On A Nature of Reality

The languages might be the only things alive and the alphabets might be all alone in the middle of nowhere.
The history of everything may have no existence beyond the borders of the languages; past tense as a kind of gate latch.

The presentation of the letters appears to invoke their meaning.

What I am writing and you are reading is what we can do with what an alphabet is and also appears to be.

You translate the colors into sounds and I translate the sounds into colors. We meet in the middle like two nosedives. 

"I", "you" and "we" are their favorite suspicious characters.

What we fluidly call reality ambushes us from all sides.

We try to see what it "IS" and all we find is an electrical storming.

"Two egos can use the signs for the apparent separations perfectly. Eavesdropping, it appears to be an alternative reality, the worlds of "I". Unfindable and perfectly sayable."

The thought seems to be only the sentence we observe live.

We don't appear to have extraneous places to hear sentences.

Reality would have to be a version of an impossible necker shape. One way it's this, another it's this, another still this and that and on and on eternity times infinity equals imagination.

That being said, it was said so maybe it's just the noises themselves, "r/e/a/l/i/t/y".

Probably both-and-and-and...

We can have as many opinions as we can react to but only in the time allotted us to react at all

Choose opinions wisely. Your entire social experience depends on it.

ps/smoh

love light and peace

I am enough

Your light is seen, 
your heart is known, 
your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. 
If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would be astonished. 
If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked. 
You are far more wonderful than you think you are. 
Rest with that. 
Rest easy with that. 
Breathe again. 
You are doing fine. More than fine. Better than fine. 
You’re doin’ great. 
So relax. And love yourself today and every day

love light and peace
ps/smoh

Life is a funny thing that happened to us on the way to our grave...

I am old school, I still believe in respect.

"In each one of you there is a hidden being, still in the deep sleep of childhood. Bring it to life! In each one of you there is a call, a will, an impulse of nature, an impulse toward the future, the new, the higher. Let it mature, let it resound, nurture it! Your future is not this or that; it is not money or power, it is not wisdom or success at your trade — your future, your hard dangerous path is this: to mature and to find yourselves."

Hermann Hesse

Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper and if they don't comply just let them be and run as fast as you can

Neither looks forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.

Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked

“The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.”

The search for a lifestyle involves a journey to the interior.

This is not altogether pleasant experience, because you not only have to take stock of what you consider your assets but you also have to take a long look at what your friends call 'the trouble with you.'

Nevertheless, the journey is worth making.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum

The only FREEDOM you truly have is in your MIND, so USE it. 

Tolerance only for those WHO AGREE WITH YOU is NO TOLERANCE AT ALL.

You are FREE TO CHOOSE, but you are NOT FREE from the CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR CHOICE.

Justice suffers when men refuse to STAND FIRM for WHAT IS RIGHT.

The UGLIEST THING I've ever SEEN is a HUMAN BEING WITHOUT COMPASSION.


love light and peace
nab/ps/smoh

Osho, once said, “Nothing fails like success”.

You discover a lot about yourself when you hit rock bottom and the same can be said about putting yourself back together again and pushing forward! Life is a process of learning and growth that never truly ends.

Observe your successes and notice the failure of what was promised.
This is because any desire is only a dream, a future program you bought into. Failure or success is head trips, not anything real.

Life is only this moment, no other time is true, real, or existential. This moment is a state of awareness, relaxation, peace, and contentment. We find this moment when we stop and observe. This is what meditation is all about.

I have recently been looking at expectation and how when we have this it causes suffering when it often doesn’t work out the way we want. I have never thought to put failure into this equation until now. We have success based on our expectations. Specific desired outcomes. When this doesn’t happen we see it as a failure and again we suffer. 

So to sum up, we only have the present moment and in that respect, every moment we are working towards a goal is actually the “success” whatever the outcome. 

Are you feeling lost in the world?

