If you constantly look down the road for the good you have convinced yourself doesn’t exist, you miss the good that is right here, right now. The “good” you seek will always elude you because beauty can only live where you are and not where you want to be. Pull over now and enjoy your unique and present self.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
Everything we do, every event, circumstance, or activity, is a brush with life. It is all rich and wonderful. What we choose is unimportant. Get on with living and stop worrying about making right or wrong choices. You cannot make a wrong choice in an infinite life. In infinity, you have the opportunity to make them all.
Bozebits
Your reality does not happen behind you or in front of you. Do you see? Your mind is the traveler, and its travel is always to the past or the future, both of which do not exist and therefore are not real. Seriously when does anything “real” happen? You know the answer; it’s NOW, in this present moment! Why would you go anywhere else?
Bozebits
If you determine that there are things to do, places to go, etc., in your quest to know yourself, you will encounter both but will not find anything but more traffic and noise through which you must navigate, leading you ever farther from what you seek. The discovery of YOU happens when the search ends. “Be still, and know that YOU are God.” You can do that right now.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
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.
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
You are on a path unaffected by your plans and resolutions whose intent is to take you this way or that or to do one thing or another. Your path is the least traveled and will always be that way. No one can experience your journey, nor can you experience theirs. Resolve to love and appreciate the only path you could be on and thrill that no one else is on it with you. Yours truly is “The road less traveled.”
Bozebits
“I can’t do it” is a powerful release of the egoic structure that insists that we believe we can do anything we put our minds to. It’s the classic “mind over matter,” whose only flaw is that mind is matter. In other words, we are not our minds or these bodies. There is something far, far greater about us that exceeds any capability of the mind.
Here’s the difficulty: the mind will never provide a pathway to this other greatness. It cannot comprehend it. It is finite, trying to contain the infinite. Spirituality accepts that we are more than the physicality our bodies (minds) represent. It is also getting that our physicality cannot do anything but love the experience of what it can do.
It takes a silent mind to get anywhere near the infinite part of YOU. Stillness is infinite, pure, and where it’s at. Be quiet and see.