Virtually all of us have all we need to enjoy ourselves and realize our divine potential, our purpose in life. Virtually none of us have what we want because when we have what we want we often want more of it or then want something else; hence our wants can never be had but temporarily. Moreover, our unending wants often become like needs. As such, we never have what we need. We become needy and cannot realize our potential....
When we go to sleep, our soul leaves our body and returns to the well of souls where it merges as one with all souls. When our soul returns and we truly awaken, we can see the souls in others which are indistinguishable from ours. As such, we treat others as we treat ourselves. The soul is God. When we cannot see God in others, we cannot see that we are God....
"Do your best and forget the rest." We often stress about stuff we can't do much about which distracts us from doing our best about the stuff about which we can do something. When doing our best we have no time to rest....
God has given us temporary bodily form to enjoy the physical experience of being alive. Those of us who remember this can enjoy life, while those who are oblivious often have a difficult go of it. Metaphorically, we are like children with loving parents. One day, our parents take us to an unfamiliar place, an amusement park. We soon exit the daylight sun and go into a relatively dark building where there's a rollercoaster into which our parents seat and strap us in with a seatbelt. They tell us we'll be going on a short ride, to enjoy ourselves and we'll be together again shortly. Once the ride starts, if we remember it's just a ride and we'll soon be with our parents again, we can have a terrific time. However, if we forget our parents and their instructions, our lives are truly a rollercoaster ride, at times terrifying; not an experience most of us would not want to remember or relive....
My father died suddenly of the flu when he was 60. He was a wonderful father and I loved him, though he couldn't stand me as I often irritated him. While I don't know where he is now, I know he transitioned to happy place; a place without me annoying him. I too am happy, joyous in his newfound happiness....
We live in a fascinating abstract world of concepts, symbols, stories and meanings. We often take our abstract world as seriously as the real world of our physical senses. When enlightened, we see these abstraction are illusions. This essentially makes people who take these abstractions seriously absurdly funny, though sometimes they can be dangerous. Our world would be a wonderful place if everyone was enlightened. Unfortunately, there would then be no one to laugh at and we would need abstractions to make life funny....
“I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours." I am who I am and am thankful to those who love me as I am, not who they may want me to be. They are happy that I am happy but as my wife says, she doesn’t want me too happy....
Complementarity: "the concept that one single thing, when considered from different perspectives, can seem to have very different or even contradictory properties." FUNDAMENTALS Ten Keys to Reality Embracing complementarity is the essence of wisdom....
We see the world wearing sunglasses. Sunglasses painted with ideologies and stories. Heavily painted so no light comes through. We fear taking off our sunglasses, afraid we will be blinded by the light. Though the sunglasses blind us to reality....
The sun makes our world look finite but stars remind us it's infinite. As light pollution shrouds the stars we easily forget each of us is a star....