Change Resistance

When you can truly be present for change, resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom. Today can be the day that change resistance doesn’t hold you in the past…

Although most change is resisted, the reason why is because it’s not understood that resisting it keeps you in the past. If you liked cake you wouldn’t want to eat it every single day at every meal. Change will happen, but resisting it doesn’t have to be. Make this the day that change isn’t resisted. See it as the opening of a door that gets you unstuck from the complacency of what’s familiar. Let’s face it, nobody really changes unless they’re forced to. The mind loves the familiar, even if the familiar isn’t the most beneficial choice. I see it all the time in the responses to my post. All my post do is provide another perspective, but many times they’re just discounted for the view a person has in place. I lived a conditioned existence for many years so I know what I’m talking about. Not many people truly understand the Conditioned Mind so when something new is presented, resistance to it rears its ugly head; as it’s discounted you remain locked in past conditioning.

Change resistance will happen consciously or unconsciously, but what’s not grasped is although the mind is conditioned to hold onto the familiar, change is needed to grow. For years I was stuck in resistive familiar conditioning that didn’t allow change to take place. Even when it looked as though change did happen, it was only on the surface level. Surface change is a society measurement and it’s mostly a facade. Inner change is a transformation and can’t be measured. When one can truly be present for change, all resistance falls away because it’s understood change provides growth and growth allows freedom…

Awareness Moment

Everyone has their awareness moment, but if your mind isn’t quiet enough it won’t be noticed. The question to ask is what are you willing to do so you don’t miss the next one…

There are many awareness moments throughout your life, but they go unnoticed because most of the time there is too much noise going on in our head. One awareness moment in particular for me occurred one morning at 4:00am, my neighbors dog was barking away and it woke me up. My first thought at the time was to go shut the dog up, but because I was sitting daily and developing discipline my squirrel cage mind was more settled than ever before so the next thought I had wasn’t as noisy. I said to myself that’s what dogs do, they bark” so I accepted the barking. The next thing I remember is I woke up and it was 8:00 am. I can’t tell you if the dog stopped barking, but I do know my awareness moment happened when I woke up as I noticed it. I realized for the first time ever that I had spent my entire life wanting things to be different and that this was the source of many if not all of the discontentment I ever had in my life. This awareness moment changed my view of life forever.

My life changed because no longer could I blame anything outside of me for my discontentment; the veil of ignorance was removed. Years of confusion and frustration fell away as this awareness moment was experienced; this was my moment of truth. An awareness moment is truth revealed and in truth is freedom. The more life is lived in truth the more freedom there is. Freedom from the ignorance that keeps a person locked in the prison of the Conditioned Mind. This is what an awareness moment does, it allows for acceptance of things as they really are instead of wanting them to be in the way of the make believe world of ignorance instilled by the Conditioned Mind. So it isn’t a question if you are going to have an awareness moment or not, it’s a question of are you going to notice it…

Love Gateway

The Conditioned Mind is grounded in selfishness, this is why many people don’t see the love gateway. The love gateway is always there, but it needs to be noticed so one can enter it and allow it to transform…

Love is a gateway with transforming properties, that’s why when one sees the love gateway, they’re transformed. Everyone begins life as an infant, all have the potential to love, but it’s still only an infant. You put them in an environment, nurture them and give them all kinds of tools to cope with life, but without the source of a love gateway, the transformation to a loving person will not occur. This transforming love gateway is the source of life. Go into a room filled with selfish energy and show the love gateway, there’s an instant transformation of the room. The rooms energy comes alive with color, the entire room is transformed. Without the love gateway people still exist, but their vibrance is hidden.

