Firstly, in matters of the heart, never, ever, ever speak your mind. Your mind gets it wrong one hundred percent of the time. Secondly, all matters are matters of the heart. Shh…
Bozebits
Your mind, contrary to what you think, does not seek limitlessness. It seeks limitation, safety, and comfort. It loves to control and creates boundaries around things it cannot control. Your mind’s elemental starting point for all interaction is “I am right,” and “everything (everyone) else is wrong.” Switching off your mind puts you squarely in the place of present-moment experience where mystery and wonder are incomprehensible to anything your mind thinks is better. Go “mindless” today; If you aren’t thinking there are no limitations!
Bozebits
The new-age idea that the universe is yessing and no-ing your wants and desires is a hoax and implies that the universe makes choices on your behalf. It’s just not so. The universe is, simply, YES. That is when you place your wants and desires ahead of “what is,” you, and you alone are saying NO to a reality incomprehensible to anything you are capable of thinking otherwise.
Yes is yes to “what is.” That is everything there is! Anything else is no, but it is your no and nothing else. BE YES, and you are one with the universal YES!
Bozebits
Oneness is ubiquitous. That is, YOU are everything, and nowhere in all existence are YOU not found. Your mind (ego), however, separates you from everything but takes great pride in statements such as, “we are all one, etc.” Do you see? “You, separate from me, and I separate from you are one” is still separation. Being present is awareness without a definition of an “I,” seeking to merge with all. You cannot seek that which touches everything, and YOU are everything! That is, right up until you think you are everything. Oneness is not a thought; it just is. So let it be.
Bozebits
What you think, believe, or claim to know requires an ego to defend it. What YOU are outside of ego clings to nothing, which subdues an ego ready to fight. Know YOU; that is YOU, who has no description and is undefinable. YOU will not be found on a battlefield driven by egoic strategies but only on the pristine meadow of peace, solitude, and warm, gentle breezes. You’ll know it when you let go of what you know.
Bozebits
The voice you hear and pay attention to is your voice. That is the voice of ego ‘sorting things out” according to its rules and judgments. It is the most erroneous voice you know, and it creates the false narrative of what is. The voice you don’t hear never judges, complains, makes stuff up about what happens, or seeks to be right. It embraces life in quiet and thrills in each moment it participates in the grand mystery of human experience. It is the voice that never condemns another and shows only kindness to all “forms.” If you listen, you will hear it, but never if you are thinking. Shhh; mystery is afoot!
Bozebits
Water may conform to the outline of the bottle, but it will always be water. Like water, YOU are innately love, truth, and beauty, and exist far beyond the container that holds you. That is, who you think yourself to be is your containment, and it is not “what YOU are.” When the container (your idea of what you are) is empty, or perhaps missing, YOU will always and only be YOU.
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What you believe is the heart of all your suffering and, sadly, you cannot think or educate your way out of it. You can, however, unthink your way to freedom by not thinking at all. Let yourself lose control of all your mind has convinced you it has under control, and you will discover you never had any, regardless of what your mind convinced you of otherwise. Surprisingly, that’s when you will feel the most in control. It just doesn’t get any easier – but hard.
Bozebits
Your thoughts, no matter how pure or grandiose, are the vehicles that carry you away from the present and, over time, distance you from something you knew long before you were able to think. Knowing before thinking is awareness, and you once stood alone knowing that everything in existence emanated from you. YOU are the creative center of the universe, but creation is not thought-driven. It is “knowing,” and YOU are the “Knower.” Your thoughts transport you far away from that. It shouldn’t take a lot of thinking about what needs to be done.
Bozebits
The past is where your judgments and reasoning were formed. It is the worst place to spend any time, yet your mind will work tirelessly to keep you there. Get present and simply be with the newness of each crystal-clear moment. The clearer your head, the clearer your experience.