2. There is nothing sacred about the use of words or definitions. We can use or define words how we like for our own purposes, provided we do so in a clear fashion. We know that words are far from complete when trying to relate what we think, especially when we are trying to express something unique, original or formless. The true power of words is not in their literal meaning but in the qualities or intentions that they conceal from our view. We use words because even in their shallowness, they can be a turning point to cause a person to look deeper within their being. 3. If a belief were true, it would be true even if no one believed it. Beliefs are agreements about reality, which in turn form the structure and parameters that envelop the world we choose to live in. The world we choose to live in is self-created and protects us from the essential uncertainties and paradoxes of existence. When we are fully aware of the present, we have access to all that is real. 4. When we see the world, what we are seeing is the inside of our mind. When we experience the idea of how things really are we actually perceive a condensed version of reality that fits our idea of truth, not the truth itself. Truth is that which does not contaminate or harm us, but empowers us. Truth is what we are now in the present moment, without the least trace of the last moment or any expectation of the next moment. 5. Matter is not actually defined spatially but in terms of dynamic energy, making the creation of the universe only possible through a process of organization and intelligence. Order cannot merely leap from randomness. It is inherent in creation. Therefore, chaos and order must be so close to each other that they can not be separated. From order comes disorder and from disorder comes order. You cannot have one without the other. What may appear as chaos, is only a lower form of order that is bringing forth a higher form of creation. 6. What we believe produces experience and when we experience our existence only through what we believe, we may have inadvertently imagined uncertainty, which in turn has created fear. When we fully understand this, we begin to understand our inner domain and our whole reality begins to change. We start to realize that our happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of our happiness. Love in our life is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of our love. Compassion is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of our compassion, et cetera. If we did not have this understanding before, we probably only imagined certain things must occur in order for us to live a more meaningful life. 7. Some people believe that we are separate from each other and this allows them to do unthinkable things to others that they would have normally never dreamed of doing to themselves. By failing to recognize that we are not separate, these people produce and reproduce unwelcome results every day in their lives. Therefore as human beings, we are not, and cannot be separate from each other. Separation is only an illusion. 8. Intelligence can only be perceived by another form of intelligence attuned to it. As awareness from intelligence, each one of us is actually trying to experience the same reality. This truth cannot be threatened by any error in belief or judgment. Only an error in belief or judgment is vulnerable to this truth. 9. When life has meaning, it has intensity and harmony simultaneously. To think about life is not participating in life. Life is a fluid process of letting go of everything that attempts to capture and control the ceaseless flow of being. As we participate in being, we participate in life itself. 10. Our purpose in life should be to make responsible choices that advance our whole state of being to its maximum potential. When our awareness is focused on the present moment, we experience everything in a fluid reality unfiltered by concepts or past preferences. By living in the present moment, we directly experience the answers we seek. By just letting go and relaxing in the moment, learning becomes natural and unconstrained. In other words, we meet everything without a preconceived image diminished by its imitation of reality. There is only this moment to acknowledge and this instant to live. There is nothing to judge and everything to become aware of and yet our reaction to life can limit our openness to what life comes next. The key to participating with the present moment is to realize that everything is always changing which means every moment realized is now a moment that does not exist. As fear surfaces, we turn away. As doubt surfaces, we turn away. As anger surfaces, we turn away. As reality surfaces in our consciousness, we turn away. If only we would acknowledge the things that make us turn away and allow ourselves to soften them with the presence of mind that defines our identity in the only time that is real which is the present. If only we would allow ourselves to understand that the fullness of life itself has to be in the moment where consciousness is expanding. 11. Life is not an illusion. We are not an illusion and what we experience within any illusion is not who or what we are as human beings. We must understand that the illusions in life are only illusions we created for purposes that were very real to us, but that the illusions themselves were not real. Illusions may appear real only because so many of us think they are real. We cannot escape illusions but we can be liberated from illusions. We know that the illusions we live with as individuals are being created by ourselves and not for us by someone else. The illusions in life are meant to be our tools, not some form of burden or sorrow. The illusions in life are actually meant to provide a space or context within which to experience every aspect of being. The illusions in life are an opportunity to choose the highest aspect of that which we can conceive at any given moment in the reality we exist within now in the present. The right way to live with any illusion is without fear, including the inevitable outcome of our physical lives, which is death. Whatever prepares us for death enhances life. 12. Every single feeling we have must be acknowledged and allowed to exist in a clear and non judgmental manner so that each feeling may be seen for what it is, an impermanent state of mind passing through the essence of mind itself. 13. No event in our life can exist in isolation. Everything we go through has a purpose. Nothing happens in life that is not ultimately beneficial to our growth. Everything we do is part of a process that we experience to become more aware. Eventually, everything we do guides us to success. 14. Composed of our earliest childhood feelings and memories, our basic internal references were formed in response to the stresses of our environment. These basic references were mainly primitive or non-logical due to the survival nature exercised in their development. Once these basic internal references formed in our mind, they became the filters through which all our experiences would have to pass. This may explain why some of us repeatedly choose the same kinds of behaviors that cause us to relive our lives through a series of recycled actions and reactions. It can also explain why so many of us fail to learn from the mistakes we have made in the past. We need to do something to break this limiting cycle. We need to start a process that requires us to think about or even relive the traumatic life-saving responses we built in order to redefine our lives and fully experience reality. Once we do this, we become conscious of the truth of our experiences, which in turn enables us to focus on what lies beyond any negative repeat patterns. It is the truth of our past that enables us to move forward, and it is this kind of truth that tells us who we are, the direction we are going, what we are doing and why we are the way we are at this very moment. It also allows us to become more open, allowing us to see the best in other people rather than just trying to manipulate or control other people. When we let go of control, only the truth remains. 15. If we are ever going to stop the compulsive cycles of reliving our pain that is hard wired into our thinking, we need to begin the healing process sooner rather than later. The process begins with trust. Trust is a motivation directly relevant to self-healing. We need to trust ourselves. We need to trust others. We need to trust ourselves to trust others. Once we begin to move towards trust, we start the healing process by connecting with our real feelings. When we make a connection with our real feelings we start to express and release our feelings. Only then are we able to find closure to unfinished events and only then can we start to move forward with more energy for forgiving and living a balanced life. 16. Forgiveness takes us on a journey that enables us to understand self-healing. When we forgive, we circumvent a situation that could become unbearable. Forgiveness empowers us to eliminate anger and resentment, allowing enormous amounts of positive energy to change our mental and physical well being enough to dispose of stress, nervousness, restlessness, sadness, depression, anger and any associated trauma. Forgiveness and healing are aspects of the same reality. Forgiveness removes all energy blockages that prevent healing energy from flowing. Forgiveness is essential and possible under all circumstance, regardless of how much we hurt. We have the power to free ourselves and to free others of any interpersonal guilt. Commit to forgive and the surfacing of freedom and empowerment will lead towards a positive future with others. For this to occur it is necessary for us to let go of our identity as victims or prisoners of destructive energy. All forgiveness is an act of unconditional love. All forgiveness is self-forgiveness. Without forgiveness, there is no future. Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past. Forgiveness is reclaiming power over our own life. As we give the gift of forgiveness, we ourselves are healed. 17. Every time our mind contracts with thought, it draws attention to itself and subtlety seduces us into letting go of the relationship we have with our true nature. It is this same logical, reduced state of mind that obstructs the possibility for any major change when our mind deviates away from its wholeness. In order to reconnect or experience our true nature we need to let go of thought. In order to let go of thought we need to go beyond personal identity and imagination for behind the restless movement of the mind is the stillness of being that has no name or reputation to protect. This stillness of being is our true nature and natural state of mind. 18. In all thought we place or extend something of our self into the object of our perception and the object of our perception projects something of itself into our awareness. Thought does not produce existence, it only interacts with the energy of existence to alter or manipulate its form. Thought can never fully embrace reality, because it is only a small part of reality. When the light of awareness becomes a conscious thought, the light from that thought is reflected in our perception. Every aspect of light by its very nature follows its own laws, making light a form of ultimate truth. When light is present, knowledge and wisdom are revealed in proportion to its abundance. Light is a good representative of our universe and its core. The core being the entire universe expressed through its interconnections with all matter and its assembly or as a continuous creation by the cause of its nature, a nature expressed through its prevailing light. This understanding allows our reasoning of reality to include light to be something more. Something many describe as the cosmic flame of life or the primal stuff of creation where there is never any separation from light and where light becomes a fundamental part of understanding a higher consciousness that manifests and fixes itself upon the deepest essence of our identity as awareness from intelligence. Higher consciousness is a place where our individuality is an illusion and where subtle fields of energy, unite all awareness of life into a revealing continuum of light. This quality of our higher consciousness as awareness from intelligence transcends our relationship with the outer world. It allows us a deeper understanding and sense beyond every pattern and form, where a new quality of consciousness can provide us the ability to recognize any subtle sign or expression of a higher level of awareness in our daily lives. However, there are false perceptions that can camouflage any sign or expression from ever reaching our awareness. Most false perceptions come from the outer or external world. Others come from our fanciful distortions or twisted perceptions of reality. These distortions are generally vane attempts at controlling reality according to unnecessary desires or projections by an inflated ego. The ego in its natural form is best suited to harmonize or give unity to the mind. The ego in its simplest form is best equipped to organize and provide balance to the mind. Balance means that one is harmonizing with and not resisting the forces that begin to alter perception and the sense of self. However, a complex or inflated ego can block us from understanding the source of any fundamental truth, including our love of life and essential nature. 19. We have pushed aside so much of our life that when we begin to experience life without resistance, we start to notice how much our expectations, concepts, and preconceptions have limited our experience of life. We must be willing to embrace the life we have now, in the present, in order to navigate the shifting currents of human consciousness. When we stop pretending to be whole, we become whole. 20. The rational temporal framework of cause and effect only stands in the outer world of our reality. Physical existence is only a form of communication in which truth is conveyed and imparted by our awareness from intelligence back into the material world. The material world itself is not self-caused; it is brought about by a preceding situation, which is its cause. Physical existence is the essential structure of reality. However, the same does not apply to our existence or personal reality because there is an energy that initiates and underlies our appearance while simultaneously staying dynamically independent of its form. 21. Constant discontent for the most part is rooted in our animal impulses of self-preservation. Our interest and passion for self-revelation must rest on a foundation of truth and compassion, without illusion or exception. Our true nature is in harmony with itself and the gateway to this harmony is through our ability to be truthful with ourselves. 22. There is nothing we can do to avoid any moment of experience but we can cultivate an openness to be present for each moment we experience. We must not conceal or deny anything to know truth. 23. When desire is present in our mind, it constricts the ability of our mind to think clearly. Desire is an incomplete way of experiencing life. Desire clouds the mind and obscures the profoundness of its awareness. When desire is present in our mind, the heart is not. The only desires that have any merit are of the heart. The very nature of desire is a feeling of incompleteness or wanting to fill a void inside us. Desire is the pain of not having or a craving for something more. The difficulty with desire is that it is always about what we want, not who we are as human beings. 24. We only need a basic understanding of light to help us recognize that there is a richer form of awareness underlying ordinary consciousness. Physical light is a reflection of nonphysical light. Light is mental energy, fundamental insight, and introspection of our very nature. Light is the accepted and sometimes misunderstood instrument of consciousness, a means of making the visible and the non-visible understandable to the human mind. When we are willing to embrace and accept light beyond only logical inquiry, we will be able to understand our true consciousness, a consciousness that gives us our essential power and natural reflex of existence in our mind. 25. Light is both a particle and a wave. It is a part of something and the whole of something. We see light but we never know light directly. The light that hits our eyes is known only through the energy it releases. This energy is translated into a visual image within our mind, which appears to be composed of light, but the light is only a quality of our mind. We never know the light itself. Light underlies every process in every present moment. Without light as the source of everything, there would be no experience. 26. Light allows us to feel and embrace a more complete awareness of the intrinsic harmony of the universe. Light is an intervening substance through which our conscious expressions are transmitted. It is the force or impulse of our vitality, energy and strength. It is the same as the creative power and intelligence of the universe. From light all things emerge and manifest into consciousness, giving us a connection to everything. Through this realization there are many mental states created by a fundamental process of perception within our thought patterns or core energy patterns, providing us concrete, experimental or intellectual data to form or deform reality, internally or externally. This is what allows us to live in an energy conscious universe. It is the light within our essential being which is striving to know and fathom itself beyond the censoring role of an inflated ego fixated on the physical world. In understanding this one point, we understand the essence and true nature of our existence beyond the physical and intellectual influences that limit our life. Understand this truth within our being and we recognize ourselves within the truth. 27. Light in essence is a simple vibration without parts. Each vibration of light must be different from every other light vibration, for there are never two of anything in nature precisely the same since it is precisely their difference from each other that makes their expressive existence possible. Things that make other things unique are a quality of everything. Therefore, every light vibration is subject to change, and this change must be continuous. This would make the natural changes in light come from an internal principle because an external cause can have no influence on the true nature of our understanding of light. In addition to this basic principle of change, there must also be something within light that changes. This something must be the specific nature of light for there must be something that changes and something that remains unchanged. Consequently, there must also be a plurality of conditions and relations in light although it has no parts. Light is everywhere in our universe. It carries information from the inner and outer worlds yet light is a perplexing phenomenon when we try to understand it. The existence of light can only begin or end all at once through its creation or through its destruction. Light has no openings through which anything may enter or exit. Still, light needs to have some qualities otherwise it would not exist. If light did not differ at all in its qualities, there would be no means for us to perceive it. These variations must involve an intricacy in their composition. Light must also have a variety of conditions and relationships within itself although it has no parts. All light has an undeniable inner perfection whether we accept this fact or not. In any state, light can recover for light is always something more. If light is more and we are conscious of it, then we have become aware of its perfection through our rational imperfect human senses even if the reasons cannot be clearly known by us now. This knowledge of an existence of perfection we cannot fully grasp, of its manifestation that is only obtainable by our reason in its most elementary form, makes evident the all embracing quality and the all penetrating nature of light. 28. We see what we want to see when it comes to defining our perceptions with language; but within the depths of our thinking, we crave the sensation of knowing the fullness and source of our thoughts. We do not receive reality we perceive or preconceive reality. The passing condition that involves and represents a multiplicity in the unity of light can be nothing more than perception to a human being. All light has a certain perfection and sufficiency that makes its source infinite within our elementary understanding and definition of infinity or perfection. Every present state of light is a natural consequence of its preceding state. Therefore, the ultimate reason for light must be a necessary vibration in which the detail of all changes must be present. We can conclude that light is unique, universal and necessary, with nothing that is independent or outside of it, making it incapable of limitation, so it must contain as much reality as possible. Light must therefore be perfect within the context of human understanding. Accordingly, perfection would be understood as a magnitude of positive reality in the strictest sense, especially when limitations or boundaries are removed. Where there are no limits, perfection is absolute or infinite. A logical deduction at this point could be that within perfection we can find not only the source of all existence but also the essence of all that is real. Alternatively, we could say that the human mind requires at least the idea of perfection to regulate thought. Even without directly experiencing perfection, the human mind must sense the possibility of perfection to deduce the transition from the visible to the invisible or from experience to transcendence beyond experience. The idea or concept of perfection enables reason to combine harmoniously, internal and external events into a comprehensive unity, even if we do not reach a definitive understanding of perfection. For pure reason alone, the idea of perfection defines the meaning of what it is to be a whole human being. 29. Light is a whole and unconditional certainty of life that stands independent of it self, even while in the process of merging with itself. Light alone is the ultimate vibration and all light is a product that reaches out to or from the infinity of one ultimate vibration, for everything in our universe is influenced by everything else. Therefore, everything in our universe must be connected by a mysterious form of subtle non-manifest pure energy (an absolute substance which is present in everything), even if we are unable to physically see it, feel it or understand it. We could say that everything comes from an origin, in which there is no doubt of some deliberate formation, making everything in the universe one by virtue of a prearranged harmony among all vibrations. Alternatively, we could say that the universe is a feedback system that continuously recycles forward into a greater state of complexity and structure (beyond every existing structure, there is a structure) or that the universe continuously recycles forward into a greater mode of being and consciousness. The immeasurable or infinite universe is measurable only if we understand the universe to be a conscious universe for measurement suggests some form of consciousness. Therefore, a conscious universe is a continuously expanding universe of active, living energy that exists in an emerging and purposeful state of being itself. 30. There is nothing known more intimately than conscious experience but there is nothing harder to explain than the thoughts that make us aware of consciousness. Consciousness is more than information and the brain; the very expansion of the universe generates information that enters consciousness. Consciousness is a form of energy essential to all existence. It is a nonphysical energy of infinite magnitude and it is unique in its capacity to change one pattern of existence into another pattern of existence. Where there is an organized state of existence there is an interchange of consciousness. Consciousness enables ordered states of existence to understand other states of existence. Consciousness is awareness of existence, universal and essential to existence, but it does not create existence. To have consciousness there must be existence. To have existence there must be consciousness. Human consciousness is the basic nature of one's being. It is an awareness of oneself as a fundamentally conscious being. When consciousness emerges, it emerges simultaneously inside space-time and outside space-time to form and awaken the human genius within us. As conscious beings, we are simultaneously emerging from profound forces that emanate from many levels of consciousness which operate over different time frames and span patterns that are both individual and collective in nature and expression. This multidimensional union links human consciousness and cosmic consciousness with metaphysical form and physical form to create a window of reality between worlds. It allows us to personally experience and share the world of nature and the world of the metaphysical as illuminated beings in the openness of a shared reality. 31. We cannot actually translate clearly the whole framework of why we think and feel the way we do or what it is our inner being is really feeling or experiencing, but everything we know and experience is a universal expansion of consciousness. This universal expansion of consciousness provides the essential unrestricted quality that is always in a perpetual state of underpinning human thought. The human mind in general cannot focus directly on the universal expansion of consciousness without instinctively changing and shifting into a continuous succession of seeking reason. Our mind is a dynamically productive creator of visions and interpretations of reason based on our personal way of thinking which is dependent mainly on our capacity to evaluate information. However, if the mind can be momentarily suspended from the chaos of the physical world, subtle harmonies of perfection begin to entrance its state. A more tangible glimpse of a perfect order begins to focus our thoughts and feelings to awaken our perceptions while shutting out the rampant extension of both sense and imagination. Conducive to a feeling of cosmic equilibrium, we soon become intense emotion and ultimately transcend into the rapture of the metaphysical. Our whole perception changes our internal experiences enough to activate and confuse the rational function of our mind with the intent of revealing a more deeply felt state of consciousness that is based on a single pattern or pre-established universal harmony that underlies all consciousness. This universal state of consciousness is a matter of ultimate consideration when its value begins to exceed our expectations. The more universally conscious we become, the more we realize the ultimate value in expanding consciousness in its contribution towards helping us transcend the realm of ordinary experience in power and meaning. To transcend the realm of ordinary experience in power and meaning we only need to direct our attention towards trust, balance, forgiveness and love. 32. Change the things you are able to, accept the things you cannot, and have the sense to know the difference. Our brain is set up to deliver the visual presentation of the world we are experiencing right now. We have the power to alter this visual presentation of the world we receive from our brain anytime we decide to make an adjustment in our daily physical or mental routines. Some people choose to do this by simply being more open-minded. Just having the willingness to change causes us to change within the context of our view of the world. It also causes a form of revitalization of hope for a world that can be deeply rational even as it makes clear there may be limits to our reasoning. The only real difference there is between us is the type of language we use in expressing ourselves or the level of effort we are willing to provide to change our mind with new information. Language is a way to reflect on language. It is our way of self-reflection where by each symbol, rule or meaning reflects a part of our inside or outside world in its own unique way. As language reflects itself, it gradually changes itself, evolving not only new meaning but also new information. The basic root of language is mental abstraction, which can lead our mind to create symbols, signifying conceptual patterns that actually do not physically exist in the world but give us an idea of the world. Language creates an inner reality that is capable of competing with our outer reality, therefore separating our mind from the physical world. All language is actually a language of images and for the mind to see an image, it must project an image that it can see. There can be no knowledge of anything without some form of projection. For example, when we state that something is empty, we connect a projection with that emptiness. We have every reason to assume that our projection is not merely a projection, but that a reality corresponds to it. 33. Our life will never exceed our beliefs primarily because our belief structure is part of our consciousness. If we want to change our life, we need to change our beliefs. There are unavoidable truths preceding experience that are natural in the structure of our minds. Truths that are imposed on our experience change the very nature of experience. This creates the significance of whether or not we actually experience pure sensations or whether or not there is an act of interpretation in every act of sensing. We can combine many visions or interpretations of our world reality or any other world fantasy as long as they agree with our way of thinking. There is just no way of getting around the truth that there is a close relationship between the words we are able to use, the types of thoughts we are able to think and what we are able to believe as the truth about the world we live in. Words such as trust, balance, forgiveness and love are more than just words; they are reality defining transformational forces. We also realize that as human beings we are not perfectly designed to understand everything. For example, the linear mind does not perceive the natural rhythms and cycles that form existence. The mind presents reality from memory according to the dominant level of its consciousness. In fact, we actually do not perceive as much of the world as we once thought especially since a large amount of the visual landscape around us can be altered without us even noticing. Maybe that’s why so many of us require an expansion of faith or a subset of beliefs about the world that we tell ourselves we need in order to fill in the gaps of our perceptions, perceptions that direct us towards the truth but are not the truth itself. 34. Our life reflects what we believe. The rational structure of the mind and the rational structure of reality are linked. What we believe is closely related to the structure of language and that which we perceive as the structure of the world. Experience is the medium through which our beliefs speak to us and the medium through which we are able to embrace our beliefs. Each of us has the final say on choosing what we believe. 35. Consciousness is a basic component of reality, not something that materializes from or relies on the physical world of space, time or matter. Due to the word consciousness being used in so many different ways, confusion often emerges. The use of the word consciousness within this blog is in reference to the sense or feeling of consciousness itself, where the capacity for inner experience exists. This sense of consciousness is one thing all of us share but what goes into our individual consciousness, especially content that contains explicit generalizations can be very different. 