No upgrades or downgrades arise from human experience. That is, nothing you do in life is a precursor to, or a cause of, something happening in another. Your human experience is stepping down, and when it is over, you resume as the God YOU have always been. Upgrades and downgrades are strictly a “human” thing and typically apply to cars, electronics, French fries, and soft drinks. In other words, don’t overrate or underrate your experience based on where it might take you or what it might get you. You are Gods having a human experience. Oh, but in human terms, always upgrade your French fries!
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“Words hurt,” it is often said, but they only hurt because we have been conditioned to live by the opinions of others. Do you see? What is beyond human ego is never disturbed, offended, hurt, or angered by what other egos think or say. Hurtful words are egoic and can only hurt another ego, which is not what YOU are. In other words, only egos- that is, your ego care about the thoughts expressed by others. “Words hurt,” but only because you (your ego) think they mean something. Take what you think out of the words you hear; words ring in your ears because your ears are ringing. The ringing stops when your thinking stops, and the clash of egos is nothing more than the folly of humans making something real out of nothing.
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Contrary to the new age saying, “you get what you think about,” reality says, “you’ve got what you don’t think about,” and what you don’t think about is the wonder and mystery right in front of you, and it is unfathomable. In other words, if you’re “thinking” about something other than what is, even if you think you are thinking about what is, you fail to see what you’ve actually got right now in this moment. You forget “What is” because your mind is thinking about something else when “what is” is all there is.
“What is” is a living, breathing, dynamic thing that carries all the miracles, mystery, and wonder no thought or fantasy could ever contrive. Thinking destroys It because, in and of itself, thinking is not a living, breathing thing. Give “what is” your life, and it will live on through you and you through it. There is nothing more spectacular in the entire universe than YOU living fully NOW!
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There are no levels of spirituality. You cannot rise above others without separating yourself from them, which contradicts the very essence of oneness, spirituality purports to encompass. The master who points to anyone and claims that they are not as far along in the spiritual journey as themselves or others is broken. If WE are all one, then no one rises above the whole. No one! Love all and judge not; that’s how it works.
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Finding beauty in everything opens your mind to what your heart already knows. There is literally beauty and wonder in everything you experience, and all of it is worthy of your love and awe. Cease all thoughts about your experience, what it means, or why it’s happening. Just embrace it, all of it!! Regardless of the experience, it is really amazing!! Breathtakingly amazing!
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In spirituality, the beckon is to focus more narrowly, define more clearly, or, as it is now called, raise consciousness. However, the more detailed you become in your descriptions of life, the more wrapped up in your mind you become. In other words, attention to detail, in the spiritual sense, leads to loss of awareness. Quieting your mind removes your sense of reason from the picture of the life you uphold and thus clears your focus, letting more light show through. Under any lens, beauty is present, but if you are determined to sharpen your focus (reason), you will not see that much of it. Set your reason aside. Clarity doesn’t need it, and when it comes to awareness, neither do you!
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The “balance” you seek can only happen when all the things you believe cause you suffering, or are wrong with you or life in general, are willingly experienced and embraced. That is, living completely without a single regret or wish for something other. In other words, your life is not you swinging from one high to another low and trying to minimize (balance) the span or intensity between them. It is you in the middle (fulcrum) giving cause, not balance, to the entire ride. Without YOU, nothing else exists; hence, no “ride” at all! That is the sweetest joy you can see and the only life you’re going to experience anyway. Have fun!
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It has been said, “We’re all bad in someone’s story.” I’ll add, “Perhaps even in our own.” The solution to “badness” is to transform your story into no story and let others be the tellers of whatever they want. What they tell is not “what you are,” and what you speak is interpretive, e.g., embellished, jaded, and maybe even untrue. You cannot “tell” a lie if you are busy living a life, as living quietly in the moment is free of interpretation. That is a life that cannot be shaped by stories you or others tell. So, go live; quietly!
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There is a Zen saying: “Only out of the mud can the Lotus grow.” All of the things you consider messed up in the world are the mud from which you, the most beautiful of all flowers, emerge, and the “mud” is never, not there, just as YOU have never not been! The world is perfect, as are YOU. Worry not and judge not the mud from which all life takes form. Sow seeds of goodness, gratitude, and kindness so that your life, regardless of its murkiness and mystery, flowers with beauty.
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Let your life be an expression of “what” you truly are, not the chest-pounding assertions made in brash, bold statements, as so many do now. You have nothing to prove in life, no measure to reach, and certainly no need to be extraordinary in egoic terms. All of that was taken care of with your first life-giving breath. There is nothing like YOU in all the universe, nor will there ever be in all the infinities; no competition whatsoever, no greater or lesser. YOUR extraordinariness goes without saying, but only when you embrace your ordinary self. Just BE; no assertion will ever outdo such an expression as YOU.