I Am, Therefore I Think

It's the way you think. That's your purpose. It's never been about
what work you choose, what gifts you develop, or what niche you fill -
let these be for your pleasure.

Think as only you can think, which will lead to feelings that only you can feel,
from which connections will be made, lives will be changed, and worlds will
come tumbling into existence.

Thanks,
The Universe

PS This is why you're here.

Knowledge

For centuries people have been condemning Adam and Eve. They are said to have committed Original Sin. I tell you this: It was the Original Blessing. For without this event, the partaking of the knowledge of good and evil, you would not even know the two possibilities existed! Indeed, before the so-called Fall of Adam, these two possibilities did not exist. There was no "evil." Everyone and everything existed in a state of constant perfection. It was, literally, paradise. Yet you didn't know it was paradise and could not experience it as perfection because you knew nothing else.

Shall you then condemn Adam and Eve, or thank them?

Neale Walsch

Isness, Aware

I attend to what is nearer to me than my breathing – this boundless, timeless Awareness. My thoughts come and go in this No-Mind. My feelings emerge and dissolve in this Absence. Change there in the Changeless here.

Each time I come back home to the Source I realize I have always been here. It is what I am, through and through, forever. It is what we all are.

Richard Lang

Flow

Think about your experience of those moments when you are most creatively engaged. What does it feel like? Being in a creative “flow” can be ecstatic and, simultaneously, there is an often surprising sense of urgency to bring into being that which you can sense is possible. That’s why great artists or scientists will work day and night, neglecting to eat or sleep. They are driven by a vision, something just beyond their reach that will not let them rest until they have brought it into reality. That drive is the very same impetus that caused the whole universe to burst forth, fourteen billion years ago, and is now expressing itself through the body, mind, heart, and talents of an inspired human being.

When you feel that creative flow, often you discover a part of yourself you are not normally aware of but which feels more like your “self” than the person you usually think you are. It’s like plugging in to a deeper source of energy and passion that transcends whatever limitations you ordinarily assume. A deeper, more authentic part of your self is creatively released. That’s why such moments are so fulfilling—it’s not just the creative work you produce, but the experience of being more alive, more connected, more in touch with a sense of meaning and purpose.

Andrew Cohen

Where Am I?

At the centre of my life is this Awareness whose very nature I find is freedom – freedom not only from thinghood but from thoughts and feelings of all kinds. Certainly from problems of all kinds. As the source of those things, the origin of those difficult things, its business must be to leave them alone, free to be what they are.

Who I really am doesn’t in itself change what I like to call my human nature. What it does is to place it. This difficult and sometimes heart-rending stuff is not denied. In fact it is far more honestly reckoned with and cheerfully taken on board, from the state of freedom at the centre, than ever it was from that illusory person.

Now there’s no necessity to deny and every reason to acknowledge these troubles in so far as they persist – loneliness and depression etc. It is part of the price of involvement in the world to have these feelings, some of which are agreeable, some of which are disagreeable, some of which are tragic. I can’t exist, can’t express at all, without this dualism out there. The dualism of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, black and white, etc. is the inescapable condition of expressing into the world from the place that is free of those dualities.

So it’s not a case of being free from these things, in the sense that one abolishes them, but of being free from them in the sense that one locates them. They are no longer central. This awareness not only removes one from them – without removing oneself from them - but in the long run and when persisted in, it changes them.

(Interview with Douglas Harding)

Life...

... is its own meaning. Life works out Life through the process of Life. The only meaning it has is the one we, as its myriad expressions, give it. And we do that all the time, consciously or otherwise. Let's go with 'consciously', and take charge, not forgetting in the process that Fun is Life's very essence:)