The present IS the destination. There is nothing before or beyond YOU now, as is.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
Do you know what it’s like when you’re there? You know that “there” we all search for? It feels like right now, right here, and if it doesn’t, and you’re still thinking about there, you will never get there. “There” isn’t anywhere, but “here” now is. In other words, going “there” is simply being “here.” See you there 😊
Bozebits
The most extraordinary awareness you can experience occurs without any thought of it. The absence of thought gives birth to the seen and unseen, and neither is imaginable. “Be Still.”
Bozebits
Let not the things you want or desire be the object of your getting. Doing so will ruin all possible good in your life. “Today’s bread,” (only) said the prophet. YOU need not anything else.
Bozebits
The “search” for most is a return to the safety and security of the mythological garden where all wants are fulfilled, and mother, father, and angels stand guard to protect you. In other words, “safety is the search, and it never ends because “what YOU are” never appears in such a garden. You will never find “what YOU are” but among the thorns and thistles. Do you see? Adam and Eve were not cast out of the garden, they were cast into it. Let go of your “garden (idyllic) home” and something unfathomable will appear, e.g., YOU.
Bozebits
Of what are you aware? Is your venture into whatever your experience happens to be about you singularly facing a world that acts upon you in positive or negative ways, or do you experience a world that bustles with movement and surprise, as if “it” is living you? You live or are lived. Living (for most) is a series of snapshots that narrowly focus on you in the world. Being “lived” makes you the whole world. You don’t “choose” one or the other. You simply are; when you know what you are.
Bozebits
Good things are not coming down the road. They’re already here; wherever you are on that road is where the most profound beauty exists. Not because things are there that are beautiful but because YOU are there and you’re beautiful. Do you see? The energy of beauty is YOU, always YOU.
Bozebits
All your thoughts about why something happened or how it affected you never really satisfy the ego, nor will understanding why things happen as they do, do nothing to alter the experience. Embracing life is accepting what is without a judgment or reason for it. It’s a leap into the unknowable. Hold on to nothing, and YOU are everything.
Carl’s Nutshells
