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Inner Unity
The simplicity of life is related to your ability to love which allows for inner unity with your own mind. That's why it’s imperative to understand not the great secrets of the Universe, but your own mind. When the mind is united with itself, it’s in unity with all that is; it’s as simple as that. The same mind creates inner chaos and inner unity, which of these is manufactured determines the outcome of your life.
Inner chaos is generated by the energy of a self-serving mind and doesn't make life conducive to love. If chaos is what’s being created there won't be much unity or simplicity. What direction the mind goes in is the energy that it generates, and to that extent will there be inner unity. Inner unity is simply your ability to love. This is your hearts direction, hence it becomes the direction of your mind. When love is generated, it produces much different results than when the energy generated is self-serving. Unity on the other hand, generates the results of being in unity with all beings. Love is the simplest form of life, simply love and inner unity will be. Or not and life will remain a struggle, but don't blame life for this because it's your own energy that directs what’s chosen. Unity is simple to understand, but not easy to generate…
One Breath Awareness
If it was possible to be aware of one breath before every response, the world would be so different. Sit with one breath awareness and envision it. I know my conditioned responses led to most of the problems I had with people and with life itself. Life and people do their thing and I responded unconsciously. Today the responses are much more conducive to harmony because there is usually an awareness of one breath between the response and my reactions. It wasn't always this way and it isn't this way all the time, but it's becoming more and more the way of many of my reactions because of this awareness, but like I said, not always, but more often than not.
One breath awareness happens because of the discipline developed by sitting. What this does is it stops the Conditioned Mind from automatic responses based on a self-serving mind; one breath awareness allows for the possibility of those patterns to be broken. When this occurs it opens the heart to the truth that sets you free. Self-serving reactions will not fall away on their own, it will take much sitting to develop the necessary discipline for one breath awareness to occur. All it takes is one breath awareness for not only your existence to become different, but also the entire world. When responses to life are from this awareness, they’ll arise from the energy of love and slowly but surely the world responds with love. This has to occur as to me it's the law of love, and all it takes is awareness of one breath…
Addiction Dependence
Addiction is dependency regardless of what it is and the reason there’s a failure rate and not a success rate when treating addiction is because the true cause of it isn't identified. When a person is addicted to something, not just drugs and alcohol, the reason why needs to be identified if its hold is to ever be let go of. The answer to this has been revealed to me and it’s my obligation to share it. This isn't some ego trip, these answers are real. My writings explain from my experience why this addiction dependence is so and what can be done to stop it. It's based on Condition Mind Patterns that are formed by inner and outer influences that control you as if you were a puppet on a string. Through ignorance most people are controlled by Conditioned Mind Patterns until the day they die; far too many die before they are provided with an answer. These Conditioned Mind Patterns are in everyone; we are all addicts, we just have an addicted dependence on different things.
I’m simply the instrument in all of this, but it‘s my obligation to provide the message of why there’s addiction dependence to as many people as possible. A real answer has been provided to me with a practical solution to end the human addiction dependence, not by substituting one dependency for another, but by truly learning to be free in the present moment. The true bondage is in the need to satisfy a false self; that’s the addiction dependence. The things addicted to don't matter, but why there’s an addiction dependence does. Learn this truth because it’s the only way that will allow you to be free of your false self addiction...
The Gem Within
When a person has a shift they wake up from a state of being asleep and unaware of what truth is. When this occurs the implications of what has happened aren't truly realized. In my own case I knew something happened because my view of life was different, but I didn't know what it meant. I did know for the first time in my life that I was going to be okay. I likened this awakening as though I was broke (which I was spiritually) but I had a gem in my pocket that I wasn't aware of. I didn't wake up because something from the outside shook me, I woke up because I became aware of the gem within. I didn't know the value of this at first, as a matter of fact I didn't even know I had this gem in my possession. Even when some do become slightly aware of this, it very easily could be mistaken for an ordinary rock, and for me it was a rock for many years. As I look back throughout my life, I had an inkling this gem existed, but it was dismissed as just being a rock, because of this I kept looking for what I already possessed.
