Clarity has nothing to do with how or what you think about something. On the contrary, thinking makes clarity impossible. The present moment, before any thought, is free of any impurity (thought, belief, judgment, etc.) and is the clearest you will ever be. Adding anything to that pureness is little more than dragging the past into the present, and that is all thinking can do. Be silent, be clear.
Bozebits
Life is not a series of fits and starts that continue on even over endless lifetimes. Only humans create scenarios that push into the past or future, neither of which exists. Do you see? Where is “starting over” on an infinite scale? Oneness is everythingness all wrapped up in this moment. Not in a “moment” of time that turns into another moment that creates the “series of moments” you are taught to view life as. YOU are infinite, and the representation of infinity is zero, e.g., nothing. Did you get that? You are and have nothing to start or end with. Nothing is all there is, and IT isn’t.
You can never start over, nor can you move out of a non-existent past or into an equally unreal future! All that is is YOU, now, in this undefined moment, and it is from YOU that everything is. The experience of nothing is YOU BE-ing. Not before, not after, just BE-ing.
Bozebits
The self you believe you are, that is the culmination of life experiences, learning, relationships, accomplishments, affiliations, heritage, even multiples of lifetimes, etc., is not your true self. That is merely painting by the numbers, and while YOU are high art, YOU are not a tapestry of things that have happened or are yet to happen.
All that is is because of YOU, not for you. All that is will always look to YOU and be grateful. The master’s hand, e.g., your hand, creates the masterpiece. Nicely done.
Bozebits
Truth is without memory or imagination. That is, it only exists in the present, where all that you think, believe, and hope for is but a remembrance or wish for something that is no longer real or that has never been real, and neither can be a part of “now” except as you sully the moment thinking of them.
For humans, brilliance is a mind full of knowledge, acquired over a long life of experience and learning, dreams fulfilled and unfulfilled, neatly warehoused in the mind. For Gods, truth is not sought or remembered; it is lived in the only place it can be. Right here, right now. Oh, and by the way, YOU are Gods.
Bozebits
The past is unfixable, the future unattainable. A single thought of either transports you from the intimacy that only exists where you stand at this moment. Look only to now, and you will never be without love and the peace afforded only in the present.
Bozebits
The best version of yourself will never be something you think or aspire to be. That would only be the made-up version of you, which isn’t you. In other words, the future holds no version of you that you can ever get to. The future doesn’t exist, and neither does the (best) version of yourself that you contrive in your mind to become. You, right now, are the only version of yourself that can and, surprisingly, does exist. And let me just say, “it doesn’t get any better! That is, you, now, are the most incredible mosaic of all that is, and if it weren’t all happening right now, it would never happen at all. You’re amazing. Why is it so hard for you, who search for better versions, to see that? Silly humans!
Bozebits
Dwelling on the past makes you a slave to it, and it is the worst kind of slavery in that the past does not exist. In other words, any connection to the past is a self-imposed prison, virtually impossible to escape! Your mind loves the story of its suffering and trauma and embellishes it at every opportunity, making it, seemingly, real and thus, un-overcome-able. Your identity with it is little more than your story, and yet, in all the telling, it rarely goes away. So why keep telling it?
Regardless of what you have been through in the past, is it not true that right now, in the present, you are “through” it? Living now has no history. You always get a fresh start in the present, and right NOW is your freedom!
Bozebits
Awareness is only experienced when the repetitive nature of your mind is stopped. In other words, you cannot see the real when your mind is telling you what to see because your mind can only know the definition of the seen that was learned and now repeated over and over and over. It hears the words but does not see. Newness and clarity have no place in your mind, and awareness will elude you as long as you give it thought. You are, or you are not aware. You, trying to be so, only lubricates the repetitive nature of an already repetitive mind. BE-ing happens in the blink of an eye, and awareness is that close to you. “Be still,” and blink.
Bozebits
Infinity has no middle ground, and YOU are infinite. There is no past or future; thus, no scale upon which you reside, making the “present” free of any movement (time) between “then” and “to be.” You are not a mere connection between the past and the future. YOU are the whole of it without any distinctions of time or space. In other words, there is no “center.” There is YOU, e.g., “The Universe.” Play big because YOU are big!
Bozebits
“Aha’s” or what some refer to as “defining moments” almost always integrate with what was before it appeared. That is, the experience is neatly stored in memory, but the safety of the known is too compelling to alter present-moment living entirely. Oddly, such moments happen free of any known constraints, e.g., religion, beliefs, faith, hopes, philosophy, whatever, and are free and clear of any previous thought or recollection. Even the mind’s constant banter is silent, but, in its incessant way, it fires back up and drags the pristine into the muddy waters of “how it has always been,” and the “moment” gives way to the safety of the known. If your “aha” comes in the context of what you think you know or believe, it’s not an aha. It’s a confirmation to your mind that, while out of control, it thinks it is in control. In other words, don’t let what you know or think integrate with the mystery presented in the still, clean waters of silence. “Defining moments” have no definition. Neither should you.