by those who climb but never reach it. Besides, there is no coming down from the top, so no one can tell of its grandeur.
Bozebits - It is what you don’t know and will never know that is new, and if you think about that, it too will fade into your reason and be lost forever to that which is “under the sun.” “New” yields to the light of mind but shines into the eternities where no thought exists. Your silence is the light.
Bozebits - It is easy to say, “We are all one,” but we are separate from everything if we identify with anything. “
Bozebits - Awareness and connection manifest all that is, and it all happens right now before a single thought enters into it.
Bozebits - The direction your attention points in is only a direction. It is not the whole, and to see only your direction is a massive exclusion of reality. You could even say that what you focus on is unreal, an illusion.
Bozebits - It is profoundly shortsighted for you, me, or anyone to disregard any aspect of others living their lives in such a way that disturbs your beliefs, reasoning, or expectations.
Bozebits - The world knows not what it does, and if you continue looking to it, neither will you.
Bozebits - You cannot wish, dream, or hope for a drama-free life and have it happen if you are living with drama now.
Bozebits - In time, you will know that all that happens is YOU, being you in a non-causal experience. The “effects” of which are nothing but YOU, albeit incredible!
Bozebits - Your learning, culture, ethnicity, faith, family, invention, and on and on are not the boon to peace, raised consciousness, or awareness you or the world seek.
Bozebits - The magic of creation is simply that “what is” is never apart from what YOU are.
Bozebits - “Transformation” does not happen one individual at a time, just YOU all the time.
Bozebits - If what you pursue does not encompass everyone and everything, then it’s a point of view, and when all you do is point, there is no view.
Bozebits - Awareness is only known through optics without the taint and dinge of what your mind wants you to believe is.
Bozebits - Your capacity to fathom the eternal only happens when it is clear that the vibration of “nothing” (the infinite) is the vibration of your mind.
Bozebits - YOU already are what you seek to become, making the only worthy pursuit in life, if you must have one, knowing YOU, and that knowing will never be achieved from a so-called spiritual journey!
Bozbits - No experience can be explained by the educated or inspired, but each breath you take in each moment you live is brushing the eternal YOU.
Bozebits - You cannot know or explain the human condition (no one can) until you know your own, and you will never know your own.
Bozebits - You can only do what you are doing when you are doing it, and the joy you experience is when “doing it” is free of your comparison of it to something that no longer is.
Bozebits - No one can know what the universe won’t tell, and it doesn’t reveal much, leaving what we think we know as little more than a melding of theory, conjecture, and make-believe.
Bozebits - Having or getting adds confusion and anxiety to a mind beset with more of what it doesn’t have, and joy, happiness, and contentment are the cost.
Bozebits - Reality is always and only “what it is,” and you never “get it” by trying to understand it. “Getting it” is living “it” as a present-moment experience.
Bozebits - ALL is before you but, more realistically, because of YOU. Hence, you never need more time because you’ve never lost anything to it.
Bozebits - The path to awareness of YOU is a present one, burdened by the weight of things important to the world and your mind, none of which are.
Bozebits - That is, if you are love, it pours from you regardless of circumstance and will fill you beyond anything that could possibly be of service to you otherwise.
Bozebits - Heaven forbid you ever become what you think. What YOU are would be sorely missed.
Bozebits - You must awaken within the nightmare you have determined exists and “get” that what you think is real is only because you think it.
Bozebits - Sadly, awareness is not a product of the past or the future, nor is there a set of rules and guidelines that will take you to it.
Bozebits - Your search for whatever it is you seek is a coming from or a going to. Did you get that? Coming from is the past and going to is the future.
Bozebits - Do you search for profound insight into the heart of humanity but seek insulation from it simultaneously?
Bozebits - “What YOU are” exists before anything you thought in the past, now, or will think in the future.
Bozebits - Choosing is not about deciding between things. It is taking ownership of what is right in front of you right now.
Bozebits - Your way is not the way. It’s just a way, neither good nor bad, and never, ever, a reason to judge another and lose kindness for those who are no less nor greater than you or anyone else.