When one wakes up to experience this hidden vibrance, it’s the love gateway that transforms. You can be selfish your entire life, but once the love gateway is seen, for the most part selfishness goes away. It will return somewhat because of one’s conditioning, but one will never be as selfish as they once were. They can’t because there will always be awareness of love. This love portal reveals truth; it’s impossible to completely turn away from it. As stated before selfishness resurfaces because of one’s unconscious conditioning, but this love portal is always there beneath the conditioning because love is the source of our existence and the true essence of who we are. The Conditioned Mind is grounded in selfishness and the world is the way it is because not enough people see the love gateway. The love gateway is always there, it just needs to be noticed so one can enter it and allow it to transform…

Conflicted Mind

When there’s awareness of a peaceful mind and you don’t engage in what comes from a conflicted mind, it makes for a view of life few people will ever experience…

A view from a conflicted mind is very different than a peaceful one; the conflicted mind has a much different agenda than being peaceful. Every conflict known to mankind has been because of a conflicted mind. You cannot have a conflict when a mind is peaceful. Although a peaceful view aches at times, it’s where all compassion comes from. This is the understanding from a peaceful view, the conflicted (conditioned) view can’t grasp. Mind seeing is strictly from the way one is conditioned. A peaceful view arises from the space of Now. I can tell right away when someone comes from a conflicted mind view because there’s attachment with what’s being said. Usually the sentences starts with I, me or it will be said, I see what you’re saying, but.

A peaceful mind view doesn’t make you smarter than anyone, all it means is you’ve been granted the vision to see clearly. A peaceful mind view is difficult to experience because of all the distractions in place. These distractions keep you trapped to the reaching of a view from the conflicted mind. Reach, reach, reach, a peaceful needs no such reaching, it realizes its completeness as it is. When your view is peaceful, you become more of an observer than a reactor, at least that’s been my experience. I had a conflicted mind existence for many years.  Even today the old conditioning resurfaces, but because of the awareness there’s less engagement with what comes from the conflicted mind; this naturally allows a peaceful mind view to arise. When you live from here it makes for a view of life much different than most people will ever experience…

Selfish Thoughts

Sitting develops discipline so you can watch your selfish thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you’ll see the selfish thought prison of the mind…

With the emergence of the social media, there’s so much information available on the mind that it really needs to be investigated before you consider what to use to assist in your development. To see if what you’re using to develop discipline is beneficial, there can’t be any selfish thoughts that form attachments. Methods, programs, guru’s, life coaches, teachers, or any other form that’s used to keep you attached just keeps you in prison to the very thing you are trying to break free of. Just as there’s a lot of “fake news” out there today, there’s also a lot of fake information on the mind. Attachment is something that’s not truly understood by many people, and so most of the thinking out there keeps you in a selfish thought prison in some way. Those telling you to buy their book, pay for retreats run by paid speakers, or follow (instant attachment) a program are clever to a fault, with the fault being keeping you in prison.

The only thing needed is look within so a millisecond of space is created between your selfish thoughts. Once there’s awareness of this, slowly there will be more and more space; it takes nothing but awareness to create this space. The selfish thought prison that someone’s program, book, method or whatever has your answer will keep you attached to what you’re trying to break free from. I know people defend their so called guru or people they follow adamantly, but it’s only because there’s no awareness of the prison they’re in. Sit often and just watch the selfish thoughts come and go. Eventually there will be more and more space between them. It’s in this space that you see all the selfish thoughts you’re attached to and the prison they put you in…

Desire for More

Life happens while you’re busy making plans. If you’re not careful most of it will be missed because you’ll be too busy convincing yourself the desire for more is needed…

The only thing that makes a person desire for more to enhance life is their own conditioning. Until this is realized, this conditioning will keep you in the state of desiring more. This state of desiring more is a constant for most, so this means most are missing what life truly offers. If a person is alive life will be experienced, but ask yourself is your life being fully lived or are you under the spell of your own Conditioned Mind that makes you desire more. Desiring more is the default setting of most minds; unfortunately so much of life will be missed because of this. This desiring more mind agitation doesn’t allow any contentment with what’s actually taking place.

