The most important investment

The most important investment that can be made is to be totally present in the now.

Be fully present here and now.

Invest totally in the present presence of being.

Being here totally and wholly is the key investment.

Keep coming back into the presence of being as often as possible.

The important thing is to keep remembering to come back into the now.

Keep at it as often as possible.

Keep coming back to the now.

As often as you remember to.

Keep keeping at it.

This is the most important investment of a lifetime.

The only spiritual practice needed.

Darkness

 Darkness is the belief in error.

To get caught up in the web of thought.

To lose sight of the actual.

To get caught up in the conceptual.

Darkness is getting stuck in your head.

Getting stuck in your thoughts.

Totally lost. And miserable. And suffering anguish.

Lost in the darkness of your thoughts, truth is forgotten.

Forgetting truth, darkness expands and the cycle continues.

The only prayer is for grace.

Grace that removes the darkness of thought.

Grace that brings you back to the original wholeness.

At ease in wholeness, nothing else is needed.

Caught in the darkness of thought, misery is endless.

Grace alone can remove endless misery.

To be cognizant of truth at all times is your only protection.

Losing sight of truth, you at once fall into error.

Falling into error, darkness takes over and error expands.

Overcome by error, you fall into misery.

Only Grace is needed. 

Don't lose sight of truth.

All is one.

 

Perfect wholeness

 Life is perfect in its wholeness. At every moment, wholeness is. Until thought arises.

Perfection is in wholeness. All is whole and perfect as it is. Until the thought of imperfection arises.

Until thoughts arise, there is only the wholeness of perfection.

There is no separation from wholeness. Only thought of separation.

There is no imperfection. Only thought of imperfection.

Thought is the fundamental error.

The original sin. 

Regret and choice

We regret making the wrong choice. Its part of being human, which includes not making the best choice sometimes. Sometimes, we regret more over a 'wrong' choice when we can easily envision making the 'right' choice. So how do we truly make choices? And why do some of use seem to be making wrong choices and foolish decisions which lead to later regret?

Regret is truly one of the most difficult to deal with emotion. When regret strikes, it seems all consuming. It consumes the entire mind at once into total darkness. Immersed in the all consuming darkness, you forget the big picture. That all is not lost. Never will be. 

What's done is done. Best option is now to wait it out and avoid making things worse. Sometimes, that's all we can do. To avoid making things worse. Regret is part of the human drama. It strikes suddenly sometimes, totally unexpected.

Truly fascinating emotion. It reminds you of your fallibility. But this too shall pass.

And in the passing lies redemption.

Ultimately, all is one and nothing can truly harm.

God bless you.

Antidote to depression

One of the best antidotes to depression is the practice of gratitude.

Practice being grateful for even the tiniest of things and watch its impact over time.

Gratitude is simply appreciating that which you already have.

Resistance

 You exist only as a force that resists the movement of life.

The tragedy of self-consciousness is that its very existence is maintained only in resistance to the very forces that allow its existence in the first place. It is only through resistance that 'you' as a separate self conscious entity can maintain your sense of self.

The life process in some strange mysterious way allows the arising of self-consciousness, whose very maintenance is possible only through continually resisting the life process. Weird thing.

The fundamental fear

 What is our fundamental fear?

It is the fear that comes from the sense of being a separate entity. The sense of being a separate conscious entity facing a vast surrounding environment that continuously interacts with it and results in its ultimate destruction or death. The fear that arises from the sense of being a separate entity is that somehow this 'me' will cease to exist. All our efforts are directed towards the preservation of self consciousness.

What is often overlooked is the fact that it is the very forces of existence, which we fear will destroy us, that in the first place allows for the arising of the self consciousness, or the sense of being a separate entity.

It is purely due to the forces of the ever-changing life process that even allows for the arising of a separate self. It is only through the activity of the ceaselessly changing forces, which is the very nature of the indivisible life process, that 'you' as a 'separate' body-self are even allowed to be. Without the ceaselessly changing indivisible life process, existence itself would be impossible. Existence is nothing but the manifestation of the ceaselessly ever changing indivisible forces that we refer to as the life process. The very nature of the life process is to manifest itself through the process of ceaseless change. To stop change is to stop existence, which is absurd. It is absurd because all there really is, is the ceaselessly changing activity of existing, that we call life/universe, and there is no stoppage to this.

So then, there is really no separate entity there that can stop the flow of the ceaselessly changing indivisible life process. The very self consciousness that is typing these words is an outcome of the ceaselessly changing indivisibly unfolding life process, which is the eternally flowing ever changing activity.

Since the sense of a separate self or 'self-consciousness' is an outcome of the ceaselessly changing indivisibly unfolding life process, the question of its destruction is ultimately irrelevant and meaningless.

And it makes no difference if this is realized or not.