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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Your thoughts, no matter how pure or grandiose, are the vehicles that carry you away from the present and, over time, distance you from something you knew long before you were able to think. Knowing before thinking is awareness, and you once stood alone knowing that everything in existence emanated from you. YOU are the creative center of the universe, but creation is not thought-driven. It is “knowing,” and YOU are the “Knower.” Your thoughts transport you far away from that. It shouldn’t take a lot of thinking about what needs to be done.
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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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Let your life be an expression of “what” you truly are, not the chest-pounding assertions made in brash, bold statements, as so many do now. You have nothing to prove in life, no measure to reach, and certainly no need to be extraordinary in egoic terms. All of that was taken care of with your first life-giving breath. There is nothing like YOU in all the universe, nor will there ever be in all the infinities; no competition whatsoever, no greater or lesser. YOUR extraordinariness goes without saying, but only when you embrace your ordinary self. Just BE; no assertion will ever outdo such an expression as YOU.
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Be cool with those who seem hot and throw their fire at you. If you heat up because of them, you only add to the fire, and worst of all, you fall under their control. In other words, don’t confuse action with reaction. Your flames are as hot as anyone else’s, and if they are lit by fire that is thrown at you, your ego is running and ruining your life. Be like the gentle stream into which a burning branch falls and whose flames are absorbed in the waters of your heart. Let them drift with you into coolness and a loving flow that emanates from depths no fire can ignite. Again and again, “Be Cool!”
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Don’t try to solve problems that don’t exist. If you are thinking you’re likely thinking about something that already happened, the outcome of which cannot be altered, or what you hope happens in the future, that probably won’t happen any way you think it should. “What is” is all you’ve got, and it does not need kibitzing from a chattering mind that assumes it has any control. Listen to yourself. You might even get a good laugh at what marvels of nonsense your mind comes up with. But only laugh, then let it go! You have things to do that can only be done in the present. Besides, when you’re present, it’s a whole lot quieter!
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Spirituality, awakening, awareness, enlightenment, whatever you call it, only exists in the present. You cannot experience it anywhere else, not even in a so-called previous experience. It has no residence in the past or the future, as those are just memories or imagination. In other words, spirituality is a constant, present-moment reality that you always are; there is never a becoming, searching-for, and finding. To speak of it in any way or to speak as if you have a mantle because you have awakened is to step out of the real. Awakening is the ultimate humbling that lacks for words but thunders silence. Be thunderous.
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“Words hurt,” as it is sometimes said, but they really don’t. What hurts is an egoic reaction to them, and “reaction” is an expression of your ego defending what it believes is essential to its formulated and unreal importance. What YOU are underneath your ego doesn’t care, nor can it be hurt. It simply smiles at every encounter, every interaction, everyone, and everything.
You need not protect yourself from others’ words. If you are whole and know what it is that lives beneath the noise of the mind (ego), there is nothing to be protected from. Know YOU, and you know no hurt or fear. Seriously!
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Having love in your heart contains “having no fight in your heart.” That is, all your reasoning, education, religiousness, politics, affiliations, and identities are yours without contention with those who don’t share them with you. Love’s greatest attribute is that it loves all — especially that which you define as unlovable. The best thing about love is that underneath all the stuff you determine unlovable, it is there, anyway, ready to extend itself to everything, regardless of your reasons not to. Lose your fight; find your love. For real!
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Dreams to reality in the blink of an eye? That is how quick transformation comes when you are not trying to fix another. Love is embracement; it has no judgment or agenda whatsoever. That is, it knows no right or wrong. You do not need a dream to “BE” the love that transforms. Blink, and you’re there.