Grab more of whatever you desire, but except for a few brief moments contentment will be fleeting. Sit and visualize having all that is desired and see how this really changes your life. It will only be a matter of time before something more will be desired. This is because regardless of what one has or what’s going on, if there isn’t some level of contentment with the way things are, you will constantly convince yourself more is desired which means the need for more will always be…

Void of Loneliness

When the mind settles the need to fill the void of loneliness with something lessens. In the process the void disappears and it’s simply because a story of a void isn’t being created…

The void of loneliness seems to get wider as one ages, but it doesn’t really, what happens is there are just less distractions so the void takes more of a hold. The natural process of life seems to be to stay busy trying to figure things out regardless of what exactly the figuring out manifest as; it certainly creates a void. There are periods in between the busyness where a person has some idle time and probably feels the void of loneliness, but it doesn’t usually last very long because the busyness of trying to figure out life returns. This busyness last most of one’s life, but there does come a time that the natural process of being busy lessens. At this stage many people experience a void that hasn’t been noticed before so it will either be addressed by looking inward or one will get busy again trying to figure out how to fill the void.

Eventually the busyness will end for whatever reason, but unfortunately for most people without the busyness the void of loneliness rears its ugly head. Many elderly people struggle to fill this void, but it’s so difficult because there just isn’t a lot going on. Kids are grown, retirement, house paid off, more time behind you than what’s left, and the list goes on. I was this way for many years, using distraction after distraction to fill this void. There were very brief periods of not needing to fill it, but these periods were far and few in between. That is until fifteenth years ago when I hit an emotional bottom. I began sitting and simply looking inward which allowed me to see the distractions of needing to attach to a story. As I sat, the mind settled and thus the needing to reach for something to fill the void of loneliness lessened. Actually it disappeared and it was simply because the story of a void wasn’t being created…

Single View Limit

No view is inherently wrong, but if you only have a single one, it limits life and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from that single view…

Changing views is what makes life different, but it doesn’t make what happens in life different, it only makes the view of what happens different. If you’re locked into a single view, this only allows one way of seeing things. The more a view is intellect based, the harder it will be for there to be a shift to see things from another view. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with the intellect, it just doesn’t allow for much openness. When one sees things from a single view, it limits life to that one view. Most times this view isn’t even your own, it’s formed from someone else’s opinion, teaching, book, video, or discussion.

Being fixated on a single view keeps you trapped to the results of only that view; think about how limiting that is. No possibility of another view, always going down the same path, never allowing anything new. This is so limiting, but with only seeing things through a single view, how limiting this is will not be seen. Sitting and developing discipline so the minds single view grip lessens can assist in possibly altering this mind set, but there has to an inkling there’s another way to see things. It’s not that any way is wrong, it’s just that having only a single view limits life, and in the process it doesn’t allow any other results except those from the single view…

Thought Patterns

Part of the process of a settling mind is noticing the thought patterns that cause you and others harm and changing them in ways that’s beneficial to you and to all beings…

For years I had thought patterns and acted in ways that weren’t beneficial to me or anyone else. I was perplexed by this for many years because I didn’t understand why this was so. I didn’t get why anyone would do anything that wasn’t a true benefit to their life, but it goes on all the time; just watch the news. Forget it don’t watch the news because there isn’t much benefit to that. We act in ways that harm others and ourselves, to me this is truly mind boggling, but it’s where my passion to assist others in exposing non-beneficial thought patterns is derived from. I don’t blame me or anyone else for the way I developed; it‘s just the way I became conditioned. 

If there is fault anywhere it’s with society as a whole. That’s the collective conditioning as opposed to individual conditioning, but there really isn’t fault anywhere because becoming conditioned is just the way life is. The type of conditioning is what needs to be focused on. If we were all conditioned to love the world would be much different. Since this isn’t the case we need to learn to develop thought patterns that make us act and think in ways the are beneficial to our well being and our planet as a whole…

Habitual Distractions

You will be habitually distracted by what your mind approves of. Until you wake up to see this, the habitual distractions of what’s approved will remain in place and it will be the driving force of your existence…

Everything reached for is a coping mechanism approved by the habitual distractions of your own mind. Although approving different things will produce different outcomes, the core of all of the minds habitual distractions are the same; they arise from the conditioned mind. This is what causes one to constantly seek habitual distractions which aren’t real. The Conditioned Mind makes you believe they are as the ensuing behavior to fill these habitual distractions follows. The Conditioned Mind says, Hey, you need to reach for something, what is reached for depends on the conditioning in place; sit and ponder this.

