Love cannot be expressed by hating those who don’t love what you say, think, believe, or do. Love’s only equal is everything, and “everything” is necessarily the only emanation your love should manifest.
Bozebits
Awareness holds no anger, ever. Anger connects you to the mundane and unimportant acts of others and your own, drawing you away from the unfathomable surrounding you. Let others be their silly selves while you discharge your silliness with clarity, honesty, and detachment.
Wonders you will see even amid so much importance given to the unimportant!
Bozebits
Self-debasing at any level is driven by the stories you tell of its beginnings. Do you see? Stories fuel a protracted struggle to reach an arbitrary level taught and believed must be achieved to overcome your “less-than-ness” caused by something that no longer exists in reality. But the telling of the stories never seems to stop. Isn’t what you should do obvious?
Any story you tell of you is not you. It is fiction’s invasion of you now and now, regardless of any idea you attach to it, is perfection only someone without any story can experience. Don’t waste “now” with anything that isn’t, and your story, no matter how grand or horrific, “isn’t.”
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
Collective outrage takes root in a single heart at war with itself plus another, plus another, etc. Do you see? Plusses and minuses are you aligning with a feeling or mood that does nothing more than separate you from YOU, and while “you” may feel energized and victorious, YOU are nowhere to be found.
No collective is worth your loss of wholeness and connection. Where’s your heart? Not that one, the real one!
Bozebits
What you believe is coming to you or that you think you are going to is ego luring you into a hole that the past has already dug. Anywhere but here is where ego wants you to be, and sadly, most are “anywhere but here.”
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. Nothing is more evident than “now,” and you can always deal with that!
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 “mine” is believed. No one can see through beliefs. Thus, while preserving what’s mine and what’s yours, we all walk blindly into a non-existent reality upheld by unbelievable nonsense believed! Can you see?
When you fail to see that the inner beauty of those not like you is different from what you claim yours to be, it’s time to shed your beliefs. They’ve made you blind, and blindness is no way to experience something so grand as life right now in whatever it has served up! Please don’t take my word for it, but do give it a try. You won’t believe it, and that’s a good thing!
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. Regardless of what you think, believe, or do, you are always that greater light having this wondrous “human experience.” Regardless of “what is,” YOU transcend it; that is… YOU are God!
Bozebits
“Can life be more meaningful?” the questioner asked. “Don’t you mean that you have some idea of what life can give you that makes you feel better about it?” was the answer.
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. You (ego) bring(s) all of that to the party, and what you think is a buzzkill for any party. Regardless of what you experience, YOU are the most incredible show on earth, and while it is all yours, it has nothing to do with anything you “thought” it should be. What you believe “meaningful” isn’t. Living what is, is.
Bozebits
It is often said, “It’s the journey, not the destination,” but it’s neither in reality. Life’s sweetness is, ultimately, in living it. That is living each moment well and impeccably. Do you see? Destinations are conceptual creations of minds that are not content with what’s happening now and distractions from the only place the “real” exists, e.g., right here, right now. The “journey” leads you away from “here and now,” and all “destinations” are imaginary.
Your so-called “higher self” is not waiting for you to “get there” so that your life suddenly turns into something you’ve dreamed of that doesn’t look like your life. 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
Your side, mine, your religion, mine, your politics, mine, your righteousness, mine, etc., are nothing but the context in which you formed your ego, and I formed mine. Do you see? You are right, and I am wrong all because of your context, which I could never have experienced, nor you, mine and in the name of my, impossible to be wrong, rightness and you yours, you, me and everyone can condone and even advocate the most abhorrent behaviors and actions toward fellow human beings.
Some will exclaim, “We are all one,” and retreat into context. Silly humans. “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. I don’t know. I was just (wrongly) wondering.