Before and after the now, the sole thing that is is the soul, the everything. In the now, every thing is the everything. Upon our manifestation in bodily form, we assume a temporary self which disappears when our body is no longer. As every thing is a manifestation of the soul, the soul is what connects every thing as one thing, the everything. This connection is called love. Unlike the soul, the self views itself as apart and separate from every thing that it perceives as not its self. The self connects with every thing with ever-changing emotions like joy, hate, love, anger, indifference, envy, etc. Our experience of life is a function of how we connect, through the soul or our self. In a world inherently hostile to the self-sustainment of our bodily form, we need the self to survive. When we do so, we experience life with the emotions of our self. However, when we are not oblivious we are eternally the soul, we can return from the emotional rollercoaster of our self to the eternal love that is the soul; where there is peace beyond words and every thing is absolutely beautiful. That is the purpose of this blook, to guide us to the realization we are the soul....

The best is the best, but the good enough is better. It's easier to be good enough at many things than be the best at one thing. The best are recognized, the good enough rarely noticed; yet, better to be self-satisfied than recognized, as happiness is more sustainable than recognition....

Earth may be all that matters; yet, it doesn't matter. Earth seems an important thing as, to our knowledge, life only exists on Earth. Yet, undoubtedly, life exists in countless places as it's estimated there are 700 quintillion (a quintillion is a 1 followed by 18 zeros) planets in the observable universe. However, if life exists nowhere but Earth, how important can it be in the scheme of things....

Those who know, know all is one thing: the eternally unknowable.   The time before birth is nameless and beyond description. The time after death is nameless and beyond description. In many religions, God is nameless and beyond description. All one thing, eternally unknowable and beyond description. Everything else has names and descriptions, a fool's understanding of things; as every-thing can not be as described, for what is now is now no longer as every-thing is forever-changing....

We are the two faces of the universe. The visible face is the now, the invisible face is before and after the now; the temporary self and the eternal soul. Relative to the eternity of the soul the self is infinitesimally small. When our face is the soul, our self is calm as we know whatever happens to the self is relatively meaningless. When we realize our self is an instant in time, we enjoy it as it is whatever it is. Enjoying ourselves, we love everyone and everything that's our soul.  ...

Big buddha statue sits in silent meditation. Tears of bird droppings encrusted on his cheeks. Some sit at his feet with offerings and prayers while boy Buddha laughs, swimming in the river....