Until this is understood and the diabolical Conditioned Mind is seen for what it truly is, suffering will remain because you will always need to fulfill the habitual mind distractions. There’s nothing inherently wrong with satisfaction, but when it’s the driving force of existence, it will keep the mind in a constant state of needing to fulfill habitual distractions; this won’t be seen by a mind that’s locked in this state. Only within a quiet mind state will there be awareness of this. The reason why anything is reached for is because there’s a habitual distraction by the mind for the present moment to be different; this is a habitual distraction of the Conditioned Mind. You can only be distracted by what the Conditioned Mind approves of. Unless you wake up to see this, your conditioning will remain in place and the habitual distractions will be the driving force of your existence…

Selfish Conditioning

As we grow up we’re conditioned in a selfish way that allows for our habits to be as they are. Simply put, if our selfish habits were based in love humanity would be much different…

As I look back, I see how many of my habits arose from selfish conditioning, this was just part of what was there growing up. Nothing particularly right or wrong in this, especially because there wasn’t much that could have been done differently. It’s very difficult to act in a loving manner if that’s not what’s in place growing up. Some things are learned naturally, but everything takes some conditioning associated with it. If you’re learning how to golf, at first it’s awkward with no knowledge as to the best way to swing a club, but the more you do it the more awareness of how to swing there is. This way of learning is beneficial when what you’re learning is based in love. Part of the problem is when what becomes habit isn’t based in love because unfortunately it seems natural. This is why it’s so hard to change. I knew what was right (loving) and what was wrong (selfish) growing up, but doing what was loving was not what I was conditioned to do so being selfish became natural for me; there wasn’t anybody to tell me different.

To say the least, these selfish habits caused much suffering because there wasn’t any room for much else to be seen. This is the merry-go-round most people are unknowingly on and it’s a direct result of why humanity is the way that it is. If we all grew up with our habits based in loved, humanity would be much different, it’s that simple. I know this because fifteen years ago I began seeing things differently (of love) and lo and behold things began changing. It doesn’t mean it’s always this way, but just as it is with learning to swing a golf club properly, it takes practice. And for me it’s done so the loving behavior becomes as natural as the selfish habits were…

Addictive Wanting

Don’t let addictive wanting keep you in an unconscious state. All addictive wanting (attachment) has consequences regardless of what’s addictively wanted…

If you’re always addictively wanting it’s because you don’t think what you have is enough. If you don’t think you have enough, there will always be something to addictively want. Wanting isn’t something that’s inherently a bad thing, why one wants addictively is where issues arise; this is because one thinks something is missing. What is addictively wanted only matters to the degree in how the thing affects your life. The addiction to drink alcohol in access has consequences much different than the addiction to go to a program to stop using it. Make no mistake though, the addictions core is the same and that’s what needs to be examined. Don’t let the different consequences of addictive wanting lull you into unconsciousness because all wanting leads to bondage in one form or another, and as stated this includes all addictions.