Bozebits - YOU are Gods, dressed as humans, splendid, magnificent, and wonderful, but without any means, physically, mentally, consciously, or spiritually, to know how much more than that YOU are.
Bozebits - To the extent of what you know, you may be right, but can you ever be sure if you don’t know everything there is to know?
Bozebits - Awareness is not worthy of the drive that seeks it, but “will” born of your love is.
Bozebits - Making life work requires an act of love so great that the impossibility of knowing how to do it never prevents you from living it with starry-eyed wonder and amazement.
Bozebits - Murphy’s law of spirituality: “You reach your level of spiritual incompetence when you think you know what it is.”
Bozebits - Happily, you’ll know the way when you’re on the way and YOU are always “on the way.”
Bozebits - Happiness is not a derivative of your ability to judge the differences between this or that. It exists regardless of your distinctions but is most apparent when you don’t make any distinctions.
Bozebits - Your mind utters judgments because it cannot fathom the impossible, and “what YOU are” is the ‘impossible.”
Bozebits - Awareness is not about focus, paying attention, or thinking. It’s the silence surrounding it.
Bozebits - You and you alone are what’s possible in this moment and that which encompasses the infinite.
Bozebits - You must close the door of thought and feeling as you pass into stillness and leave all that was or might be without mental observance and its constant inquiry and interjection.
Carl’s Nutshells - Perception found in the mind is tainted by the mind.
Bozebits - The so-called collective consciousness is “out there,” and if you subscribe to any aspect of it or feed it with your sanction, regardless of its virtue or ideological bent, you then exist “out there” as well.
Bozebits - Only your mind calls in what “is not there” and makes it “there.” What to do? Wrest your mind of darkness and stop “calling.”
Bozebits - We see with our bodies but limit that seeing to the eyes. Close your eyes and experience the quiet “knowing” only your body can reveal. It will amaze you!
Bozebits - 10:00 AM – All resolutions are broken, removed from the frame, and thrown in the trash, along with any commitment to reinstate them.
Bozebits - All too often, we create our divisions, e.g., “I am different than you because…” and lose ourselves in defense of them.
Bozebits - You are the canvas upon which everything is painted; whether there is color, expression, beauty, ugliness or nothing at all, you remain life’s only artist.
Bozebits - I don’t believe that there is anything more significant in the universe than this moment I spend now.
Carl’s Nutshells - What you think isn't what happens.
Bozebits - Those who subscribe to the misnomer that giving begets getting do little more than reduce giving to a business transaction.
Bozebits - Reason digs deep into your mind, but mystery unleashes the infinite.
Bozebits - Your searching for the “road less traveled” deprives you of the only road you can travel.
Carl’s Nutshells - Only when you find no things in consciousness and no consciousness in things, are you empty...,
Bozebits - The present IS the destination. There is nothing before or beyond YOU now, as is.
Bozebits - Thinking is a dimmer switch that reduces awareness.
Bozebits - Verbalizing what you are, e.g., sensitive, strong, confident, fearless, kind, spiritual, etc.,” is not a revelation of what you are. It’s a revelation of what you are not, and you have a better chance of pulling off what you are not by not speaking about what you want others to believe you are.
Bozebits - Everything you think, know or say is only symbolic of what is real.
Carl’s Nutshells - Now is your only place.
Bozebits - The reality you imagine for your future will never be the same as what you imagine simply because what you feel now is always implanted into what you imagine the future to be, and that is impossible to know.
Bozebits - What is it about you that thinks there is so much more to experience than what you experience right now? F
Bozebits - Do you know what it’s like when you’re there? You know that “there” we all search for? It feels like right now, right here, and if it doesn’t, and you’re still thinking about there, you will never get there.
Bozebits - The gateway to never-ending ignorance is what you know and, worse, what you think.
Bozebits - The most extraordinary awareness you can experience occurs without any thought of it.
Bozebits - Your most significant limitation will always be your thinking, so don’t practice thinking. Practice “not” thinking.
Bozebits - Let not the things you want or desire be the object of your getting. Doing so will ruin all possible good in your life.
