No part of your story is missing, ever! Every breath you take is an incalculable miracle nothing in the universe can ever match or experience.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
Mystery is the core of every experience; we either challenge it with reason or embrace it with our will. Most of us look for or create reasons for why things are as they are. Sadly, our reason occurs in the overused bed of right and wrong, which is always faulty. Without knowing why or how, it takes guts to plunge into “what is.” Let not your reason keep you from doing so.
Bozebits
The experience of something always surpasses the thought of it. Let not what you think spoil the splendor of what is. Peace, love, and beauty reside in a place that cannot be thought of.
Bozebits
You are the canvas upon which everything is painted, and whether there is color, expression, beauty, or nothing at all, YOU remain life’s only artist. In other words, you are not an expression of life; life is an expression of you. Life’s beauty leaves no room for any questions you think need answers. Let go and be amazed at what returns.
Bozebits
For most, the “search” is returning to the safety and security of the mythological “Garden” where all is provided. Mother, father, and angels stand guard over all the details of life that living outside the garden throws at us. In other words, safety, comfort, and convenience is the search.
You will never find yourself with such a search as it is among the thorns and thistles that the desires for comfort and safety give way to your realness. Your realness swims in a sea of eternal life unknown to the spoiling effects of comfort and safety. Adam and Eve were not cast out of the Garden of Eden. They were cast into it. Let go of the home you seek and think you deserve, and you will find the garden where YOU are known.
Bozebits
Measuring yourself against the achievements of worthiness, failure, success, accomplishments, and yes, even purpose is a formula for comfort, not happiness. You can be happy “with” these things, but not because of them. Knowing what YOU are outside, anything you do otherwise is knowing joy, and you don’t need anything to “know” YOU.
Bozebits
What you are underneath, the ego accepts what is but knows what isn’t. The ego always moves toward physical reality and only finds illusion. Do you see?
Knowing resides not in what you think; its home is in the far reaches of something incomprehensible to any mind, even a collective one. In other words, discovering “who YOU are” is the end of illusion.
Bozebits
We don’t have to carry an idea in our heads that we can do anything we set out to do. Life’s most authentic beauty lies not in the thoughts of doing but in the simple experience of doing. Example: Think of your favorite food or dessert; if you have it available, put an actual morsel into your mouth or imagine yourself putting it into your mouth. Which did you like best? Which tastes better? Which method do you prefer? The concept (imagination) of taste does not compare to an experience of it. So it is with everything. Get some and get into as many experiences as you can. They all have a way of tasting good, even if it takes a while.
Bozebits
What we did yesterday and what we do today have no bearing on anything that happens tomorrow. Tomorrow does not exist, nor does yesterday. All we can do is experience now, and the best way to experience anything is to cease thinking about nonexistent things. You and I, at this moment, are all there is or will ever be.