The “road less traveled is still someone else’s road. Do you see? The road “best” traveled is the road “not” traveled. In other words, look before and behind you; if you notice any semblance of a road, you’re on someone else’s. What makes a real difference? Blaze your path and leave no trace that others can follow.
Bozebits
Personal power is lost to the weaknesses you identify with. That is, “weaknesses” are your story developed to either justify your pursuits to change them, share them as a model to help others or lament the station you describe as your life. Likely, all of the above.
Invest your power in “being” right here, right now, with what is, and give not any of it to a story that eagerly consumes it. You (everyone) stand(s) at the end of the tunnel where only light shines, but it is also “you” (everyone) who turns back and looks into the darkness again and again and again.
Of course, your story is an absolute bestseller, but it is nothing to the story you live each moment. Turn again into the light that only disappeared when you turned away from it. There’s nothing behind you but weakness and fiction. Your life is your presence; NOW! Feel the power!
Bozebits
There is no such thing as spiritual mastery, and your pursuit of it only puts you at odds with the human experience you’re supposed to have. Too many of us hinge our lives on things happening that overwhelm our beliefs and security and shock our senses, then complain that life is too much (take the constant blather of how awful the year (current year) has been, for example).
Nothing goes “wrong” in human experience except for your idea of how it’s supposed to be, and that “idea” is the foundation of all spiritual ideology and the source of frustrating pursuits that never yield the “mastery” you seek.
Mastery of life is living this moment without conflict with what you think it should look like. In other words, don’t be at odds with what is happening or with those who think “what is happening” is what should or shouldn’t be happening. They’re as nutty as you are! Love nuts and enjoy each moment with them. Doing so will never be “mastery,” but it will be spiritual.
Bozebits
Your fixation on improving or learning something in life should go no further than developing to a high degree your ability to experience your experience more fully. You have the perfect playground for developing such skills as well. It’s right here right now without the intellectualization of previous experiences or the confusion of imagined future experiences that do not exist in reality.
In other words, you love what is, and life fills in all the blanks, or you play multiple-choice and live a life where your carefully thought-out, well-reasoned, and meticulously committed to memory guesses are wrong. You won’t fail in either case, but you might experience less stress and much more fun. Just sayin’.
Living by the book or just living. It’s not much of a choice if you don’t think about it, but it’s a monster if you do, So don’t.
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
Your desires connect you to the materiality of your mind, which is attached to the things of the world. In other words, attachments close your eyes to the true nature of “what is” and “what is” is never born of desire. The magic of creation is simply that “what is” is never apart from what YOU are. In other words, the secret to “more” is “desiring” less.
Bozebits
You are not diminished by any act, whether judged good or bad. The human experience is not a price paid for your existence in the universe. Do you see? Underneath all your experience is the God that creates it, and YOU are that God.
Bozebits
You and you alone bring to every experience your “minds’” reaction to it. The most common thing most do is point away from themselves and look outward for a cause, e.g., “something or someone, out there, made me do it.” If you are experiencing it, you are the cause of it. Learn to love all the “effects” you create (cause). Creators, (YOU) do this and love everything about what they do.
Bozebits
Wanting is uncharacteristic of our divinity. The character of gods is to create. To create is to give. The ego asks, “let there be light so I may see,” while the divine part of us says, “let there be light so all may see.” Do all see when in your presence?
The Matrix and Such Things
I have a site on Facebook titled “Spiritual Intuition” where I post a daily comment both in the morning and later in the evening. I have also been invited to share the posts on a few other sites that are looking for spiritual or inspirational content, as well. Occasionally I get comments or feedback and on some occasions I even get a question or request to expound further, which in most cases, I do right there in the comments to the post.
On one such occasion I was asked a question that I feel would be more appropriate in a blog post. I’ve hesitated to respond to this particular question because my answer is of such a nature that it might be thought offensive or flippant and I really don’t want that to be how it is seen nor do I ever want to offend someone who is asking questions in a most sincere way. I’ve decided to proceed anyway but with the disclaimer that this is not intended to be a put down in any way.
First the post I put on Facebook and then the question that followed (http://fb.me/vWecbJXx).
My post: “Nothing, no one is orchestrating your experience. Stop tying yourself to reasons that have no reason.
The best excuse for living is that you already are. Get in to it! Awesome day! Carl”
Now the question: “Throw light on the matrix theory, some day, Carl. And also, how do you see it….in the light of the above quotation. My best wishes.”
Dear friend,
For me and in the simplest terms, I have no experience with the “matrix theory” and so in that sense it does not exist for me. Having said that, I don’t think about it at all other than in the context of something I call “junk food for the brain.” It is fascinating to listen to others speculate and expound on the complexities of such things and, of course, the movie “The Matrix” is a creative wonder that captivated the minds of millions of people including me. Still, I honestly don’t think about it nor do I find any discussion of it germane to my experience as a human being.
If “it” (the Matrix) is, then for me, “it” simply is and I am good with it. I often tell people to overcome and put aside their unique and, or their specific beliefs about things, as these are what binds us to an experience that is limited and often frustrating. In other words, I believe everything or nothing which is ultimately the same thing. It simplifies the experience of life by taking all the worry and concern out of it and leaves “it,” as I see it, pretty open to “all that is” which is, well, “all that is.”
My space alien friends and conspiracy theory friends and so many others who dwell on these things seem so wrapped up in the dangers and seedy underbelly of forces that are out to control us and take away our freedoms and life experience as we now know it and I still can’t get myself to alter any focus on anything other than this incredible experience I am constantly embraced by. I do love a good mystery and I am in constant aw and wonder at the creative ways the human mind can conjure all these things and yet at the same time who’s to say that any of it is untrue? Certainly not me. All I can offer is that I have no experience of it and you might already have heard me say that “nothing exists without our experience of it.” “Does a tree falling in the forest make a sound?” Not if I didn’t hear it. End of story…for me anyway!
As of yet, my post, which spawned your question, still holds, e.g., “nothing, no one is orchestrating your experience.” My experience has included the absolute awareness, and I often say, “it” is the one and only thing I know for sure” that “I am not this body.” I don’t know, believe or subscribe to anything else except this. I am not this body and this includes the mind, heart, feelings, consciousness and anything else we ascribe to human form. We experience “it” but we’re not “it.” We are something else that transcends human form and for me I couldn’t begin to describe it in terms the human mind could comprehend. So I don’t. I just accept that “something” is having this incredible human experience and what “it” is loves it completely without question or judgment.
Some may see this as incredibly simplistic and it is but oh my…what liberation! I don’t worry at all about the masters of the matrix or what the illuminati is doing to the world, or whether the crazy gods whoever they may be are doing to the world I create and experience. They, whoever they are, haven’t taken over any part of my experience yet so I’m living the dream. I take that back; the dream is living me!
I think I’ve answered the second part of your question. It doesn’t have any effect on my experience other than to provide a little mysterious fun (junk food) to my already wild imagination and as for what I get to be aware of in this experience, the matrix, the boogeyman de jour or the latest conspiracy theory, could not come close to imagining or affecting. My excuse for living, is, simply living. I love it all!
Thanks again for asking the question and bearing with my response. This has been fun for me and hopefully for you as well. All my best and please never hesitate to comment further, share your thoughts of this and many other subjects, or rebut my remarks. Life for me is pretty non-complex. I actually see it as a vacation; that is, a vacation of the Gods from the other things Gods do (this also means I think you’re God). Vacations are for relaxing, recharging, having fun and most of all not taking anything too seriously. I’m pretty good at it! All my love,
Carl