36. We change reality according to the way we see it, and we see reality according to the way we change it. Fundamental truth precedes experiences that are inherent within the structure of our mind. Truths that are imposed on our experience influence the nature of our experience. Human beings are metaphysical beings. Everything we experience as metaphysical beings is our own personal reality conceptualized from information transmitted through our physical senses. We think we are experiencing physical reality but everything out there is no more than light images of reality reconstructed in our mind. What we perceive and what is actually out there are two very different things. All of our experiences are light images of reality not false perceptions or delusions created in our mind. False perceptions or delusions come when we confuse our experiences of the world with physical reality. When the light of awareness becomes a conscious thought, the light from that thought is reflected through our perception. Awareness is the light that allows us to perceive the world and sometimes we mistake the light of awareness as only a subset of its true form in consciousness. Pure awareness has no specific description; it is the essential quality of being itself. Awareness allows consciousness to occur. It is the light by which experience is perceived. In essence, we are dynamic beings of light that (in any given moment) inform the energy that flows through our physical bodies to imagine that we are the other things that are reflected back through our mind. Awareness reflects all that we perceive, including that which we call body which is only a mass of sensations or images in our mind. Our state of mind continually changes but the awareness, through which our state of mind is sensed, remains unmoved. Our natural sense of being somehow always remains the same, a presence that is not affected by the continuous transformation of our physical existence. 37. Our mind can decrease the flow of energy that creates our shifting mental patterns or it can increase the flow of energy that expands our state of consciousness. Physical reality can be reduced to three-dimensional diffraction patterns of light within human consciousness, making our mind a formless continuum separate from the body. This is where the intervening substance of conscious expression is transmitted or converted into impulses of vitality, attitude, energy and strength. This substance of conscious expression, defined as beyond a physical construct or material phenomenon, is more than just a by-product of purely physical processes. The main block that holds us back from accepting this type of understanding is our personal belief system which can deny our potential for change or separate us from knowing our true nature. 38. Consciousness can also be defined as a cognitive state and quality of the awakened mind that is comprised of substance such as personality, thought, reason, memory, intellect, emotion and the ability to perceive relationships of awareness and existence. A state of consciousness can be characterized as sensation, emotion, volition or thought. A state of consciousness can be measured in terms of what we are aware of and how long that awareness can be sustained. It can also be measured in terms of how deep or profound our awareness is, especially relating to attitudes, beliefs and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual mind or a group state of mind. 39. Consciousness is the ability to perceive one's own existence and the very core of one's own identity to varying degrees beyond the most basic sentience that defines human awareness. Our sentience is our ability to feel or perceive while our sapience is our ability to think about sensations, feelings and ideas. Normal human perception depends on the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, balance, heat, pain, and body awareness. 40. As we acquire new information, our perceptions or light-pattern-recognition abilities change to permit the development of our awareness (perception, imagery, emotion, etc.). This state of consciousness is necessary for us to select, choose, learn, remember or organize sophisticated and novel responses (particularly those requiring planning, reflection or creativity). 41. Learning to identify even simple patterns can provide introspective access to relevant knowledge where new intuitive insights become more coherent and defined to enable the creation of new ideas or essential change models. 42. Understanding light patterns, is not a simple matter. Our perceptions or misperceptions tend to mix our conscious knowledge of both the inner world and the outer world. Our perception in general, needs the inner organization of knowledge to be true, false or put into a coherent context that creates a sequence of acts, selections, choices, efforts, behavioral data or relevant knowledge. This type of general perception usually includes some kind of detached knowledge that is typically associated with some system of verbal or written communication. When a person sees something, they acquire a belief or have an idea about what it is that they are seeing. All these forms of perception or beliefs (some bound up with verbal reports and commentaries) are cognitive only because they can be potentially applied across different modalities of personal change and experience. 43. Once our state of being begins to break free of its illusions through increased knowledge, it starts to live in complete separateness and fulfillment knowing reality beyond a mental concept or vague series of images. It begins to experience the presence of something beyond itself that dwells in a place where there is no need to pursue more or be anything other than self (within the physical body). When does this happen? When we face the oneness of our existence and recognize there is no other joy that can exist except the joy of being an active part of the whole. This joy of oneness allows us to truthfully experience the freedom of our own individual existence. 44. If we see ourselves as separate we will create chaos and disorder between our self and everything else. What we do for ourselves we do for everyone. Live each moment without resisting. When we resist the flow of life, what we are actually resisting is our own true nature, for everything that happens to us, is a reflection of who we are. If we can accept the flow of life and give into it, we can accept what is real. When we can accept what is real, we can honestly embrace peace and harmony in our lives. 45. The mind grasps and shapes reality in levels or degrees of form that determine the ingredients that make up our perception of physical existence. This is the only way the mind can implicitly or explicitly experience reality in every thought. The mind is set in patterns and will hesitate to accept anything that is disharmonious with those patterns. This understanding leads us to the realization that knowledge cannot be given; it must be realized (or remembered). 46. A modest mind can awaken forces and memories the ego alone cannot possibly understand. Once the beauty of inner life awakens without a dominant ego, ineffable energies begin to echo a delicate sensibility more refined than the fluid substance of experiencing physical life itself. This metaphysical sensibility or mysterious harmony of intuited wholeness is peaceful, enlightening, and can inwardly merge our awareness with the source of our being or the quality of being-itself. The reality of this delicate sensibility more refined than the fluid substance of experienced physical life itself is distinct from and vaster than the intellect and can clearly reveal to our mind the radiant energy in and around the metaphysical experience of intuited wholeness. Analytical methods alone may not be able to fully capture this metaphysical experience of intuited wholeness but the power of words carefully constructed to take on an inter-subjective value can create a subtle representation that transmutes the conscious mind into a simple existence with its form and natural radiance. This simple existence is a place where all indescribable intentions are a sign or indication of original thought. The more self-aware we become of intentions, the closer we are to realizing original thought. The more we are able to concentrate on original thought, the greater the need we will have to express original thought. If we discover a thought that is not expressible, then we have already provided the mystery of that thought with a partial value in and of itself. This value in and of itself is a basis for the mind to make a thought more clear and perceptible to an individual or any individual wishing to share the value of an original thought with others. The more clear and perceptible we express original thought the closer we are to becoming aware of the radiant energy in and around the metaphysical experience of intuited wholeness. All thought produces form at some level. 47. The most primitive pattern in the realness of our deepest being is our contribution to the overall consciousness of existence. The second most primitive pattern in the realness of our deepest being is the manifestation of intuited wholeness. The third most primitive pattern in the realness of our deepest being is the base of infinite knowledge that is available to any person conscious enough to perceive beyond the limiting framework of physical existence. The fourth and most important pattern both in the realness of our deepest being and throughout all existence is the subtle non manifest pure energy pattern and intelligence that has existed since the formation of the universe. 48. All thought is ultimately visual, for words alone are but substitute symbols for images. Collectively, we are connected by an intelligent energy that allows us to define meaning beyond any observable understanding of the physical world. This intelligent energy connects us in a subtle yet elevated way that is determined to penetrate through to our conscious mind. We only have to direct our questions inward, in a clear and simple fashion, in order for energies from this intelligence to surface as answers within our conscious mind. Clear and simple inward questions act as a sort of beacon that attracts attention to a focused place within the depths of our subconscious mind, where the answers first take shape. It is important to understand that the answers we seek will return to us based on the terms of our beliefs. It is also important to understand that our subconscious mind is non-sequential and holistic in nature, so its language will be symbolic. Due to the nature of our interior dimension not being limited in comparison to that of the physical world, we have no specific reference point of understanding what we experience when working within it. The messages that come from the depths of this inner dimension are more of a subtle awareness that creates a backdrop of the whole. They are often the first impressions that gently come into our mind without any fan fair or over stimulated emotion. No one can look upon the truth of this wisdom without some degree of uncertainty, unless one has accepted the unreality of all illusions in their lives. To appreciate the inner depths of this wisdom fully would be overwhelming for anyone without first understanding that to justify journeying inward at this depth without a purpose is meaningless. It is at this point that we must choose whether to look into the depths of this universal knowledge base with an open heart and clear mind, or continue dwelling only on its surface. We only need to sense the inherent wisdom and innate potential of our metaphysical being once to realize there is neither a beginning nor ending to the untapped knowledge base within its depths. Its size and scope can overwhelm the human mind but its effects can be guided when the theoretical paradigms of organized belief systems and the psychology that gave rise to them have been seen through and set aside in a clear and timely manner. Being clear or uncomplicated is a good way to unburden the mind. The key to a clear and uncomplicated mind is to temporarily set aside the censoring role of an inflated ego and know that there are no polar-opposites (good-evil, right-wrong, win-lose). There is only difference. Once we fully embrace and understand the meaning of difference, we start to remember more of our source design or archetypal patterns and their meaning. When we recognize these inherent patterns as the prime factors in our existence, we are able to transform and align our lives with them. This natural order of consciousness suggests that once we identify with even a slight impression of any inherent pattern, we enable it; and once any aspect of our consciousness is enabled, it will try to block any return back into the vastness of awareness from which it originated. Once we realize these qualifiers, a permanent image of self (the unique essence of our awareness) will begin to form in our mind to aid us in the process of fully engaging the depths of our deepest consciousness. This permanent image of self will quickly begin to aid us in understanding the wisdom within our being without any references to institutional science, organized belief systems, ill feelings, guilt, shame or distrust. Our intellect will transcend the perception of any associated physical reality to realize the logic and depth of our metaphysical reality with clear and accurate illumination within our mind. Time will even vanish as we stand in dignity knowing no anecdotal evidence is required to understand the meaning of any source knowledge attained from the deep-seated knowledge base within our own being. 49. The deepest concern by people who have made any kind of tenuous agreement with them self is mainly who they really are and whether or not they are on the right life path. What most people overlook is that they themselves are the path they seek. All that we have come to understand in life is only a reflection of our mind, and every experience we have provides us with another way to realize truth and wholeness. There is obviously a devoted dimension to the existence of each human being and coming to realize this devoted dimension is considered by most to be the main motivation or belief behind living. However, the main block to attaining this type of awareness is in adopting a belief without first hand personal experience. Experience being the medium through which source knowledge becomes known to us directly. Without first hand personal experience, neither the whole of experience nor articulated experience would reveal anything about our ultimate concern for what we believe. For example, when a person inherits a belief without first hand personal experience, they have inadvertently created a distorted separateness from what is true for them, making any rational discourse impossible. On the positive side, there are diametrical urges within each one of us that can easily overpower any blind or misleading inherited belief that may be confining us within its distortion or false subjectivity. Once we begin to realize there are deeper levels of truth accessible to us, we begin to experience a more balanced connection between ourselves, and the rest of existence. 50. Everything feared about death is a creation of an inflated ego struggling against life. When we fear death, we simply fear the unknown or are lost in the relative inaccuracy of what separates life and death in our awareness. Death is a belief created by our conscious mind. Human consciousness is believed by many to be in the natural world, and the key word here is believed. In fact, there is no real proof consciousness is in the natural world. It is only when consciousness has been formulated into a thought (the act or process of thinking), that it has any measurable energy, and measurable energy is what stimulates scientific inquiry. All scientific inquiry is conducted within a fixed conceptual framework for verification, and no amount of verification guarantees that any scientific theory is correct. Therefore, all science is conditional and any aspect of a scientific theory always stands on the verge of being rejected by new observations or else it is dogma. There are a number of clear reasons that state the current scientific models declared foolproof methodologies are insufficient at best to prove consciousness is in the natural world or that the brain produces consciousness. Nothing about our brain, when examined as a physical system proves that it contains a nonphysical interior dimension. Even every current scientific approach that attempts to make any sense of the physical difference between the brain and the conscious mind relies solely upon subjective reports to signal that an experimental stimulus has been understood and recorded. The human mind cannot be examined by the same methods employed in researching the human brain or indeed any matter-energy system in the physical universe. To define consciousness in physical terms of the brain is clearly conjecture. Consciousness is a far more fundamental manifestation than science alone can appreciate today. The fact that the universe we comprehend is filled with light and our awareness has a qualitative character to it, is still nothing less than a mystery. A mystery that is equaled by our understanding why there should be anything at all in our universe. The real concern is that even our understanding of the mind as an object in this world leaves us in the dark with respect to defining consciousness. It would be more reasonable to suggest that if we are to understand or define consciousness, we should first understand how a thought manages to move various atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and the other particles in the cells of our brain; or find out where the link is between thought and the organic structure of our brain; or the exact location of memory; or even how the mind found its way to derive itself from non-mind by following only un-thought pathways. 51. The evolution of human awareness can be explained as a means of determining to what extent the human condition can be deliberately transformed by empirical evidence. For example: All life is affected by the subtle energies of the universe. We are in physical terms, a self-organizing system of uninterrupted exchanges of matter and energy with a larger system called Earth. The Earth in physical terms is a system of uninterrupted exchanges of matter and energy with a larger system called the solar system. The solar system in physical terms is a system of uninterrupted exchanges of matter and energy with a larger system called the universe. The universe is an aggregate of frequencies, a system of uninterrupted exchanges of matter and energy, a feedback system that continuously recycles forward into a greater state of complexity and structure. 52. When we search for the definable I within, it appears as a paradox. Some people would question whether it is even possible to look for the very thing that is doing the looking because each time we attempt to look within ourselves for ourselves, we start being torn apart by diabolic forces we can faintly understand or barely control. Many others have said that to find the definable I we must break away from the restraints of traditional logic if we want to avoid being imprisoned indefinitely within the disparity of an inflated ego. 53. The human mind can be shaped into a tool that is capable of transforming itself. Whatever changes occur in the stream of our experience, we will be I first, and already free of an inflated ego. In addition, because the human mind is transformable, so is the world that it perceives. Fear, uncertainty, doubt, anticipation or some other mental condition that leads us to inappropriate and defective perceptions of what is real will highlight any defects in our perception. Clear perceptions in general are a sound means of sentience, which in turn discloses things to us as they really are. Therefore, it is necessary to go beyond the duality of emotion/sense perceptions (suffering, pain, pleasure, life, death, etc.) and their associated mindset, if we are to reach for the sentient reality of our true nature. This sentient reality of our true nature is where cognition begins to emerge and feelings start to form a direct conscious connection to the spirit of life. 54. Every aspect of consciousness is more than the behavior of neuronal cells satisfying a psychological need. Our consciousness is a functional entity devoid of any implications relating to the existence of a brain or to the reception of sensory inputs explaining the mind as being the activity of large sets of neural cells. 55. Some scientists believe that the final laws of nature (principles that do not need any explanation in terms of deeper principles) will give us the ultimate instructions (theory of everything) on understanding the universe. At best, we can only imagine the wholeness of the universe by reducing it with logical precepts into rational paradigms, which are in themselves, irrational processes. A mathematical theory of everything can predict nothing except the fact that we are reliant on the known laws of nature herself. Other scientists realize that some of these laws are more than mere coincidence, that there is an astonishing elegance built into the very core or structure of the universe that reflects a pattern that cannot be defined as entirely accidental. These scientists and others are starting to embrace the fact that a supernal-agency (g-factor) might be the only explanation for the results of their experiments. Although their calculations and observations are based on assumptions that go beyond the validity of the theories they are testing, some scientists have now started to replace the unknown factor(s) within their formulas with a g-factor that recognizes that certain types of matter and energy continually transform but are neither created nor lost or ultimately affected by time or space. 56. We need to look beyond the allure of any final laws of nature to understand that we are something beyond the logic of biology, chemistry, physics and psychology which are all studied and presented on their own terms. To see the universe as only a physical system is appealing to the past for validation of the very mode of reasoning most scientists are now having trouble accepting (especially in biology). 57. Life is the experience of our choices. Our day to day life is full of meaningful events that we deliberately and consciously set out to experience for ourselves. Such events are not accidental or causal events; they are intentional actions. Therefore, the real meaning in our lives is not created simply by what we know about ourselves but comes from our natural ability to experience the wholeness of living a balanced existence that embraces all experience (good or bad) as an opportunity to learn. 58. Not everything is the result of brute force. The whole subject of the beginning of all things is too profound for the human intellect to comprehend without including an unknown or g-factor. Today, science alone cannot understand the source of thought without including a g-factor within its formulas. This g-factor is present in every human life and experience. It provides the ability without restriction, to conceive all that is conceivable from the sensation of trying to intentionally or unintentionally reflect on this g-factor that is always in a perpetual state of underpinning human thought. The human mind in general, cannot focus on the g-factor without instinctively changing and shifting into a continual succession of seeking understanding. There are no exceptions. 59. An example of combining science and the g-factor can be demonstrated by how human beings arrived at the manifestation and use of the number one. The number one applies itself in a manner of degrees, more or less, to all existence, real or imagined, as the basis of all numbers. Numbers (with words associated to their identity and meaning) measure all that is measurable by placing in perspective a reality the human mind can comprehend. Anything outside of this framework is our only conceptual awareness or definition of infinity (a word without any numerical associations used to frame everything outside of space and time – the undiminished wholeness of flowing movement without boundaries – that which has nothing outside itself and therefore no limits within itself – the finite surpassing itself without any preset limit). The human mind in all its abilities to try to understand infinity can only expand upon a baseline of finite space, time, or numbers. Any attempt at reaching an understanding of infinity always ends the same with one exception. The human mind must consider the g-factor when trying to comprehend or define infinity. 60. It is within reason to believe that space-time is derived from a deeper level of objective reality. Space-time in terms of the solar system, stars, galaxies and universe can only exist through understanding and accepting the source combination of thought and the number one as having a transcendent origin beyond science. Without this combination and understanding, space is the allusion of time, the ultimate metaphor between two conflicting points of expectation and human self-reference, making the universe an indefinable existence without degree. 61. It is understood by science that if any one of a dozen known constants should be altered by even a minuscule fraction it would not be possible for suns and planets to form let alone life to evolve. Therefore, the mathematics of science may have inadvertently stolen the g-factor from humanity by conditioning us to believe that numbers and calculations, without a g-factor, supersede nature. Without the inclusion of a g-factor within the mathematics of science, there is no way to define or regulate our ideas of truth. Our world would be nothing more than a maze of semantic mathematical nonsense. The statistical probability that organic structures (you and me) and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by random change in scientific terms is in fact zero. Every known mathematical system complex enough to include arithmetic contains fundamental constructs that cannot be proven true or false within their respective system. Science is not an effort that is free of philosophical assumptions. We must penetrate beyond the bounds of science into the realms of the metaphysical to comprehend the whole experience of life. True knowledge of anything demands that there is an understanding of the whole not just its parts. 62. As our sensory experience pursues the depths of reductionism, the minuteness of the physical world breaks down into an abstraction. The world becomes ambiguous in its plurality. The physical universe is not self-explanatory. Science by itself cannot fully satisfy our intellectual desire for understanding. We must accept the fact that the physical universe transcends the limits of its own reality. We should not limit our notion of reality only to those things we can currently understand nor should we deceive ourselves by thinking we can solve life’s mysteries by merely reducing them to overly simplified mathematical explanations. If we look only at the very rational order of the universe, we see that it points beyond itself towards a real-time self-existent agent (or an element in polar contrast with an element of pure form; or a unifying singularity; or an orderly unknowable) yet to be acknowledged by science. In the past there is a place, where the universe condenses into a singularity, a point of unimaginable density where the most ordered alpha state defined as the cosmic absolute, initiates an introduction to a g-factor. In the future, the cosmos moves through a cosmological expansion beyond time, into pure empty space where all comprehension of possibility becomes an absolute nothing. This absolute nothing is where our scientific understanding of the universe ends. The cycle beyond this logic can ultimately transcend the idea of ideas and essence of essences only within the embrace of an all-encompassing theory that includes a g-factor. Space has extensions, not dimensions. Time is change brought about by motion through space. Ultimate science begins only after a g-factor has been included within science. 63. There is no need for any of us to leap from our limitless nature into fuzzy science. The reasons are many but here are just a few cases to consider before fully embracing science alone as the ultimate authority in defining our nature or the nature of the universe. Science does not know where hydrogen and matter come from. Science does not understand how dark matter holds the cosmos together or how complex organic molecules are able to fold so rapidly into the shapes that allow them to perform their functions in living organisms. Science does not recognize how consciousness emerges from the complexity of the molecular structure of the brain or how the brain even remembers anything. Science also does not know what the relationship between consciousness and matter actually is. There are hundreds of other examples that clearly state that today’s science cannot fully understand or define the wholeness of a human being or the underlying cause of the universe. 64. Knowledge, however broad it may become, can never satisfy inquiry. Positive information does not, and never can, fill the entire region of possible thought. As it is impossible to think about the outer edge of space, it is also impossible to exclude the idea of any space beyond that edge. Science is a gradually expanding sphere without conclusion that creates two contrasting modes of mental action. The human mind may dwell within itself with not only acquired facts and their relationships, but also with that unknown something which facts and their relationships suggest. Therefore, if knowledge cannot possess or dominate consciousness, consciousness must continue to look forward to that which is beyond knowledge. There will always be a place for a sense of wonderment toward the ultimate mysteries of the universe that exceeds the domain of the human intellect. If not, we will cease to exist as human beings. 65. Science and the g-factor are two elements of thought. Science expresses the knowable and the g-factor expresses the unknowable to science. The two must be symbiotic without contradiction to express the true power and scope of the universe. The universe is whole; nothing is added because nothing is left out. No matter how many degrees or levels of understanding there are in explaining the facts and laws of the universe, the degrees or levels will ultimately reach a limit where science must exit and a g-factor must enter. The human intellect can act on experience but not on that which exceeds experience. In its final stage, whatever cannot be known may be more revealing than that which is known. The cycle is never ending. The circle is never closed. 66. Evolution is the progressive development of organizational complexity. According to our current understanding of evolution and the process of natural selection, we are an evolutionary impossibility that defies the laws of evolution. Our brain size and its capacity of abstract thought, mathematics, complex linguistics, music and self-awareness, all indicate that the development and efficiency of our brain has several key evolutionary requirements that have not been met. Two examples would be the length of time for the brain to develop and the demand for the brain to develop its full potential. Neither of these requirements meets the established evolutionary criteria. In the absence of an intellectual equal or competitor that fits the period, the current evolutionary hypothesis for the human brain remains implausible without the intervention of an unknown factor from outside the defined evolutionary time-period. Something (internal or external) might have threatened the balance of forces of our species with extinction, causing a sudden shift or turning point where a leap into a mutant state caused a higher order of human being. Evolution does not determine a course; it simply provides choices. 67. No single thing is merely a thing in the self-world structure of being. All elements of self-relatedness are universal. This allows the possibility of unifying everything into one so that no one thing is completely unknown. All things have a place and are a part of the whole. True separation from anything is an illusion. All life is an inextinguishable unified field. It is all one thing. It is the illusion that we do not know that allows us to know what we know. Step out of the illusion but not away from it. Live with the illusion but not within it. Do this to be in this world but not of this world. 68. Human beings can be irrational, unaware and lacking in sufficient understanding to control their own being. It is only when a person stops thinking as a physical being, that they begin to understand the answers to their fundamental problems are found in their metaphysical being. 