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. No one knows the way, yet we all know that somewhere within there lies what cannot be spoken.
Climb your mountains, assured that YOU are at the highest peak wherever you rest, and no one knows your secret. But to see you at rest, calm and peaceful, they too may discover the view with no beginning or end.
Bozebits
“There is nothing new under the sun,” it is said; thus, everything you think, believe, and know is not original to you but learned from others. In other words, what we all like to proclaim as “my life, my way” is copying someone else’s with the label of “me” or “mine” attached to it. The original “new” life is like a child seeing a flower for the first time and without the parental commentary of what kind of flower it is, or observing a starlit sky without knowing a thing about stars, just mesmerized that something so vast and beautiful shows up just for you every night. Do you see? What you think (believe, know) masks what is actually “new.”
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
That with which we identify is that which divides us. It is easy to say, “We are all one,” but we are separate from everything if we identify with anything. “Who we are” is unimportant; “what we are” doesn’t care. It has no identity. Find the “what” that lies beneath the “you” (identity). That is the place of oneness; it is the ultimate beauty!
Bozebits
The flashlight in a dark cave will always light up something regardless of where it points. If we anthropomorphize the flashlight, it would conclude that “light” shines everywhere because everywhere it points, there is light, even though we all know that is not the case. In actual human terms, if your attention (flashlight) only shines on a certain kind of television or radio program, news broadcast, political agenda, social cause, health code, religion, philosophy, etc., to conclude that you have light enough to know everything, including where you have no light at all would be starkly erroneous, and most would admit it. However, while admitting it, few do it. Do you see?
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. You already know that there is a lot of “otherness” around you all the time. To factor it out because your attention points somewhere else is your loss and humanity’s loss. Awareness includes otherness, even if you cannot see it. Don’t let yourself miss what the flashlight (you) can’t see. The best part of living is likely where it’s darkest.
Bozebits
“And there were giants in the land,” and then none. The only quality we look to from the institutions that were once bastions of integrity is intellect pounding to the drum of rhetoric, which is the progenitor of victimization and moral decay. Institutional intelligence cannot know what “you” feel. Ever! It can only know what it thinks it knows about how you feel, and institutional minds are the new order of leadership globally. Notwithstanding all the so-called brilliance in our institutions, more and more problems emerge in our collective formations.
Stop looking to the world to solve the world’s problems. The world knows not what it does, and if you continue looking to it, neither will you. Who are these “giants,” these women and men of renown? Look behind the eyes of these words you now read. YOU may be one of them. There are so many!
Bozebits
You cannot wish, dream, or hope for a drama-free life and have it happen if you are living with drama now. Do you see? NOW is a transformational place, a place where YOU, the creative center of the universe, step into the reality only YOU can create. End your drama now, and your wishes cease to be your lament.
Bozebits
We think we know, but we don’t. About what? About everything or anything. 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. Remember a time in your life, and thus common human experience, when nothing was known, and only then was there the awareness that comes with a deep connection to silence. It is the silence of not knowing. It is the silence of nothing showing up as everything.
Such silence cannot speak, think, or understand. It merely hears, as if, the voice of Gods illuminating the depths of infinity. Find this silence once again, and you will know, but such “knowing” can never take residence in your mind. It’s worth a visit. Peace, Carl
Bozebits
Worry not about the changing world and your place in it. Change is not a spiritual phenomenon that leads to awareness; instead, it is a platform for platitudes that arise out of window dressing and the thrill that comes in moments of rearrangement. In other words, you “changing” will not change anything.
Awareness happens when the norms for seeking it, learning it, and becoming it transforms into “it.” Do you see? “It” already is, and YOU already are, and there are no additions or subtractions to the “change” equations we love to express as necessary to a better world. “Transformation” does not happen one individual at a time, just YOU all the time. Try “it” for a change.
Bozebits
Your greatest limitation, everyone’s that is, is not what you fear but what you believe. Beliefs are an assault on any possibility of being present, and the filter straining out the real so that the unreal (beliefs) remains intact. Clarity is clear, and what you hold in your mind, believe, or don’t believe, think possible or impossible smudges the window of reality. Awareness is only known through optics without the taint and dinge of what your mind wants you to believe is.
Lose them (beliefs), and the window’s new transparency lets in new light that exposes any fear as a shackle to living more abundantly. I promise, then again, don’t “believe” a word I say!
Bozebits
What you think (about anything) will always be limited by what you think. Do you see? The infinite is not containable in thought or any stream of thoughts. 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. In other words, the infinite begets infinity, and that is not something you can know or think about! Lose your mind!