Things without matter don’t matter.

The mystical experience is mistical; realizing one is in a fog, beyond which is the light.

Art is artificial.

How you roll gets you the role and the role affects how you roll.

As I am this

as I am that

as I am many things,

I am not one I.

I am many Is.

But the Is are not Is.

The Is are is,

as all there is is is.

Choosing between vow and wow sounds easy but is difficult.

As U are who you are, a person in the play of life;

as U are what you are, God in the audience;

U are W (double U).

I am nothing, O.

With W on my left, the past, and a W on my right, the future;

WOW.

Soul is sole is sol.

One transcendental thing, manifested by light.

When you meet someone, it is customary to ask: “What is your name?’

Recognizing everyone is God, the question is the answer: “What is your name!”

“What” is everything before and after it is a who (or any thing else) in the now.

No know now

Now know no

Know now no

No know now. I don’t know the now.

Now know no. I now know nothing.

Know now no. I know the now is nothing.

I don’t know the now.

As the now is all there is, I now know nothing.

The now is nothing.

Our senses connect us to the now.

Our mind makes sense of our senses.

The mind’s sense is non-sense, separating us from the now.

The universe seems an infinite and endless number of unique and everchanging things.

However, all things are interdependent, making all things one thing: the universe. The etymology of the word “universe” is literally “turned into one.”

As things are unique and everchanging, nothing can be described but with one (uni) verse: It is what it is whatever it is.

Nothing, but nothing, is certain.

“Soooo” is the sound of inhaling.

“Hmmmmm” is the sound of exhaling.

Together, the cycle of breathing is “Soham”, meaning “I am” in Sanskrit.

“Soham” is an often used mantra in meditation to connect to the universal self.

“YH” mimics the sound of inhaling.

“WH” mimics the sound of exhaling.

Together, the cycle of breathing is “YHWH”, the word for God in the Old Testament; suggesting the sound of breathing is the unconscious utterance of God’s name.

God self-identifies as: “I am”.  I am being, not a being.

As male/female titles “Mr.”, “Mrs.” and “Ms.” are out of fashion in these contentious times, perhaps punctuations should be used to identity people and their sexual proclivities; to wit:

Female appearance:  (:)

Male appearance:  (;)

Straight:  (|)

Gay:  (\)

Bisexual:  (<>)

Trans  (\/)

Dominant Female:  (‘:)

Submissive Female:  (:’)

Dominant Male:  (‘;)

Submissive Male:  (;’)

Weird Female in public:  (“:)

Weird Male in public:  (“;)

Weird Female in private:  (:”)

Weird Male in private:  (;”)

Weird Female every which way:  (“:”)

Weird Male every which way: (“;”)

Undecided Person:  (?)

Materialistic:  ($)

Into group sex:  (#)

Sexually loyal:  (&)

Mental connection priority:  (i)

Physical connection priority:  (!)

Wants children:  (+)

Doesn’t want children:  (-)

Self-conscious:  (%)

Dreamer:  (*)

Religious:  (^)

Homebody:  (@)

For example, a person describing themselves as:

(“$^&’:@+) is a publicly weird materialistic religious loyal dominant Female homebody interested in having children.

(‘;!<>#*”-) is a dominant Male physically focused bisexual into group sex fantasies privately weird stuff and not interested in having children.

Alternatively, recognizing our unity, everyone could simply be referred to as “it”. This identifier is suggested by the long-used greeting: “How’s it going?”

Ultimately, those who know the true nature of things can only describe anyone or thing as “it is what it is whatever it is “.  They are at peace, as they know the devil is in the details.

Those who need to be important are impotent.

“Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.” — Galileo Galilei

Mathematics connects everything in the universe.

The mind created the word “number” whose etymology is “to divide.”

Upon awakening,

i becomes !

I + Word = World

My word creates the world.

The etymology of the word “universe” is literally “turned into one.”

The universe is the Everything turned into one thing.

The Everything is the now and what is before and after the now.

Sometimes, the Everything is called “God.”

People pray to God for many specific things, but ultimately happiness generally. The workings of the universe reveals the way to eternal happiness, peace.

God is like a shiny coin rapidly flipping and reflecting light.

One side is called “heads” and the other called “tails.” The plural is used to describe each side because each time we see the same side it is different in time and space than it was before and we are not the same person from one minute to the next.

The side we see is the now. The side we don’t see is what is before and after the now.

As the Everything (God) is rapidly turning, the visible side is just reflections of light. However, the mind slows down the turning and creates detailed images from the light. The images and the stories we tell about them are illusions.

