At some point, you began to believe you were a body with a singular point of consciousness animating it. Encapsulated within it. That’s not true. You are that unified vast sea of consciousness that animates the entire cosmos, animating your body. You’re not the finite, my friend. You’re the infinite. You’re so much greater than you’ve been led to believe.
I wish I had the ability to convey to all of you how beautiful, sacred, and holy we, and everything truly IS. ALL of this is God. Even you. In all of those things you think are faults. Those are sacred acts of divinity dancing. Wake up to your birthright of your divine nature! I beg you! Please! There exists only ONE thing in this reality, and it is God. It. Is. Us. We are one. Everything is one.
You see all those thoughts that go racing in your head all day? Who’d you think notices them? What’s noticing these thoughts? What’s watching the thoughts race and whirl? Hmmmm? That’s you, actually. The true you that you never pay any attention to. Because you’re too busy listening to the noise of thought. Now. Pay a bit more attention to that HUGE bit of your being and see if you can befriend it. It is the key to your liberation.
Do you know that you are absolutely sacred? Do you? Do you know that you are already whole and complete? Do you know that you’re the reason the creator God, Brahman whispered the word ॐ, which brought this whole thing into being? Do you know that everything is perfectly beautiful because of you? We’ve got this. Let’s dance!
We are completely, absolutely nothing. At the same time, we are the expression of the Divinity revealing itself as creation in its full, purest, essence, for a moment, as perfectly as we can. Pretty neat, eh kids?
STOP!!
Actually stop.
Please.
PLEASE.
Look in the mirror.
See that reflection? That person? Yes? The supposed you? That?
That is the greatest, truest, fullest love you’ve been looking for your entire life.
Go spend a night with that person.
Talk. Imagine. Think. Do the impossible.
And then?
Do it again.
I dare you.
What will happen?
It’ll light your life on fire.
Another fire each time.
Time and time again with the fire of knowledge and love of you, yourself.
The deepest, most passionate, most sacred love there could ever be in the entire cosmos.
I dare you.
Try. It. You just might ignite your own passion, desire, wisdom, and knowledge.
How dangerous.
I invite you for a moment to notice the silence — the deepest silence within you.
Feel it.
Truly feel it.
Allow it to grow.
This silence, this stillness is always, has always been there. It will also always be there. It is also your true nature. It is the awareness that watches, knows, and will always be. It’s your boundlessness. And you have the ability, the birthright, the power — whatever you wish to refer to it as, to connect to this eternal, still, presence whenever you wish.
You cannot connect with mind, ego, or thought. Then, it will just slip away.
You can connect with your solitude. Just be still. Still. Silent. Secure. Whole. Complete. Just as you’ve always already been.
See? There it is. There’s that piece of bliss.
So, go, my friend.
Bask in the essence of which we are.
Ever powerful. Resplendent. Eternal. Still. Silent.
Bask. Bask in our infinite nature, silence, and glory.
Life is a beautiful labyrinth, a joke, filled with pain, suffering, pleasure, joy, and desire. God says, “Go. Go figure it all out!” And then you come back to God saying “I figured it out. I am you. I am GOD.” Then the universe shakes in joyous laughter. Nothing remains. Nothing ever was!
I know that we, as embodied human beings, can and will be confronted with the most trying of circumstances, at least on the subjective level of being. This is our nature. And, typically, we whine, we cry, we say, “NO, NO, NO, I do not want this! I did not ask for this!” when we believe the experience to be negative. Or, when we believe the experience to be positive, we say, “Give me MORE!”
In the end, we know that yes, this is only our subjective reality. This experience is occurring only on the subjective realm of illusion, and we simply have three choices from which to deal with this experience. These choices are denial, acceptance, and turning from the subjective realm of being to the Absolute.
In every case in life, in every choice, whether we believe at the time this experience is positive or if we believe at the time it is negative, these labels don’t matter, as both of them are lies. Whatever the case, the experience is happening. Resisting the experience provides suffering. Acceptance of the experience leads us through. Turning to the Absolute is the way of transcendence.
The choice of the interpretation of the experience is ours: Therein lies the choice, the view, and the reality. Therein lies life. Will you dance or will you suffer?
There’s not a damn reason, meaning, or purpose behind anything. Nothing matters. I don’t mean that in a depressing sad oh nothing matters way; but in a Whoa. Nothing matters way. Like in the ULTIMATE universal real sense.
But then when dealing with the Fundamental, if nothing is really here, nothing really matters, nothing really means anything beyond the formless, then what are we left here to do with it then? What are we going to do with all of this nothingness?! More nothingness. Enjoy the nothingness!
If you look closely, seriously, honestly, and ask “who am I?” Your world will be turned upside down. Your world will be liberated. Your world will no longer be a world, but a universal sea. An endless sea where “you” no longer exist. Nothing exists. There can be no you. No death. No birth. Nothing but the beautiful, empty, still sea of awareness. There is absolutely nothing else here. Look for yourself. Lift the veil of delusion and see.
Every single tiny thing that we think is important—We gave it that importance. We, either ourselves or as a society, gave it that importance through our stories.
Each and every suffering we have is the same. We gave it that story of our suffering.
But in truth, in Reality, none if it matters. Not a single shred. So stop. Stop worrying. Stop searching for happiness. Fulfillment. God. Goddess. Whatever you need has always already been here. Closer than your own breath. Nearer than your heartbeat. Freedom. Awareness. The full, nothingness of reality.
Our biggest transgression against ourselves is that we believe ourselves to be finite and intrinsically flawed. This is a lie.
I love the stillness of a snowy winter evening. The quiet cacophony as each tiny snowflake lands with a small *tink* and, for a few moments, maybe a few hours, all is calm, still, yet expansive. I like to think that those small, quiet *tinks* of the snowflakes are the universe calling us to take a deep breath while it whispers, “Shhh. Be quiet and know you are this. All of this.” And then, once every flake has landed, we go back to our dreams of the outer world and the illusions of our “small selves” to forget our unity, our stillness, our expansiveness so that we can create and dance or destroy and wail, however we decide for that time to dream.