Happiness is not a derivative of your ability to judge the differences between this or that. It exists regardless of your distinctions but is most apparent when you don’t make any distinctions. Do you see?
It is not possible to dive naked into a pool of water and not get wet. Likewise, happiness is a pool that only asks that you plunge into its depths without judging how wet you will get or what that wetness consists of. Life is swimming; even if you don’t know how to swim, always take the plunge. See you at the pool!
Bozebits
You and you alone are what’s possible in this moment and that which encompasses the infinite. You may critique the expanse with remnants of the past casting shadows over your awareness or overlook it with alternate dreams of something else, but still, at this moment, you hold it all even while you are busy missing it.
Awareness judges nothing and even holds space for all that you think otherwise and waits, eternally if need be, for you to recognize YOU as the birthing of all that is NOW. Clouds are not separate from the sky they form in. YOU are the sky and the beholder of it. Anything “other” is impossible.
Bozebits
We see with our bodies but limit that seeing to the eyes. Close your eyes and experience the quiet “knowing” only your body can reveal. It will amaze you!
Bozebits
January 1st, 2024 Timeline
9:00 – 9:45 AM – Dutifully and diligently wrote down and articulated 2024 New Year’s resolutions. I carefully mounted them in a frame and placed them in a visually accessible, prominent place where I would see them daily.
10:00 AM – All resolutions are broken, removed from the frame, and thrown in the trash, along with any commitment to reinstate them.
10:01 AM – There’s still plenty of time to experience a fantastic day! Perfect. Happy New Year, everyone.
Bozebits
What is it about you that thinks there is so much more to experience than what you experience right now? Find out what that is, and you will never want anything again. You may even gasp at what has always been right before you.
Bozebits
The most extraordinary awareness you can experience occurs without any thought of it. The absence of thought gives birth to the seen and unseen, and neither is imaginable. “Be Still.”
Bozebits
Of what are you aware? Is your venture into whatever your experience happens to be about you singularly facing a world that acts upon you in positive or negative ways, or do you experience a world that bustles with movement and surprise, as if “it” is living you? You live or are lived. Living (for most) is a series of snapshots that narrowly focus on you in the world. Being “lived” makes you the whole world. You don’t “choose” one or the other. You simply are; when you know what you are.
Bozebits
Good things are not coming down the road. They’re already here; wherever you are on that road is where the most profound beauty exists. Not because things are there that are beautiful but because YOU are there and you’re beautiful. Do you see? The energy of beauty is YOU, always YOU.
Bozebits
The playground of happiness is always open, never guarded, and admission-free. The only thing that keeps us from entering is our Mind’s crazy idea of happiness. The thought of happiness is the demise of it. So, stop thinking about it, and let’s play.
Carl’s Nutshells