You might say that’s not true, an addiction to better yourself is a good thing, but that would mean you need things to be different to accept yourself. Accepting life exactly in the present is the only place the peace of not needing to addictively have things different is experienced. I’m not saying don’t better yourself, but if it’s at the expense of your peace of mind, where’s the benefit. I say go for the gold, just understand even if it’s attained you will find it’s not providing the benefits you thought it would; shortly afterwards more gold will be addictively wanted. Investigate this and see how addictions arise from desire, and desire causes bondage (attachment) which causes suffering. Break free from the addictive wanting of desiring things different and you will inevitably stop suffering…

Be the Difference

You can be a difference maker, but only if you know what will make a difference. Understand the energy of love and you’ll know what’s needed to make a difference… 

It’s the people factor that has been lost in what is occurring today in society, and it’s causing everyone to suffer; the sad thing is it’s all preventable and unnecessary. The difficult part in all of this is not how to fix it, but how to remain an instrument of Love throughout this insanity. Everyone has their own journey and it isn’t my job to fix anyone, but not to be drawn in to all the negative energy associated with this is where my obligation lies.  People are upset and have every right to be, but the unfortunate thing is all the negative energy doesn’t change anything. Regardless how anyone is labeled, it’s not who they are. A label doesn’t give anyone the right to disrespect another person. 

All the labels associated with a thing are used to create a perception; a false way of looking at life. When labels aren’t applied there is stillness; it’s in stillness that Love is present. Then and only then will reality be known; the reality that things aren’t as they appear unless you make it so. If you don’t get drawn into the labels, you won’t get drawn into someone else’s perception of reality. You can be a difference maker by knowing what will make a difference. The energy of Love is the difference maker…

Fortitude Within

Looking at yourself takes an amount of fortitude that most people will never possess because the conditioning in place won’t allow it. Until this changes the conditioning remains in control…

It’s very sad to see the things people are ok holding onto, with the emphasis totally on satisfying a deranged self. This is done without much consideration for anyone else and it’s strictly from a self-serving perspective. I know it’s because most people know not what they do, but the suffering this causes and how it reinforces the conditioning in place is truly mind boggling. I said this because if you’re truly awake there’s the understanding that the way things are is the way things are; wanting them different also reinforces the conditioning in place. I’m writing about this because there are answers that many don’t have the fortitude to embrace. It’s like there’s a cure for cancer, but some just won’t listen. Without going into specifics, the conditioned unconsciousness runs so deep that people will justify all kinds of selfish behavior without blinking an eye; drugs, alcohol, gambling, porn, rioting, protesting, total defiance for any authority, murder, rape, assault, robbery and looking inward, this is only the tip of the Conditioned Mind iceberg. 

Here’s why this is, at least from my experience. It’s much easier because of the conditioning in place to justify selfish behavior than to have the fortitude to look at yourself. Looking at yourself takes an amount of fortitude that most people will never possess because the conditioning in place won’t allow it. Until this happens your conditioning remains in control. There’s really no way around this. You don’t have to save the world, but you have to have the fortitude to look inward so you can at least save yourself…

Mind Hunger

Although the pleasures of the world take on many forms, it’s the hunger of the mind that makes one seek them. This hunger can only be satisfied in stillness because when the mind is still there is no hunger…

One aspect of the Conditioned Mind is how it’s in a pleasure seeking mode most of the time. Even when we get down on ourselves, it’s a perverse form of pleasure. The mind wants to keep all the pleasure thoughts and discard the unpleasant ones; it spends most of its time doing this. Whether it’s weaving in and out of traffic, only to catch a red light and have all the cars that you just passed pull up to the same light, or doing something and asking yourself why you did it, the reason for the doing is strictly to seek some form of pleasure. That your own mind questions why you do what you do is how diabolical it is, but understand it’s only this way because of the way it has been conditioned.

The pleasure seeking mode is not one which is in our best interest, but the Conditioned Mind doesn’t really care about that; control is all it cares about. It makes you think seeking pleasure is a necessity, but when the mind starts to settle and it loses its grip on you, you will see the fallacy of this. True pleasure is in stillness not in things, but the pleasure of stillness is not the same pleasure that the world offers. The pleasure of the world is based in lies, the pleasure of stillness is based in truth. The parable in the bible speaks of satisfying a hunger that only God (stillness) can satisfy. This hunger is the self seeking pleasure of the world, this is the hunger the world creates, but it cannot be satisfied. It’s only in stillness that this hunger is satisfied, not because it’s given something to satisfy it, but because in stillness a hunger never materializes so there is no hunger to satisfy…

