The basis of all religions, all spirituality, is to separate you from the form (consciousness) you think you are. That is, to free you from any connection that hooks you to mind and body. Your mind makes a compelling case for form and weaves itself into every aspect of life, making it challenging to “unhook” and recognize that something much more profound and mysterious is the real essence of your existence. The more you want, the more you think about getting, and the more you get, the stronger the pull into mind and body. YOU are more than any thought your mind conjures, but your mind will keep on inventing grandiose and profound form-filled scenarios to keep you, the finite, from knowing YOU, the infinite. Solution? Think less, believe less, and lo, YOU emerge.
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Separation is uniquely “I” (ego) based. That is, whatever reasoning or beliefs you adhere to, whether religion, politics, nationality, gender, ethnicity, social status, education, etc., you are the sole source of separation and any discord you sense is with that which lies outside your point of view. Furthermore, those who subscribe to your separation (agree with you) do not make you “one” with them. It just feeds your ego with the security of numbers, e.g., “look at all those who feel and believe as I do. I (we) must be right.”
Your “truth,” as it is bandied about in spiritual speak, is not truth if in any way it separates you from another, regardless of any moral code you subscribe to. Oneness is love, and love is without reason of any kind. Sinner or saint is not distinguishable. Love is our core and thus surrounds us all.
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Give way to the mystery that is the foundation of your experience. Embrace love instead, and whatever unfolds, it will carry you through. Lighten the load of all that you feel you must shoulder, especially the burdens of heavy thoughts and resentments. The less you have to think about, the less you have to fear.
Ease, always, into life with your wits, kindness, and smile. Life will smile back.
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The “best” never comes. It just is, and it is right now. It’s not how you view it that makes it so. Your view is fraught with beliefs, judgments, prejudices, conjectures, hopes, and dreams, so much so that actual awareness of “what is” rarely happens. Seeing has no voice, no mind, and no description, and “the best” is always right now, right where you are, and it is oozing with beauty. And why wouldn’t it be beautiful? YOU created it and, well, YOU are the best!
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Oneness with now is free of any want for something else. In other words, the ultimate living is life, as is.
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The past is unfixable, the future unattainable. A single thought of either transports you from the intimacy that only exists where you stand at this moment. Look only to now, and you will never be without love and the peace afforded only in the present.
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The search for truth is more likely an attempt to escape from it. That is, we look, in our searching, for something better than what is now, and that “looking” is driven by a preconceived notion that there is more somewhere else that has yet to be attained. So we search, when all that can be known, all that can fulfill our existence, is the very thing we want to escape from. That is, “what is” now. Truth cannot be found where you search for it. It is found in the things you want to be different from now. Stay put; all that is is right here, not waiting to be discovered, instead, waiting for your embrace. Hug the day; your eyes will be opened!
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Fear of the unknown is ultimately fear of losing the known. That is, your mind braces at giving up the comfort of what it thinks it knows for something it cannot define. Agreements, with what you think you know, are neat little traps that hold you to comfort, not reality. You will never “know” what you don’t know until what you know is put aside. It’s a leap into mystery from which there is no return, but there is nothing like it in all the “known” and “unknown” universe! Take a breath, close your eyes, and let go! It’ll last forever!
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Dwelling on the past makes you a slave to it, and it is the worst kind of slavery in that the past does not exist. In other words, any connection to the past is a self-imposed prison, virtually impossible to escape! Your mind loves the story of its suffering and trauma and embellishes it at every opportunity, making it, seemingly, real and thus, un-overcome-able. Your identity with it is little more than your story, and yet, in all the telling, it rarely goes away. So why keep telling it?
Regardless of what you have been through in the past, is it not true that right now, in the present, you are “through” it? Living now has no history. You always get a fresh start in the present, and right NOW is your freedom!
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Being aware is full engagement with “what is” in the moment. That is, all in, with no movement of thought akin to walking along a mountain stream and encountering a bear a few yards away walking toward you. Before a single thought arises, you are fully present and engaged; every sense heightened, your mind crystal clear because it has yet to start a disconnecting conversation. Mind without thought is the only clarity you can experience, and what comes after is either a stream of thought clouding things up or awareness that has no connection to anything, learned, believed, imagined, or experienced. Be “all in,” but don’t think about what being “all in” is; that will only take you out.