The heads and tails seem a duality. However, the duality is also an illusion. All there is are two sides “turning into one,” the universe in the form of a coin.

Rarely noticed is the edge of the coin, the “third side.” The third side interconnects the two seemingly independent sides that are actually interdependent as one cannot exist without the other.

Horizontally from edge to edge is an invisible central axis, or path, around which the coin dances in perfect harmony. The path is the “Tao.”

The Tao is ultimate reality,* the underlying principle or source from which all things arise and to which they return. The Tao is the natural flow and harmony of the universe.

When we simply appreciate the coin fluttering like a butterfly, we are in tune with the Tao. We are not distracted by images and related stories we’ve created. We are in a state of peaceful harmony.

Most of us are oblivious of the Tao, as our attention is on what was now, what is now and what will be now, the visible side of the coin.

We see what is now in the context of what was and we hope to get lucky; that the next visible side, the next now, will bring us happiness.

“Hap” means luck. It is the root of happiness.

We pray to God to bring us luck.

Yet, when we experience the simple beauty of the Tao, we realize eternal peace rather than temporary happiness.

*While a coin flipping in the air seems a simple process, it’s actually extremely complicated to explain in terms of physics. It involves classical mechanics, rotational dynamics, angular momentum and precession, fluid dynamics, chaos theory and quantum mechanics. In perspective, the theory of relativity is considered easier to come to know than coin flip dynamics.

As everyone who is not me is U and I am U to everyone else, all beings are Us.

When past is passed, it’s absent in the present.

I + dolls = Idols

“I”, “Is”, and “Time” are the most frequently used pronoun, verb and noun.

While these words are never together in a sentence, “I is time”, they reveal the ultimate truth of existence.

“Is”, unlike “am”, suggests an identity relating to universal reality beyond the personal self.

“I is time” implies I am not a thing, emotion or characteristic. I am not one thing to the exclusion of other things; essentially, I am not the self.

“I is time” is transcendental. I is a flow of events. I is infinite, continuous, eternal. I is being, not a being.

I is time

Acronym: “I-it” or “Eye-it”

“It” is the most unspecific description. It is what it is whatever it is.

As “it” can refer to anything, it is essentially every thing.

“I it”: I and the universe are one.

“Eye-it”: what I see is what I am.

I is time. I am the flow of the universe.

A nation that gets into pissing contests is a urine-nation.

“Wow” is an instinctive sound we make when we encounter something that captivates, astonishes, or delights us.

The sound of “wow” is like love, made by puckering our lips when making a kiss.

As every thing we see is but a reflection of light, take things lightly.

“The Great Way” begins with “no know” and ends with “know no.”

“The Great Way” (or Tao), a central concept in Taoism, is the natural flow of the universe and the path to harmony. It is the path to liberation from our temporary individual self to realizing our eternal oneness with the Everything.

The Everything is the soul and its manifestation in the now.

The soul is what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now. The soul is “no-thing,” just energy.

The now is an infinite number of seemingly separate things. However, their separateness is an illusion, as all things are interdependent. Ultimately, all things in the now are one thing: the manifestation (expression) of the soul.

The self is who we are in the now.

The self conceives the now as a duality: the self and that which is not the self. Upon this foundational duality, we perceive separateness between all things in the now.

The self’s perception of separateness is based on illusions (memories, stories and identities) that define who we are, not what we are (the Everything).

The path to liberation begins when we realize we “no know.” That is, our self does not know what we are. We then dispense with our heretofore perception of reality based on the self and its illusions.

Dispensing with the illusion of separateness, we come to “know no;” to know the “no-thing” (the soul).

Knowing the soul, we experience the expression of the soul, the now, as an interconnectedness of all things.

From the soul to the soul’s expression and the reverting to the soul is the natural flow of the universe. Realizing that this is what we are, the Everything, we are in harmony with the flow of the universe.

Meditation is a central practice of “The Great Way.” Through meditation, we can let go of the self which in turn liberates us from the self.

Holding the self makes the hand a fist, an aggressive gesture suggestive of duality. Letting go the self, the hand opens like a handshake that allows us to connect with all things. The connection is love.

In meditation, we focus on breathing and the space between breaths. The breaths are the now and the space between breaths is the “no-thing” (the soul).

In the space of the “no-thing,” we can observe the now and come to realize we are the consciousness that creates it.

With the wisdom of knowing we are the Everything, we realize our self’s sense of separateness and the self itself are illusions. This wisdom leads us to compassion, to love all things in the now.

