Now

Where does all insight and transformation occur?

Is it tomorrow? Next week? Five years from now?

No. It happens now. Nothing happens in the future.

The thing you are wanting to happen will happen now. The realization, the transformation, the understanding all happens now. 

Start thinking of life becoming a series of powerful “nows”. Every now has infinite potential. Now is where all of life happens. 

Know Thyself

This morning I am playing a game.

How honest can I be?

How connected can I be to this reality?

What is this reality?

From my observation, this world seems to be a natural reality and the reality generated by the human mind. 

The natural reality is the cosmos. It is persistent yet ever-changing.

The human mind is a collection of particular narratives. Each one generating a unique reality.

The human being is put in the middle of this. 

It is both the cosmos and its own particular narrative.

But there is something else.

Awareness. 

Awareness can notice the cosmos and the particular narrative. Therefore, awareness is outside of both. It is connected and yet it is not connected to both. 

Awareness is therefore more "me" than the cosmos or the narrative. 

To know myself, I must go into the root of this awareness and find out what it is.

The Cup of Fear

There is a pattern I have noticed over the last decade or so and I wonder if it is the same for everyone else.

When fear is running the show, I ultimately come to a point where life doesn’t work. There’s a collapse.

That collapse leads to a deep surrender where the ego and its fear are dissolved.

Then there is an immense relief.

In that relief, life flows back into my being—I am no longer in a contraction—and it feels amazing. I live freely, freshly, and newly. Enthusiasm and wonder return. The future is bright. Opportunity is there.

Then, slowly from the ashes, the ego begins to whisper its fearful narrative. It creeps back into my consciousness and attempts to pull my attention to its beliefs.

I used to unconsciously be pulled back in. Then I became aware of this pattern and, over time, developed the vigilance to see the master deceiver at work.

Now, when the ego offers my awareness the cup of fear, I do not drink.