Silence has no words, associations, descriptions, or assumptions for the present moment you create. It is not the opposite of noise as most of us think of it. It is all things without definition, spring without winter, fall without summer, life billowing without meaning. Silence is where the miraculous precedes the mundane. It is everything and nothing, smiling at the ALL that has no explanation. It is YOU smiling with the created.
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All that is, all that YOU will ever be, is contained in this moment, and in whatever earthly form you happen to be experiencing, e.g., spiritual and physical are not separate. It’s all here now; right now. Do you see? We want so desperately for there to be more to existence than the physical life we are living, and, in the process, we miss living the life we have, which contains everything there is. Now is your perfection, your freedom, and the only place of love you can experience. So… experience it!
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Allow yourself to be the human that YOU experience at this moment in time, and do so regardless of the monsters others are telling you about. For now, you are a melding of human form and mysteriousness that flashes instantly in the eye of eternity. Look to that mystery, and unspeakable beauty arises; formlessness playing human for no other reason than it could and did. The true measure of strength is knowing love has taken residence within you, the outward expression being joy and peace right there, tucked neatly and quietly within you!
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Humans get stuck in the dilemma of “becoming,” which is an entirely different “action” than “being”: becoming is the endless search for what isn’t, while being is the complete embrace of what is, now. Do you see? Life is what it is, and it isn’t served up to you, me, or anyone for any reason. Still, that does not stop humans from making up fantastic reasons for living. Don’t be one of them. Be present without any concern that what is has any purpose, definition, or meaning at all. Live without discretion; that is, the discretion that is free of the conditioning that formed the basis of your discretion. In other words, don’t make stuff up!
Being in harmony with “what is” is being free of what you think is. Becoming is enslavement to mind-made processes, which always end in confusion; being is freedom from the “mind-made” altogether. Think less, be more! It is that simple.
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Give yourself to each moment you find yourself in, especially those you typically react to because of anger, sadness, or offense. Be grateful for every exchange your human endeavor provides, and thank whomever you encounter for it. Every encounter is the light of your soul and the crack into which you glimpse eternity and something far more profound than emotional, human reactions.
Humans have so much, but dilly-dally in the small, benign, and extraneous, and create silly apparitions that follow them around the whole of their lives. Don’t let a single “thank you” be unsaid. It is the key to a panorama few will ever experience! Be one of them.
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The greatest challenge to awareness, and thus, few ever experience it, is accepting people as they are. Not in the “empathetic” way most pay lip service to, e.g., “walk in another person’s shoes,” or “they’re just not at my level of spirituality,” etc., but in recognizing that the force of light shines in us all equally, all the time. When you are busy looking at differences, you will always miss the light, and that is a darkness of your own making. YOU are the “shine” in light; the energetic force that permeates all of existence. If you are on, everyone is on. Give everyone a break. That is a “break” from your shading.
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Awareness, enlightenment, and awakening are elusive because human conditioning has us convinced that learning and searching are the way to them; thus, any of the above is a procedural effort. That is, the “process” of “learning to become” becomes the object (awareness, enlightenment, awakening, etc.) initially sought. Meanwhile, “the sought” requires no learning, searching, or process at all; it simply waits patiently for you to come home to silence. Come home; it is the only place of peace, joy, and love, and it is the long-needed rest from a journey to nowhere. Well, nowhere but here, now.
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The side you take is inseparable from the side not taken, e.g., heads or tails are forever bonded by the coin upon which they are forged. Only your mind separates and makes one “side” the whole, and the loss in such an exercise is wealth only “wholeness” provides. “I am right, and you are wrong” is the disease of ego and separation from the very essence of oneness and awareness. Judgment cannot happen where no opposite (side) exists. Seeing this side or that separates you from the whole, and that is a separation the “whole” can ill afford. Heads or tails? Don’t make that call!
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What you see is always skewed by what you know, e.g., what you’ve been taught. That is not seeing; it’s an agreement with a lifetime of gathered information stored in your mind that is not what is. To see without blinders, (knowledge) placed upon us would baffle, surprise, and hopefully humble us. We literally miss out on that much! You will never know what you see if you can describe it in any way. You were taught wrong, but not to worry. Clear your mind, and you will “see” again.
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Ego loves the spectacular, the awe-inspiring, mind-jolting “burning bush,” calls it a miracle, and is quick to place profound meaning in it relative to current circumstances, missing the real miracles, which are infinite in number and everywhere. A dewdrop sparkling on a blade of grass, a flower or tree swaying in the wind, snow, smiles, winks, a kiss, the smell of rain newly fallen, a breath, the whisper “I love you,” in tender moments, sunsets, sunrises, a child skipping to school, crying, laughter, etc., etc., etc.
The big and bold is the chase of ego, and in that chase, real miracles go unrecognized, and life itself is reconciled to the mundane. Close your mind, and, in so doing, you open awareness. That is, nothing is missed, and all that you experience is one great big miracle. Wherever YOU are, whatever you are doing, they are there and for no other reason than to enrich your life with wonders.