Bozebits - Adam and Eve were not cast out of the garden, they were cast into it.
Carl’s Nutshells - Be the same in law or no law...,
Bozebits - Is your venture into whatever your experience happens to be about you singularly facing a world that acts upon you in positive or negative ways, or do you experience a world that bustles with movement and surprise, as if "it" is living you?
Bozebits - Humans have an odd need to express their accomplishments and history as if what they are right now is not enough.
Bozebits - Thinking limits your awareness and narrows the vastness of your experience.
Bozebits - When it comes to judgments, you're always wrong.
Bozebits - Life does not care what you think and why you think it.
Bozebits - Changing your perspective is like changing your clothes. You swap out one perspective with another, but it is still just a perspective with all the rules, boundaries, and definitions accompanying it.
Bozebits - Whomever or whatever you consider yourself to be is only an illusion, a role, a mask.
Bozebits - Good things are not coming down the road. They're already here; wherever you are on that road is where the most profound beauty exists.
Carl’s Nutshells - What you are has nothing to do with what you think.
Bozebits - There are no rules to spirituality, so if you obsess over any of it, you most likely have created a set of them (rules) that are nothing more than figments of your imagination...,
Bozebits - The thought of happiness is the demise of it.
Bozebits - All your thoughts about why something happened or how it affected you never really satisfy the ego...,
Bozebits - Judgments bind you to your own conceptual seclusion...
Carl’s Nutshells - Life has no meaning for you that is exclusive of everyone else.
Carl’s Nutshells - Your story cannot be told; it can only be lived.
Bozebits - What YOU are cannot even be imagined in your wildest, most far-reaching dreams.
Bozebits - The "work" you do to change your life (for whatever reason) serves only to prevent you from living it. Do you see," If you're going to "work," work hardest at knowing "What YOU Are" outside any work.
Bozebits - The human experience is not a price paid for your existence in the universe.
Carl’s Nutshells - That at which you point, points back. You are what you see.
Bozebits - The experience of eternity always occurs in the present.
Bozebits - Happiness is our essence, not some formula devised to achieve it, and it hides in the most elusive place known to humans.
Bozebits - Living in the "now" requires only one thing: LIVING!
Carl’s Nutshells - Thoughts are a prison of your own making.
Bozebits - Being lost while living is impossible unless you create the path you think you must be on and somehow veer from it instead of embracing where you are now.
Bozebits - The purest form of love is not an exchange. It requires nothing to give it and nothing to receive it.
Bozebits - Failure is always something you think, so stop thinking.
Carl’s Nutshells - Awareness requires no thought.
Bozebits - We may not be able to go back in time and change anything that happened, but we can alter any suffering or damage we think it has caused.
Bozebits - The individual (human) carries the divine through the dance of three-dimensional experience, meaning yours is a unique experience, where any connection to the divine within can never be collectively described or understood.
Bozebits - There is no kind giver of that which you do not have. Such is not needed. YOU are the maker, the giver, and the creator of all that is, and it has always been so.
Bozebits - And how do you change the world? You don't, nor could you or anyone else. Change is little more than rearranging furniture. Yes, stuff gets moved around, but it's still the same house.
Bozebits - Your assessment and analysis of your experience destroy the experience.
Carl’s Nutshells - We're all fools!
Bozebits - Your wants disempower you. Your needs lull you into illusion, and your possessions enslave you. Minimize all three to experience more freedom, less stress, and unconstrained joy.
Bozebits - Only you can change the world, but it will have nothing to do with the world changing.
Bozebits - What you think in any situation is the "long path" because thinking carries bias, prior learning, fears, and judgments, all illogical concerning present circumstances
Carl’s Nutshells - A way backward does not exist. Now is your only place.
Bozebits - Beyond any idea of a purpose, you possess something infinitely more profound and beautiful. It's called "life," and all it ever asks of you (or anyone) is to live it regardless of your place in it.
Bozebits - The success of the ego measured in rightness. The more right we think we are or need to be, the more egocentric we are.
