In life, our identity is the self. Before and after the now, our identity is the soul. Making our way through life, the self has many experiences; some happy, some not. Traumatic experiences are never passed, always past. Every thing is the soul before and after the now. While the soul is beyond description, as no one has ever complained about the time before their birth, the soul must be the peace beyond our understanding. In life, we hold our self identity tightly, with both hands. Letting go with one hand to embrace our soul identity is the way of a peaceful life....

"Hap" (luck) is the root of happiness. Realizing we are lucky (as however difficult our circumstances, we are lucky they aren't worse) is the root of happiness....

The soul thing is a sole thing. The soul is one thing, what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now. In the now, while the soul is manifested as an infinite number of seemingly independent things, all things are but one sole thing: an expression of the soul. The sole of our feet, like the soul, is the rarely seen foundation upon which we stand....

The Earth is rotating at 1,037 miles/hour and revolving around the sun at 66,616 miles/hour. Our solar system is revolving around the center of the Milky Way galaxy on average at 514,000 miles/hour. The Milky Way is moving towards the Andromeda Galaxy at 1,339,200 miles/hour. Moving at incomprehensible speeds and in various directions simultaneously, how can our senses inform us of reality; but for our mind slowing everything down and in turn making of things what it will?...

Good mourning. Upon awakening, have a good time mourning the person you were yesterday, who is now but an illusion. Don't identify with their stories; otherwise, their stories will frame your experience of the now, precluding experiencing the now as it is....