The sounds of “no know” and “know no” are the same, but their meanings distinct. The same energy vibrations (sound) from the soul is manifested differently as words in the now.

Liberation is reverting from words to their sounds; from distinct to harmonious. The path back is the Tao. The Tao reveals that “no know” and “know no” are one; that we and the energy are one.

Affects are the means and effects are the ends, but effects affect affects.

It Is What It Is Whatever It Is

Acronym: II-WII-WII (pronounced: I why why)

Why do I exist? Why is the universe as it is?

It Is What It Is Whatever It Is.

There is no why. All there is is is.

Work is business, jobs are busyness.

Work implies purposeful, goal-oriented activity. Jobs evaluations are based on whether you show up or not.

Many people want jobs, not work; though appearing busy is tough work.

Each sense connects us to a facet of reality. Thoughts are a senseless connection.

The now is always the same and all ways different.

Heaven is “have-even,” where every thing is even, as every thing is one thing in the space before and after the now.

I am being, not a being.

The eyes see the sea, what’s there.

The ears hear what’s here.

The nose knows.

When every day is holy, every day is a holiday.

Those who can explain “what it?” have wit.

Those who know “what is?” are wise.

Idol worshipers are idle.

God worshipers work at realizing divine consciousness.

God’s son is the sun.

God’s offspring is light.

Only hours are ours.

Our time in life is the only thing we have.

When our tale defines us, the tail is wagging the dog.

Accepting is the path of unity.

Excepting is the path of duality.

We chase our tales like dogs chase their tails.

On Earth, we are we.

In the eternal and endless universe, we are wee.

The holy is holey when some things are holy and some not.

The inside of a circle: a hole.

The inside and outside: a whole.

I see the sea,

not the ocean which is greater than me.

All Ways lead to always.

All mystical paths lead to oneness with eternity.

The grateful are great-full.

The definition of passion is:

• emotion
• an intense or overwhelming feeling
• an outbreak of anger
• a strong desire for some activity, object, or concept
• sexual desire

The etymology of passion is suffering.

Hap is the root of happiness.

Hap means luck.

Happiness is realizing that however difficult our circumstances, we’re lucky things aren’t worse.

Good evening.

Have a good transition to sleep-death, where all beings (the smart, the stupid, the rich, the poor, etc.) are even.

Good morning.

Have a good time mourning the person you were yesterday, who is now no longer.

“The world is new to us every morning. Every man should believe he is reborn each day.” — Baal Shem Tov

Kindness connects things of like kind.

When we realize every thing is a facet of one thing, the Everything, we connect to all things with love.

The sole of a foot and the soul of a man are rarely seen foundations.

Whether depends on weather which depends on whether which depends on weather…

“i” symbolizes the duality of body and mind.

“I” symbolizes integrity.

As a self, we win or lose.

As a soul, it’s one or lost; one with the Everything or a lost soul.

Asking whys makes wise.

The soul has only a sole expression and a sole emotion.

The sole expression is the now.

The sole emotion is love, connecting every thing in the now.

I am eye. What eye see is what I am.

Awareness is like clothing.

It comes in two styles: “A-ware” and “B-ware.”

“A-ware” is open, loose fitting and comfortable.

“B-ware” is buttoned up and uncomfortable.

When approached, those wearing A-ware ask: “How can I be of help?”

Those wearing B-ware ask: “What do you want?”

Upon awakening, every day is not everyday.

The Everything is no-thing and now-thing.

No-thing before and after the now-thing.

The two letters in the Hebrew word for “life” have a numerical value, in terms of sequential order in the alphabet, of 8 and 10. Added together, they total 18.

The number 18 is symbolic of life. Monetary gifts between Jews for various rites of passage (birthdays, weddings, holidays, etc.) are always given in multiples of 18 ($18, $54, $180, etc.).

The number 18 also informs us that life is finite and eternal.

1 is finite as it’s drawn from top to bottom, from heaven to Earth, from birth to death.

8 is eternal as it’s continuous, with no beginning and no end.

In life, the eternal soul is expressed as a finite self.

Moreover, 1 implies that every thing is essentially one thing: the expression of the soul. 8  implies every thing is interconnected.

Upon realizing all things are one interconnected thing, we treat every thing as we treat ourselves. That’s compassion.

Our oneness with every thing allows us to view the world from infinite perspectives. That’s the essence of wisdom.

With wisdom and compassion, we are a fully realized life.