Bozebits - Inner order does not occur when you have arranged the outer order (as if you can do that anyway)
Bozebits - Don't let your mind or mouth engage in a conversation about you. First, it is a shallow conversation that feeds self-importance and is the stuff of egos.
Bozebits - Your description of yourself as a human immediately affects your experience of being human.
Bozebits - As a human, you are not unique. As a God, you are beyond any need to be so.
Bozebits - You and you alone bring to every experience your “minds’” reaction to it.
Bozebits - Your greatest act, the most significant and grand thing you have ever done or will ever do, is what you do right now.
Bozebits - No one has a right to a particular outcome regardless of the seeds sown.
Carl’s Nutshell’s - Where is your attention, really?
Bozebits - Did you know that without your mind’s thoughts, fantasies, dreams, wishes, hopes, stresses, judgments, analyses, assessments, etc., each moment would be completely real, unfiltered and brand spanking new?
Bozebits - Anything other than living fully in the present is a waste of living. Waste not a second with what isn't.
Bozebits - Thoughts will never outrun the pace of life. We cannot think our way to better-ness because, right now, no such thing exists.
Bozebits - Life does not happen! YOU happen, making life the direct product of YOU.
Bozebits - If you constantly look down the road for the good you have convinced yourself doesn't exist, you miss the good that is right here, right now.
Carl’s Nutshells - Wherever you are, whatever the circumstance you are a perfect fit.
Bozebits - "What is" is without thought of any kind and is entirely unalterable because you think it should be "other" than it is. There is nothing "real" about "virtual."
Bozebits - If you don't alter your view of the world, any world you seek to change will never be satisfactory. In other words, what you think needs changing is what you don't see. What you don't see is you!
Bozebits - Embrace your human form, and live as best you can, but never let its identity convince you that you must work to become something that already is.
Bozebits - Everything we do, every event, circumstance, or activity, is a brush with life. It is all rich and wonderful. What we choose is unimportant.
Bozebits - Your mind is the traveler, and its travel is always to the past or the future, both of which do not exist and therefore are not real.
Bozebits - We cannot know what the universe won't divulge, which is everything, especially what we think we know, which is made up or theorized. All you can "know" is what YOU are within the cosmic soup with no recipe.
Bozebits - The search for meaning or purpose in life is the problem with life in general. It suggests that we cannot be here for the simple reason of embracing and enjoying everything about life.
Bozebits - If you determine that there are things to do, places to go, etc., in your quest to know yourself, you will encounter both but will not find anything but more traffic and noise through which you must navigate, leading you ever farther from what you seek.
Carl’s Nutshells - What is will always be just that. "What is," and you will never be able to undo the present. Why not embrace it?
Bozebits - Is a rose any more or less beautiful because you or anyone else thinks so? NO! Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, as we often hear. Beauty "is" without any thought you or anyone gives it.
Bozebits - YOU are life itself, and nothing exists without your experience of it. In other words, when it comes to life, you are smack in it regardless of what you are experiencing.
Bozebits - Do not replace what you think you are with something someone else says you should be.
Bozebits - Don’t complain about what you think makes you a victim. If anything, complain about yourself finding the time to give a shit!
Bozebits - Stop living in the shadow of someone you claim has wronged you. We've all heard the saying, "Two wrongs don't make a right," but if you are holding onto the "claim" of wrongdoing, whether you do nothing else, that is a "wrong" you commit against yourself.
Bozebits - Take a deep breath and hold it. Now ponder for a moment that you and only you could breathe the breath you are holding.
Bozebits - Are you living life or are you looking for reasons (messages) in the things you experience (live)? I hope it's "living."
Bozebits - Everything you say, regardless of eloquence, beauty, or intent, is ego. Even what you write, think, or dream is ego.
Bozebits - There are no failures in life. Even when you are fixated on being something other than "you."
Bozebits - The pace of time increases the more we are out of sync with the stillness of now.
Bozebits - No part of your story is missing, ever! Every breath you take is an incalculable miracle nothing in the universe can ever match or experience.
Bozebits - "Who (or what) YOU are" has never cared what you think you are. It always rests in the quiet awareness that no thought, no possible idea of your greatness could even come close to that otherness that uniquely is YOU.