69. Somewhere there is a place, where the essence of thought dwells in a single frequency of light. This is a place where thought and light create a powerful connection to each other. This is a place where each of us can have many visible and many non-visible glimpses of the joining. These connections sometimes offer advice and counsel from a broader perception of reality. This reality is where each of us can open our own piece of another realm and let the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it. Such a process must entail an opening of the mind in an unconditional sense to the totality of life. When we are balanced, energy tends to pass through us without our being caught up in it, and what ever passes through us also tends to organize us. Have no doubt of this and the mind will grow to understand the natural truth of the realm in which the universal us lives. This nameless, formless, wordless opening of essence is the perfect beauty, harmony and love core of the human experience where everything is energy. As an energy creator, we can bring energy into the realm of form, substance, and density. We are an immense and powerful awareness from intelligence interconnected to an unbounded field of energy at the source level. 70. Many human beings pass no judgment on the lives of others. These human beings are able to love us for who we are at this very moment. They uplift and nurture us with their presence. We know them by their sincerity. 71. Biology has revealed anomalies that could not be produced by any known physical phenomena. These anomalies have indicated there must be a transcendent origin or multidimensional quasi-physical existence. This is an existence in terms of a different level of reality, where stability and solidity are being fueled by a ceaseless process that constantly dissolves into an implicit order within physical existence. 72. Thinking in metaphysical terms enhances our intellectual abilities of pioneering fundamental truth into a broader model more capable of appealing to the universal potential of human awareness. 73. Our expanding awareness is showing us that we are beginning to transcend fear, uncertainty, doubt and mental waste. The battle between good and evil is no longer polarizing our mind into false judgments as phantasms of deception and control are beginning to vanish from the forefront of our thoughts. The infections of addiction and over consumption are also beginning to dissipate, as is the disbanding, fragmenting and destroying of source knowledge. 74. There is something in our subconscious mind that intuitively knows that the objective definitions we have of ourselves do not embrace the totality of who we actually are as human beings. In understanding our humanity, and in accordance with the human way of thinking, and in consequence with human principles, we are more than a system of floating ideas or causalities of conscious beliefs and fears. Collectively we have grown in knowledge and wisdom enough to understand that there is something else behind the veil of consciousness that reflects the truth about our real identity, something which points to exquisite and delicately balanced interactions between all living things, something that joins space, time, matter, energy, the physical and the nonphysical. It is so fundamental that we can actually sense its presence and feel its beauty. It has a unifying symmetry that is at times hidden from us and yet we know it is inherent within the sublime beauty of nature. It is at the center of our existence and at the same time, is the center of all existence. It can create worlds within worlds or reflect the underlying structure of the universe. It can let us contemplate pure space-time without matter or energy or perceive the inspiration of creation itself. It can let us know the universe as a single vibration or as a symphony of sounds. It can weave together a tapestry of extraordinary beauty and elegance or provide concise and beautiful answers to our most challenging questions. It is sophisticated, simple, practical and profound. Understanding any part of it leads us to an enlarged comprehension of its wholeness. What could do all these things? The answer is light. Light is life, love, truth, peace, patience, goodness, grace, joy, respect, compassion and many more things. It is the source of all awareness and consciousness. It is all things. 75. According to the principle of sufficient reason, there must be as much reality (formally or eminently) in the cause of any idea as there is in the idea itself. Therefore, the source of fundamental truth is within the mental circuitry of our own being. This insight allows us to better understand and recognize our real identity and purpose in life, an identity and purpose based upon understanding the metaphysical nature of our being as awareness from intelligence. 76. Indivisible light energy is impossible to know in the physical world we live in. While at a glance this may seem like just another insignificant statement, it contains many clues as to the fundamental nature of our universe and is more important than any traditional leap-of-faith into the grand scheme of things. In general, most people find it meaningless to ascribe any properties or even existence to anything that has not been first measured to the satisfaction of their traditional understanding. These same people are susceptible to adopting their beliefs without personal experience as a prerequisite. 77. Do not speculate about life, but rather give yourself over to life. Accept that whatever is happening to you is happening for a reason. The world is more or less, as we perceive it. Any defects in our perceptions influence fear, uncertainty, doubt, anticipation and other mental conditions that lead us to inappropriate or defective comprehension of the world around us. Clear perception in general is a sound means of cognition that can disclose things to us as they actually are in reality. Therefore, it is necessary to go beyond the duality of emotions and their associated mind-set if we are to find a balance or a sense of harmony in our lives. This balance or sense of harmony is not an inherent talent but an experienced and regularly practiced skill, one that makes us fully conscious of our metaphysical nature. We can counter and overcome any perception that appears inescapable by empowering the competence of our mind. As the competence of our mind expands and resets our balance against fear, uncertainty and doubt, our mind becomes more synchronized with the world we live in. It takes mental discipline not will power to retrain our self. Such retraining is imperative if we truly want our lives (and the lives of others) to change. Truth of this nature can provide the recognition of reality and the actuality of a world of peace and understanding. Acceptance of this truth liberates us from the slavery of our senses, and all suffering ends. 78. All of us are trying to find meaning in the events and experiences of our lives. Yet, there are no innate truths hidden in the encounters and experiences of life. The fact is there is no meaning to anything, except the meaning we provide. We are who we say we are and our experiences are what we say they are to us. Everything else is a matter of perspective. All life moves into form or into defined patterns of being. Recognizing and understanding the patterns within our own life is the primary key that is overlaid upon the fabric of our own personal cultural story. We need to understand our patterns in order to see illusions as illusions and reality as reality. 79. There is no individuality without universality. Everything in the universe is attracted to something and attraction is a force or manifestation that binds all consciousness into a single unified pattern of radiant wholeness. Our bodies are energy systems. If we manage our energy in a balanced way, we can create an almost perfect system to express and expand our consciousness. A consciousness that can help us realize our identity as awareness from intelligence infused with effortless love, where effortless love is the first response we consider in reply to every question. Love transforms all things toward the ineffable source of their meaning. We embrace love to coexist and express the formidable energies of attraction and we also embrace love because it is the only complete way in which to experience life. Love’s cognitive nature is aesthetic, theoretical, practical, detached, passionate, subjective and objective. If we acknowledge our identity as awareness from intelligence infused with effortless love, we will be able to understand and fulfill our true purpose and destiny in life. Effortless love can be the agent that binds our consciousness with a greater unified pattern of radiant wholeness. 80. To be means to be in the present moment. For it is only in the depth of an experienced present that the past and future, and the transition from one to the other, have meaning. This is the time for all of us to reject what others may have mistakenly chosen for us. This can be the day we discover our own true purpose. A purpose based on the joy of creating the person who we really want to be now, in the present. This can be our defining moment as individuals, to choose everything that we want to experience in this world. There will only be proactive experiences, no more reactive experiences. We will engage and create not wait and debate. To continue on the same path that was chosen for us by someone else, or to continue to choose to be unhappy, or to continue to choose to live in a negative state of mind, is a choice that goes against our true nature. Everything about the way we live is the way it is because it is what we have chosen. When something is not right, we can choose to change it right now. 81. We need to forgive ourselves. Forgive our family. Forgive our friends. Forgive our coworkers. Forgive every human being we know. Forgive every human being we have ever known for all errors must be corrected at the same level that they first occurred. Our physical form is a communication and learning device for our mind. The physical form is easily brought into alignment with a mind that has acquired the knowledge to look beyond itself toward the light of reason. Whenever we offer kindness to another, we are shortening the distress of both parties involved. What we actually do comes from what we are thinking. When we are afraid, we have chosen incorrectly. Anxiety is always a sign of force, arising when what we want, conflicts with what we do. Our mind is the source of all fear and anxiety. Everyone experiences fear and anxiety mainly through a lack of knowledge. Whenever the light of reason enters the mind, the darkness of ignorance fades. What each of us believes to be true is true for us alone. At the beginning of freedom, everything that is false is separated from everything that is true. There is no life for anyone in fear. The best position to take is a position that protects the truth. A balanced mind is sustained when it knows truth. Nothing can destroy truth. We cannot see what does not exist but we can always see what does. A tormented mind is not free because it is obsessed with itself. We cannot make anything that is untrue true. There are no errors in truth. Our perceptions are only temporary perceptions. Knowing is affirming truth beyond perception. To perceive a truth is not the same as knowing a truth. If we abuse an error made by someone else, we are abusing ourselves alone. If we choose to judge, we have chosen conflict. Judgment is not required to organize our lives. Judgment is not required to arrange our selves as individuals. Where there is knowledge, no judgment is required. 82. Our mind can be opened to our identity as awareness from intelligence but our mind may try to keep us from this knowledge by temporarily filling us with fear, uncertainty and doubt. We may even become overwhelmed with images or information from our own mind that will attempt to stop us from comprehending the truth about our real identity. It is this type of limited mind-set that obstructs our greatest potential for growth and spiritual prosperity. 83. The transformation that has occurred while on the path of life has been a commitment and responsibility we have accepted to fulfill until our physical body releases us. However, what we are today, at this very moment, is more than the sum total of what we have stored in our mind throughout our physical life. We are an organized field of awareness from intelligence engaged in a recurring cycle of chaos and order so that we can continue to evolve toward a higher level of consciousness. 84. Some people have unknowingly adopted the thoughts and beliefs of other people they may or may not have met. These people are actually living their lives through recycled beliefs from previous generations. They may not have given these adopted beliefs a second thought or even checked to see if there is any real substance behind any of them. The results of not having personally experienced these beliefs before deciding to adopt them have caused their minds to remain frozen in someone else’s belief system. 85. The difference between human beings is that what we are today is not what we were yesterday and not what we will be tomorrow. All of us are in a process of learning and realizing what is true for us alone. By following or applying our own truth to our own well being, we are slowly transforming our physical consciousness into metaphysical consciousness. Free will is a major component in this process with free will being a responsibility that many of us have taken lightly without ever considering the ramifications of our thoughts and actions. As we progress along a metaphysical path of understanding, wisdom begins to accelerate at a never before experienced level. The more time and effort we put into applying this wisdom into our everyday life, the sooner we return to our natural metaphysical state of being. 86. Contrary to what many people may have thought, we are awareness from intelligence immersed in a light form that is an entity unto itself. This awareness from intelligence immersed inside a light form is a distinct and separate being, cloaked inside the shell of our physical form. For most of our conscious life, this metaphysical entity has never had to learn how to free itself from the controlling sensations of the physical body. 87. Our mind is very active and powerful. The mind is always thinking and running around in its prepared collection of information and images. When the mind thinks, we believe our conscious thoughts and yet sometimes we argue with those thoughts. When the mind translates thoughts into actions, we believe it is our true self that is acting them out. Yet sometimes we do things and do not know why we did them. 88. The main routine of the mind is to keep our attention constantly involved and focused outwards on things in the physical world. The mind's outward actions can forever keep us from discovering who we are, where we are, why we are, and what is really going on deep inside. In other words, the mind provides rationalizations and excuses for any momentary flashes of real consciousness we may have when we look inward to question the source or relevance of our thoughts. 89. The mind's outward focus is keeping us from realizing our metaphysical nature as awareness from intelligence. Our mind will always concoct numerous ways to stop us from seeing it for what it really is, no matter how much we suffer. The mind can be the great deceiver. It will set up incredible obstacles and illusions to prevent us from expanding our consciousness inside its domain. Our mind has not only dazzled us through this life but it may have been keeping us trapped inside its memories and entertaining us by constantly re-thinking what happened yesterday, last week or even years ago. These are the memories that keep recycling and resonating like ghosts haunting us from the past. For the most part, we may have resigned ourselves to the fact that there is nothing we can do to change our mind. This constant living in the past develops a limited state of consciousness whereby the use of the imagination diminishes, slowly becoming less creative and more conforming or automaton like. In this mode of operation, a person would rarely review their life from an objective standpoint. This type of polarized automaton type reasoning always sees the down side first or is quick to judge. If we want to change our mind, we must change our choices. 90. Our mind can be a great deceiver; by waving its magic wand of logic it can even make a lie appear true. Our mind can provide all the right excuses for doing or not doing something. Our mind has many strange characteristics and many astonishing tendencies. It has the tendency to believe what it wants to believe, even in the face of any proof to the contrary. In other cases, our mind believes what it wants to believe, whether it has all the facts or no facts at all. Our mind loves to solve problems by filling in the gaps with the stuff we already know rather than admitting it may know nothing at all. 91. Our mind likes to build on fantasy and reach mysterious conclusions by using familiar thoughts, beliefs and the power of speculation. It even prefers to draw upon memories to contribute unrelated statements rather than dwell in silence. Our mind can make big issues out of little matters, blow things out of proportion and distort original problems to such an extent that everything gets lost in an emotional fog. 92. The mind can create many strange, peculiar and bazaar states of consciousness for the real self within to experience. An idea or a thought left unchecked can quickly transpose a fantasy into something that appears very real. In fact, the mind properly lead and manipulated by external influences will accept ideas and suggestions without hesitation or doubt, as if the idea was always a part of itself. 93. The mind is fond of pleasure; it is fond of variety. The moment it comes across a greater desire, it leaves the old one behind. The mind may desire something long enough to possess it or not. Still and all, if it does possess something, after a period, familiarization sets in and the mind desires something new to possess. Our mind is constantly traveling around in circles of exaggerated thought and repetitive patterns. 94. At any given moment in time, we think we know what it is we really want but then time erodes away our dreams and in the end evaluation, it was only another temporary desire. The human mind is always seeking something more. It thirsts for self-gratification through worldly possessions, power and sensual pleasures galore. Its desires are numerous if not endless. It constantly flips from one thing to another. Nothing can keep it engaged for very long. As soon as the mind perceives something else as being better, sweeter or prettier than what it has, it runs after the new illusion trying to make that desire a reality and quite often throws away what it has already accepted. The mind usually passes from one whim or attachment to another, never remaining satisfied for very long. 95. Vanity, lust, anger, greed, and addiction keep the mind in a constant state of flux between right and wrong. We are constantly wandering around in a maze of physical sensations that are pulling us in every direction, keeping us continually preoccupied with the activities and illusions of the physical world. 96. All cravings and desires are created by the mind, which in turn forces us to achieve what the mind wants. When the mind attains what it wants, either it loses interest or we become addicted slaves to its desires. The most common habit of the mind is to torment one's conscience by thinking continuously about another person, place or thing. 97. Our mind loves pleasure. We are always on the hunt for something new or an easier way of attaining more of what we already have accepted. A major function of the mind is to crave stimuli in large quantities. The mind is steeped with cravings for worldly objects and sensual pleasures which place many of us in vulnerable positions of lust, anger, greed, attachment, vanity and many other excessive positions. The mind's desires and cravings keep us off balance and continually feeding from a polarized position of yes or no, good or bad, right or wrong and an endless stream of other polar opposites. 98. Our mind is constantly being bombarded by a number of desires and cravings using a variety of stimuli. We have barely satisfied one desire when several more spring up and have to be prioritized. Unfortunately, when a desire is not fulfilled according to our mind's expectations, we become depressed, anxious, obsessed or even upset at those we love, including ourselves. 99. Our mind has been conditioned from early childhood. The various stages of our lives have been run together like a series of blurred photographs. From infancy to childhood to puberty to young adulthood, middle age, retirement and the golden years, most of us look back and wonder what happened. Where did all the time go? What have we really accomplished? Most of us are probably finding it hard to fall asleep at night because we have so much on our mind. Certain thoughts from the day seem to roll around in our mind for the longest time. One thought leads to another and before we know it, our mind has gone off on another tangent and if left uninterrupted, turns our thoughts into pure fantasy or nonsense. Usually the major culprit of all this unnecessary thinking is worry. We worry, speculate and dream up all sorts of what if scenarios. Other times it is as if we have all the answers to the world's problems. The root cause of this type of self-abuse or excessive mental excitation is for the most part, an inflated ego. 100. The ego blindly expands by constantly filling our mind with distorted thoughts that desire, judge or criticize other people, places or things. 101. In every truth, the opposite must be equally true. To know truth, we must apply the knowledge of a truth to become the truth we know. Only in this way can we know what is true and what is not true. 102. The mind is the filter through which everything must pass. The mind is the ultimate player in conflict and paradox. As we progress through life searching for our essential nature, we must first learn the ways of the mind. Our mind is a complex, virtual thinking machine that is a powerful entity, distinct and separate from both our physical identity and our original metaphysical identity as awareness from intelligence. It can deceive us in many ways for it has the history and ability to use itself against us. As the reality of who and what we really are as awareness from intelligence begins to take hold through any new learning process, the mind begins to shape shift and cause fear, uncertainty, doubt and a host of other frightening thoughts and feelings to flood itself. One must always continue to push forward or any new insight or identity breakthrough will be lost in a flash of emotion created by the mind to flood the mind. 103. The mind does not think in terms of language with words but rather in a language of images. These images come with a sound track that allows us to talk to ourselves, even argue mentally with ourselves. All language or forms of communication are collections of images strung together or superimposed upon each other with different sound tracks in the various languages. Imagery is the universal language of the human mind with different sound tracks generating or lighting up similar images within the mind of every human being. Therefore, a language must be more than a mere vehicle to disclose information. To fulfill its task, language must also be capable of extracting harmony and beauty from whatever means it has available to it. 104. Our real individual metaphysical self or awareness from intelligence is locked inside the interior dimension of the mind that forms consciousness. Our metaphysical being as awareness from intelligence has forgone its individuality by way of its association with the mind. The mind can lead us around because we identify with it, to the exclusion of our real identity. Most of us are in fact, hypnotized by the powers of our mind and exist in a semi-conscious state or fog. This state or fog is comparable to a dream state, where we exist in a dream to the exclusion of physical existence. It is only after we wake up from a lucid dream that our physical consciousness recognizes it was only a dream. Nevertheless, it seemed real while we were in a dream state. This is the same effect that our metaphysical being is experiencing while living inside our mind. Our metaphysical being is asleep in regards to its natural identity while following the mind's imagery of the physical world. Our metaphysical being, without knowing it, thinks, speaks and acts from stored images of physical reality. Its attention is mainly focused outward, through our corporeality and away from our in-corporeality, believing it is only a mind, in a brain, in a body, without knowing it is awareness from intelligence immersed in a light form in a mind, encased in an organic pattern of flesh. 105. The images in our mind are responsible for every single thought, word and action we create and act upon in our lives. While we would like to think our thoughts, words and actions are based upon intelligent reasoning or original thinking, the fact of the matter is it's the contents of our mind that’s in control. Many of the stored images we have in our mind have been inadvertently given to us by people we do not even known but with whom we share a distorted collective library of images. We are all thinking and doing the same things, over, and over again like automatons. These mind images are producing scenes that guide us through physical life on a moment-to-moment basis. These images form the basis of all our thoughts, feelings and emotions. Our life is reduced to the effects of this continuation of fate producing imagery within our mind, moving us forward into a future created by skewed or second-hand memories. We need to live in the present (which is the only time that is real) if we want to realize our true metaphysical identity within a non-distorted consciousness. Living in the present is experience moving in unison with the flow of life. It can only be realized directly, not through an idea or memory. 106. The greatest obstacle that prevents us from making the necessary changes in our thinking to become more self-aware is our ability to retain the very idea of imagery itself long enough to understand how the mind operates. This recurring retention problem exists because all the images in our mind are continuously competing for our attention and distracting us from the present moment. 107. Our mind has been leading us through life by collecting, creating and destroying images. Mental and emotional stimulation lights up certain images with such lucid reality that it makes old images just as real as when they were first created. In a split second, our attention is pulled right back into the same old scenes and we re-live and act out our past repeatedly. It takes but one small source of stimuli and the mind goes to work doing what it does best, scanning old illuminated images, acting and re-acting according to past thoughts, words and actions. 108. Our future may be a reflection of our mind's imagery from the past. Imagery that is illuminated to create the next sequence of events based on the same old sequence of events from before but this time replayed in a different order. These repetitive mental operations produce favorite or automatic thoughts, words and actions that over time develop a preferred state of consciousness where our mind finds and stays in its comfort zone or lowest state of energy expenditure. 109. The human mind has been conditioned to obsess with sense stimulation and sense gratification. We are constantly being conditioned to get in touch with our feelings. Right now, you might be saying to yourself, what’s wrong with that! Our whole thinking process has been set in a certain direction and we are moving in that direction for the most part, without giving much of anything a second thought. We have (and others have) conditioned our free will within our own circumstances, within our own life experiences. This fact may be disturbing or hard to accept. It may also be hard to entertain the fact that after having devoted so many years to developing our intellect, our individual freedom is held captive by something other than what is real, true, or ourselves. We have become slaves to our own mind and its dummy-down self-conditioning. In essence, what we are is a slave of our own creation. All of us believe that our own thoughts, words, and actions are under our control based on our intellectual reasoning and free will. The fact remains that such thoughts may only be illusions generated by our mind's imagery. Our mind is actually controlling, guiding and moving us through life, on a moment-to-moment basis with controlling images of the past. Confronted with such facts, we might think we can set out to modify or eliminate what we perceive as being these controlling images and we would be right. After all, this is how we moved our consciousness from being in a child state into a mature adult state. It was accomplished by accepting different sets of controlling images and associated sound tracks based on new words, thoughts and actions. 110. Emotions are continuously being produced inside of us, even if we are not aware of their creation. Emotions are messages from our body to our mind, which leads to actions or in-actions. We cannot turn off or cancel emotions but we can learn how to become more conscious of them. Unbalanced emotions can cloud our mind and fog up our ability to think and reason logically, causing any original thoughts to be swallowed up by the power of our unmanaged sensitivity. The net effect of this shift in consciousness is that we as individuals are becoming unaware of the chaotic power of our impressionable emotions. We are losing our ability to freely think and act as individuals. To put this in a more meaningful context, we may be better off if we were to try to understand the basic nature of our emotions, which reflect our intentions. The basic nature of emotion is to move. All emotions surface because they have to keep moving. The primary purpose of any emotion is to allow us to positively experience life to its fullest measure. As we express our emotions, our entire being comes together in cooperation to run both our biology and our behavior. Emotions are our response to what we experience. Emotions are our response to the world around us, our response to our thoughts, beliefs and especially to our own mental creations. How we see ourselves determines how we feel and experience life. Our perception of life in general also determines how we feel, and how we feel, determines our emotional state. Just as our perceptions influence our feelings, feelings also shape our experiences and beliefs. They allow us to see and feel life. Moreover, in order for our feelings to express themselves clearly, the process must be free of judgment if we want to become fully aware of our own true state of being. In order for this truth to become reality, we must also set aside any inner criticism. When we stop criticizing ourselves, we start to better understand the flow of our feelings and gradually become more balanced, perceptive and wise. We start to realize that our emotions can move us internally and externally in a negative or positive manner. For example, fear is our most basic and misunderstood emotion. It drives many of our actions and reactions to the world around us. It can save our life or if it lingers too long, it can ruin our life. Fear is also a signal that it’s time to let go and find a better way of living so that we can rebalance our life. The longer we hang on to fear, the more likely we are to create unnecessary anxiety and mental imbalance. Therefore, we must release fear by allowing our feelings the freedom to pass through us without trying to control or direct them. Another example would be love. Love is an emotion we try to capture or recapture most of our lives. Love is born of understanding and forgiveness, while forgiveness itself is born of suffering. We need to experience the whole spectrum of feelings and emotions to be human. As we begin to understand more of ourselves, we become more human. By becoming more human, we become more balanced. By becoming more balanced, we are able to handle all aspects of our life in a way that results in the greatest good for us as an individual and as a part of the collective whole. By becoming more balanced, we are better able to change and transform our state of being enough to recognize the meaning and purpose of our life. By becoming more balanced, we are also better able to recognize the fundamental loving nature of the universe. By becoming more balanced, we become whole human beings able to surrender to the fundamental nature and process of life itself. When we are able to surrender to the fundamental nature and process of life itself, we are able to reach our ultimate intuitive destination. When we have reached our ultimate intuitive destination, we have surpassed all contrasting opposites where one gains at the expense of another. When we have surpassed all contrasting opposites, we have arrived at a place of unity where everything is universal. When everything is universal, our non-dualistic intuition is itself, undiminished. 