Life Teacher

Allowing life to be as it is and not needing it different allows life to be a teacher so you learn the lessons that are needed…

It order to not get caught up in making life about a preconceived idea, it’s very important to remain in the present moment. To me if life is about anything, this is it because it’s the only place that actually exist. Life has been my teacher as I have learned so many valuable lessons the last fifteen years, but regardless I’m always led to the one lesson; non attachment is the only way there will ever be freedom. And it can only be done when our state of being is anchored in the present moment. This is not a belief or concept, this is the lesson that life taught me. I don’t really understand all the other teachings, they seem to be about something created instead of one that arises. Any teaching that’s created to be about something is just a concept or belief; a true teaching arises, it’s never created.

When you’re present, you’re with true reality. If there’s non-attachment to this reality it will be impossible to lose your center of being; therefore you would never ever suffer. Look deeply at what is attached to. Even if there’s some behavior that’s not changed, if there is non-attachment to it, you will remain free. Attachment/non judgement is the only true state of being where one is free. Even trying to change the world for its betterment is a form of attachment. Allow life to be as it is and it will be a teacher so the lessons that are needed can be learned…

Inner Contentment

When your contentment is pursued from the outside, it’s only a mask to keep you from knowing that your contentment can only come from within. Look within and you will never be without…

To be awake is to stop using things from the outside to provide contentment. This is very difficult to see because of the conditioning in place. Alcohol is something that is used by billions of people for contentment, but what if it wasn’t available what would be used? How about drugs, food, sex, working out, getting ahead in life and so on, these are all on the outside, but true contentment comes from within. So why do we constantly go outside to find inner contentment? Find this answer and you‘ll discover a peace never experienced before. Even the so called spiritual journey is on the outside. The ability to look within gives the feeling that you will never be without.

The only way this truth can be revealed is by developing a mind quiet enough that allows this truth to be seen from within. I talk to many people about this as they are smoking a cigarette or are in the grip of some other form of conditioned behavior; it’s just not seen how destructive their own behavior is. We can’t see our own unconsciousness because of the Conditioned Mind.

We are dependent on outside things to fill our inner discontentment. Truth revealed is ignorance removed. The world of outside contentment is a world of delusion. When you’re quiet enough to look inside and your discontented reaching subsides, it will be inner-stood how much you have been controlled by delusion. Probably for the first time you’ll be able to cut the strings that have been controlling you like a puppet on string. The bottom line is this, you will either control your reactions to life or they will be controlled for you by the discontentment of needing to reach for outside things…

Illusionary Reality

To expose your created illusions, why they’re being created needs to be understood. If this understanding doesn’t occur the illusions remain as your reality which in turn makes your life illusionary…

The way the base of your thoughts are formulated determines if you see what actually occurs in life or if life becomes an illusionary reality of your formulated thoughts. Because of the lack of clarity of truth in most peoples lives, this creates two realities occurring at the same time. One is what is actually occurring and the other is your illusional thoughts of what’s occurring. The more unaware a person is of this, the more their thoughts make up an illusionary story of life instead of living a life that’s actually occurring.

If this is how you’re living it makes for a very unproductive existence because an illusionary life is being lived; when this is done your entire existence is an illusion. It’s like a magic trick, no matter how real it seems, it’s not. To expose what makes a trick seem real, how the trick is done needs to be understood. It’s the same with life, to expose the created illusions, why they’re being created needs to be understood. If this doesn’t occur the illusions remain as your reality.

