Meaning in life is too imaginative. That is, what you believe your life’s meaning is is full of imaginary descriptions of why things happen as they do. Do you see? Ego so desperately wants to know every detail of an incomprehensible mystery that it makes stuff up under the guise of “this is what this means.” YOU are Gods, temporarily possessing human form, which is without meaning or purpose and especially without passing or failing grades for not having “learned,” again, an imaginary lesson your mind has made up. Living fully is living without imagination; that is, making stuff up about why you live (as a human) at all. Push yourself into the real and keep your mind out of it; your mind simply cannot compete with reality. You’re going to “make it” no matter how it plays out! In other words, if you’re looking to have fun, stop imagining it and just do it.
Bozebits
Reasons don’t exist in living. They only exist in thinking, and thinking is shaded by the many colors you paint the world you think should be. You might even be said to paint by the numbers: the numbers you have learned that add up to the life you live and all the assessments you make about it, even though there are no “reasons” in living. Life is rich in colors, but they do not come from the palette of your mind. What you paint with reasons covers the masterpiece beneath them. Put aside your palette, and creation bursts forth in an array of beauty and wonder no mind can fathom! YOU, without reason, are the Master.
Bozebits
The closest you will ever get to “balance in your life” is the instantaneous pass-through from one side of life to the other. In other words, balance is a mental invention that convinces you you can “teeter” between its versions of good or bad. It’s a “balancing act” no one, including you, will ever realize. Why? Life is not a teeter-totter; it’s an experience. That experience is impervious to your or anyone’s sense of fairness and equilibrium. Humans have a perverse sense of right and wrong, e.g., “opposites,” when life is what it is without a notion of balance. Seriously, can you imagine just sitting on a swing and not swinging? And once you’re swinging, the pass-through from one side to the other is not even noticeable. All you’re doing is swinging, and for many of us, screaming whee! Scream at life if you must, but don’t judge it. Ride whatever arc you are on for all its worth. There is no balance. Get on that swing and let it fly. Make your living the ride of your life!
Bozebits
Contrary to the new age saying, “you get what you think about,” reality says, “you’ve got what you don’t think about,” and what you don’t think about is the wonder and mystery right in front of you, and it is unfathomable. In other words, if you’re “thinking” about something other than what is, even if you think you are thinking about what is, you fail to see what you’ve actually got right now in this moment. You forget “What is” because your mind is thinking about something else when “what is” is all there is.
“What is” is a living, breathing, dynamic thing that carries all the miracles, mystery, and wonder no thought or fantasy could ever contrive. Thinking destroys It because, in and of itself, thinking is not a living, breathing thing. Give “what is” your life, and it will live on through you and you through it. There is nothing more spectacular in the entire universe than YOU living fully NOW!
Bozebits
The meaning of life you seek cannot be known because it doesn’t exist. Yes, you can imagine grand, noble purposes and find niches in life you believe are your purpose, but meaning derived from thought or fantasy is just that: thought or fantasy. The so-called “path with heart” has nothing to do with what you do or finding what you think you must do. It’s not a path at all. The “path with heart” is simply heart detached from anything mind-based, moving quietly through wherever you happen to be and whatever the rest of you happens to be doing.
Your heart is with you always. Even the darkest corners of your experience are enlivened when your heart, your quiet heart, is there, and that “means” everything!
Bozebits
Awareness can only be experienced. You cannot possess it like a car, a house, or an education. Possession is the endgame of all searches, and “finding” what you seek is the end of awareness. Do you see? Fixation, attachment, beliefs, and ritual cause stagnation, and living, which is wild and crazy, mysterious, and uncertain, always takes a hit when you make a claim to any formula or particular way. The infinite cannot be corralled into the finite scope of your mind, and “what YOU are” first, before a single thought, is infinite.
If you must search, may it lead you nowhere; that, at least, is much closer to awareness than anything or anywhere you think you need to get otherwise.
Bozebits
You and you alone give life meaning! Don’t look for life to have meaning for you! We have it all backward. Humans obsess over finding reasons for the life they are living when, in reality, life lives us. Did you get that? Life lives YOU! Nothing exists without YOU. If there is a purpose for living, then YOU are the maker of that purpose! Do you see? There is nothing you’re supposed to be or do, nor is there a right or wrong formula for doing it, and nothing you experience has purpose or meaning because YOU give meaning to life. YOU do not need to seek life; life seeks YOU! So let it find you by dropping all your reasons for finding it.
Bozebits
Hindsight is blindsight. Not 20-20 as the saying goes. You can speculate about all the scenarios you could’ve, should’ve, or would’ve done in the past, and all the brilliance you devise looking back takes you out of NOW and adds a whole lot of noise and lament to the only “real” experience you can have. You cannot add to life, repair it by looking back at a non-existent past, or apply it to a non-existent future. Living now is 20-20, and it is all there is or will ever be. The only switch that gives you clarity is the one that turns your mind off. Do it now so you can “BE” now!
Bozebits
I say this often, but it cannot be stressed enough. “YOU are the creative center of the universe.” That is, nothing exists that is not kissed by YOU, the Divine, the Creator! YOU infuse the very essence of life into the living, and nothing perceived or not perceived is without the unfathomable mystery YOU breathe into it. To know YOU is to know your creations. I cannot look at anything and not “know” YOU; notwithstanding, “I stand all amazed!”
Bozebits
As long as you believe you can derive answers from the life you experience and all the unique forms it takes, you will never have “peace of mind.” The only peace that comes through the mind is shutting off conscious thought altogether. In other words, “peace of mind” is a “mindful” myth. When your mind is still, something else takes over, and whatever that is lies beyond conscious awareness, extending into the infinite reaches of unspeakable beauty. You can only experience such beauty, but not as an expression of your mind and its thoughts; rather, wonder and awe untethered from any thought whatsoever. Be quiet so that forces beyond your imagining can play on a field of no thing. There is no possible “peace of mind,” but unimaginable peace can be found in silence!