Carl’s Nutshells - Nothing exists without your Face upon it.
Bozebits - The ability to think makes us human. The ability to not think makes us Gods.
Bozebits - Little we know serves any purpose in the unfoldment of life. What we don’t know, however, is loaded with adventure.
Bozebits - Happiness requires no self to be. That is, no self that feeds on things it believes cause happiness.
Bozebits - Find the place within you where the impossible doesn't matter. In truth, everything about you, in every way, is the impossible, made possible. Yes, you're that amazing!
Bozebits - Life does not care what you think and why you think it. It moves constantly and inexorably into new horizons that only a mind free of argument can experience.
Carl’s Nutshells - Limits are lit by your mind; unplug it.
Bozebits - The so-called raising of consciousness prattled on about these days has morphed into a very odd thing. Those who believe they have raised theirs tend to look down on those they claim haven't.
Bozebits - Don't limit yourself by trying to un-limit yourself. "Limited, unlimited" are noise that gets in the way of experience, which is infinite and, most importantly, free of definitions that add frustration and possibly insanity to existence.
Bozebits - There is no common sense. There is common thought, but thoughts rarely make sense.
Bozebits - Murphy's spiritual law: You reach your level of spiritual incompetence as soon as you think you know what's right (or wrong) for someone else.
Bozebits - Mystery is the core of every experience; we either challenge it with reason or embrace it with our will.
Carl’s Nutshells - Shhh... The instructor is speaking
Negating Add-on - You can never start over. You can only begin...,
Bozebits - Gods see everything as equal. People, places, or things; nothing rises above anything else.
Bozebits - In every search, many questions arise. The important ones will always be those that question what we believe.
Bozebits - There is no human consciousness in all the universe capable of comprehending "how great thou art."
Bozebits - The experience of something always surpasses the thought of it. Let not what you think spoil the splendor of what is.
Carl’s Nutshells - At the center of the universe there is only YOU.
Bozebits - The wonder of YOU is not predicated on what you hope will come. Happy already resides in you, and no outside circumstances in the days, months, or years to come will ever change that.
Bozebits - You are on a path unaffected by your plans and resolutions whose intent is to take you this way or that or to do one thing or another. Your path is the least traveled and will always be that way. No one can experience your journey, nor can you experience theirs. Resolve to love and appreciate … Continue reading "Bozebits"
Bozebits - Drop what you believe. The less we believe, the greater our awareness. Less truly is more, and ultimately, nothing is everything! If you must believe, believe everything.
Bozebits - YOU are more significant than any collective's view of you. Even the collectives you subscribe to. Be exceptional today; just by being YOU
Bozebits - What we like to call reality requires a definition formed in our minds. What is real takes experience.
Carl’s Nutshells - You are neither mind or consciousness, thus, without limitations.
Bozebits - ...we are not our minds or these bodies. There is something far, far greater about us that exceeds any capability of the mind.
Bozebits - Funny thing we often say, e.g., "I am closing this chapter in my life." Funny because there are no chapters in life, and life ultimately consists of a single page.
Bozebits - ou are the canvas upon which everything is painted, and whether there is color, expression, beauty, or nothing at all, YOU remain life's only artist.
Bozebits - You cannot be in the present if your heart is not there with you, and if you're deep in thought, your heart is not around. Thinking is the expressway to non-reality.
Bozebits - Adam and Eve were not cast out of the Garden of Eden. They were cast into it.
Bozebits - Measuring yourself against the achievements of worthiness, failure, success, accomplishments, and yes, even purpose is a formula for comfort, not happiness. You can be happy "with" these things, but not because of them.
Bozebits - Knowing resides not in what you think; its home is in the far reaches of something incomprehensible to any mind, even a collective one.
Bozebits - We don't have to carry an idea in our heads that we can do anything we set out to do. Life's most authentic beauty lies not in the thoughts of doing but in the simple experience of doing.
Bozebits - When you single out anyone as an object of villainy, non-virtuous, etc., you do nothing more than demonstrate the criteria for your judgments.
