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
It is profoundly shortsighted for you, me, or anyone to disregard any aspect of others living their lives in such a way that disturbs your beliefs, reasoning, or expectations. There is an incomprehensible vastness to a life that does not fit your structure, but it contains the most simple form of freedom you can experience. Perhaps that “simplicity” is too formidable and disruptive for the sense of safety you’ve (we’ve) created. Those enslaved throughout the quests of human endeavor often tremble at the vastness of freedom. It is “possibility,” too great to conceive and too daunting to pursue while cozy and safe in our beliefs contrived by others. Still, in all of us is the “knowing” there is something more inside that sets us free.
Your dilemma, the dilemma of all, is finding what’s inside that is unafraid of what’s outside. It’s there, but it’s also yours to remember. Good luck.
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
The “moral high ground” is not what you think it is, nor is it the cause or purpose you pursue. If what you pursue does not encompass everyone and everything, then it’s a point of view, and when all you do is point, there is no view. “What YOU are” always sees what is. What you think does not. Get the “point?”
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!
Bozbits
Finding “what YOU are” (SELF) is not an intellectual inquiry, even though science, biology, philosophy, psychology, and sociology would have you believe otherwise. None of these identification sources were with you at birth, and none will be with you at death, and yet somehow, you have and will always know there is something beyond the descriptions humans give to life.
Let your mind give way to the “unborn awareness” present with you at birth and continue as YOU in the eternities. Relax into living. No experience can be explained by the educated or inspired, but each breath you take in each moment you live is brushing the eternal YOU. That is, there is no description.
Bozebits
You cannot know or explain the human condition (no one can) until you know your own, and you will never know your own. The only life to-do is your life, and it is in no way, shape, or form applicable to anyone other than you, and it is a twenty-four-seven affair that never takes a break. Get busy; you are all there is, but there is plenty of “you” to-do!
Bozebits
No one can know what the universe won’t tell, and it doesn’t reveal much, leaving what we think we know as little more than a melding of theory, conjecture, and make-believe. All you can know is that “what YOU are” creates an exquisite, cosmic soup with no recipe but contains the most beautiful ingredients and delicious flavors. You’ll “get it” when “what you know” is no longer known. Do you see?
What you know is the chemical additives and artificial flavors mixed in with an already tasty and healthy entrée. You don’t need them to relish the meal. All you need do is to be present at the table, open to surprise and adventure. Bon appétit!
Bozebits
The mind is eager to jump on board with new buzz words, concepts, and “aha’s,” but the typical mechanism for doing so is “weaponized philosophy” that often looks like “I must comprehend, integrate and blend “mentally” (with all the crap I think and believe already) so this “new thing” can find a permanent place in me.” Do you see?
Trying to control, deny, or repress philosophically “what is” will never alter “what is.” It will, however, embed deeper into what you wish to replace, undo, or integrate. Reality is always and only “what it is,” and you never “get it” by trying to understand it. “Getting it” is living “it” as a present-moment experience. All discovery happens in the present, not the thought of the present but the unconscious experience of it, just as it is.
Don’t try clearing your mind of what you don’t want or like. There is always a blue sky” that is there regardless of a cloudy mind. Holster your weapons (philosophy) and embrace the clouds with nary a thought that something is wrong and needs fixing. See, it’s already clearing!