111. When we resist change, we are resisting life itself. We have become highly skilled and well trained at playing mind games, so much so that game playing has become an accepted and comfortable way of life for most of us. We have been so systematically conditioned in our thinking patterns that we want to remain right where we are most comfortable. We want to stay in the deep grooves on the outer surface of our mind, where no harm can come to our ego and above all else, where no change has to be made to the way we function in life. After all, most of us have spent our entire life learning mind games and perfecting mind skills to survive the different environments we have experienced during the different stages of our existence. We may actually fit right in with the rest of the various social and cultural circles in which we blindly interact i.e. we have a place and we know our place. 112. As we penetrate deeper within the truth of our being, we have to be able to abandon more of the images and concepts of physical form and ordinary language if we want to transcend the boundaries of our intellectual reactions. The only means of access to transcending these boundaries is through the sensitivities of the heart. These sensitivities allow us to relax between awareness and the effulgent forces surfacing from unrealized levels of our being. In the beginning, as we learn how to move outside and beyond our old way of thinking, our metaphysical being may start to encounter unfamiliar images from the subconscious mind. As a normal human being, if we do not immediately realize what is happening, the effects can be confusing, enough to fill us with bewilderment, uneasiness, anxiety, insecurity, fear, uncertainty, doubt or disbelief. Always remember that the unrealized levels of our being or void will eventually provide the music of life or whatever is necessary to sustain or enhance consciousness. It is our rite of passage or natural initiation to the next level of development in our conscious life and awareness. The void is a realm of emerging choices combined with the naturalness to move towards those choices. When we first enter the emptiness of the void, we must freely submit to a higher principle of existence within our sense of being if we want to become conscious of both emptiness and form or nonexistence and existence at the same time since our consciousness cannot fully grasp two temporary states simultaneously. Once the paradox of it all starts to melt away and we begin to overcome the dichotomy of the void, light images begin to form vague symbols, structures, constructs and operations that eventually communicate truth to our conscious mind. As truth emerges within our conscious mind, we simultaneously sense a quality of being one with the universe or become aware of the infinite potential of the void and the nothingness associated with just being in the moment, where creation is unfolding within us. This moment of now is an experience that can only be realized directly and never through an idea or memory from the rational, logical mind. It is an experience that you surrender to within the full embrace of self-honesty, trust, balance and love beyond reason or form. It has a definitive existential, self-determining and self-surrendering quality to it whereby our individual impartial focus observes and records our state of being in a mind state where we can let go of everything (especially fear) and just be in the moment. 113. The general belief system and core boundary of our society has actually been established with old recycled beliefs, misunderstood concepts of life and death, and unnecessary laws. These recycled beliefs and concepts that most of us have never personally experienced are accepted only due to their repetition and presentation by others. What we think about most we eventually become. So, one comforting thought right now is that you’re not alone if you have accepted recycled beliefs into your own belief system without question, thought or personal experience. The question now is; how did this unknowingly happen to so many of us? This happened mainly because parents, family members, friends and society in general told us the same things over, and over, so we personally assumed what they were saying must be true. We had no choice but to trust these well-intentioned people with some of the source input and development of our conscious mind during the early stages of our lives. Once these core images were constructed within our mind, there was not much chance we would ever believe anything else unless a traumatic event split or shattered our personal belief system wide open. 114. Our beliefs are the filters and substance of consciousness and if we are going to transform our consciousness, we need to enhance our beliefs with first hand direct experience and understanding. Without first hand direct experience and understanding we will only have someone else’s recycled beliefs. Remember to take what you read here now as valuable, but not, as infallible. Know that you are your own highest authority and do not place your source of authority outside of yourself. 115. The ego is personality. Personality is the body. The body is how we experience intuition. Intuition is a particular way in which we perceive, think, and feel physical experience. The ego is no more than contrast when in check and perversion when in control. It is natural for the ego as a perversion to try to preserve itself. Ego’s can conflict in any situation but our metaphysical identity cannot be in conflict. An inflated ego always tries to capitalize on all situations, congratulating it self continuously to overcome any doubt. The real us, is part of a reality that stands unchanged and beyond the reach of any inflated ego (our own or someone else's). 116. An inflated ego is nothing more than an idea, as fear is nothing more than an idea. Both are self-created. Both can be understood and both can be properly balanced or reset. An inflated ego literally exists only through the misguided differences it creates through comparison, separation and judgment. It uses our physical form to experience everything else. An inflated ego regards the physical form as its home, and tries to satisfy itself through it. An inflated ego sometimes believes it is completely on its own, which is merely another way of describing how it thinks it originated. It thinks of itself as an entity unto itself. An inflated ego is only the mind's belief that it is completely on its own. An inflated ego cannot exist without judgment. An inflated ego can only be kept in check by non-judgment. 117. Many disorders, including most forms of depression, come from a sense of being deprived of something that we may want but do not have. When we feel guilt, our ego is out of control because only an inflated ego is able to make us experience guilt. Our mind can be overpowered by false beliefs created by an inflated ego to sustain itself. We have the power to step away from these types of delusions and manipulations. We have the power of mind over an inflated ego because all things do work together for the sake of goodness. There are no exceptions to this truth, ever. 118. An inflated ego is part of a fragile belief system that creates separation. Any creation by an inflated ego is for the ego. Therefore, it is without any real power that comes from the mind. If we identify ourselves with only an inflated ego, we are seeing ourselves as something we are not. Whenever we respond to an inflated ego, we usually sense some form of guilt and the fear of being punished that goes with it. An inflated ego is literally part of a delusion based on fear. Whatever is accepted into our mind has some form of reality for us. It is our acceptance of this, quasi imitation of reality that makes it real. If we allow an inflated ego an elevated position in our thinking, we will live in an elevated state of uncertainty and false reality. 119. Our thoughts have a direction and purpose we can trust. Our mind is in motion all the time. Letting go of control connects us to our higher self. The true meaning of our life is grounded in self-trust. 120. Irrational thought is disorganized thought. Every unattended or irrational thought is created and maintained by some form of guilt. We have the power to reset our mind by resisting any delusion created by an inflated ego every time one should arise. An inflated ego's decisions are never right because the foundation that they rest upon are always based on the error that they were made to justify in the first place. Nothing an inflated ego perceives is translated correctly. If we allow ourselves to experience guilt then we are reinforcing error not truth. 121. The basis of anger is the belief that we have been violated and that a form of retaliation is justified by us in return. Yet, no wrong can justify a wrong. No wrong makes things right. Anger is a form of hatred. If we hate anyone, we dislike a part of ourselves. 122. All thoughts flow from the unseen impulses of awareness into the mind and move outward. All perceptions begin in the mind of the thinker and move outward. We have trained ourselves to believe that we are not awareness from intelligence. We have trained ourselves to disbelieve in ourselves. 123. An inflated ego does not see itself as part of anything. The most creative activities of an inflated ego have never done more than obscure the question rather than provide an answer. If our ego is out of control, it will use our physical form to scheme against our mind. Moreover, because an inflated ego understands that a clear mind can stop it by merely recognizing that the ego is dependent of the mind, an inflated ego seduces the body to join in the attack against the mind. 124. The unreality of an inflated ego always tries to persuade the reality of the mind by claiming the mind is a mere extension of the ego, subservient to both the ego and our physical form. Delusions create impossible realities, a place where an unchecked ego flourishes. An unchecked ego uses delusions to confuse reality with impossible situations where we are lead to believe we can overcome anything even the impossible. In reality, the only impossible situation that can exist is one that we believe exists. The basis of this type of deceptive belief is an error in our judgment or belief system whereby a false thought is reinforced by an inflated ego. 125. Reason is the basic structure of our mind. It provides the means to grasp and transform reality and is effective in the cognitive, aesthetic, practical, and technical functions of the mind. A change in reason is a change of mind and this inevitably produces essential change because the mind itself is essential. The way out of any contention between two opposing systems is clearly to choose one and give up the other. There can be no conflict between reality and unreality. Only one is real, and therefore only one is true. Our focused attention is not required for truth, but it is necessary to combat the creation and existence of that which is not true. 126. An unchecked ego always seeks to separate and divide us with fear because it creates fear. Fear is what makes exceptions to separate or disconnect us from other minds. Our mind is so strong that we have the strength to look into another mind and see that both are the same. United, minds love. Separated, minds cannot love. Love is everything. Ego alone is nothing. Love has no conditions. Ego is diluted with conditions. No one who has love wants an unchecked ego for an unchecked ego represents delusion. If truth is complete, then untruth cannot exist and reality cannot be unreal. As long as we have fear, we cannot love. As long as we have anger, we cannot love. As long as we have a self-seeking inflated ego, we cannot love. To receive love, we must first give love. To learn to love others, we must first accept and love our self. The only thing that can separate us from love is untruth. The only thing that can separate us from untruth is our self. 127. We are unable to exclude any part of ourselves from what we think. In order to maintain a clear and balanced mind we must not accept delusion. Every response we make is determined by what we think of ourselves, and what we want to be is what we think we actually are in the present moment. 128. What we want to be must determine every possible response we make. We create our perceptions to last as long as they have value. Therefore, we can extend our illusions about ourselves but not about others. Others can extend their illusions about themselves but not about us. 129. The human mind has the power to cleanse itself of any false beliefs including any delusions created by the ego. Our skills that allow us to see a coherent outcome depend on our disposition to see it, but its truth has nothing to do with our disposition. When we find ourselves confused about this distinction in our motivation, it can only be due to our confusion in motivation. Given the basis of this confusion, trust is now out of the question. The only way out of an error is to make the decision not to decide anything at all. The world we perceive and experience has many layers of difficulty. However, the world is filled with recognizable patterns if we allow ourselves to see the light of truth within the patterns that continually appear before us. 130. The distractions of the ego are distractions we approve for the ego. The ego has no power unless we give it power. The ego has no expertise except the illusion of separation and confusion. The ego does not understand anything except the illusion of separation and confusion. The ego by itself cannot provide a reasonable solution to any problem. The ego is in control only if we alone allow it to be in control. 131. We have the power of creation within our being. When we are forced to learn something against our true nature, we are imprisoned. When we are forced to do something against our free will, we have the power of mind to accept or reject what its effect will be on our lives. We have the ability to shape ourselves into our own unique expression. Our mind is the mechanism that allows us to decide our own state of being. We can transition from what we see to what we cannot see, to that which is beyond experience because it is our natural metaphysical disposition to go beyond the limits of the world of experience. The mind is the filter through which all decisions are made. The mind creates our internal reality with thoughts that cause us to respond in specific ways to the external world. We have a choice in how we respond to the external world and to life in general. We receive from the world what we give to the world. 132. It is our choice to allow others to control us. We live in a society today where we have to make choices to allow others a certain degree of control over us. This is the logical result of the way in which society functions today. Vast numbers of us must cooperate in this controlled manner so we can live together in peace and prosperity. The real concern is whether we realize how much of our free will we have inadvertently let slip away under the subtle control techniques of others. 133. Psychology is the driving force behind consumerism and addiction today, not a defect in our identity. Addiction is intense emotional pain that can only be extinguished by us alone. It may be time for each of us to wake up and take back control of our identity before we are physically, emotionally, and mentally changed forever. 134. We are in total control of our mind so we should never let another human being fill our mind with fear, uncertainty, doubt or mental waste. There is no battle between good and evil. There is only difference. By allowing our mind to dwell on polarizing symbolism such as the good and evil model, we allow ourselves to keep participating in the subservient deeds of those we may not even know. The checks and balances of the good and evil model provide the illusion of fear, uncertainty, doubt, luck or misfortune in our life. Pass no judgment and these phantasms of deception and control, have no basis. 135. If your desires, cravings, obsessions or opinions are now crowding your mind, then your senses are playing on the desires, cravings, obsessions or opinions of other people. You are being moved about like an emotional rag doll. Now think of how long it must have taken you to lose control of yourself without knowing it. It started unintentionally with your parents and your grandparents. A slow, methodical process was inadvertently put in place to reshape your unique identity into a more restrained communal identity. 136. Modify, impair or change the human mind and you reduce, increase, or modify the mind's ability to function independently. Our mind needs us to take charge of our obsessions, desires and cravings. To do this we must attach our mind to the most recognizable thought we have and that is the thought of our own real identity as an individual. 137. We must learn how to switch off or temporarily ignore any subtle programming or imagery by others if we are ever going to recapture our own individual identity. 138. Truth cannot be described and it cannot be explained. It must be experienced. When we think of ourselves as only physical beings, we eventually experience depression. If our physical being is used to attack other people, it will also harm us. However, if we willingly use our physical being in the service of others, it becomes a beautiful instrument of communication. This type of communication eliminates barriers and helps others, which in turn helps us as individuals. 139. All learning must lead beyond the physical body to reset the true power of the mind within it. This can only be done if our mind reaches out to other minds and does not withhold itself in its ability to reach out. Withholding our mind is the primary cause of all illnesses (especially obsessions, anxiety and depression) because one of the main functions of the mind is to reach out. 140. We are not limited by our physical bodies, and what we think cannot be made physical. Our bodies are communication instruments. The mind can be manifested through our physical body if it extends beyond the physical and does not become limited by it. If we judge another as limited by the physical body, then we are limiting our self. Imagined results can only cause suffering. Poor dispositions toward the physical are acts of aggression. Acts of aggression lead to depression. Depression leads to self-loathing. Self-loathing leads to an out-of-control ego. 141. To an inflated ego, physical form is a tool of aggression. An inflated ego uses our physical form as a means to an end. It is difficult to overcome the ego's belief in our physical body as a means to an end because it is synonymous with the same belief as attacking is a means to an end. 142. Those who desire the ego are inclined to defend it at any cost. An inflated ego is not reasonable. An inflated ego is incapable of knowing how we really feel. An inflated ego does not understand the value of an honest question, although it disguises an endless number of them. 143. An inflated ego always tries to separate the mind from the body in an attempt to control or destroy it. An inflated ego is sick for it desires what it despises. To the ego, even this is a logical desire for it goes hand in hand with the attack principle. 144. Illusions are threatened only by reality since reality is truth. We can deny truth but we cannot change it. 145. Our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. The more we live in the present moment the more patient we become. The more patient we become, the more accepting we will be of what is real. The more accepting we are of what is real, the more peaceful we become. The more peaceful we become, the more we allow ourselves to let go, reach out and be happy. As we allow ourselves to let go, reach out and be happy, we learn how to clear our mind and relax. As we learn how to clear our mind and relax, we allow our mind to take a break and live in the present moment without fear. When we live in the present moment without fear, we return to our natural state of being (balanced and whole). 146. There is nothing outside us that can stop us from loving because there is nothing outside us. Perception is a state of mind. Perceptions are made up of the belief in opposites. What we perceive as possible is yet to be done. Everything that is, is right now. Everything that we remember, we remember now. Everything we know, we know now. 147. Nothing we create is separate from anything. Until we know something, we cannot dissociate ourselves from it. 148. What is not remembered now may cause us to experience fear, uncertainty and doubt only because an inflated ego has taken our confusion or dissociated memories and used them to keep us off balance. We experience fear, uncertainty and doubt only because we have forgotten what is true. When we distance ourselves from what is real, we are creating fear, uncertainty and doubt. 149. When we attack, we are trying to separate. When we attack someone else, we are in denial of the person we really are right now in the present. All attempts at separation are attempts to deny what is true. 150. To deny truth, leads to uncertainty, which in turn creates the belief that others, not ourselves, have done something to us. We must receive the message we give because it is the message we want. We can believe that we judge others by the messages they give us but we are actually judging others by the messages we give them. 151. To deny the truth of who we are is to deny our selves well being. If we deny anything, we are acknowledging that it must exist. Our mind is capable of creation but our mind can also deny what is created. Joy is created by us and misery is created through us. 152. There is a hidden aspect to each one of us that sometimes surfaces in brief moments of clarity to reveal a deeper awareness of body, emotions, senses, thinking and mind. This hidden realm of being takes us beyond judgment and the distortions of daily life to a place where we can be more human, allowing each moment to be as it is, in the clear light of truth. If we listen carefully enough, we can hear truth in our thoughts. If we look deep enough, we can recognize the shadow of destruction we created, and if we look deeper, we can see the light of truth within. This shadow before the light of truth is the core of an inflated ego where we experience the intensity of darkness and all that is noxious. This is a place of total disassociation and disconnection. A place where arrogance denies all that is love. This is a place where delusion can overpower reality. However, even darkness and destruction can produce value for within each of us is a shadow that we must recognize in order to begin expelling the darkness (it is darkness that defines light and without light there is no shadow). When we comprehend this place clearly, we know how to release darkness and journey towards the light of truth. The transition away from darkness carries with it clarity and healing that provides a deeper appreciation of the transpersonal nature of our identity as extraordinary self-organizing energy beings with a deep-seated purpose for existing. 153. Nothing is truly hidden, only temporarily unknown. Everything that exists has a specific nature. There is nothing evolved which was not involved. A thing can only work where it is. Words cannot guarantee their truth content. Only truth can penetrate the quality of things that exist. Truth resides in the directness of its perspective. The way in which an idea is presented, affects what that idea will turn out to be in the present. All truth is accepted as being self-evident. Truth is clear and simple. A union with truth is intrinsic to our well being. Truth is growth. Insight belongs to one who knows. Nothing happens without reason. Whatever is in the effect must be in the cause. A thing can only affect another of its own kind. The deliberate application of reasoning only comes through reflection. Every phenomenon in the visible universe has its birth in motion. The metaphysical and the physical coexist. The great tragedy of truth is opinion. Science alone is only a self-correcting process. The path of inner being is truth. Absence of truth is not evidence of truth. Something incredible is waiting to be known. Truth is often awash in a great ocean of confusion. Truth can be unknown, but it cannot be altered. Every great advance in knowledge has involved doubt. The unknown is only another term used to describe creation. There cannot be complexity without simplicity. When we let go of our expectations and accept things as they are, we accept what is real. When we accept what is real, we are living in the present. When we live in the present, we are living in the now. When we live in the now, we are free. When we are free, life is special and wondrous. When life is special and wondrous, we become spiritual. When we become spiritual, we are whole. When we are whole, we are human beings. 154. An inflated ego is only a dishonest appeal to create projections. We create honest projections through the already existent extensions of light within us. These extensions of light can be realized by understanding that we are never alone on the journey of life. If we think we are alone then we believe we are separate from everything else. This is a paramount delusion created by an over active ego. The laws of everything else in the universe do not permit contradiction. Being separate from everything else is a contradiction. The power of being precedes separation and therefore makes every interaction possible because it is the center point of our identity without which neither separation nor interaction can be thought. Thought does not create reality; it only interacts with the energy of reality to alter or control it in some way. What this refers to is essentially the separation and interaction of subject and object, in our knowing as well as in our doing. We are constantly aware of reality, because in the absence of any reality there is nothing of which to be conscious. Everything that becomes real to us enters through the association of subject and object; and out of this perplexing relationship we are able to realize the power in everything that has power, be it universal or individual, a thing or an experience. The true nature of reality is that of an undivided wholeness, including the entire universe with all its fields and particles. We cannot deny any part of ourselves because the rest of what we are will appear separate, without meaning or purpose. For us to be without meaning is for us to be unable to understand the joyful experiences of life. To deny part of our self is to deny our existence. To deny we are part of something larger than ourselves is to deny our identity as awareness from intelligence and the collective awareness from intelligence that all of us are a part of right now in the present. We are part of the whole and consciousness itself is a participant in reality whether we are aware of it or not. We are all returning to a feeling of oneness or wholeness even if we cannot see or understand what it is that is moving us towards this unity. 155. Conflict is the prime attribute of an over active ego. When we are in conflict, we are filled with stress. When we are stressed, our energy is being expended at a higher rate. When we are expending energy at a higher rate, we eventually grow tired. When we grow tired, we are hurting ourselves. When we hurt ourselves, we become unbalanced. When we become unbalanced, we cannot rest. When we cannot rest, we grow weary. When we grow weary, we suffer. When we suffer, we allow an over active ego its victory. When an over active ego is victorious, our suffering expands and the true experience and meaning of life begins to vanish. 156. Conflict is the core fuel that drives an over active ego. Without conflict, we are balanced. When we are balanced, we are calm. When we are calm, we accomplish more. When we accomplish more, we see, feel and handle stress better. When we see, feel and handle stress better, we are never in conflict. When we are never in conflict, we are at peace. When we are at peace, we know who we are in the present. When we know who we are in the present, we do not deprive or attempt to separate our self from anything. When we are not deprived or under the delusion of separation, conflict cannot exist. When conflict no longer remains, we become whole. When we become whole, we understand the truth within our being. When we understand the truth within our being, we recognize ourselves within the truth. 157. We cannot escape our illusions unless we recognize them as illusions. Without the willingness to question the illusions we create, the illusions remain insulated from reality and we become unable to realize truth. This is the Achilles heel of an over active ego. When we start to examine an over active ego, we have already acknowledged illusion and any effect illusion is having on our reality. This is the end of every illusion created by an over active ego. Truth has begun to unfold what is real and fear and separation dissipate as we return to our natural state of balance and oneness. 158. Wisdom based on rational, inspired truth can be realized once an over active ego is exposed to the light of truth. When the light of truth exposes an over active ego, the ego is contained. Once the ego is contained, we have undiminished access to what is real. Once we have undiminished access to what is real, we quickly recognize that we are wholly contained in the fundamental reality of a greater common good where no intermediary can divide us from our real identity. We are an immense and powerful awareness from intelligence interconnected to an unbounded field of energy at the source level. We are an organized field of awareness from intelligence engaged in a reoccurring cycle of chaos and order so that we can continue to evolve toward higher levels of consciousness. We are beautiful as we are; everything in our lives is working toward our ultimate good. As we begin to eliminate our desire to be perfect in all areas of our life, we begin to discover the real perfection in life itself. 159. Love transforms the physical, vital and mental planes of conception, perception and sensation of our mind and consciousness. At the conception level, an idea is a thought, at the perception level, it is experienced, and at the sensation level, it is the embodied truth instinctively realized to its fullness. As the mind moves away from the connections and chaos of everyday life towards the silence and calm within our being, we become more illuminated by what is true. Silence is an essential part of our self-conscious state and its respective internal perceptions. Without the silence and calm within our being, there cannot be any real appreciation of life. By moving deeper within our conscious mind, we enter an elevated state of understanding and enlightenment where profound truth is abundant. When we find the silence and calm within our being we begin to experience the true joy and meaning of oneness which reveals a sense of the eternal rhythms of our own true nature. In silence, perception and intuition mature to the point where we may truthfully consider the spiritual significance of our own being. 