At the end of every search is love nestled in a quiet “knowing.” Not of
having got there but realizing you always were there. Do you see?
The will to force yourself in a fruitless struggle to find “whatever” is not
born of love. It’s born of drive, and “drive” while delivering incredible feats
of human endeavor costs far too much energy to enjoy. The pursuit of anything
not fueled by love will drive love into love’s loss, coupled with physical and
psychic frustration. Awareness is not worthy of the drive that seeks it, but
“will” born of your love is. Love, and you will. Simple as that!
Your spoken or unspoken unworthiness, imperfection, sadness, fear, etc., is your mind’s rejection of what it recognizes but fails to know. That is, “what YOU are,” underneath all the labels you apply to yourself, is pushed aside more fiercely and clung to as the necessary evil of your existence. It is often called suffering.
In other words, your mind is afraid of “what YOU are” to the extent that it accepts and forms lies that virtue and perfection are something you are not. Do you see? Your mind utters judgments because it cannot fathom the impossible, and “what YOU are” is the ‘impossible.”
Without any of your mind-made or human-made labels, what (ultimately) are YOU? You’ll never know if any answer contains even a remnant of those labels. You’re perfect! Don’t believe it; silence your thoughts and “know it.” You (really) can “know.”
The way to awareness is entered through the mind’s threshold, but not in the way you think. 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.
Silence is not an easy pill for any mind to take, but unlike so many “pills” you are told to swallow, silence opens into “knowing” that is otherwise unknowable when “mindful doors” are left open. Go on; step through and shut that door.
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. Do you see? “Out there” is anywhere but where YOU, the real you, is.
Darkness is not the Sun’s opposite. The Sun is always free of darkness and always shines light. What YOU are outside your mind (body) is the same. It knows no opposites and shines eternal light, e.g., YOU are always “shining.” Do you see?
Only your mind calls in what “is not there” and makes it “there.” What to do? Wrest your mind of darkness and stop “calling.”
All too often, we create our divisions, e.g., “I am different than you because…” and lose ourselves in defense of them. Do you see? We sacrifice our love, dignity, kindness, tolerance, etc., to a fight that should never have occurred. You are not divisible if you are “one” with all that is, and you are even when you aren’t.
I don’t believe that there is anything more significant in the universe than this moment I spend now. In truth, I don’t believe in anything at all. If engaged fully in the present, belief in anything is unnecessary and a waste of mental energy that won’t alter, in any way, what is. Being present requires nothing from you except, well, BEING!
Reason digs deep into your mind, but mystery unleashes the infinite. In other words, the quest for “reason” by digging into your mind does little more than prevent you from a mystery no mind will ever comprehend. Reason that!