Bozebits - Here’s a paradox; “Not having” is the ultimate having.
- Take responsibility for every aspect of your life and stop adding things to it that aren't really there, e.g., anything you happen to be thinking about!
Bozebits - You and only you bring to every present moment experience your reaction to it—love-hate, right-wrong, happy-sad, etc.
Bozebits - What we did yesterday and what we do today have no bearing on anything that happens tomorrow.
Bozeshorts - Understanding life is not a good trade for missing it
Bozebits - Got thoughts? The things we believe are essential are only so because we think so. If we are one with all things, there can be no division from anything.
Bozebits - Our earthly experience is entirely unbiased and neutral in every way. We add the bias, the judgments, and thoughts about what is happening and why.
Nutshells - Is not a broken heart a contemplative one? Peace comes to such a heart.
Bozebits - We, meaning you, are responsible for everything in our experience, directly, indirectly, and uniquely.
Bozebits - I do not want materiality to be the object of my desires.
Bozebits - If we could but comprehend our true nature, we would be humbled by the smallness of even the most significant acts of humans.
Bozebits - Inner peace comes to you when you let go of the idea that you cannot have a meaningful life unless you discover what it is you think you need to do
Bozeshorts - What is the best version of yourself?
Bozebits - The cause of humans’ greatest struggles results when whom we have become egotistically (unreal) conflicts with what we are innately (real).
Carl’s Nutshells - Death is but a shadow of living
Bozebits - Each of us is greater than anything we can imagine, regardless of what others may try to impose on us.
Life is complete, no matter how you…
Bozebits - ...the purpose of life is living, and you are purposeful with every breath you take
Bozebits - The ego asks, "let there be light so I may see," while the divine part of us says, "let there be light so all may see."
Bozebits - Our level of consciousness is directly related to what we have been taught and by whom.
Bozebits - They who know their inner God, the divine self, have a relationship with life, which is incredible.
Negating Add-ons - You can never go too far for someone...
Bozebits - Embrace what you can’t possibly know, and fear will lose its fangs
Bozebits - Your intent should only look to connect to that inner knowing within you, but you must also remain neutral about the acts of others who are not doing the same
Negating Add-on - Actually there is something more classy and powerful
Bozebits - Are you or aren't you?
Bozebits - Planting your own garden is the only "good and plenty."
Carl’sNutshells - Non-accommodating with your opinions, silent with your tongue. Either, or ...
Bozebits - Be Present. Most of what you worry about never happens. Worrying is futuristic thinking, and because the future does not exist, you cannot know it. Doesn’t it seem a bit silly to worry at all?
Bozebits - The ego creates the duality of good and evil to undo its godlike counterpart,
Bozebits - If you meander in a realm of thinking that asks, “Why me?” you will remain forever stuck creating the circumstances around which this questioning occurs. Get unstuck by asking, instead, “why not me?”
Bozebits - How are you paying your attention?
Bozebits - Take no thought for yesterday or tomorrow
Bozebits - You are a fantastic receptacle to the most profound and wondrous things.
Bozebits - Life and all you are never ends
Bozebits - Judging removes the fun out of life
Bozebits - Close your eyes and see ...
Bozebits - Ego is what we must lose to live free...
Carl’s Nutshells - Growth happens quietly and often in the darkest places...
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Carl’s Nutshell - You are the greatest, yet untellable story that ever lived
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Nutshells - If you can think it, say it, write it...
YOU the CREATOR- The Unchangeable Change - What we like to call change, for most of us, is really an adding of layers to the onion rather than removing them. We tell ourselves “let me do this, accomplish that or go here instead of where I am, and everything will be better.” It won’t; please get that! Most of us are full … Continue reading "YOU the CREATOR- The Unchangeable Change"
Monsters - Counter the ugliness you see in the world with your beauty. Not more ugliness! Recently I placed a post on Facebook that I regularly do daily and have been doing for several years now. I receive many comments and always try to engage with those who take the time to respond or comment but on … Continue reading "Monsters"
KNOWING - We are the good that we love, the evil we hate, the darkness we fear, the light that gives hope. We are all things, people, places we imagine or cannot imagine. We are all thoughts and forms and are endowed with power to create the good we cherish or the evil we despise in this existence. We are the beauty that loves and the ugliness that hates. We are the then, the now, and the yet to be simultaneously in a never-ending timeless sea of infinite life.
