All your thoughts about why something happened or how it affected you never really satisfy the ego, nor will understanding why things happen as they do, do nothing to alter the experience. Embracing life is accepting what is without a judgment or reason for it. It’s a leap into the unknowable. Hold on to nothing, and YOU are everything.
Carl’s Nutshells
Bozebits
Happiness is not what we do, places we go, things we learn, beliefs, acclaim, friendships, etc. The truly happy are those who have paid no price for it. Happiness is our essence, not some formula devised to achieve it, and it hides in the most elusive place known to humans. That is in our thoughts of where we think it should be. Stop the thoughts; happiness is YOU right now!
Bozebits
Beyond any idea of a purpose, you possess something infinitely more profound and beautiful. It’s called “life,” and all it ever asks of you (or anyone) is to live it regardless of your place in it. Do you understand?
Where you are is not where you are supposed to be. Where you are “IS” because YOU are, and no one in all eternity will ever experience life as you do NOW. Nothing exists without YOUR experience of it; nothing.
Bozebits
Loving “you” is the best of you. No one does “you” better than you, so why would you relinquish “you” to the dream of being a better you? Or worse, being someone else. There are no failures in life. Even when you are fixated on being something other than “you.”
Bozebits
“Who (or what) YOU are” has never cared what you think you are. It always rests in the quiet awareness that no thought, no possible idea of your greatness could even come close to that otherness that uniquely is YOU. No more thinking about who you are. We can’t imagine anything that big.