160. An inflated ego does not understand reality but it does know us. It is confident and cunning because it knows when it can take control of our lives. It knows when we are unbalanced and vulnerable to attack. It knows what we fear most when we are unbalanced. It also knows it has the power to make us falsely believe in its power. It knows it can diminish our independence and weaken our resolve but only if we believe it has power. Without our belief in an inflated ego, we would not even consider supporting it. An inflated ego persuades us to drift from reality into a distant and narrow state of mind, where everything is exposed and vulnerable to the delusion that there is no cost or penalty associated with an over active ego. This is the place where we ignore trust, balance and love. This is the place where we ignore ourselves as human beings. 161. An over active ego believes that power is separation and to establish this dark phantasm in us it must always attack everything and everyone around us. It starts with our daily activities by creating a series of small incremental disconnects and distractions. Eventually it leads us into a series of meaningless rifts in our relationships. Once we are disconnected from what is real, the ego continues to reinforce and substitute everything in our lives with meaningless actions and unnatural reactions. The ego needs us to believe in it so that it can maintain its primary focus of making us overlook what is true. Once we accept an over active ego’s perception of truth, we embrace error in place of truth. An inflated ego will always seek an audience. If we attend any of its performances, we will have underestimated its power to create chaos in our lives. Again, an inflated ego cannot have power over us unless we believe it has power over us. Our perceptions are created on the foundation of our experiences and our experiences lead us to what we believe. It is not until our beliefs are firmly set that our perceptions are stabilized. What we believe determines our perceptions. An over active ego has many chameleon characteristics and an endless supply of fragmented or distorted perceptions. It does not reject anything entirely especially if that thing can separate us from truth. The ego knows it has to substitute something that is true with something that is false to dilute what is real. There can only be one reality, and that reality is truth. 162. Progress is never flawless. Each of us has a purpose. Human beings fulfill a role within nature. No person’s effect can be removed from the world. Every person is a part of the stream of life in general. We accomplish nothing by comparing ourselves to others. Our mental awareness is a measure of our ability to reason. No human being is without reason, knowledge or wisdom. A sense of personal worth comes from knowing that we make a difference. When we repeatedly experience or seek pleasure to a point where it can no longer be sustained, emptiness results. An individual does not need to change the whole world, only participate on the journey of life in the world. Performing even a small act of kindness does make a difference in this world. Each of us is the ultimate decision-maker of what is meaningful. Once we experience truth for ourselves, we are never the same again. We have an obligation to ourselves to fulfill our maximum potential. We cannot exist without affecting those we encounter. Realization and transformation are deeper in meaning than belief or faith. The meaning of life must make sense to each of us alone. We alone are responsible for our actions. Reality is that which is real. Reality is depth and coherent meaning. Our real life is not a reflection and our ego is not part of the foreground of our existence. If we have no dominant ego-based reflection, we have no dominant self-image. When a dominant self-image does not distract us, we can freely dwell in a state of innocence. If we freely dwell in a state of innocence we never experience the same thing twice in the same way, making everything we experience fresh. Seeing through the eyes of innocence allows us to give everything in life more meaning, making life special and wondrous. 163. To understand what we perceive in reality is to realize our self. To say that an error is real is to believe in that error. To explain an error is to empower that error, and if we do this, we will not know what is true. 164. Reality can only be withheld from our self by our self. Those who have fear are reaching out to be understood. Those who are reaching out to be understood are reaching out to be loved. Those who create fear are people who have been set adrift on the journey of life. Fear is a symptom of a deep sense of loss. If we perceive fear in others and we learn how to fill that gap created by fear with love, it causes fear to be removed. We can remove fear by not believing in it. Fear can only be created from a lack of knowledge. Fear is nothing more than a false emotion we create. Love is a real emotion. Love is letting go of fear. Understanding the source of fear reveals its true value. When the true value of fear is understood, it is rendered worthless. Fear is a mutant defense response created by a lack of knowledge. Once knowledge is acquired, fear is automatically eliminated and replaced with understanding and love. Fear cannot exist when understanding and love are present. There are no other answers or responses to eliminating fear. 165. To think of our self as only ego is to deprive our self of identity. To deprive our self of identity is to create anger. To create anger is to create depression. To create depression is to create self-hatred. To create self-hatred is to fear our self. Fear is a false emotion. Fear is a need to be understood and loved. Everything we perceive as the outside world fuels the ego. If we misperceive the outside world, the ego becomes inflated. When the ego is inflated, we lose sight of our identity. When we lose sight of our identity, we believe we are in conflict with the world and we think the world is in conflict with us. We have done the opposite of what is true and now the opposite is our own personal distorted reality. We have projected outward what is in conflict with what is inward, and now we perceive things backwards. Our backward perception has created a delusion that has taken over our real perception of the world and filled us with fear. Fear is a mutant emotion. Fear is a need to be understood and loved. An inflated ego has made certain that understanding and love are something to fear. An inflated ego leads us to believe that it is searching for understanding and love but an inflated ego cannot let us fully understand or appreciate love. When we fully understand and realize love, an inflated ego is in its natural balanced state of helping provide us the necessary energy to maintain a thought for an extended period. 166. The longer an inflated ego keeps us on the hunt for love, the longer it stops us from finding love. The longer the ego stops us from finding love, the more frustrated we become with the world. The more frustrated we become with the world, the more judgmental we become. The more judgmental we become, the further away we are from love. An inflated ego cannot love for it does not know how to love. An inflated ego leads us to believe we are searching for love only because it is afraid we will realize that love can only be found when the ego is not in control. 167. Everything worthwhile in life necessitates cooperation. Self-awareness cannot be attained as an end in itself. The salvation of a human being is through love and in love. Inner balance can only be realized when a person knows freedom and understands love, a love that embraces and transforms all experiences equally and unconditionally. When love arises for the first time in our life, it makes all other ways in which we have known love, appear crude and unrefined. Love allows us to reach deeper into our experiences. It is the one all encompassing factor that defines the highest quality of human life. Every human being is on a journey to their place of origin and each will search for that place whether they realize it or not. If we believe our place is outside of us then our search will be in vain. If we do not believe our place is within us then we will never look within to find it. Do not desire any part of this world unless it is looked upon with love. The only true value anything can have is the value given to it through love. We may not see love but we know its effects. By perceiving what love can do, we recognize that it does exist. By knowing that it does exist, we can understand its meaning. By knowing the meaning of love, we are enabled. By being enabled by love, we become love. Love is the one thing that can not be divided by an inflated ego because of its integrity. Where there is integrity, there is completeness. Where their is completeness, there is wholeness. Where there is wholeness, there is reality. When something is real, it is truth. 168. There are no degrees or levels to love. We love or we do not love. There are no exceptions to love. We choose love or we do not choose love. We must love ourselves before we can love others. The more our love reaches out, the more our human being expands. The more people we honestly love, the more we realize we are part of a unified consciousness. A mind that sees a world without love sees a world divided. As long as we perceive the world as divided, we are in conflict. When we want only love we will see nothing but love. The only thing we are able to give to anyone is love. The only thing we can receive from anyone is love. If we believe we have received anything else, it is because we thought we had the ability to give something else. We alone make the decision on what we give and on what we receive, real or unreal, of value, without value, just or unjust, meaningful or meaningless. 169. An inflated ego believes there is no life worthwhile outside of its unreality. This dim or fatal view by the ego is the only view an inflated ego can comprehend. It is a view that will take us to our own self-destruction. An inflated ego has no other view for us other than total self-destruction. Everything in the unreality of an inflated ego is based on denial. It also leads us to believe that we can dispel any act, including guilt, by making it real and then just make amends for it later. This logic inspires aggression without thought or actions without consequences, all in the name of justifying meaningless victories for an over active ego. These are victories that do everything but reveal the truth, for the one thing that an over active ego cannot do is reveal the truth, and in the presence of what is true, an over active ego cannot exist. 170. Maybe now we can recognize the vanity that an over active ego has to offer us. On the other hand, maybe we want the offerings of an over active ego because we are convinced that the alternative frightens us. To this extent, we are afraid only because the truth still eludes us. Do not underestimate the severity of this fear. Truth is powerful when understood but it is also powerful when it is not fully understood. In the transition process or last stage of acquiring truth, anyone can be lead to self-torture or total destruction. To avoid this type of experience we only need to remember we are beautiful as we are, everything in our lives is working towards our ultimate good. 171. The physical universe is an aggregate of frequencies that allow us to live in a conscious reality of transformation. If we reflect into the deepest recesses of our being, we will discover there is a state of joy that reflects a near unity. This once hidden unity or oneness of joy can manifest and fix itself upon our deepest awareness to reveal that we are metaphysical beings. This new quality of consciousness transcends our relationship with the outer world to provide us a deeper sense of inner peace. With this new sense of inner peace, we become transformed beyond our self, into a new quality of consciousness that gives us the awareness to recognize and understand that the light from our metaphysical being is the center of all truth. 172. The rational temporal framework of cause and effect only stands in the outer world of our reality. Right now, a new frame of reference can emerge to allow us to experience freely the embrace and completeness of our essential nature. Remember, we as individuals are the path we seek and this new frame of reference is the light within our being that allows us to embrace our own essential nature as awareness from intelligence. 173. Time is boundless in universal consciousness. Some of us spend our entire lifetime telling ourselves the story of the past and future, while the reality of the present stays undiscovered. A true state of existence fluidly integrates the past, present and future into one. The dense complexity of physical reality is synthesized, condensed and reduced into the unity of one thing and contained in one point. A point where the past and the future are within the present moment, which is the only time that is real. The past and the future are not reality. The past and the future are only manifestations of the mind. The present moment is all that is real, period. Yet, an over active ego has a deceptive understanding of time. An over active ego dwells in the past and in the world where the ego rules, the past is the only time that gives an over active ego power over us. 174. An inflated ego initiates and inflames guilt to sustain its hold over us. By making our future appear like the past, an inflated ego is able to deny us the present. We are always lead to believe that we can pay for the past in the future and with this belief, the past becomes the limiting factor on the future whereby the present is never fully realized. An inflated ego only regards the present as a temporary touch down point to the future where it can bring the past to the future by always defining the present in a context relating only to the past. The present cannot be sustained with the unreality of an over active ego. Reality, which can only be in the present, has no retained meaning to an inflated ego. An over active ego will always try to retain the past by leading us to believe it is vital for our future. An inflated ego keeps us frozen in the illusion of time, a prisoner without release from the past or future, a mind without a home, a being off balance. There is nothing more reviled by an over active ego than the truth and reality of the present. 175. The truth is ours to unveil, now in the present. We are free from the past and future for we live in the present. When we live in a state of mind beyond the bondage of the past or uncertainty of the future, we live where truth surrounds our innocence and harmony fills us with every breath we take. If we love our self and others, there is no need to let any darkness from the past, or uncertainty of the future, enter the present. 176. Our entire life has lead us to this point and with it we have brought forward layers upon layers of defensive baggage to keep us safe from the negative forces of life. In fact, we have build up so many defensive layers that we have lost touch with the true meaning and value of life itself. We have lost the meaning of life and we have lost the awareness of ourselves in the process. Whatever we do to make ourselves safe eventually causes unhappiness. Unhappiness is the result of struggling against the natural flow of experience. Life has to be lived in the present moment, spontaneous, vulnerable and without preset limits. By going with the flow of life gracefully and by learning how to respond to life without fear, we accept the freedom and wholeness life has to offer. 177. Should we accept our purpose in this world of time as one of learning, we will need to stress only the part of time in which learning can occur. Learning cannot be mastered in the past. It must be realized in the present. Time is quantified infinity in the eye of the mind. Time is a creation of our own consciousness and the present time is the only time that is real. Time is what we make of it, for by itself, it is nothing. 178. Experience is where all knowledge is remembered, and from that, it ultimately acquires itself. Our capacity to think develops indirectly, while all of its necessary pieces are realized one at a time. Everything that occurs to us arrives directly through what we experience. On the other hand, everything is remembered from some previous experience or is created from the basic materials provided directly through experience, providing us the potential and ability to conceive everything without restrictions. 179. We are compounded by two natures, one that is elevated and one that is secondary, an inner essence and an outer essence, godlike and manlike, mortal and immortal, each of which are conjoined in a mutual relationship in a physical body. Through the body we are animal and through the mind we are godlike. We are in our natural human state when we are in both physical form and godlike, simultaneously. We are born from awareness and intelligence into matter. Mind and matter are both under the direction of awareness and intelligence, which are superior to matter. At the center of every human being is light that is in itself, the energy of awareness from intelligence that generates our physical form. Our physical form and mind are never apart for the mind is the source instrument that builds and maintains our physical form from awareness and intelligence. The essence of our organic life is only an accumulation of matter around a radiant metaphysical nucleus. The outer world we experience is in itself, our living awareness from intelligence realized in its own creations, which are the images by which each of us individually perceives the light of truth. 180. Most of us, if not all of us have used the past to judge the present. It is actually not natural. It is only another delusion. When we learn to see everybody without references to the past, we are able to learn from those before us in the present. The present is the only reality. The past and the future are manifestations of non-reality. Truth resides in the present and this is where freedom dwells. The present is where love resides. The present is where joy lives. The present is where truth, love and joy are fully realized. 181. We are now moving into an expanded awareness, shifting our mental patterns of metaphysical energy. Dealing with this type of energy is not based on control. In fact, it is the opposite. It is about letting everything pass through us without trying to control or direct it. This non-control approach allows us to release all energy that has deceived us into believing we are not part of the greater whole, a greater whole that constantly pushes a larger pattern of energy through us. If we allow this larger pattern of energy to freely pass through us, we are actually removing all obstacles that we have consciously, or unconsciously, placed in our mind, obstacles that have stopped our energy flow and blocked the deeper perennial forces that continually reshape and expand our whole being. Without consciously allowing this larger pattern to flow through us, we are not able to sustain the constant transformation in us that is the essence of our identity as awareness from intelligence. If we deny our potential by not allowing this to occur, we are separating ourselves in a hopeless isolation from the larger perennial forces that exist beyond an inflated ego. Forces that can provide a more encompassing consciousness that disentangles fear, uncertainty and doubt to energize love, affection, devotion, warmth, tenderness, friendliness, fondness, pleasure, happiness, healing, confidence, trust, and the true experience and freedom of a more meaningful life. 182. A dominant ego is without conscience when it comes to telling us what we need. It urges us repeatedly to get things but in the end, whatever we get, it will demand more. A dominant ego seeks its own victory and with it separation. We do not need to ask what we need because we need nothing or how could we be here in this moment. We once thought we needed things and in order to get those things we thought we needed we started to judge everyone around us, including ourselves. Moreover, by judging our self and others we have pulled ourselves away from love and kindness and contributed to the anger and distrust in the world. 183. To be whole, we only require release from the past to naturally shape and direct our energy and consciousness at the problems that challenge our daily lives. At least the problems (guilt, fear, uncertainty, doubt etc.) that stop us from moving forward. Release from guilt is the beginning-of-the-end of an unbalanced ego. Guilt has kept us in the dark by wrapping us in our own phantom faults. A dominant ego has blinded us so we cannot look within to see the things we fear are gone or never existed. A dominant ego keeps our thoughts and emotions constantly shifting away from the source of our guilt. When we deny our guilt, we are not looking inward to connect to the present. A dominant ego will not let us bring forward anything into the present long enough to understand what it really means or how it can be used to move us forward. This would undermine a dominant ego’s false power over us. 184. Any direct or indirect proof of truth is all that is needed in a world created out of denial or deception. We will be able to understand this if we are able to realize that to deny truth is a decision not to know truth. If we decide not to know truth, our decision leads to emptiness. An inflated ego’s goal is to be empty of truth. If we should decide to be nothing more than fantasy we would have to focus and think there is no value in anything, including ourselves. To have guilt is to have interference without release. A mind filled with guilt is a mind that is closed and separate from truth. 185. When an inflated ego rules it sometimes offsets the pain of guilt by using a guilt free focus without any sincere value in the relief. The only state that is free and separate from an inflated ego is the state of being without guilt. To be without guilt is to be whole and by being whole, we are guilt free and happy. Freedom and happiness are not causes but effects. They are a result of making the right decisions. By choosing to be free of guilt, we are happy to be guiltless. 186. Those we forgive return forgiveness. Those we attack, hold it against us. Moreover, if they do not hold it against us, we will think they do. There is no way to offer something positive or negative, without some form of return, positive or negative. To be guilt free is to know nothing can hurt us, and by refusing to allow someone to hurt us, we are refusing them the opportunity to think they can hurt us. When two parties do not hurt each other, they love each other, whether they know it or not. 187. There is nothing we understand, that is fearful. It is only a lack of knowledge or lack of understanding that can be perceived as frightening. Yet it is only what we lack that can terrify, not for what it is, but in our not having it. The unknown is frightening because we do not understand its true meaning for us. If we did, it would be understood and we would no longer be afraid. There is nothing with hidden value. What we believe to be hidden cannot have value, so its value is meaningless. 188. We must understand the overall thrust of our individual human experience. Once we have identified ourselves as individuals, we realize that our foundation is based on our communion with others. We see reality but only through the perspective of our own mind. We share reality only from the perspective of a group mind. We may believe that we can view the scope of the whole in isolation but we are only seeing through a single consciousness. We know that we can share our scope of the whole only through a group consciousness. Something is complete only when it has an inner harmony and something is whole only when it suggests its beauty and goodness as one. 189. Our death yields to life only because of separation. What we have done is keep life and death apart and in doing so we have lost their meaning. Only one has true meaning. The other makes no sense to us. We need to choose one but not the other. All that is contrary to each other must be agreeable to each other and viewed as one if they are to have meaning. Only one has true meaning, the other makes no sense to us. For in separation there is only the unknown. Only in union can two things be one. Everything that is in union is truth and all else vanishes. As knowledge is gained, ignorance vanishes. As the unknown becomes known, truth is revealed and untruth vanishes. All truth is neither lost nor found. It is right where we are, within us. 190. If we hide from truth, truth becomes delusion or false to us. It becomes false to us because we have surrounded ourselves with fear and ignorance. By hiding truth within fear and ignorance, we cannot see any reason to understand the fact that the more we look at fear and ignorance, the less we will see of it and the clearer truth becomes. 191. It is impossible for two opposites to be accepted at the same time. This would be the grandest of illusions created by a dominant ego. One must vanish or one must be separate. If one vanishes, truth is revealed. If one is separate then fear and ignorance flourish. That which is true does not struggle against that which is false. For truth reveals itself, it does not defend itself with uncertainty. 192. Our beliefs can be cultivated because we have a special kind of intellectual and emotional connection that cannot be dissociated from our own lives. Our beliefs have a certain wholeness that can manifest in spontaneous and creative ways in which we are able to deal with them by simplifying, relating or placing disparate things together. We therefore only need to open our thoughts to reason while temporarily closing the doorway to our emotions to understand our beliefs. Better an attitude of fact seeking comparisons, deductions and experimentation than uncontrolled emotions that cloud our reasoning and ability to believe or understand truth. 193. Each one of us has our own set of beliefs when it comes to letting others control us. But when we become aware that someone is controlling us without our consent, are we willing to put it all on the line and walk away from any existing control structures or relationships that have separated us from our true identity. 194. Strive to understand what is true for you alone. Gain a proper understanding of what you want out of life. Know that anyone who desires to know truth can always find truth within them self. Become the master of your own mind and the creator of your own existence through personal experience. 195. Each of us is wrapped up in the imagery of our own mind and personal belief system. Our awareness or consciousness may have excluded or even hidden our real identity from us. Most of the time we are re-living something out of the past by playing things repeatedly over and over again in our mind. We need to learn how to break away from this mind set if we want to know our real identity and experience what is true for us as individuals. 196. An inflated ego is incapable of understanding substance and is totally unconcerned with it. To an inflated ego, if the form is acceptable then the substance must be also. Otherwise, the ego will attack the form. 197. To study the ego and think of it as the study of the mind is a serious error. This is characteristic of an inflated ego and its misleading disposition. Separately, the mind and the ego may appear to be understandable, but place them together and our system of thought becomes a delusion on the grandest scale. 198. If we live in the present, nothing can hurt us from the past. We are here now, in this moment, in this time, and this is our reality, right now. 199. We cannot perceive time without change. If we live in the past, there is no change. If we live in the future there is no change. If we live in the present, there is change. We cannot understand time without change. We cannot live without change. Change is time. Time is change. It is time to change. Live in the present. 200. Without some level of truth, there cannot be any representation of it. If truth is absent then there is no reflection of it. 201. An inflated ego makes things appear purposeful through its artificial definitions. The ego has no interest in anyone who understands that an inflated ego only acts through guilt and the fear it creates; or fear and the guilt it maintains or increases until it overpowers someone. There is no real comfort given by an inflated ego that is lasting. We cannot define who we are, apart from others. As human beings, we make our life meaningful by expressing love to its fullest capacity. The more ready we are to give ourselves to others, the more we realize the meaning of life in everyday ordinary experiences. The secret of life is being able to see through the eyes of innocence and realize that even everyday ordinary experiences are beautiful gifts that enhance our feeling of life. 202. In the world of an inflated ego, the ego is the martyr, the hero, the one who saves the day, the one who is perceived to sacrifice everything only because it wants something or expects something in return. 203. An inflated ego is always expecting to be attacked because it wants to be attacked. The ego wants to be attacked so it can retaliate. The ego wants to retaliate so it can have revenge. The ego wants revenge so it can take control. The ego wants to take control so it can dominate. The ego by itself cannot control or dominate our existence unless we allow it to maintain its primary focus of distracting us from what is real. 204. An inflated ego’s primary role is to make us believe that we are not real and that life itself is a battlefield of desires, conquests and separation. 205. If we can slow ourselves down, enough to understand the pattern of our life now in the present, then we can break away from any frozen pattern of the past. If we cannot slow down to understand the patterns before us now, our obsessions will turn into limitations or even into a cancer of the intellect. One of those malignancies that can render all thought into stagnation before its time, making us dead through the eyes of our own reality. 206. An inflated ego thinks in physical terms when it comes to relationships. Moreover, when it comes to the mind and what it thinks, the ego is not concerned as long as the body is there to receive it. To an inflated ego, our mind is a separate place that cannot be intimately shared. According to an inflated ego, only our physical being can be shared. It sees the mind as a tool to help manipulate and draw the body of another closer; or to push the body of another away. Misery and destruction are the final offerings with which an inflated ego celebrates all associations. 207. When two unbalanced egos join, both are created out of fear and loneliness and both will continue to contribute to the prolonging of loneliness through the increase of guilt used by each other against each other. The stress and distractions during these exchanges of guilt will insulate each ego from realizing what they are doing. The results are always the same when it comes to an unbalanced ego, misery and destruction. 208. Many sterile quarrels and misunderstandings that obstruct a fuller comprehension of an inflated ego would be avoided if instead of looking for some stereotypical principle or key to unraveling its dynamics, we accept that by its very nature, an inflated ego is incredibly complex to the point of appearing contradictory. We know that an inflated ego continually tries to seduce us into seeking pleasure in many negative forms. We also know that an inflated ego will do anything to block us from understanding our own true nature. Its expressive means are obvious. Its actions are a psychological confession of its intentions. It does not allow clear seeing, feeling or being as a true language of expression or emotion. It is filled with judgments that aim at completeness but cannot choose between any alternatives; it must have it all. It recognizes that its sole mission is to increase its own richness. An inflated ego is a great mimic and incapable of pure creation because by itself it has no capacity to create. It is also not an end in itself but instead devotes itself (when inflated) to fantasies, delusions, fear and guilt to quench its thirst for attention and control which also includes rejecting any innocent suggestions or genuine decisions made by others. 