The Unconscious Life – The Dreamer and the Dreamed - It is as if the dreamer dreams and the dreams themselves live. They do, in fact, seem so real that we are lost to the illusion on display before us and rarely do we ever escape it. Life for most of us is the dream of one who fell asleep long, long ago, perhaps as children. The process of falling asleep begins at birth when everyone in our newly awakened life takes on the responsibility of convincing us that what they see is all that is there. Every institution we are exposed to in life from our birth to our death is the magic dust that keeps us asleep.
Cosmic Train - There really is no purpose in this life other than to experience reality as only humans can. Every aspect of life should be embraced and we should revel in every minute of it regardless of whether we judge the experience good or bad. Our purpose, if there is any purpose, is to live and live abundantly in the richness of sensory experiences our human existence allows. Our existence “is” the meaning of life! Living “it” is its only purpose.
Stream of Life - But we need not know because such knowing will not add one thing to the incredible beauty, abundance and wonder of our existence. We need only breathe life as it breathes us and go where it takes us.
Of Carts and Bags – A tale of Christmas - She began to speak of how she had fallen on hard times, that her mother had fallen very ill and lost her house while her father died suddenly just about the time she lost her own job. It was a tale of hardship and loss but she never really lost her perkiness as she told it. She seemed very happy to be alive even amidst the hardships she had encountered.
Choosing Supportive Thoughts - “The chooser isn’t choosing the thoughts; the chooser is experiencing the thoughts the human is experiencing and is completely unattached to any thought, thought.” In other words, only humans react to “human thought.”
No Failures in Life - Another great question on my website: www.spiritual-intuition.com by an anonymous individual inquiring about the metaphor of the “mustard seed and the mustard tree.” Like many things I comment on, my response is likely going to be “off” from what most of us have been told the story represents. Still, I share the question and my answer here … Continue reading "No Failures in Life"
Your Hands - Perhaps another way to put this is to say that unconditional love or caring requires no dependence on "me" to notice it. Very hard to do.
Saviorism – Who saves you…and from what?? - If we can learn anything from history it is that we cannot learn from history! What we should gather from history is that nothing, no one, can or will save us. No president, political party, nation, religion, individual, philosophy or ideal can save us. We cannot be saved because there is nothing to be saved from!
The Nature of Spirituality - "They were without labels or identifiers. They knew nothing of their “lack” which was a label I, my sister and others had given them. They were living life “sweetly” without any hold to an image others thought they should wear."
Resolutions – No time for Masks; The “I’s” Have it! - The best resolution is the one that takes the entire cast of “I’s” into the New Year.
Giants in the Land - The giants and people of renown will show us all and the showing resides not in the institutions we believe must change. It resides in the compassion, honor, dignity and integrity they will replace all the old forms with.
What do you do to be enlightened? - ...enlightenment is not some magical, mystical awareness of all the, so called, "Big Questions." Enlightenment is the "nothing" that existed before the "ego" needed an explanation.
How We Create Our Own Reality? - Mind based thoughts are powerful but spirit based creative powers are much more so. In fact, the suffering of most humans can be tied directly to the struggle between "what" they are (or were when they got here) and what they have been conditioned to be after they arrived.
The Non-Gift of Giving - The Human in us says, "let there be light, so I may see" while the God that we are says, "let there be light so all may see."
A consciousness guide; “The” Spiritual Handbook! – Book Review - If nothing else this book will make you look at yourself in a new and reverent way and it will most certainly “shift your consciousness.”
My Father Al; A Living Tribute - My Father Al came into my life after I had ruled out all adult humans as trustworthy and protective of those they were charged with caring for.
