YOU are neither subject nor object nor is anything you perceive as a human. YOU do nothing, yet are everything. YOU always enjoys the ride, but “you” may not. This is why it is necessary to override you with YOU. While you are searching for the perfect, end-all ride, YOU will enjoy the ride but never leave the fairground. So are you, you, or YOU?
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Humility starts with YOU and ends with love. Do you know YOU? Only “love” knows. Peaceful day, Carl
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Ego switches from suffering to joy and back again with only one purpose. It keeps you attached to your body and all the stimulating forms the world presents, regardless of how you label them. Do you see? In “bodily” terms, they are the same, e.g., “This feels good I am happy; this feels bad my I am sad, etc.” Gottcha! Hook, line, and sinker.
YOU are not your body, mind, or consciousness. Form hears only the call of death. Awareness of “what YOU are” outside of form “is” life. Always life. In silence, you know this; in reality, YOU are this. Smile at your body, and all the nonsense it attaches itself to that all, eventually, disappears. YOU are forever!
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Right now, in this moment, you have everything. That is, NOW closes the door on any journey you think you are on. Why would you squander present moment effort trying to be somewhere else? Now is where it’s at; the question is, where are you at?
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The “road less traveled is still someone else’s road. Do you see? The road “best” traveled is the road “not” traveled. In other words, look before and behind you; if you notice any semblance of a road, you’re on someone else’s. What makes a real difference? Blaze your path and leave no trace that others can follow.
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Collective outrage takes root in a single heart at war with itself plus another, plus another, etc. Do you see? Plusses and minuses are you aligning with a feeling or mood that does nothing more than separate you from YOU, and while “you” may feel energized and victorious, YOU are nowhere to be found.
No collective is worth your loss of wholeness and connection. Where’s your heart? Not that one, the real one!
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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.
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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.
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Your greatest limitation, everyone’s that is, is not what you fear but what you believe. Beliefs are an assault on any possibility of being present, and the filter straining out the real so that the unreal (beliefs) remains intact. Clarity is clear, and what you hold in your mind, believe, or don’t believe, think possible or impossible smudges the window of reality. Awareness is only known through optics without the taint and dinge of what your mind wants you to believe is.
Lose them (beliefs), and the window’s new transparency lets in new light that exposes any fear as a shackle to living more abundantly. I promise, then again, don’t “believe” a word I say!
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There is no right or wrong when confronting the unknown, and the present moment is always an unknown revealing itself without consideration of your attempts to overlay it with the “once known, e.g., previous experience.” Do you see? Humans impulsively compare “what is” to “what was” and, based on the assessment of prior experience (right, wrong, good, bad, etc.), end up making a mess of the only possibility available to experience reality.
You can only do what you are doing when you are doing it, and the joy you experience is when “doing it” is free of your comparison of it to something that no longer is. In other words, nowness is the brand-new playground of reality. So, go play!