Thoughts are the base of all illusions because without the belief of something, it’s impossible for an illusion to exist. All illusions start with a thought that it‘s real, but the thought isn’t what’s actually occurring so two realities are happening at the same time; one is created (the illusion) and one just is. The one you live your life by determines if it’s based in what’s actually occurring or if you’re living a life of illusions created by the Conditioned Mind. There’s living your given life (what is) or there’s life made up. It can be an illusionary creation of your thoughts or it can be the reality of what is. There are always two realities to choose from, the illusionary one needs to be exposed. If this doesn’t occur the illusions remain as reality which in turn makes life illusionary…

Fabricated Existence

When living life isn’t based in facts it becomes a fabricated existence. Stick with the facts and stay connected to life, or not and live a fabricated existence…

There are times that it seems there’s more of a connection with life than at other times, but it isn’t life that changes, life just is; something in us causes our disconnect. This is the same when we feel disconnected with people, it’s always something within ourselves that causes our disconnect. Even if there’s interactions with the most evil person alive, when you’re connected to life you will have compassion for them because you will understand the prison they’re in. When a disconnect does occur, compassion is non existent and the emotion turns to whatever fabrication your conditioning calls for. The more conditioning there is the more there’s a fabrication of being disconnected, and what you’re disconnected from is love.

No matter the circumstances, we only internalize our feelings and allow them to control our emotions when we come from a place of a fabricated self. The more the self is fabricated, the more disconnected we feel from love. Our connection to life is related to living in the present moment and how we rightly relate ourselves with that moment. The connection is because in the present moment the mind isn’t allowed to fabricate in the past or future. By being present, you’re in full cooperation with what is, which puts you in cooperation with life. When you cooperate with life you’re connected to love which connects you to life. So live now and live life, or not and live life in a fabricated state of existence…

Worldly Attachments

The ways to be drawn in by the world are endless, but understand the draw comes from your own mind and even though your conditioning provides the triggers, you alone attach to them…

If you’re practicing to live a spiritual life, but you don’t know your own mind, it’s like going to the gym, but not making much of an effort to work out; your results will be non existent. If you don’t notice your attachments, the whole point of any practice is missed. This is because of the draw of the world which makes looking inward difficult. There are so many things in place that prevent looking inward from happening, and if it doesn’t happen, you’ll remain in bondage to worldly attachments. Attachments are all they are because when there’s even the slightest opening to allow what’s within to be seen, your expansion begins.

The attachments to the world are very enticing. If it wasn’t the percentage of conscious and unconscious beings would be reversed. It’s this way because the attachments to the world are in control. This is only real to the degree of one’s worldly attachments. There’s no denying they’re there, but they’re in control because there’s attachment to the belief they’re needed. We alone are the creators of this, if one doesn’t become familiar with their own mind, the worldly attachments will continue their control, sadly there’s really no way around this…

Now Stamp of Approval

If you’re always looking to what’s next in what gets your stamp of approval, maybe you shouldn’t be doing what’s next. What’s here now holds the key to what gets a stamp of approval, what’s next is the delusion that something else is needed…

Yesterday I got a call from the company who published my book. They asked me what was next as far as my book was concerned, my answer was nothing. There is much freedom in this because not my book or anything defines me. The world may attach definitions to certain things and they’re used to define you, but if the world’s stamp of approval is needed for what you’re doing, maybe you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing.

There’s never a need to do the next of anything unless you think it’s necessary for your stamp of approval. If you need it for a stamp of approval you shouldn’t be doing it because it isn’t from the heart. You may make up a story to justify what you’re doing; no one is the judge of that but your own heart. If the Universe is truly your guide, then it’s from the Universe that all things occur. It doesn’t mean you don’t do, but what you do shouldn’t need a stamp of approval to validate yourself. The Conditioned Mind creates so much nonsense to keep you in your chains, but if you’re going to ever understand your completeness, the Universe has to be the one in control. It has to be the source of your stamp of approval if you’re to be complete. Here’s why; if you look for a stamp of approval in anything else, it will not last because you will always have to do what’s next. 

