Awareness comes not in the “opening” of your mind. It comes in the closing of it. Your mind loves its platform, knowledge, and ground rules. Life knows none of these things, so it knows no bounds. Neither do you when you are silent and free from what your mind loves.
Bozebits
Roughly a quarter to one-third of human existence is nothingness, e.g., sleep. You close your eyes, and time ceases, “you” are without any conscious awareness, problems vanish, and then, just like that, you awaken, and “you” appear out of nowhere, and “what was” piles back on to your suddenly realized self.
Where did “you” go when you fell asleep? What are “you” when your body sleeps and consciousness has disappeared? Is this your state before you appeared on Earth? If you can say you don’t know. If you know, you can’t say.
Still, it seems the most incredible peace offered by awareness lies in being completely unaware. Who knows? But thank goodness for those periodic spells of unconsciousness.
Bozebits
What you plan for is likely to become the object of your frustration. Only because plans become overly important to the mind (you) who creates them, and no plan, no matter how sophisticated, will ever resolve the quirky, unsophisticated ramblings of life unfolding as it does.
Make your plans, but never forget that the only important thing in life is life. That is the life you experience right now, and if that aligns with your “plans,” consider yourself lucky, and if it doesn’t, allow yourself to meander a new side-road full of adventure and surprise.
Nothing you do is important. Knowing what YOU are is. Sometimes, keeping your heart means losing your mind and all its preparations for what may or may not come.
Bozebits
Your fixation on improving or learning something in life should go no further than developing to a high degree your ability to experience your experience more fully. You have the perfect playground for developing such skills as well. It’s right here right now without the intellectualization of previous experiences or the confusion of imagined future experiences that do not exist in reality.
In other words, you love what is, and life fills in all the blanks, or you play multiple-choice and live a life where your carefully thought-out, well-reasoned, and meticulously committed to memory guesses are wrong. You won’t fail in either case, but you might experience less stress and much more fun. Just sayin’.
Living by the book or just living. It’s not much of a choice if you don’t think about it, but it’s a monster if you do, So don’t.
Bozebits
What you think (about anything) will always be limited by what you think. Do you see? The infinite is not containable in thought or any stream of thoughts. Your capacity to fathom the eternal only happens when it is clear that the vibration of “nothing” (the infinite) is the vibration of your mind. In other words, the infinite begets infinity, and that is not something you can know or think about! Lose your mind!
Bozebits
The way to awareness is entered through the mind’s threshold, but not in the way you think. You must close the door of thought and feeling as you pass into stillness and leave all that was or might be without mental observance and its constant inquiry and interjection.
Silence is not an easy pill for any mind to take, but unlike so many “pills” you are told to swallow, silence opens into “knowing” that is otherwise unknowable when “mindful doors” are left open. Go on; step through and shut that door.
Bozebits
The gateway to never-ending ignorance is what you know and, worse, what you think. An open mind has no initial premise and none after giving clear and deliberate thought, meaning an “open mind” is always empty.
Bozebits
As a human, you are not unique. As a God, you are beyond any need to be so. Only your mind (ego) cares. Which rules over you? Be honest.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
What we like to call reality requires a definition formed in our minds. What is real takes experience. In other words, the mind interprets experience and then alters it. Get into life without the noise of judgment, definition, or interpretation. Experience (reality) requires no agreements.