What you focus on is your trouble. Inner peace comes with what you don’t focus on. Do you see? Nothing to “focus” on liberates your mind-filled warehouse, full of previous focal points, beliefs, rules, taboos, fears, and so-called “lessons learned,” giving you fresh, clear eyes to see.
Preconception is nothing more than recycled “old” information. It makes no room for newness or clarity, and humans are exceptional “preconceivers,” masterful junk collectors, and generally blind to anything that lies outside their rigid inventory of life lessons. Simply stated, reality does not show up in any mind.
It seems obvious what to do, but it takes work. Most warehouses (minds) are so full, and emptying is so daunting we close the door, turn out the lights, and give way to the next moment of “preconception.” Breathe deeply and go to work. Reality is too excellent to miss; anything you do to clear your mind will open you to unimaginable surprises and light!
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
What you think “is” is proportional to what (actually) is. In other words, the more you think about what is, the less there is. Thinking is a dimmer switch that reduces awareness. Being “full-on” (aware) in every case happens when you are not thinking.
Bozebits
The experience of eternity always occurs in the present. That is your present uncoupled from what you think, so in reality, each breath you take and every beat of your heart is “eternity” experiencing YOU.
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?