Nothing is given to us from the outside that the inside doesn't already possess, but because of the conditioning in place there's no awareness of this. Obviously we're not talking material possessions, I'm strictly talking about the gem of love that we all possess. This is worth more than anything in the world and it’s also the thing that's most readily available to everyone. It's just that the conditioning in place keeps one looking for their gem out there when all along you already have it in your possession...
Awakened Heart
An awakened mind comes from an awakened heart, and with this comes the view of love. With this view no one controls you but the Universe…
Someone’s unconsciousness is their misgiving. When centered on an awakened heart of love, life is always exactly the way it’s suppose to be because it‘s the way it is. When it’s time for it to be different it will be, but understand even when it’s different, it’s still the way it is. No one controls what is, but you are controlled by your Conditioned Mind until you understand the view of life through an awakened heart of love. It’s only through love that one can be free of the Conditioned Mind and thus have every decision made based in Universal Love. If not, there is no decision because there is no choice but to be controlled by your Conditioned Mind. Break free of the conditioning by viewing life centered in an awakened heart of love…

Thought Awareness
Thoughts are neither right or wrong, but there are some that are not beneficial. If there’s thought awareness and they’re not attached to, the non-beneficial ones dissipate as passing clouds…
Thoughts come and go just as passing clouds. If you’ve ever sat and observed clouds, you’ve noticed the clouds eventually dissipate; here one minute, gone the next. It’s the same when there is thought awareness. They arise, there’s no denying that, but unless there’s attachment to them, they dissipate. The question to ask, is are your thoughts beneficial? Your answer is a key factor in how you will live your life. Let’s say you have a thought to do something unhealthy, if you aren’t aware of it being unhealthy, the benefit factor of it and the next step becomes an unhealthy action.
There’s no way to be in the thoughtless realm continuously, at least this has been my experience. It’s more so to learn if your thoughts are beneficial or not. If there isn’t thought awareness, this won’t be noticed and non-beneficial actions will be mostly in control. This is because most minds unconsciously default to satisfying yourself which doesn’t allow the objectivity one gets from thought awareness. When there isn’t thought awareness, thoughts arise one right after the other and the mind gets cloudier and cloudier. Eventually there will be attachment; most likely it will be to a non-beneficial thought. Only with a settled mind can there be thought awareness, and when there is it allows for life to be lived in the most beneficial of ways…

Chapters of Life
The difference between learning from each chapter of life or being stuck where life is the same old same old is breaking free from the lie of “I” and not remaining its prisoner…
It seems as though life happens in chapters, at least this has been my experience. One will have to go through these different chapters if you’re not to get stuck in a particular one. Not everyone goes beyond the chapter that’s in place, some remain stuck for years, even a lifetime. Although the chapters themselves happen naturally, learning and going to the next chapter does not; the quality of life will be determined by what is learned in a previous and current chapter. Life is something that happens on its own, but there‘s a certain responsibility one has in making it of the highest quality. A simple example of this would be when you were at the chapter of your life when it was time to read. If you didn’t take responsibility to learn this, to say that life would be difficult today would be an understatement. So at this chapter of your life you did what was necessary to make it a higher quality.
As I’ve aged over the years I’ve reflected on how there were many chapters in my life. Not all provided the highest quality of living because of the things I did which didn’t allow it. The chapters of life will come, but what’s being learned is where maturity comes from. To me the most important lesson was learning to recognize the lie of “I” because that’s what I found was the biggest hurdle to living the highest quality of life possible. It’s not that I’m now all about helping others, but what I learned was life isn’t all about me and what I think. Therein lies the difference between learning from each chapter, and being able to live life to its highest quality or being stuck in a chapter where life is the same old same old…