Another book, another promotion, another client, another 12 step meeting, another spouse, another house, a vacation house, retirement, saving lost souls, retreats, meditation and on and on and on, but when the Universal Energy is where you derive your strength from, you will get you stamp of approval because there won’t be an attachment to a you who is doing so there won’t be a you who needs a stamp of approval. When this is understood you will be complete because what to do next won’t matter because you will not be relying on it for your stamp of approval…

Internal Light

The internal light is the true essence of all beings. The only reason there’s darkness is because the light is looked for externally. When there’s awareness of your internal light, it instantly replaces darkness…

There needs to be awareness of the internal light of the heart so the dark places of the mind dissipate. The internal light is always there just waiting to replace darkness, it never leaves. When you live from the mind the thought realm is allowed to take over and it becomes very difficult to have awareness of the internal light. This internal light is what turns away the darkness of an unconscious state of mind; this unconscious state is the world of external answers. As long as answers are sought externally, darkness will remain. Darkness creates a world that’s mind based and this is what blocks awareness of internal light. It doesn’t allow for the pure essence of the life to be recognized. It holds onto the belief that life is to be managed so it can be a certain way, but even if the way that it’s wanted occurs, darkness remains because it’s mind based.

The internal light on the other hand is of the heart. When seen it replaces the darkness without effort; as when entering a room and the light is turned on the darkness is no more. That’s all that’s needed, the light needs to be noticed. The internal light always replaces darkness, unless one’s bulb is burnt out; our path is to make sure the internal light is always noticed regardless of the surrounding darkness. As your internal light remains lit, more people will see it and be drawn to you. When this occurs it will draw others to you as the internal light expands, and maybe one day there won’t be any darkness to replace because everyone will see their internal light…

Misinformed Perceptions

As long as there’s misinformation in place, this will be the operating energy of your life. This misinformed operating energy arises as perceptions and it doesn’t allow you to go beyond it…

At times how things appear isn’t actually how they are. If you truly want to see what’s going on, going beyond your misinformed perception will have to happen. If two people are looking at the same thing there are usually two different views of what’s seen; truth is what’s beyond the misinformed perception of what’s seen. There’s two sides to everything and then there’s the truth. To stop attaching to misinformed perceptions, you’ll need to stop labeling what is seen. Stopping the labeling process allows the mind to slow to a point where the misinformation is seen and a different view opens up. It’s imperative for this to happen if the misinformed perception that’s been formed over the years is to lessen its grip.

Misinformed perception is so misunderstood and how this is known is because of the behavior that’s in place. I look to myself to know this and in the process I can see it in others. This isn’t a judgement, it’s a fact. Know your own mind and you will know the mind of others; this is because we are all of the same energy. Creation is the same for everything regardless of the misinformed perceptions. When misinformation is seen for what it is, its energy begins to transform in a direction that allows truth. As long as there’s unawareness of this, the energy of misinformed perceptions remains as the operating energy of your life. This operating energy arises as what’s seen and takes on many forms, but the bottom line is it’s misinformed perceptions that don’t allow you to go beyond it…

Consciously Aware

Everyone begins life in this form with love in their heart, but because of the Conditioned Mind it gets pushed so far down that a story has to be made up instead of being consciously aware of it…

Why the Conditioned Mind is such a nemesis to one’s well being is because most conditioning is based in selfishness; this affects every aspect of life. Multiple this by billions of conditioned people and it’s no wonder the world is as it is. Granted this is one person’s experience (mine) but this is what has been revealed to me as being the block to me being consciously aware of love. Without this conscious love for myself there isn’t room to love others. This didn’t make love non existent in my life, but it did make me unaware of it.

To me, everyone has love in their heart, but it gets pushed so far down that one has to make up a story of love instead of being in touch with it consciously. When this happens, love becomes a doing when it’s something that just is. Love isn’t something that can be manufactured, it either is or it isn’t. Love doesn’t pick and choose, it can’t, love just loves; unconditionally. The thing with love is most think it’s a wishy washy state of mind, but it’s not really anything, it’s just love. An applied label doesn’t enhance it, only the awareness of it allows its conscious state to be. Love affects everything as does the lack of it. When there’s awareness of this, the heart opens and loves unconditionally because that’s how being consciously aware rolls…