Go Back to Sleep

Everyone holds in high regard, those who “dream big,” “have goals,” and want to “achieve success” in some way. Our entire society is centered around this mindset.

I invite you to consider that this mindset creates and perpetuates the feeling of, “not enough.”

Who is to say that having dreams and goals is optimal, while living each day as it is, without a goal in sight is less than optimal?

We live in a society that pushes perpetual goal setting, and those with goals are identified as “intelligent,” “brilliant,” and “important.”

We encourage and support each other most when we’re chasing dreams outside of ourselves. Building businesses to feed people, earning college degrees, losing weight, making money, being a contribution to the world… those are admirable pursuits.

What about those who don’t do those things? They don’t get so much attention. Who encourages someone to do nothing?

Ask someone what their vision is for their future and if they tell you they have none, you might be quick to think they’re a loser.

What if pursuing goals is a sham? An illusion designed to keep you tied to the physical world to keep striving for more and more and more… to distract you from knowing the Truth.

What if you already are a contribution to the world just by existing?

What if you’re not a contribution to the world and that’s perfect?

What if there’s no such thing as being a contribution to the world because the world doesn’t need a contribution because it’s already the contribution itself?

What if just existing is all there is to do and goals and dreams are meaningless?

What if complete satisfaction begins where the desire to be more ends?

What would you have to give up to rest in such a complete place?

Who would you be if you had nothing left to pursue, no desires, and had no vested interest in the outcome of your own life or the world?

What if dropping your attachment to outcomes is the necessary ingredient to achieve lasting contentment?

Struggle, struggle, sleep, sleep. Open one eye – go back to sleep. Strive, strive, sleep. Open the other eye – go back to sleep.

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Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water

Everyone says, “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” And when the awakening process began, I wrestled with all these spiritual teachings, teachers, ideas, concepts, trying my damndest not to throw that baby out. But that baby had to go.

That’s the only way you’ll reach truth. Realize truth. You have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Drain the tub and let that baby spiral down into the great black hole of nothing forever.

Holding onto that baby when you drain the tub is like holding onto false beliefs while you stare truth in the face. You’ll never recognize truth while you’re holding that baby.

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You Cannot Escape the Matrix

“You want to escape the Matrix. Enlightenment is the truth of knowing you can’t. You only have two choices in life: you can play the game or not, play your part or not.

The moment you escape the Matrix, you become not you.

When you become not you, you aren’t playing the game… because you must be you to play the game.

When you aren’t you, theres no game. You disappear. Karma disappears. The idea of reincarnation disappears. Who is there to reincarnate?

You are the matrix. You cannot escape what you are.”

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A Walk with Mystery

Clouds of mist from the rain;
a jungle of thorny nettle.
The trees are thin and died long ago,
broken off at 6 feet,
Walking through, stomping with heavy feet:
an earthquake to the carpenter ants scurrying along their way.
I can’t avoid stepping on them, they’re everywhere.
No doubt, I left some unintentional carnage behind.
Doesn’t everyone?

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Creating Reality is Like Weed Whacking

“Creating reality” creates an artificial reality.

Creating reality is like weed whacking. Your creations are artificial constructs. The weeds are reality. You can maintain your artificial construct as long as you perform maintenance and keep cutting the weeds.

However, the moment you take your finger off the trigger, your creations come to a halt and reality takes over.

That’s an exhausting way to live. Yet humanity is obsessed with this process.

Reality, on the other hand, may not be all roses, but it’s truly effortless. In fact, if you sat down on the couch and never moved so much as a finger ever again, the sun would still rise, the moon would still set, and life would continue.

Amazing.

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Angels Are God’s Hands

He sits before a tangled road;
a trampled path so trodden.
leaves have all grown black and dead –
lost and long forgotten.

Beyond the blackened entry way
sit faith and premonition.
angel’s breath does block the sound
of failed destination.

Once he sat before this path
so many years before;
leaves were proudly dancing green
and paved the way with Lore.

Angels filled the sky above
with wings so pure and grand.
he wished for peace to find him soon;
for love to take his hand.

‘Twas no surprise to him, you see,
for faith had led him there.
the angels sought to bring him love,
but said he must beware.

God so gave this man a choice:
“watch the angels fly;
let them be the ones to choose,
and none will pass ye by.”

He showed the man a life of love;
the happiness he craved.
every dream had been fulfilled –
he lived a life unscathed.

“But Angels are the hands of God
and if you pull one down,
I’ll seal the path I’ve shown to you
without so much a sound.”

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