Just follow your bliss...

love light and peace
ps/smoh

LIFE IS SO BRIEF and TIME IS A THIEF when you're UNDECIDED. And like a FISTFUL OF SAND, it can SLIP right THROUGH YOUR HANDS.

May you feel the sacred gift of your humanity, the depth of love within your heart, and the brilliant light of your soul

love light and peace

ps/smoh

Our conversation at breakfast's table this morning was 'selfishness'.

What we get when we don't want to tell others what to do is more room to see what we do when we don't wait for anyone else to change. 
It is a form of self-love, not wanting to tell anyone else how to live life.
It's a free gift we can only lose one way.

- We are waiting for what we are when we are not waiting, peace is that dreadfully silly.
- Two sets of rules: the rules and the other rules
- We are not guided to anything; we are just falling along randomly, reverse engineering meaning from whatever it looks like we're doing; artists crafting a lifespan out of shits and giggles.
- We do what we love not because it saves us from irrelevancy or redundancy or because it validates who we are compared to who they are or even because we are compelled to do it. We do what we love because it's cool, that's all.
- If we do what we don't like, we at least like discomfort.
- We all have to do things we don't like in life' is a personal philosophy, not a statement about reality.

Healthy portions of selfishness are what tears down the walls.


love light and peace
ps/smoh

A NOTE TO A DEAR DARK FRIEND...The ego points out your flaws; your Spirit concentrates on your perfection. The ego sees your darkness; the Spirit sees your light. Look at your circumstances with the illumination of your heart. Don’t focus on the shadows, but rather the light.

Yes, I know the government is corrupt. 

Yes, I know there are people conspiring. 

Yes, I know people can lack integrity. 

Yes, I know that western culture is materialistic. 

Yes, I know that corporations are self-serving. 

Yes, I know that the media is manipulative. I share many of your concerns.

And I also know that we cannot change the world without acknowledging what is wrong. I know that we must stand against that which shames, oppresses and damages humanity. I know that we should not ignore the injustices and put on a fake smile. I know that we must find our voice and stand our ground. I know that we must fight for our right to the light. 

I believe deeply in forwarding moving criticism.

But something doesn’t feel quite right. You complain all the time. You have made negativity a full-time job. You don’t make an effort to find solutions. You blame everything on the world out there. You don’t actually do anything positive to effect change. And you seldom acknowledge the positive steps humanity has made. You seldom acknowledge the beauty around you. You almost never see the light in the darkness.

I know something from my lived experience. I know that the light is always there. It is there, in the breath that keeps you alive, in the smile of a child, in the one more chance to find your path. It is there in the rise of the feminine, in the therapeutic revolution, in the burgeoning quest for authenticity. If you can’t see it, then the issue is a personal one, for there are signs of progress everywhere.

And I also know from a lifetime of overcoming that it is possible to hold it all at once. 

To fight against injustice while still embodying the light. 

To see where we are lacking, while rejoicing in our abundance. 

To express our anger, and to live our gratitude. 

To feel overwhelmed by an unfair world, while still achieving our goals. 

To admit how far we have yet to travel while applauding how far we have come.

And so I wonder what lives below your perpetual negativity? Apart from the problems with the world, what happened that darkened your lens? 

What made the glass so empty? Is it really all about the world ‘out there’, or are there also unresolved personal experiences that need to be healed? 

What are you really trying to express the lack of love, attention, and satisfaction in your life? 

What is your deeper complaint? 

What lives below this victimhood? 

What needs to expressed and resolved so that you will see some light shining through again?

Please don’t wait until the world is perfect, for it will never be so.

Dear friend, how can I help you to believe again?

In these unusually dark times, I see how easy it is to be swallowed up by discouragement. The collective shadow has come to the surface, fast and furious. At times, it can be very difficult to hold to the light. Those of us who find it, let's spread it around. Let's lend it out. Let's give some away. This is how we will make it through these challenging times. By passing the light back and forth. By sharing the light...

love light and peace

jb/ps/smoh