What is it about you, me, or anyone who thinks there is something more to life than what is right now? Shallow experience is what you think about, while the only thing you can experience is what’s happening now. Do you see? Reality never carries the seeds of thoughts, contemplation of what might come later, or comparisons to what has passed. Only humans do that and, in so doing, replace “what is” with the thoughtful, dull, repetitious drone of “what isn’t.”
Lose yourself to silence and quietly watch the magic appear. Actually, it won’t appear; you’ll simply recognize what is always there but hidden behind the clutter of thoughts. You don’t need “more” in life; you need less of what you “think” it should be.
Bozebits
You have the answers, yet you cram for the test as if they will magically change just as you are about to answer them. You ace the test and feel the relief of knowing just what needs to be said to satisfy the test-giver but still don’t know what you thought you would, so by all means, cram some more. There’s another test just ahead. “Cram” information into your head about experiencing life, and all you gain is information that draws you away from actually experiencing it. Do you see? The manual for living has never been written and never will be. You “write” as you go, but you’ll never be tested because life cannot fail, no matter how much you cram for it.
Let the words of your experience disappear so that each moment contains a blank page on which you will write anew, a life whose only expression is wonder and awe. You won’t be tested, but what you experience will be “crammed” full.
Bozebits
The top of the mountain is a myth told by those who climb but never reach it. Besides, there is no coming down from the top, so no one can tell of its grandeur. No one knows the way, yet we all know that somewhere within there lies what cannot be spoken.
Climb your mountains, assured that YOU are at the highest peak wherever you rest, and no one knows your secret. But to see you at rest, calm and peaceful, they too may discover the view with no beginning or end.
Bozebits
That with which we identify is that which divides us. It is easy to say, “We are all one,” but we are separate from everything if we identify with anything. “Who we are” is unimportant; “what we are” doesn’t care. It has no identity. Find the “what” that lies beneath the “you” (identity). That is the place of oneness; it is the ultimate beauty!
Bozebits
You, now, are the only point in creation. Nothing before and after exists unless you, unaware and disconnected, stir it up in your mind and sully it with your thoughts. Awareness and connection manifest all that is, and it all happens right now before a single thought enters into it. Do you see?
YOU, the beholder, are, the beheld. It is ALL, literally, YOU. YOU’re kind of a big deal, but don’t let that go to your head!
Bozebits
The flashlight in a dark cave will always light up something regardless of where it points. If we anthropomorphize the flashlight, it would conclude that “light” shines everywhere because everywhere it points, there is light, even though we all know that is not the case. In actual human terms, if your attention (flashlight) only shines on a certain kind of television or radio program, news broadcast, political agenda, social cause, health code, religion, philosophy, etc., to conclude that you have light enough to know everything, including where you have no light at all would be starkly erroneous, and most would admit it. However, while admitting it, few do it. Do you see?
The direction your attention points in is only a direction. It is not the whole, and to see only your direction is a massive exclusion of reality. You could even say that what you focus on is unreal, an illusion. You already know that there is a lot of “otherness” around you all the time. To factor it out because your attention points somewhere else is your loss and humanity’s loss. Awareness includes otherness, even if you cannot see it. Don’t let yourself miss what the flashlight (you) can’t see. The best part of living is likely where it’s darkest.
Bozebits
It is profoundly shortsighted for you, me, or anyone to disregard any aspect of others living their lives in such a way that disturbs your beliefs, reasoning, or expectations. There is an incomprehensible vastness to a life that does not fit your structure, but it contains the most simple form of freedom you can experience. Perhaps that “simplicity” is too formidable and disruptive for the sense of safety you’ve (we’ve) created. Those enslaved throughout the quests of human endeavor often tremble at the vastness of freedom. It is “possibility,” too great to conceive and too daunting to pursue while cozy and safe in our beliefs contrived by others. Still, in all of us is the “knowing” there is something more inside that sets us free.
Your dilemma, the dilemma of all, is finding what’s inside that is unafraid of what’s outside. It’s there, but it’s also yours to remember. Good luck.
Bozebits
“And there were giants in the land,” and then none. The only quality we look to from the institutions that were once bastions of integrity is intellect pounding to the drum of rhetoric, which is the progenitor of victimization and moral decay. Institutional intelligence cannot know what “you” feel. Ever! It can only know what it thinks it knows about how you feel, and institutional minds are the new order of leadership globally. Notwithstanding all the so-called brilliance in our institutions, more and more problems emerge in our collective formations.
Stop looking to the world to solve the world’s problems. The world knows not what it does, and if you continue looking to it, neither will you. Who are these “giants,” these women and men of renown? Look behind the eyes of these words you now read. YOU may be one of them. There are so many!
Bozebits
You cannot wish, dream, or hope for a drama-free life and have it happen if you are living with drama now. Do you see? NOW is a transformational place, a place where YOU, the creative center of the universe, step into the reality only YOU can create. End your drama now, and your wishes cease to be your lament.
Bozebits
A leads to B, C, D, etc., the causal world we are told to live in and accept. However, such a world is also the basis for “I am not responsible for my life.” In other words, someone or something pressing on me caused it to happen, and “I” therefore need not accept what happens as something I willingly accept as the experience I am seeking. WRONG! A, B, C, and D all exist simultaneously with “you” in realms you cannot begin to comprehend in human form, making you the non-caused effect of all that is. Do you see? A B, C, and D do not exist before your experience of yourself, so nothing “presses” on you that isn’t already YOU.
Lose the thinking and vocabulary of “to me,” e.g., “why, is this happening to me,” or “this shouldn’t be happening to me, etc., etc.” In time, you will know that all that happens is YOU, being you in a non-causal experience. The “effects” of which are nothing but YOU, albeit incredible!