Awareness is an embrace of eternity, a nudge from the infinite to move and bend when the slightest hint is offered. It gathers no reason, nor does it offer any. Awareness is always upon your shoulders, but its only reconciliation with human thought is when all thoughts are absent, and you bend freely to its touch. Look without seeing, see without looking. The nudge of eternity beckons your stillness.
Bozebits
We (humans) seem to be so busy wondering, speculating, pontificating why things are happening and what the takeaways relative to those happenings should be, that we miss what’s happening. Do you see?
Life is not conscious of what you think, what you dream, or believe. It quietly moves through myriad forms and vistas, offering its infinite abundance to those who “quietly” move with it. Somewhere, amidst all the noise of what isn’t YOU are happening. That is, YOU are life’s unfoldment. Nothing is more precious, sweet, infinite than YOU, NOW! Go happen!
Bozebits
Awareness is presence, untethered by anything that has gone before. Simply, “anything” is everything, e.g., “the past does not and never has existed.” Awareness is a clean slate on which all that is, right now, forms. Unlike thoughts and dreams, beliefs, and hopes, which originate in the past, awareness is like pristine waters where nary a breeze ripples its surface.
YOU are pristine waters. Let not the winds of memory cast clouds upon you. Be present.
Bozebits
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.
Bozebits
Own what you think without the implication that what you think matters in any way to anyone else. You know it matters when you grow angry, frustrated, or excited by those who do not “think” as you do, and often even when they do. Have you ever observed when two or more are discussing an agreed-upon viewpoint, and the tenor of the discussion turns competitive between those who have the better reason for it? Humans jettison energy and do so for the most inane reasons, e.g., to prove a point that doesn’t matter. All other earthly life forms conserve energy, and nearly all humans credit them with greater awareness and sensitivity to what is going on in and around them. How do you think they do it? They live, not for others or because of others. They give nothing to the unimportant and, in so doing, have the energy to see what we (humans) rarely, if ever, see.
The fewer things you have to think about that you believe matter, the less you have to “think” at all. You’ll love what you see when you do!
Bozebits
Humans routinely believe that awareness comes through focus, but it doesn’t. The concentrated mind is busy and far too bound to the “focused on” to be aware. Without a thought or even the thought of a thought, expansiveness creeps into your field of view. Definition ceases, and all that is permeates the essence of YOU that has no mind. The baseline of infinity is nothing out of which is everything. In other words, “awareness” has no foundation, definition, or description, e.g., nothing to “focus” on. It is YOU, clear and unfettered by you. “Lose yourself to find YOUR-self.”
Bozebits
The new-age nonsense of surrounding yourself with people like you or those with characteristics you would like to emulate is a surefire way to separate yourself from reality. It is no different than living your life in front of a mirror that reflects only you all the time. Do you see? The reaction of everyone outside your sphere of friendship and commonality is as essential to living as your view of them should be to them. The world is not whole, and you are not “one” with it if you exclude those who are not like you. Quit looking at the world as a safe little place you make up, that looks like whatever it is that looks back at you in the mirror. Looking at mirrors is a shallow, boring life; the real view is a room with lots of windows. Open yours now and be open to everyone.
Bozebits
“If your lips are movin’, your ego is groovin’.” Everything you say, regardless of eloquence, beauty, or intent, is ego. What you write, think, or dream is ego. What you do that is kind, unkind, charitable, uncharitable, etc., is ego. Do you see? Human exchange of any kind is ego, and when you get that, once and for all, you will see the miracle of life as opposed to the narrow interpretation of it, e.g., egoic interpretation. There simply is no path to awareness through your mind; it just talks too much (mine too). Still, this is the human experience, so it can never be turned off, but it can be turned down. Focus more of your “seeing” the world on what you hear rather than what comes through your eyes. While it will not rid you of ego, it will undoubtedly have it talking less. That is always a superior, less egoic, “groove.”
Bozebits
There is nothing more or less unique about your human experience than that of a dung beetle having its own. The importance of your politics, religion, ideology, education, affiliation, wealth, etc., is no greater than the routine activity of said beetle, making little round dung balls out of big ones. In other words, self-importance based on routines and gathering more and more is nothing more than a synonym for separation, and dung beetles feast on separation, if you get my drift. Life is living and far too abundant to consider what else it could or should be – you should be too. Living, that is!
Bozebits
A better life can only happen now, at this moment, which you frustrate with thoughts of improvement. “What is” drowns in dreams and fantasy and you, thrashing about on mind-made improvement, miss the only place and time where “better” is actually better. You have it ALL. The “house special” is only served up when you are seated at the table now, and it is a feast like no other. Experience it, and who knows? You might enjoy it, too!