The only thing hard about humans is ego. Ego is the shell you form to protect yourself from the onslaught of other egos, and all egos, even the collective ego, are in protective mode. Love and expressions of love are the only way to soften both your own and the ego of others. Show and express love often! Smile, nod, and be kind. Ego always has to mellow in such interactions.
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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!
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In spirituality, the beckon is to focus more narrowly, define more clearly, or, as it is now called, raise consciousness. However, the more detailed you become in your descriptions of life, the more wrapped up in your mind you become. In other words, attention to detail, in the spiritual sense, leads to loss of awareness. Quieting your mind removes your sense of reason from the picture of the life you uphold and thus clears your focus, letting more light show through. Under any lens, beauty is present, but if you are determined to sharpen your focus (reason), you will not see that much of it. Set your reason aside. Clarity doesn’t need it, and when it comes to awareness, neither do you!
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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.
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The “balance” you seek can only happen when all the things you believe cause you suffering, or are wrong with you or life in general, are willingly experienced and embraced. That is, living completely without a single regret or wish for something other. In other words, your life is not you swinging from one high to another low and trying to minimize (balance) the span or intensity between them. It is you in the middle (fulcrum) giving cause, not balance, to the entire ride. Without YOU, nothing else exists; hence, no “ride” at all! That is the sweetest joy you can see and the only life you’re going to experience anyway. Have fun!
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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.
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There is nowhere to go in life, no moving forward, backward, up, down, or any other direction. Forward and backward, etc., do not exist. Life is only about you being, and if you are breathing, you are being. Being is the only “where” and “what” there is, and whatever you seek elsewhere takes you from it. The YOU that seeks nothing, nowhere is the grand spectacle, so why search for it elsewhere? If you’re anywhere but here now, you’re going nowhere. Just BE; YOU, after all, are every “where,” and every “thing.”
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Regardless of whose teachings you believe, you cannot know that they know anything more than you. Thus, your beliefs keep you from the experience of something few will ever encounter. That is, innocence or newness, unencumbered by ready-made beliefs, dogma, and how-tos that mask the real and blind your mind. The only clear thought is no thought, and as for beliefs? They’re the most blinding thoughts of all! Innocence is clarity, not clutter. Take this time, this moment, and clean your house. It will surprise you how spacious it is.
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Your mind cannot connect with the divine, e.g., what YOU are that cannot be thought. Its only focus is “groupthink,” meaning conditioned and given by others. It is forever in search of like minds, like conditioning, confirmation, and security. What YOU are underneath the noise and chatter of thinking cannot be given, trained, thought, described, or searched for. IT just is, and until the “conditioned” is put aside, you will never know IT. That is, know YOU. Clearing your mind clears the way to the wonder of YOU. Nothing more spectacular in all the heavens!
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What you think is the foundation of everything you consider wrong in the world, because it falls out of harmony with what you believe is right. What YOU are, outside anything you think or believe, knows only right. That is, “right” is not the opposite of wrong. Isn’t it interesting that “what YOU are” is not “choosing” a life to live but living life as is? And loving it by the way. Get your mind out of the way, and you can too!