209. The illusion of separateness of our physical body and its ability to rid us of loneliness is nothing more than the working plan of an inflated ego trying to establish its own false identity. As long as we believe that it is okay to be with another person physically for companionship, we will be compelled to keep that other person trapped in a meaningless relationship of guilt or away from any form of real communication. The ego will falsely teach us that loneliness is corrected by guilt and that honest communication is the main cause of loneliness. However, our prime goal now is to move forward as quickly as possible to do what is necessary to suspend any flip-flop illusions of an inflated ego long enough to remember that it actually has a real and meaningful purpose. The ego structure through which we carry out our daily routines is constantly distinguishing between our self and our mental conception of physical reality. The ego’s real self-important purpose in its natural balanced state is to act like a supervisor or manager to help provide the necessary energy to maintain a thought for an extended measure of time. It also provides coherence to random thoughts that emanate from different parts of our mind. Any illusion created by the ego in its natural balanced state is an illusion created to provide a space or context within which to experience more of life. The more experience we have in life, the more conscious we become. The more conscious we become, the more apparent the ego’s real role becomes especially when it comes to the experience of transcending every possible environment for we are never completely bound to any one environment. We are always able to transcend any environment by reaching out and shaping it according to universal patterns and ideas. Even in the most restricted environment, we possess the world for we are the world. The ego part of who we are is that part which is able to speak and by speaking, transgresses the boundaries of any circumstances in any environment in any world. 210. Our body alone is a symbol of an inflated ego. An inflated ego is a symbol of separation. Separation limits communication. Communication must be unlimited in order for us to be satisfied with meaning. If we are deprived of meaning, we will never be satisfied with life. 211. Conveying our thoughts is a willing vehicle for every sort of message, idea, belief and narrative to express or purify our self. Without expressing our ever-changing sphere of what is felt and what is thought, we would have no way of evoking reality. We would then be reduced to a state of animal impulses, which would only allow us to translate an obscure sense of life that links us to matter. If a bloated ego had its way it would have us break every last link with truth, even with our own identity in order to have us serve and function as a mindless automaton in the ego’s world of animal impulses. 212. We have a choice to replace the awareness of our animal impulses with a clear mind that can begin all relationships without limitations. We can stop an inflated ego from manipulating our body and admit that an inflated ego has no function we would like it to dominate. We need to recognize that the goals of an inflated ego are out of reach and will always be out of reach. We need to recognize that the ego only has power if we give it power. The duality before us now is not as contradictory as an inflated ego driven mind might imagine. Our modest mind knows that without a dominant ego we are endowed with the power to arouse a variety of deeper passions and memories within the essence of our metaphysical being. Our modest mind knows this because it can penetrate and extract harmony that transcends the material aspects of existence. Our modest mind also knows this because it can generate beauty through acceptance, unity, and harmony with all life. This is beyond the comprehension of an inflated ego driven mind. This is something an inflated ego driven mind can never understand. 213. We may have been lead to believe that we need to give up or destroy something for the sake of another. That an offering up of something in exchange for something else is so essential to our thinking patterns that preservation, apart from giving up something, means nothing to us. Our confusion of offering up something and loving something is so profound that we cannot even conceive of love without loss or without sacrifice. In a reality without a dominant ego, love is not sacrifice. If we accept only this one pattern, all fear and guilt will vanish from our lives. 214. Once sacrifice has been removed, fear and guilt cannot sustain their existence. An inflated ego always makes it falsely appear as if it does not demand restitution from us. The most common demands made by an inflated ego are based on compulsion, obsession, sacrifice, fear, uncertainty or attack. 215. We are the questions we ask about our self, even before a question is formulated. Being human means asking the questions of our own being and accepting the impact of the answers given to these questions. Conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of our own being and asking questions under the power of the answers. We have the power to define our experiences of this world through our own ideas. We can change this communion with the contents of our consciousness, thereby enabling and transforming our experience of the world around us. We know that we do not have to believe that a certain level of evidence is required to look into any possibility as long as we keep an open mind. Most of us start searching for answers as curious and naive thinkers. Thinkers who are punished by the terms of our own subjectivity to navigate in a world that appears to be other than what it is, as compared to what we ourselves are as human beings. 216. The more we close ourselves off from the world to the point where we live an exclusive inner life, neither communicating or being communicated with, the outside world loses it value to nourish our thoughts. As we lose the value to nourish our thoughts, we lose the ability to access the inner depths of our being. Therefore, a balance is needed between being solitary and being in the company of others if we are to succeed in accessing the inner depths of our being to become more capable of understanding and sharing the living energy that is part of our identity within a broader consciousness. The living energy that radiates from this broader consciousness can be invoked by arranging and inspiring in others, important feelings to create new and different forms of expression that represent the present. There are impulses in the human mind that if directed towards a specific emptiness to be filled, can move forward and create a means of expressing what aspires to exist, but was previously inexpressible. These miraculous transformations of creation are part of the same source energy that radiates throughout the conscious spectrum of the universe, without which we could never be whole. 217. We have a tendency to avoid the obvious and fragment what is true only to later become more concerned about the smaller fragments of truth. We know what is true but we do not let the truth in. We are truth and what we have rejected from our mind does not change our mind. For illusions are only beliefs in what is not there. The conflict between what is real and what is illusion can only be resolved by separating our self from what is illusion. All things guide us to our innermost truth because we are the truth we seek. Truth is inseparable from our natural state of being. 218. Love has no conditions. Love is not an illusion nor could it become an illusion. Love is a truth that cannot be changed. There is no conflict in the choice between love and illusion. Conflict can only enter if a choice is one between illusions. Love is a universal force that attracts and reveals truth. Love is a dynamic, healing, transforming force. Love is a force that manifests and unveils the beauty in all things. It is through love that physical life is perfected and it is through love that an intimate connection to life is realized. 219. Our path should be a path of love without deception. If we look for love outside our self we can be certain that fear and doubt are within us. A path of love is a life of love and a life of love is reality. If we recognize love as truth then we can understand delusion cannot be love. 220. In reality, when the true meaning of love is realized, love is within the truth. When one nears or gets close to this realization, what appears to be love can be delusion, where false love creates separation. The freedom of choice can only be compromised by an inflated ego trying to blend delusion and reality into one. This unnatural blending has created a special separateness from which union is not a choice; it only appears as one. Do not think of an inflated ego’s fearful nature or of the guilt it creates, or of its sadness and despair. These are only characteristics of separation that create the destruction of self. Through the process of destroying ourselves, we are influenced by an inflated ego into believing we can destroy others to remake ourselves. In this destructive state, truth becomes something to fear. 221. We are never complete when trapped in the process of self-destruction by an inflated ego. An illusion only appears to be something to fear because we have failed to recognize the truth. 222. The whole of inner life is comprised of the immense domains of the conscious mind and the subconscious mind, the known and the unknown. Both of these domains continually respond to the deeper essential nature of the subconscious mind, distinct to it by its very nature, yet upon which all our thoughts must depend. We live out our daily lives never aware of the subconscious mind, yet all that we are comes from its depths. We know our conscious mind gives us results drawn from some disguised actions that come from the boundless symbolic shadows of the subconscious mind. A current of feeling, like a musical note in perfect pitch, passes from one boundless dimension to another to reveal expression. The intellect and its power of abstraction has access to a broader way of thinking which it is able to embrace in an articulated framework of idea and belief, a higher more universal state of consciousness. We know that the pulsing blur of our perception is the medium through which a broader state of consciousness would manifest and reveal it self to us. Just as we can separate the concept of a broader state of consciousness in our mind and think of it as a distinct thing, we can also expand upon it to establish its presence within our awareness. The human mind naturally seeks balance, and in balance, the mind finds harmony. In harmony, the mind can clearly sense the subtleties of reality. In sensing the subtleties of reality, the mind can know what was once unknowable. 223. Separation is only an illusion we create when we do not want to know ourselves. This whole process of separation is actually a deception designed by an inflated ego to lead us away from our true nature. Nevertheless, we do have the ability to decide on whether to engage in the process of separation or to choose what is true. If we choose separation, we choose illusion. If we choose what is true, we realize that an inflated ego only wants part of us in order to keep us from being whole. Once we realize this truth, there is no need to look back into the past on any negative emotional part of our life. 224. Only in the present, where truth is found, can we be whole. We are able to escape the ridicule and shallowness of an inflated ego when we no longer allow ourselves to suffer any guilt created by illusion. However, do not underestimate an inflated ego's need for revenge. An inflated ego remembers everything we have done to anger it, and it will retaliate. Nevertheless, without participating in our own destruction, an inflated ego cannot hold us accountable for the past. The past is gone. The future has not happened yet and the present is where we experience reality without guilt. Remember that we are always choosing between truth and illusion and for a while we will unintentionally continue to carry past illusions into the present. These past illusions will hinder the full awareness we experience in the difference between what is true and what is illusion. Any illusions we carry with us into the present will diminish our experience of what is real. 225. Our brain is continuously being bombarded with vibrations and impulses and for our brain to apply itself to this bombardment and find meaning, we have been given a great filter (mind) that can sort out any anxiety-provoking impulses, desires or unnecessary functions from entering our consciousness. Moreover, everything we do with our mind prepares us for everything we are going to do with our mind. Therefore, in order for us to understand this filter and better communicate between the inner world and the outer world, we have to appreciate the source language that our filter understands which is the language of light. 226. Our basic understanding of light comes from its distinction to darkness. We are unable to have one without the other and therefore our mind must recognize the symbolic language behind the two opposites. Moreover, in recognizing this symbolic language we recognize that the change between every reconciled pairing of opposites has a median. In addition to understanding this median, we realize that what is more important between every pairing of opposites is their difference, not the opposites themselves. Once we understand and embrace the meaning of difference, we begin to realize more of the world around us. As we realize more of the world around us, we become more centered and aligned with the world within us. Once this inner alignment is recognized, a more permanent self-image and identity begins to form and associate with other relationships and patterns. For example: the relationship between love and consciousness. When we begin to recognize the symbiotic relationship between love and consciousness we begin to understand and embrace a larger pattern. When we embrace and understand this larger pattern, our mind continues to transcend the obvious and become more illuminated within the embrace of other patterns. As we become more illuminated within the embrace of other patterns, we penetrate deeper within our consciousness. As we penetrate deeper within our consciousness, we begin to become more aware of the oneness of light and energy. When we begin to become more aware of the oneness of light and energy, we expand our awareness from intelligence. As our awareness from intelligence expands, we soon realize that we are being guided by a more profound awareness from intelligence. As we understand this truth within our being, we recognize ourselves within the truth. 227. There are no illusions in nature. Nature is reality. The only thing that can be changed in reality is our perception of it. Misperceptions of reality are only illusions. Illusions cannot change reality but they can change perceptions. All that is true is without illusion. There are no illusions with any degree of truth to them, for truth is always whole. To fragment what is true is to misunderstand what is true. Nothing from illusion can be compared with truth. Something is either true or it is not true. Truth is incomparable to anything other than itself. 228. Compassion may be expressed through words but its basic form of communication is through the silence of one's presence. Compassion is empowerment to help others discover a community of hope, forgiveness and love. If we are able to enter the mind and heart of another, to share their sorrow, to know them from within, we are able to champion love not only in others but also in our self. Once compassion is active, all barriers and their damaging effects begin to vanish, leaving a sense of real identity and satisfaction within the embrace of love for all parties involved. 229. Compassion creates a much deeper meaning that directs us toward a deeper inner freedom and wisdom. A freedom and wisdom that expands our vision, sense of direction, insight and self-confidence to generate more energy, good health, joy of being, and love for all life. 230. As we embrace life with a kind heart and an open mind, we soon feel a new energy that imparts vitality to our state of being, making all things beautiful. 231. Compassion is constantly expanding. If we reflect upon this, we gain a deeper understanding and awareness of our identity. Compassion is the basis of morality. Compassion is the embodiment of emotional maturity. It is human compassion, which makes one human. If we are to understand the meaning of compassion, we need to understand that it is the humane quality of understanding the distress in others and wanting to do something about it. 232. Time is unkind if an inflated ego is its master. Beyond an inflated ego’s schedule of time, our thoughts become infinite. The past is transformed into the present without conflict. The continuum extends the present moment into a perpetual reality that inspires the beauty in everything. All that was wrong in the past can be right in the present. All that was not forgiven in the past can be forgiven in the present. The past and the future are only manifestations created by an inflated ego and used to separate us from the present. An inflated ego knows that the present is where all separation is corrected and eliminated. An inflated ego knows that the present is where it cannot sustain its control over us. 233. If we would only look beyond the veil of an inflated ego and through the clear sight of the mind’s eye, we would see that our mind is capable of doing for us anything reasonable that we would like it to do. We only have to know how to attend to it individually. If we attend to it in the right way and carefully engage it with good information, it will do the right thing and work for us in a positive manner. If we give our mind the wrong information, it will act on this information in a negative way. The effect of even subtle mental programming errors has immense consequences. Everything and everyone (including ourselves) may be programming us in a negative way, even without our knowing it. The layers to our negative programming might be so extensive that we are not able to recognize our true image or even know who we really are unless we begin to live in the present, where our thoughts are free from any errors from the past. What we think about most we eventually become, so every step we take, every move we make, every word we say, is affecting the integrity of our real identity. 234. As human beings we are able to rise above our animal impulses to understand the significance attributed to light which is the one clear sign that provides us with a conception of the contrasting effects of physical and metaphysical reality. 235. Our most basic human instincts give rise to an innate symbolism of patterns and expressions that repeatedly reflect our desire to understand the significance of consciousness. All that is required of us to recognize these repeated patterns and expressions is to step out from behind the shadows we cast and embrace the truth that gratifies our need for clarity and simplicity which is characteristic of our awareness. 236. Human thought is able to take possession and understand the universal state of consciousness through personal experience that is first felt, not measured in polarized illusions conceived from false images of the past. It may please the intellect to envisage order triumphing over chaos with images or words, but subtle feelings are the first prime medium through which we are better able to sense a broader consciousness. 237. At the beginning of each formulation of thought a mental tag is placed on its contents as accepted immediately without delay of further instruction or accepted with delay waiting for further instruction. For example: when we first experience a beautiful fragrance we automatically are given an instruction to smile or breath deeper and when we think of the number three we pause and wait for further instruction on what to do with the number three. One instantly captures the essence of the thought without any delay, while the other loses the essence of the thought with delay. One is timeless and the other is trapped in a moment in time. One is felt and one is not felt. One is sensed and the other is not sensed. One is instantly accepted and one is not instantly accepted. One is without ritual and one is with ritual. One has no ritual, no form, and no delay while the other has been diluted by ritual, form, and delay. The experience of a moment in thought, however compelling it may be, is easily forgotten if we allow, time to close over it. It must be kept pure in our awareness of time but not encased by time itself. 238. The pureness of any thought comes at its inception into consciousness for it is in this space that we both subconsciously and consciously determine its degree of value and acceptance. Without value and acceptance determined during the initial awareness, we would consciously look back at a thought, trying to piece together what it must have meant. By looking back at a thought, we lose the realization of what we started out to realize because the moment we study or understand something with the analytic mind, it becomes something else. Our judgment would only be judging a manifestation of the past not the reality of the present. 239. By questioning or thinking about anything, we are focusing on the past. By focusing on the past, the ego has the final say on any original thought or state of consciousness. Under normal circumstances, this would be an acceptable role for the ego but should the ego be inflated while focusing on the past, inner conflict will soon follow. A conflict characterized by an attitude of disbelief towards what is real. 240. The only things that stand in the way of a better life are responsible choices. We always have a personal choice between embracing the beauty and reality of truth or embracing the destruction and unreality of illusion. By choosing one, the other is released. 241. The lack of acceptance or harmony in the process leading up to any thought that is associated with a broader consciousness, makes understanding difficult and evaluation near impossible. The value in acceptance and harmony at the inception of any thought related to a broader consciousness basically allows us to fully perceive its substance and provide a means to make it real for us alone as individuals. We therefore need to make every effort to bypass any interference that will distract us from expanding our consciousness and concentrate on everything that helps us embrace acceptance and harmony. An open mind becomes the way to embrace a broader consciousness and a closed mind becomes the block that denies any possible understanding of a broader consciousness. 242. We must neutralize any darkness associated with the past if we are to clarify reality and anticipate the importance of light. By stimulating the importance of light and contemplating the endless possibilities attracted by its mystery, we can become more conscious. Light is what endows our life with creation and moves us closer to a higher level of self-awareness. Light also allows us to stand in the openings where dreams are born and intellects are created through expanding and interpreting our internal frame of reference to where the world reveals the fullness of reality and our perception of it with grace, dignity and truth. 243. Light determines the inward, emotional, interpersonal and intellectual boundaries of the human mind. All awareness is light and all light is awareness. The consciousness of light endows us with an enhanced sense of perception that becomes the ultimate reality in understanding an inflated ego. Light serves to make things visible. Light is visible in itself. Light provides an infinite multitude of possibilities capable of initiating all that is or will be conceived by the human mind. Light makes visible that which is continuously changing. Light comes into reality and goes out of reality. Light is indistinguishable from its successive pattern in time and yet light constitutes a balance of time. 244. We may look ten thousand times before we see one truth but with a slight intellectual adjustment that we fully comprehend, the world becomes more real as does the clarity of our thoughts. As we transgress away from our inherited beliefs, the rules of their diminished structure and logic begin to decay. As we start to compose and apply our own personal beliefs, our thoughts and experiences begin to increase the value of the reality we experience. Our world starts to present joys so subtle and powerful that we actually feel a more radiant reality filled with qualities enclosed within even the most ordinary of experiences. Our energy starts to advance our impulses to regions in our mind where profound realism merges benevolently into luminous metaphysical reality. The unknowable begins to retreat and we begin to become more balanced with the relevance of a more profound consciousness. When our awareness of a more profound consciousness begins to increase, the rhythm of life begins to become more harmonized. The supposedly inexpressible transforms into the expressible and a certain intensity of the immeasurable sum of the affinities we perceive between visible manifestations and tendencies of our mind, starts to take on symbolic form. A form that is not possessive or unnatural but one that allows us to begin to enjoy today what troubled us only yesterday, a form that allows truth to reveal the extraordinary attributes of what is real. 245. Let nothing conflict with unity or obscure the goal of truth. Truth will come when nothing is denied or withheld from where it rightfully belongs. It is only what we have not given that is lacking in the pursuit and realization of truth. Let all truth be what it is. Do not infringe upon it, do not violate it, and do not obstruct its arrival. Our whole world rests upon truth. Everything we see reflects it, and every special connection that we have ever made is part of it. Truth extends only inward towards center, where false thinking is impossible and the extraordinary is conceivable. 246. The world we see is a result of a symphony of sensations converging in harmonious fashion, from the lens of our eye, through a stream of light, allowing us to evoke the sensation and idea of thought. It is our entire being expanding and contracting in unison with the universe, which begins to manifest and transform thought into reality. 247. As we formulate thought there is a stream of energy within the same space that springs forth light that we are now trying to understand. In order that our awareness may examine this light, let us first stimulate our consciousness. In the past, we may have only imitated the nuances of light for the benefit of some monotonous intensity that others have spoken of but we now know in the pureness of our being that we can determine the essence and source of light within our own reality. There are only subtle nuances reflected by any properties of light. They are gradual or refined by there contact with or reference to reality. They progress or they regress, multiply or disappear. They may create revelations or they may create illusions. Each mind has its own way of seeing these things as we shape shift our thoughts and move them back and forth through time and space. We see what we want to see when it comes to defining perception; but within the depths of our conscious mind and identity, we have felt the sensation of knowing the fullness of light and its source. 248. Our mind is the chosen place where all that is must be. We cannot step outside of this space without excessively exaggerating what is real, for there is no existence expressed or understood outside the consciousness we now possess. 249. We are made whole by our desire to be whole. The diversity of what encompasses the whole, must be placed into some context we understand in order for us to assign qualities to it. The immeasurable sum of the affinities perceived between that which we discern and that which already exists is within our mind. 250. We know light through our desire to understand light. We desire light over darkness because everything is radiant in light and everything in darkness is obscured. We are the dwelling place of light and anything else in this place is unnatural or separate from what is light. There are no orders of difficulty in understanding this. Everything within the embrace of light is true. Everything within the embrace of darkness is untrue. To each end of our polarized light thinking, we owe the experience of our excesses clear evidence of the universal way of light. The universal way of light is that from which, through which, in which may be found all things. Therefore, we need to realize that our desire to understand light is our desire to know our self; and through contact with our self, we find there is contact with light. As this synergy of two becomes one, there is no longer duality, only union. We are part of what light is beyond mind. We are light and light is us. What one is the other is. What one knows the other recognizes. Beyond the journey towards this understanding there are no words. 251. To break down the purity of light we need an extraordinary filter (the human mind) to remember details of light yet we know that any fragmentation of the light in question is impossible. Therefore it is not light we will try to dissect and understand but instead we shall attempt to grasp some of the characteristics of light (reflections of light). A special enthusiasm of the senses would provide us some awareness of light but the innumerable combinations of emotions we possess would more than likely diminish our appreciation of what we set out to accomplish in the first place. In fact, it would be easier if we just do the opposite and simply allow our emotional energy to pass through us and carry us deeper into a more prolonged appreciation of the characteristics of light. We only need to let the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it to establish whether any characteristics of light exist. If we accept the flow of light, we will be accepting what is real. If we surrender control to the universe, we will manifest in our mind the reality of our true nature, which is a loving, agreeable, balanced, compassionate, compatible, forgiving, kind, patient and receptive state of being. 252. If we are illuminated by light then its characteristics will be revealed in a very personal mode that will pierce our mind with clear understanding, penetrating all fear, uncertainty and doubt. We will have a sense of being enhanced beyond our self. This sense of enhancement will simultaneously release any previous wishes or desires we may have had in trying to know and understand light for we will have sensed a release from all limitations. We will realize that this is a union of our mind with something else because our mind will have been instantly amplified to receive it. It becomes part of us as we become part of it. As we understand and embrace light, we immediately begin to realize our oneness without separation. When the energy that is from light is self-evident in our consciousness there is no procedure, there is no plan and there is no distortion. We instantly give up our illusions of fear, uncertainty and doubt. We are instilled with an overflow of love and clear identity, without limits, without questions. Nevertheless, if we are not illuminated by light, our mind is suspended within the idea of darkness, where the constraints of physical reality are imposed on our universal-connection. Without light, our mind becomes unable to reach to itself without limitations. 253. Unity with light is more than a creative theory or intuition. Unity with light is a clear sense of all the elements of reality having a continuity of order. All that is unfamiliar is removed in unity. Our physical being performs in its natural state, permeated throughout by the full animation it was originally illuminated with in the beginning. With full awareness it is impossible to imagine anything separate for any purpose other than the privilege of envisaging conventional reality in a disconnected manner because we are no longer drawn to the polarized thinking process of separation. When we are aware of light, we understand the sensations that make up our individual rational state of being. A state where we do not doubt the existence of any phenomenon that strikes our reason. By being reasonable, we now are certain of all the symbols and images revealed to our mind. We now have a unique intensity about our identity that wants to share and expand itself beyond any veil that an inflated ego might have previously put in place to situate us within the illusion of fear, uncertainty, doubt or separation. 