You Are Not Your Body - We will never "fail" in this life because this life is not anywhere near what we are in eternity
Breaking Down the Barriers to Spirit – A Way to Live for 2012 - How do we penetrate egoic devices that keep us from accessing the good within? Here is a list of characteristics that will not only penetrate our ego natures but help form a barrier that will prevent ego from having any influence in our lives, whatsoever.
A Holiday Message – Before Giving….Release - The idea of giving away our sins is not so much about giving away our sins to him as much as it is about releasing ourselves from carrying them.
A View on Compassion - What comes into question for the divine in you is compassion. Now, the world has misunderstood the meaning of compassion. The world (egos) think of compassion as a higher form of love which it is not. Compassion has nothing to do with love.
Are You Worthy of Your Dreams? - Actually, YOU are the "dreamer" therefore you are greater than the "dreamed."
Honesty – Do You Tell the Truth or Does the Truth Tell You? - We are all liars. In fact, we are so good at lying, many of us will take offense at such an accusation, but perhaps more importantly, we have become so good at it we don't even know it.
Choices: You Choose, or Do You? - We think we choose but we do not. We repeat over and over again what our conditioning tells us is acceptable, and in so doing we stay confined within that tiny, little world we have created for ourselves.
A Rift in Illusion – My Father - I saw this rift in a hospital room with a man, my Father, whose hardened life would take pause and see something far beyond the things and forms of normal life. Most of my time with him was spent listening to his illusion of the events of his life. Even in my own illusion his life, his illusion, was incomprehensible. He was an enigma of the highest order. Some might say crazy.
“You” The Divine - The greatest misconception of the concept of divinity is that it typically excludes us as divine.
Do We Create Our Own Reality? - The god that you are “created” this experience long before you arrived here on Earth. The mind identity fights against that original purpose. Find the inner self and you will begin to recognize the awesome power of your own creation. Pretty cool!
Non Consciousness, consciousness and unconsciousness - Every cell in our bodies is a receptacle for millions and millions of pieces of information streaming in from the environment. It is total awareness of everything going on at every level possible in the human including the spiritual or soul level
Confession - In the grand scheme of things existence will continue without ramifications and our sojourn here on earth will just be one of an infinite number of them we will experience in one form or another. When you find the god that you are you will rise above the need to judge others and yourself and you will find that any idea of sin vanishes.
Thoughts Shared With a Young Explorer (Part 3) - When you discover the god that you are you will not be subject to any law, including what we call physical laws (gravity, etc.). God's know no law and are therefore not held captive by them. Only the mind puts barriers around the infinite.
Thoughts Shared With a Young Explorer (Part 2) - The mind is completely good with this because as long as it can convince you that a rational answer to your divine nature exists you will never discover your divine nature and this is the mind's ultimate objective. The mind does not exist outside of any conception other than the one it has created as "the self."
Thoughts Shared With a Young Explorer - We are infinite beings (infinite in some form or another) and this earth life is a very finite reality. What has happened is that in our finite "human-ness" we try to put boundaries around our infinite selves. We have to stop doing that in order to begin to see how incredible we are in an "infinite sense." Very, very hard to do because of the conditioning we undergo from birth.
The Well–Being of Being Well - Life is Well-Being! Whatever your state or capacity, do not be a judge of life, simply, Be Life!
How Real is Your Illusion?? - If everything as you now know it was washed away completely and you could re-construct your life anyway you chose, either completely or partially, what would your new life look like?
The Frequency of WOW!! - Want to change your "frequency of WOW?" Change your awareness of now to the awareness of "how" you once were. Find your inner child and WOW, WOW, WOW!!!!!
How do you define awareness? - How clear do you think your perception of life really is?
Now Versus Then - There is no chronological time when it comes to life and living. The only place of "time" in our existence is now; this very instant. In this instant we control everything in our lives and we have power to change anything past or future. Power is in the present!
The Assignment of Roles to God - From the beginning of recorded time humans have looked outward for a force greater than themselves. In the process of identifying or defining the Gods "out there" somewhere in "yonder heavens" these gods have taken on strangely human characteristics which, in most cases, have not only been extensions of the illusions of the time but are only unique in their size and quantity.