254. Remembering light only comes to a quiet mind. It cannot come where there is imbalance or conflict. A quiet mind is the basis of inner peace. When we remember, we remember a part of our self. We must be as we once were, in the very beginning. We remember what we once knew when we have learned we cannot be in disharmony. All truth is whole within the embrace of light. Harmony, gazing upon itself, seeks to extend itself. Conflict only rules illusions. Every illusion is a violation against truth. What is deep within us is everything except untruth. We cannot know light, sense light, understand light, through anything that is untrue. Only if we seek the light of truth will it have meaning. 255. We are a part of the whole. We are not apart from the whole. That which is the same cannot be different and that which is whole cannot be fragmented, separated or have any parts. Knowledge does no attack perception. They are brought together for a brief moment in time until one continues across the threshold of reality to become a higher note, a filament that reaches a greater brilliance that is able to touch the very core of our true nature. 256. Whatever we believe, we become. Whatever we fear, we manifest. A human being is awareness from intelligence immersed in a light form, immersed in a physical form. A human mind is a metaphysical place where wisdom and truth reside. Consciousness is the reality of our universe. Our external self is constructed by our internal self. Disease and suffering are manifestations of inner conflict. In contrast, we possess the ability to invoke healing or elimination of all pain and suffering by eliminating inner conflict. If this is not true then our metaphysical being is no more than a prisoner within an organic pattern of flesh filled with errors and contradictions that is totally driven by reactions to physical stimulation. The power that fuels our metaphysical being is fundamental truth, which is the foundation of human existence. The source of fundamental truth is within the mental world of our metaphysical being where the wisdom of light penetrates and unravels any entanglement of disease or illness in any state. All human beings possess the power to heal and transcend any limitations as they emerge. The key is to focus on each limitation one at a time, in a focused sequential manner. All healing is the release from fear. All healing is ultimately self-healing. 257. There is a healing inner guidance that transcends the limitations of human thought, will power, image building and suggestion that can let us look from a position beyond our organic pattern of flesh and into the truth which is the cure. To arouse this inner guidance is to base our entire purpose of life on the fact that we are awareness from intelligence which is the center of our existence; and as awareness from intelligence as the center of our existence we can allow the universe to pass through us without trying to control or direct it; and by allowing the universe to pass through us without trying to control or direct it we allow all negative energy to pass from our being; and by allowing all negative energy to pass from our being we are well. 258. We have a choice between a perfected state of health and a continuously debilitating state of illness. Sickness is distorted thought in physical form. Our health and happiness will come in proportion to what truth we can realize and apply to our daily life. This realization will help us find a simple explanation that will turn our thoughts and feelings in the direction of setting ourselves free from the physical limitations of our bodies. 259. As awareness from intelligence first, and physical beings second, we are influenced by thoughts that surround our conscious and subconscious mind. If we look at ourselves as awareness from intelligence sharing an existence within physical form, we will not get sick or be out of balance with reality. As awareness from intelligence immersed in a light form, immersed in a physical form, we are subtle, lucid and wonderfully impressionable and responsive to understanding our true nature beyond negative thoughts or sickness. This full realization and escape from illusion is the ultimate release from sickness and delusion. 260. Our happiness or misery is truly ours to control. Whatever we believe we create. The inventory of existence we created is the one thing that we can change. As we walk through life we sometimes lose sight of the fact that our happiness and suffering has been dealt by our own hand through the decisions we have made and the beliefs we profess. Our beliefs cannot alter absolute truth but they can alter our happiness or sickness. Pain and sickness are the cancer of our beliefs while happiness and well being are the fruits of our wisdom. As awareness from intelligence, we have control over our own well being. 261. If life on Earth did not exist then there would not be any sickness or else sickness must have had an existence before life. If this is the case then something must have created sickness for a purpose. If we believe sickness was created to destroy us, then what created it? Where does sickness come from? Sickness comes from our imbalance with nature through our own mind. False reasoning creates sickness and the disharmony of false reasoning is the only dynamic force occurring within us that can make us sick. 262. Every opinion comes from somewhere. If we believe in something that is founded on just opinion then our idea is in that opinion, making the feelings associated within the opinion, attach to our idea. This confines the idea within the opinion. The idea by itself is nothing but an opinion condensed into something assumed to be fact. So to make an idea of this nature we reason about something that has no proof, only opinion. If another human being succeeds in establishing their opinion within us without any truth or any real facts that we can personally understand and experience, then they have succeeded in limiting us with their opinion. Apply this logic to any hurdle in life, love or health and we are able to understand how to solve any problem that is negatively influencing the balance and harmony of our life. 263. We often speak of our identity as though there were only one identity attributed to each of us. We have as many identities as we have thoughts, and the identity we can sense at any given moment, is the one attached to the last identity that was controlling us. 265. The entity we call mind is a stream of consciousness that flows to and from a vaster consciousness. The boundaries of this vaster consciousness can be brought together into a deliberate state of being by allowing the universe to pass through us, without trying to control or direct it. This timeless moment of oneness can be experienced by letting the universe pass through the calmness of our mind without trying to control or direct it. This timeless moment of oneness places us within the flow of a unifying pattern that merges everything into a single universal consciousness of which everything is a part. To experience a state of universal consciousness is to transcend and therefore ultimately suspend or supersede the boundary-creating mechanisms of our personal consciousness. As we open our mind toward this experience, the very intuition of it subtly generates an atmosphere that inspires our greatest potential. The only hindrance to this experience is our incessant desire to intellectualize or figure out the process while it is occurring. While this analytical process has validity in the outer world of physical reality, it is a detriment or block to entering an expanded consciousness in which understanding must be allowed as a consequence or result not a prerequisite or requirement. The limitation in understanding this is in the words. Words at best can only imply meaning or provide a fair token of our thoughts as they relate to the world of form. We cannot actually translate clearly the whole framework of why we think and feel the way we do or what it is our inner being is really feeling or experiencing, but everything we know and experience is within the bi-directional flow of a broader consciousness. This broader consciousness provides the essential unrestricted quality that is always in a perpetual state of underpinning human thought. The human mind in general cannot focus directly on this broader consciousness without instinctively changing and shifting into a continuous succession of seeking reason. Our mind is a dynamically productive creator of visions and interpretations of reason based on our personal way of thinking which is dependent mainly on our capacity to evaluate information. However, if our mind is temporarily suspended from the chaos of the physical world by letting the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it, subtle momentary glimpses of near perfection begin to entrance its state. A more tangible glimpse of a perfect order soon arises and focuses our thoughts and feelings to awaken our perceptions while shutting out the rampant extension of both sense and imagination. Conducive to a feeling of an open-minded inner balance of boundless energy, we soon become intense emotion and ultimately transcend into the rapture of the metaphysical. Our whole perception changes our internal experience enough to activate and confuse the rational functions of our mind with the intent of revealing a more deeply felt awareness of a timeless connection with an infinite existence. 266. When we think of light, do we understand it to be a theory, a complex idea, a thing, a force, a metaphor, unified consciousness or universal consciousness. If we think of light as universal consciousness, then we know light as an experience of energy that binds the flow of life through our physical vessel, providing us a bridge between two simultaneous states of being and awareness. Universal consciousness is light that imparts light, energy that imparts energy, intelligence that imparts awareness. Universal consciousness is a deeper more fundamental level of awareness whereby our state of being transcends the basic milieu of consciousness and directly experiences the grace of a greater continuum. 267. Many people have spent their entire adult life searching for proof of their identity only to concede to the fact that there was no answer to be found. However, some people have been able to go beyond the self-protective veil that separates their identity from normal consciousness through a process of focusing their intuition and extended awareness on the reality of a broader more universal consciousness, which is a state of dissolving into consciousness itself. This very personal state of consciousness can only be reached through a process that feels unforced and natural to us as individuals. All of us are in a process of awakening to our real identity, and if we can temporarily let go of exercising our memory (so that information can be summoned in a more intuitive way) and stay in the present moment long enough, a more all-encompassing quality of consciousness begins to surface. This all-encompassing quality of human consciousness exists in every moment beyond our rational comprehension. Its source is pure, constant and made up of unbounded essence that allows each of us to experience our essential state of mind and being. By letting go of all thoughts associated with the past, we find ourselves in a suspended state without any reference points to give us comfort. As the mind withdraws from its comfort zone of recycled images and dialogue, it begins to identify with the difference between the physical and the metaphysical world. As we identify with the difference between worlds, we become more vulnerable. As we become more vulnerable, we become more open. As we become more open, we begin to realize more of our metaphysical nature. As we realize more of our metaphysical nature, we begin to recognize the dynamic metaphysical aspects of our mind. As we begin to recognize the dynamic metaphysical aspects of our mind, we begin to see there is not one thing in our mind that can help us realize our own identity. It is all about letting go and allowing the unfolding process to be what it is. As we let go and gently begin to drift into a state of being unmoved by conditions, we are able to focus our awareness on quieting the intellectual mind. As the intellectual mind becomes more tranquil, a state of dissolving into consciousness itself begins to unfold. As we begin to dissolve into consciousness itself, we are naturally able to join our intuition and extended awareness gracefully into a single point of serenity inside our mind. As this single point of serenity is experienced, we can expand the experience and allow it to embrace our deepest nature. As our deepest nature rests within the embrace of serenity, we can let go of any remaining distractions and become one with the light of our true being. When we are one with the light of our true being, we can hear the silence. As we hear the silence, we become calm. When we are calm, we can let go of all that separates us from truth. When we let go of all that separates us from truth, we can let go of all desire. When we let go of all desire, there is no need to reach for anything in our thoughts. When we do not reach for anything in our thoughts, we are letting the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it. As we let the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it, we are allowing our self to be our self. When we are in our natural state of being our self, we have nothing to fear. When we have nothing to fear, there is no need to hold onto anything. When we have no need to hold onto anything, we can let go of everything. When we let go of everything, we let go of all illusions. When we let go of all illusions, we let go of all uncertainties. When we let go of all uncertainties, we let go of all that separates. When we let go of all that separates, we allow our whole being to experience the vastness of our original nature. When we experience the vastness of our original nature, we let everything be as it may, without interfering. When we do not interfere, we do not resist. When we do not resist, we do not think. When we do not think, we are in the moment. When we are in the moment, our mind is emptiness. When our mind is emptiness, we see the light of truth. If we can see the light of truth within our being, we can recognize ourselves within the truth. 268. If you cannot focus your mind inward without being distracted, try to find a place where you physically feel comfortable enough to relax and begin a process of casually emptying your thoughts. Allow yourself to drift in thought to different settings, eventually arriving somewhere you can be at peace with yourself. Take a few moments and focus on that peaceful feeling. 269. If you cannot find that peaceful setting in your mind, allow yourself the freedom to drift in thought within the following words. In a quiet moment, I stared upon a river of sun lit water. Calmly I entered an expanded state of consciousness where everything around me appeared within the embrace of glittering lights moving in a gentle rhythmic pattern. I was in the moment as a faint light began to surface from the depths of my being. I slowly transcended my normal rational wonderment and recognized that the center of my awareness was now pure intuitive perception within the depths of my being. Subtle energies filled my mind as a perfect peace and oneness was now upon me. My senses began to expand into a gentle sensibility filled with the peaceful presence of my surroundings. I was mesmerized and aware at the same time. In a tranquil moment of transition, I started to float towards a distant light that was now growing larger and more luminous. I could not take my mind off the light that was upon me. The light enveloped my presence and the weight of my life began to fall away. I could feel my core identity beginning to release itself from my being. Time stood still. There was no sound, no sight, no taste, no smell, no feeling and no emotion. I am perfect as I am and everything in my life is working towards my happiness. I am loved for I am love. 270. There is a close relationship between the words we are able to use, the types of thoughts we are able to think, and what we are able to believe as the truth about what we perceive. What we believe is directly related to our perception of physical reality and the structure of language we use to describe it. Therefore, each of us personally has the final say on choosing or not choosing what is believable, perceivable or acceptable. The word personally is the key word here for any belief that is not personally experienced has no real personal meaning. 271. When the animation formed from the light of universal consciousness is abundantly present in the conscious mind, there is no procedure, there is no plan, and there is no distortion. 272. It is not our knowledge of a broader universal consciousness that makes us aware of its presence; it is our lack of attachment to the physical world. Letting go of the contents of our mind and all desire leaves nothing to obstruct our entrance into a broader universal state of consciousness. The actual feeling of an expanded consciousness must be experienced not imagined, because even the instant of imagining is only another thing in our mind that can block the experience. Nothing must be held onto within our mind, not even the idea of emptiness. When desire does not shape the mind and limit it to thought, the clarity of universal consciousness surfaces within the vastness of our original mind and we become inseparable from the oneness of the conscious universe. 273. As human beings, we follow the purview of biological and physical laws. We possess will, consciousness, language, reason, subjectivity, purpose, morality, and enough foresight to determine our own fate. We find ourselves in structural congruence in our relational space. As structure changes our experience changes. To be human, we must feel the presence of other human beings in relationships and exchanges of good will and well being. This reciprocal sense of contact and fulfillment of life between one active being and another creates our desired renewal and outcome. It is in this unity of well being for each other that our true nature and purpose begin to develop. We are the sum of something unequaled beyond any assumption because we are a manifestation of the whole. Our fate is not forced or exaggerated but simply the difference our being here makes. It is our difference, which is the difference. It is our difference, which makes the difference. 274. We represent more than a system of self-created delusions. We are truth and truth is what we appreciate. Appreciation is impossible if it is based on fear or guilt. 276. In order for us to expand our humanity, we need to know more than just the mechanics of appearance and relationships. We need to apply the laws that govern the mechanics of appearance and relationships to our very nature in order to free our self from any confinement inherent in such responsibilities. Only then can we awaken the real beauty and strength destined by the higher qualities of our conscious mind. Qualities that allow us to clearly perceive reality and not fade away within generalizations. 277. We all have the will and ability to succeed in savoring any quality of existence affirmed by reason alone. However, the will can only develop at a level equal to our own consciousness. 278. The main goal for people who have chosen the path of becoming more self-aware, is to have a clear inner-personal language, a language that moves and guides a person past any logical system that needs to be explained to others. Self-awareness is not a system or noble vow of purity. It is a state of mind. It is a study of the manifestations of physical and mental life and understanding how to apply them. Within the depths of our awareness there is strength, beauty, love and a strong desire for truth. The seeker who abstains from any concessions, who does not have the need to explain to others, builds up an internal strength and gentle radiance that draws others towards their energy. 279. It is in completing ourselves within ourselves that we shall restore the world outside ourselves. It is by increasing our own strength that we shall strengthen others. When we understand the process, we understand the pattern. When we understand the pattern, we understand our self. When we understand ourselves, we understand truth. It is the personal psychological depths and meaning of reality that reveals the inner self to be at the center of non-self. Through non-self, the inner self and a broader universal state of consciousness are in complete and cooperative union. 280. Seek balance not perfection. Work for the good of the whole. Desire little and fear nothing. Everything we know is within us. Everything we are is within us. Everything we will be is within us. All that awaits us is within us right now in the present moment. 281. We may not always choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respond. Our mind is capable of seeing a reality that our eyes cannot see. We can only become lost and alone by what we create in our mind. The most common language is the simplest language. Reality is now in an existential moment of choice, where logic broader than formality can provide a richer tapestry leading us to the truth we seek. Our individual role and participation is vital to the expanding evolution and development of humanity. With an open mind and an open heart, we know that we are both the truth and the path that leads to a broader understanding of the oneness of the conscious universe. 282. The finite in our mind can establish the infinite in our mind. The question of the infinite is only possible because an awareness of the infinite is present in the question of infinity. This awareness actually precedes the question and is a result of its presupposition. It demonstrates that our awareness of the infinite is included in our awareness of the finite. We live within a dimension of consciousness where no conceptual prisons exist. There is no need to separate from that, which was, is or shall be. We are and will always be one for we are awareness from intelligence guided by the wholeness of nature and consciousness. By becoming aware of each moment, we are able to know the depth and realness of our being. 283. We embrace life for we are life. We are a multidimensional being whose multidimensional existence is complex and confusing and would be quite incapacitating if we did not have the consciousness to filter and process it into a more personal and manageable form. 284. Consciousness allows us to filter our higher multidimensional existence into a lower three-dimensional reality created from patterns of light. This light is the intervening substance through which conscious expressions are known and transmitted. It is also the force or impulse from intelligence to self-awareness. It is the same as the creative power of the universe. From the collective intelligence of the universe, all living things emerge and manifest through awareness from intelligence into consciousness, giving us our connection to what is real. 285. Reality is metaphysically conceptualized intelligence transmitted solely through our physical senses. Reality is created by a fundamental process of perception within our thought patterns, which provide us a concrete, experimental, or intellectual collection of information that forms or deforms what is real, internally or externally. As multidimensional beings, we are able to experience these different realities through the exploration and cultivation of light formations within our sentient mind. The sentient mind is not a physical construct or epiphany phenomenon of matter, nor a by-product of purely physical processes. The sentient mind is a formless continuum that is in a temporary union with an organic pattern of physical form. 286. We are metaphysical beings in a temporary union with physical reality. When our mind is quiet and disconnected from the flashes of meaningless thoughts that float on its surface, it becomes one with the consciousness of the universe through a formless continuum of light. Once this union is entered, our mind becomes fully conscious and completely aware of the flow of all thoughts in a realm illuminated by event visions. These event visions are at the very core of each one of us and are accessible when we can suspend or momentarily let go of traditional beliefs about our self and the physical world around us. 287. We live in a conscious reality vibrating at a frequency that is now penetrating the once thought impenetrable veil of the super-conscious or universally conscious mind. This great transformation within the mental stratum of human intellect is allowing the flow of our perception and awareness to join the oneness of the universal mind. 288. Within the deepest recesses of our being dwells a quality of consciousness that transcends our relationship with the outer world. This is a place where a deep sense of joy and wonder can transform us beyond our self into a new consciousness that recognizes the reality and sign posts of the universal mind. 289. It is our true metaphysical being, which is striving to know and fathom itself beyond ego and the external world. If we can recognize this truth, we can realize the essence and true nature of our existence beyond the physical and intellectual influences that surround our life. 290. Physical existence is only a form of communication in which truth is conveyed and imparted by our awareness from intelligence onto the world. Our inner unity exists in the truth of reason through the battle of life, which cannot be fought without pain. Constant discontent for the most part is rooted in the animal impulses of self-preservation. 291. We are awareness from intelligence, free from time and space, and able to see guarded wisdom within living essence. The gateway is deep within our mind, beyond chaos and constraint, where the radiant light of the universal mind surrounds our innocence. Feel the vibrations of joy beyond the illusions of our senses and we sense the countenance of consciousness beyond the finite, where harmony fills life with the very breath of the conscious universe. 292. Nature constantly refreshes our cycle of physical experience until a momentary opening for a higher vision is present. This vision is a personal glimpse into a vast reality that transfigures life beyond the physical, where the seat of our essential consciousness can be fully realized. This self-realization or experience is beyond the ego's methods of artificially cultivating reality or distorting the sensibility of our reason and logic. This is a state of mind where the impenetrable mysteries of the universe begin to stir feelings of jubilance, joy, reflection, spirit, liberation, strength, gentleness, devotion, balance and an endless series of new thought without restraint or confusion. This is a place where there are no explosive collisions of different thoughts just sensations revealing clear and powerful expressions capable of surpassing all known restrictions and limitations. This is a place where the mind can thoroughly experience an independent intensity that is stimulated to the expressive point of creativity by a continuous harmony of awareness from intelligence into perception and thought. 293. The mind is not a very manageable structure. Regardless of our most reasoned efforts, it often appears to rejuvenate itself in chaos. Understanding the significance of light can bring order to the intellect through a mutual exchange whereby the mind imposes order on our perceptions as light presents our mind with a more perceptible set of patterns to balance our metaphysical interior dimension. These illuminating formations of light provide our inner and outer reality with a more counterbalanced means for transcending the chaos of the physical world, while simultaneously glimpsing an almost perfect metaphysical order that captivates the depths of our inner being. These restorative exchanges focus our thoughts and feelings while simultaneously shutting out the rampant extensions of our senses and imagination. 294. Our animated metaphysical state is not a mystery in the depths of our being but rather an inner plane of profound existence revealed through light. With light, we are able to distinguish four basic definable forces: chaos, ethereal, anthropological and diabolical. The relationships we associate and off set these forces with are order, love, life, and goodness. These counterbalancing forces allow us to know the inner essence and true nature of our being beyond physical existence. 295. The sometimes-slow realization of truth is revealed in such small increments or degrees that we may not notice its gradual arrival. As truth unfolds it does not consist of new disclosures that eliminate old ones. The divulgence of any truth appears to us as a sudden realization or insight. This type of illumination provides us a new perspective in an instant although there were subtle indications of its presence leading up to it. 296. All wisdom is the natural development of existing truth. There is always a source. There is always a beginning. There is always an original. There is always one. Would two be needed if one did not exist? The one does not become needless because of the two; it makes the two possible. Would our time leading up to the threshold of realizing the two be conceivable without the one? It is an extension of the one, in which everything begins. Moreover, the further away we are from the one, the more disagreeable or desperate things appear. In the end, we always realize there are necessary progressive stages to awareness, stages that in the final analysis create the whole truth as the one inner impressionable source of unrivaled truth. 297. We are awareness from intelligence immersed in light form, encased inside an organic energy pattern. Nothing can happen to our inner being because it is established and deeply rooted inside our physical form in a metaphysical state. Our metaphysical being is able to realize its own purpose naturally and in its own way can directly communicate to us its inner peculiarities in many forms (images) and expressions (inner voice) all of which depend on our ability to understand the basic dynamic language of light. Understanding the basic dynamic language of light allows us to break down by degree, or combine in stages, the presentation of our perceptions into recognizable and usable terms we can understand. 298. We are in a living reality that does not appear in absolute or original terms. The essence of our reality grants us passage from one state of being to another and therefore determines our unique form and stability. Everything that is not whole is a matter of degree or perspective by means of our penetration of its existence. 299. We are the perceivers of nature by order of our measure of its place within the physical scheme of things, but reality clearly states it is a masterpiece beyond our logical understanding. We may believe our inherent sensations of nature are constant or universal but they are merely evolutionary perceptions from one vantage-point we believe to be constant. In order to see nature beyond this perspective we must try to understand nature in metaphysical terms. Terms that reflect an intimate sensitivity towards a subtle non-manifest energy that is the ultimate originating, sustaining and guiding factor in the universe. 300. The more evolved we are as individuals the more we realize the deep resonance of our physical vessel with that of mind. As we march forward through time, we are adapting to the point where our body, as an extension of mind, is manifesting into a more balanced and complete relationship of intercommunication. This inevitable complete association presents us with the universal balance needed in formulating and understanding the knowledge we have already acquired by the experiences of our senses and the memories of our experiences. These elevated states of order and genius have already created a symphony of sensations that if re-cultivated and remembered, place us in a state of being that reflects advanced qualities of consciousness and transformation. 301. We are the center-point through which light manifests into a visual order of reality that immediately excites our senses with a world that possesses simultaneous dimensions. 302. We are simultaneously part of many dimensions that make up the whole of our being. With each part we come to understand and accept, we must not forget that it is only a part of the whole of our being. Otherwise our mental balance may shift when we find ourselves faced with a new part that leads us into the unknown where evoking an old memory has a negative effect on our ability to develop any new memories. 303. The phenomenon of continuous consciousness of many dimensions at once is the direction we are all evolving. The structure of our intellect already reaches out into many dimensions far removed from our consciousness. In order to fully appreciate this new stage of multidimensional consciousness, as with the passage of time, we only need to freely experience and fully embrace our present consciousness in order for us to appreciate the fullness of consciousness itself. 304. The thoughts we develop in our conscious mind to create the knowledge phenomena we experience originate through the instrument of our feelings based on an intelligence that passes through everything. We only need to let the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it to understand and eliminate the illusions that superficially keep our energy patterns trapped and isolated from this intelligence that passes through everything. We only need to experience this universal intelligence once to realize that its source is and always has been in and around our consciousness. 305. There is nothing in the objective world that is certain as it is presented before our conscious mind, so we should not embrace anything as permanent. Everything that is permanent can be changed into something unfamiliar as quickly as it was revealed familiar to our conscious mind. These various corresponding and conflicting images and ideas which are actually reflections of our feelings, take shape first in a polarized chaotic struggle with each other until one surfaces within our conscious mind. These compressed and battered reflections or single feelings in our consciousness are what cumulatively produce and decide our point of view on life, and all points of view, must be approached with some reservation. 306. When our feelings change, we change, and our point of view on life changes. We are constantly changing in a sea of information so subtle that we may not even be aware of the effect the world around us is having on the world within us. 307. There is a sense of rhythm beginning to move us deeper within the truth of our inner life that is reflected through the profoundness of our essential nature. The natural world in general is but an externalized reflection of our subconscious creations expressed through our conscious mind and feelings. Subconscious creations are reflections of light from awareness. Awareness is a reflection from intelligence. Intelligence is a reflection of the universal nature of consciousness. 308. We as a species are at a substantial turning point insofar as our innermost feelings. The only infallible direction that can now guide us to the highest point in our awareness is to follow the dynamic flow of our own internal frame of reference as a primary source of guidance and perspective on the present. Only through understanding our innermost feelings can we experience any discernible resonance of a broader consciousness. 309. The world of truth within us has been closed off from us by the unintentional misuse of our perceptions of the external world. We use our external perceptions as our primary points of reference and the essence of their contents as the basis of all truth. Even when most of us try to focus our attention only on the inner world of our perceptions and emotions, we cannot imagine any inner truth without some external connection to it. The most we can expect with this type of thinking is distortion or fragments of truth not truth itself. This is the main obstacle most of us face in realizing that all truth lies within us and possesses its own force of expression independent of any external association or phenomena rooted in the outer world. 310. The world of truth within us is a place that stimulates or refines the substance of all metaphysical and physical structures. We do not need to question the origin of what is true for we feel its reality continually moving through us. Without the presence of truth within us, we could never emerge from a state of being with any substantial meaning or purpose. Our lives would be chaotic and without discipline, direction or reason. The world of truth within us is in accordance with the laws of nature and any confusing philosophical inquiry about what is true and untrue is unnecessary. 311. Whatever is touched by truth from within becomes reality, and we do not need to expend any energy in our conscious mind to reveal any external truth. The result of accepting truth from within is inner balance and outer harmony. 312. There is and can only be one truth that possesses our reality and influences its energy, content and direction, and that truth is the fact that we are the internal and external source of what is true. This truth creates a state of mind that enables us to create, balance and understand, instead of destroy, confuse or misunderstand what has been occupying our mind since the beginning of our pursuit to understand truth, reality and the world we choose to know. 313. All truth eventually reveals itself by the mutual relations that are inherent in things. Although truth is fundamentally everywhere and unchangeable, we tend to have many varied expressions that veil the pure representation of it. We search for unified expressions of truth but there is never a unified balance of truth without a long arduous struggle between opposites and their relationships to each other. We realize that truth does not arise from any particular quality but from the dynamic rhythm of its inherent mutual relations with opposites that do not take precedence over one another. The real question with any truth is in its balance between the individual and the universal representation of it. 314. Our human capacities allow us an almost perfect view of all existing forces that represent the natural development of our being. After careful observation, we realize we are more than an extension of the continual evolution of nature. We are evolving as individuals toward the universal essence of ourselves. The fundamental law of equivalence that creates dynamic equilibrium is revealing this to us by means of our understanding that the reality that encompasses our being has qualities that do not change. Sometimes we have to step outside the comfort zone of our beliefs to realize what is first incomprehensible, gradually reveals it self through the mutual relations that are inherent in all things. 315. We cannot go back to a pre-human state of harmony with nature but we can proceed to develop our reason until we become capable of better understanding the laws of nature. We are at a stage in human consciousness where a return to our primitive natural state of obeying the laws of nature can help balance our instincts and intuitions to become more insightful and civilized. This type of consciousness brings us to a world that is not separate from nature but placed into balance with nature. All preconceived ideas and beliefs can be guided through the neutral practical elements within the laws of nature, which clearly express the very essence of all life. 316. Intuition serves inspiration and creativity. Pure intuition is the basis of our dualistic evolution as physical and metaphysical beings. The reality of our individual identity as whole beings is defined as awareness from intelligence immersed in a light form encased inside an organic pattern. Our inside conscious world is a tool that we must use to develop our outside conscious world. Our outside conscious world is a tool that we must use to develop our inside conscious world. The simultaneous unity of inside and outside consciousness reveals how two becomes one, where nothing is separate. 317. It would be negligent of us to not try and realize our own perception of the world as deeply as possible, knowing that life will eventually absorb our wholeness, mentally, physically, spiritually and profoundly. However, there is more than one world for us to perceive...the world of metaphysical life and the world of physical reality. Both are manifestations of our mind created as conceivable forms of life. Sometimes they are in harmony with each other even if both are very different in principle from each other. It must be our own decision to decide which is more important if not both simultaneously. 318. The world we live in is not the world we know. There is another world hidden behind the reality of the world we manifest within our consciousness. If we penetrate one, we must penetrate both in order to find meaning and balance. And if we have found meaning and balance in our lives, we have found unconditional love. 319. Unconditional love is incapable of asking for anything. It can be defined as a dynamic force that embraces and transforms all things. It is a profound feeling of benevolence in the deepest and most unconditional sense, not as an emotional connection but as an energy that intrinsically unifies the mind and spirit to embrace within its transforming power, the complete spectrum of human experience. Once we experience an unconditional quality of love directly, it is not contingent upon anything external or separate from our essential self. To know our essential self we must be able to release all negative energy patterns, including fear, into an unconditional quality that will allow us to feel balanced. This is an inner kind of balance that cannot be described; it must be experienced for there is a gap between what we can experience and what can be understood and conveyed in words. 320. There is a cosmic intelligence beyond the natural universe that is a central part of the creative surge of life. It is the core impulse or fundamental force behind nature. It is built-in to the laws of nature and into what surrounds nature. It is elegant and simple and at the same time, enormously powerful and complex. Its beauty is perfectly balanced and united as one primal undiminished force. It has been described by some as a divine mystery and by others as mere feelings caused by complexity, regulation and metabolism (the three fundamental characteristics of life). This cosmic intelligence beyond the natural universe must be the fundamental force behind the evolutionary unfolding of the universe or else it must be an elaborate illusion of very complex material systems. On the other hand, this cosmic intelligence beyond the natural universe could be the basic nature of consciousness itself or a pure intelligence that needs another form of intelligence attuned to it in order to exist. 321. There is an unrestrained non-manifest energy present in all things. There is a continuous pulse of pure energy throughout the universe that intelligently transforms itself into awareness while establishing a connection with consciousness through the manifestation of organic matter. 322. It is the journey inward that guides us through the process of awakening. We must peer into the depths of our constrained beliefs to penetrate the veiled mysteries within our essential self if we are going to attempt to release our whole being from the physical world and reawaken within the transcendent world of sentience. 323. The crowded field of our perception needs a guidepost to draw out any kind of intelligent distinction from the primordial impulses of our essential nature. 324. Light makes it possible to express and show the eye and subtle sight of the mind that which is apart from matter. Light is the bridge between the known and the unknown, the definable and the indefinable. In the eye of the mind, it is the qualities of light, which allow us to bridge the gap between worlds. 325. It is the disclosure of light, which constitutes and magnifies itself into the animation and nature of things. 326. A universal state of consciousness commences all variations of intensity and qualities of thought with the light of truth, the source of all sensation. 327. There is an inherent pattern within each of us that moves in unison with the freedom and infinite mobility of the conscious universe beyond any labyrinth of doubt. 328. This inherent pattern provides variations of organic logic and intensity that embody a specific state of wholeness. A state which resonates a constant and essential condition of being that is able to explore and cultivate endless combinations of thought to help us realize truth. 329. The inherent patterns within us enable us to create vibrations and harmonies that allow our consciousness to penetrate the esoteric center of thought where innate feelings (awareness of that which surpasses intellect and will, subject and object) are endowed with life and transposed into universal elements of unspoiled reality. In the eye and subtle sight of the mind, this fertile setting is where an intimate transformation and union with an accessible state of universal consciousness is conceivable. 330. The ambiguous veil that separates the conscious mind from the subconscious mind and ultimately the universal mind is starting to dissipate within the embrace of our understanding of light. It is the light within our being that gives us the breadth of our intellectual clarity and awareness. It is light that is the very language of the universe, the universal language of pure reason, conceived and organized in the human mind. At its most basic level, light is the creative reservoir and foundation of consciousness. Light creates worlds beyond shadows or reflections of the obvious. It forces the subconscious mind to surrender its secrets to the conscious mind. Light is the essence of essence that creates our internal and external existence. The inner and outer worlds we live in are united only by its radiance. The memories and insights we struggle to bring into this world are defined and embodied within it. It is light that manifests and arranges our inner most essence of will and intellect to reveal the fabric of our universal existence. 331. Light focuses the psychological structures of our mind to realize and choose the full significance of our personal reality and power. Even at the subconscious level, our wishes and fears are ours to send into the conscious world, for our projections onto the world express the state of our inner world and the desires and wishes we have for the world. 332. The universe of light is always planning good things for us. It allows us to see our sensibilities and humble expressions. Even the most essential functions of the obscurest depths of our inner life are recognized and expressed in the language of light whose meaning is direct and explicit enough for us to realize its secrets. These once impenetrable layers of self-awareness are now pierced by sudden flashes of our logical lucidity that exalts any hidden truth from its dormancy into the light of our active consciousness. What was once forgotten is now remembered in light, for it is the fluidity of light that is always planning good things for us. 333. We have taken irrevocable possession of our world through the inner depths of light, where invisible and unknown embodiments have always existed for us to penetrate. They are elusive and capable of dynamic and pronounced changes as well as subtle modulations. On this great journey of discovery, these dormant truths also disclose a mysterious pattern that persists despite all revelations ande transformations, material or immaterial. This pattern, which provides us with an introduction to universal consciousness, can manifest meaning that is always present through a subtle insight or a basic piece of rationale. This subtle insight or piece of rationale takes its form from the strange labyrinth of our perceptions to continually release an astonishing plethora of deeper insights into our deepest affinities. As we travel further within our inner life, the physical world and its hollowness, begins to disintegrate into nothingness as the light of truth begins to reveal itself. Our inborn tendency at this point is to invoke the purest energy possible to surround our well being from any impurities of physical existence. 334. In order to see beyond our traditional rational mind, we need to stimulate our senses with inspired inner forces that are able to help us transcend our existing comfort zone into the unknown strata of our most vulnerable self. 335. Deep within the depths of our being there are meaningful visions in their original form. These visions are also present on the surface of our consciousness in fragmented form, waiting to reveal a single pattern that is not so much static as it is in motion. These images continuously surface like light passing through a prism taking on different appearances and yet coming from some original undivided source. 336. We are moving through the passage of time surrounded by an unconditional boundlessness of subtle energy. We have looked every way we could and now we are looking inwards. Our time is this moment for the flow of life we know as reality is conveying the movement of our true state of mind and inner nature, now, in the present. This flowing phenomenon which passes through the filter we call mind requires only common sense and consideration to recognize the sublime nuances of a broader intelligence. There is nothing within any of these nuances that can offend our metaphysical being or deliver us to the lower depths of our animal impulses, for the flowing phenomena which passes though all of us is the very essence of life itself which is the one identifiable dynamic force that unites energy and matter with consciousness. 337. The human life experience in its entirety embodies the full disclosure of our metaphysical being, which in turn reveals its most intimate nature to our conscious mind. This deeper and subtler knowledge is not only the vehicle of life but it is the essence and beauty of life whose presence in us seeks above all else to reveal its abundance to us. Everything we come to realize as truth allows us to see and know the fuller image of our universal being as awareness from intelligence. 338. Awareness is the nucleus of intelligence merged with many other elements that make up the whole of our multidimensional being. Our senses can register contact with our source awareness from intelligence but our mind for the most part remains separated. It is an error to try and separate awareness and intelligence from mind for the depths of our whole being can be richer and more fulfilling only when this unity is understood and respected. Our entire inner existence expresses our purest thoughts, conceptions, philosophy, life, and instincts. Moreover, what we can disclose from this unity is not only our individual nature but also an understanding of the collective nature of which we are all a part. 339. The light of conscious thought is in a deep relationship with its subconscious source. From collective to individual aspects, light reveals the highest level of our awareness. Our metaphysical being and all our associated subconscious processes relate to our true nature, which translate into ideas and conscious thoughts. Inevitably, the results given from both processes form the impression of a single origin but in the end diverge with respect to initial impulses and outcomes we recognize as individuals. 340. We are able to recognize that each one of us changes constantly by conceiving mentally, different impressions of ourselves, our lives and of the world, specifically towards new ways of thinking, feeling, actions, reactions and our behavior in general. Both at the collective and on an individual basis, we try to express our specific way of thinking and feeling not only by our actions but also by our reactions. We tend to manifest ourselves in as many diverse ways as there are modes of expression but each new manifestation reveals light is the common link and source of each new genesis of thought. Even when there is no reciprocal influence or detected interactions among different manifestations, we realize that light provides the essential agent that shows us how each establishes and illuminates the other. 341. We are here to remain true to our essential nature, regardless of the frequency of illusions between our inner world and the outer world or the nature of the relationships between them. The consequences of being lost in an unbalanced infinity or being cast out into the instability and eternal transience of endless time are removed through the understanding and acceptance of the fact that we are awareness from intelligence immersed in a light form, living inside an organic pattern. 342. We shall know as fully as we are known. Our universal humanity is just beneath our personal self. We only have to go beyond the deceptive veil of our illusions with which reflection of physical appearance disguises our essential nature. Beyond the veil of illusion awaits a formless continuum of life where structure has little meaning. This is where our impression of perfection and our heightened state of awareness dwell in a place of oneness. This is where the substance of light and the substance of the physical become one in the same. This is the dwelling place where our inner vision sees the universe not as illusion, but as a place that manifests within the embrace of our eternal and universal humanity, beyond the threshold of any outer world influences. This is a place where all that is seen is only felt by the simplicity and pureness of our essential mind. This is a place where there are no descriptive qualities, only suggestive ones. A place where the appearance of form is restricted except as a mode of perceiving and communicating the imperceptible, unseen, indiscernible, indistinguishable, invisible; a place where the power of suggestion is invoked only by loving kindness. This is a place where human consciousness becomes aware of the source of ineffable energy and ineffable energy becomes aware of itself in human consciousness. 343. We are the illumination of consciousness, an instrument of the universe built upon a foundation of harmonious vibrations of fluid life. Our pursuit in understanding the perfection of light is the one condition that can sweep us away in the immense, joyous ocean of infinity without misunderstanding our own universal significance. This infinite mobility and boundless complexity within us can provide the feelings in which we can directly experience the source and subtle energies of our original state of being. 344. We have traveled far on the journey of life to understand the basic principles that guide each of us. We began from what we knew from deep within our being to understand the world around us. We proceeded with facts and ideas to create and clarify a solid foundation of knowledge we could perceive and understand only to realize that there was another faint awareness we could not fully access with any of our five primary senses. This faint awareness is part of every continuous transformation of the knowable and the unknowable. In essence, this faint awareness is reflected in all life and all things. A reflection that holds no rational principle or man made prefabrication. This faint awareness reflects indispensable inspiration and depth within our most intimate transformation and harmony with reality. A reality that holds an absolute value and serenity that can eclipse the sensibility of our logical thoughts without fading away, a reality that once eluded the eye and the mind, beyond mere images, words or ideas. 345. We can enter the inner world of light. This is a place where we are able to come to terms with the absence of being and enter the absolute world of joy and beauty through the subtle sight and passageway of the inner eye which is the bridge between what can be simply described as multidimensional realities. Here our awareness can transcend not only our physical senses but also our rational thoughts and expectations by way of the gentle nuances of reflection that pass through the inner eye. Guided by means of inner balance and joy towards the pursuit of the indescribable, physical reality and reason can now be dispensed with. For it is here beyond the transparent veil interposed between us and light that we can completely transcend the senses of our intellect to merge with and become one within the conscious light of the universal us. 346. Pure and simple thought borrows its meaning from light to strengthen and transform the intellectual foundation of human logic. This shift in the meaning of our reality can change that which oversteps the bounds of our senses for the veiled convictions of sensory appearances have no reality in themselves. The highest reality is in being one with the light for it is through light that reality is made conceivable. The visible world participates in being, only to the extent that it is a reflection of light. It is like an impediment that we must experience to return to our place of origin. 347. The light within can be better realized by understanding that everything that arises in the human mind is from a pre-established, preconceived construction of light. This type of thinking would conceive of everything in terms of its original principle, or more specifically, as a particular application of light. Light is the essence of thought and serves to give it a visible appearance to the conscious mind. 348. To see the light of truth we only need to look at how the subtleties in nature surpass that of reason. It is the physical world we see through the naked eye that is the limiting factor in understanding light. Our five primary senses through which we experience things, and the understanding that transforms our experiences into concepts, along with the reasons that unify our concepts, provide no more than an understanding of physical appearance, not a knowledge of things in themselves. Nature is not what it appears to be; it is a sign and symbol of a much deeper and more profound reality. 349. It is in the simplicity of our being that our metaphysical identity is revealed. Our true nature will do the rest by filling in any gaps that concern us. We must move away from the domain of our sensory perceptions if we want to be conscious of the multidimensional reality of our universe. The ultimate reality of the universe may be beyond the reach of our senses but it is not beyond the reach of our mind. What we cannot visualize with reason we call inconceivable but what we can understand within the fundamental patterns of our mind is that reality, is light in its basic form. Those who would continue to dwell on the surface of the obvious may fail to grasp the full meaning of what is being presented here now. Concepts and ideas are of the order of a universal flow that keeps a certain type of regularity beneath the surface of continuously changing patterns, while surface data refers only to a particular static piece of thought or limiting belief. 350. There is a passive type of insight that is supplied by our senses that gives way to a more active concept of knowledge according to which the routine of the mind is to strip away all impressions and look only at the underlying logic of appearance. 351. Our reason formulates the process that determines the things that we see. That which formulates the things beyond what we see is the true concept or idea of our thinking. As human beings, we are reduced to our own resources. We have to find some degree of certainty within our self. As we set out from self-evident truths that we discover in our own mind, we display a new awareness of ourselves and of our own abilities, which we confirm by the experiences of our own senses. 352. Through our senses, we can only understand signs and symbols. Our findings can only serve to give substance to certain definitions that are declared a priority by our inner need of their understanding as clear and distinct ideas. Oneness and stability therefore become essential attributes of truth plus a common logic that is supplemented by the mind’s ability to adjust to the problems it prescribes for itself. 353. In a flash of intuition, the mind perceives what logic alone cannot find enough of to grasp or hold, it is not enough for the mind to describe things accurately and logically. Therefore, there is nothing in the intellect that is not first in the senses. Certainty must come before logic. 354. The universal application or study of truth derived from insights and habits acquired by our sensory experiences, make our mind a staging space in which only remnants of perception are formed into patterns. 355. The universe can be defined in terms of dynamic energy or a process of organization and intelligence. Order cannot merely leap from randomness. It is inherent in creation. Therefore, chaos and order must be so close to each other that they cannot be separated. From disorder comes order and from order comes disorder. You cannot have one without the other. What first appears as chaos, is only a lower form of order that is bringing forth a higher form of creation. 356. Within each of us is a living immaterial force that gives us a sense of freedom and choice to direct our consciousness towards the light of truth and away from the darkness of untruth. 357. We are all unique individuals in nature, without contradiction. Our extraordinary features are the expressions we reveal to the world to define our being. We as individuals determine the boundaries of beauty that emerge from the chaos within our distracted minds. Our reality is determined by the parts that we reflect from the manifested nature of the inner most being we wish to make visible to the world. When we describe external things, we are attempting to share what moves us inside. 358. Within each of us is a single source of light that communicates and moves us in and out of our dynamic reality. As we direct our sense of perception towards this light, we are able to reshape our thinking to recapture the original inner richness of life with objective thoughts concerning our universal identity. 359. There is a certain strangeness and mystery about how we understand the outcroppings of our inner nature. Our mind, curious about everything, is constantly changing outside of our perception of normal life, to teach us about our inner identity. 360. The source of inner life and the defining essence of our being cannot be known by our physical senses, nor can we demonstrate them based on ideas in accordance with physical things. Yet, all of our knowledge derives its reason from sensations. 361. The source of all sensation is light, for nothing originates out of nothing. Light ignores or negates the existence of the unending instability of the universe and contrasts to its recognition the domain of the conscious universe. 362. The light we see with the naked eye is a feeling that has passed from physical space and time into the unceasing abolition of the present moment. This instance of creation is our connection to a timeless feeling which is found essentially between the past and the future, where real time is very different from abstract measured time. 363. Reality is more than an abundance of sensory data or accidents of appearance about things. True reality lies beyond the surface of the matter that envelops and reflects it. What matter covers and conceals is the purer essence of reality that can only be seen with the inner eye and subtle inward sight of the mind, without any dated attachment to the physical structure of things. 364. We seldom make direct contact with reality. Physical matter, the substance that is commonly regarded as synonymous with reality, has no real existence. Our current understanding of physics can reduce it to an illusion. Its elemental particles are actually displaced in a void, as the stars are within our understanding of space. Even these particles are not solid, they are merely focused energy points that are the direct opposite of matter and described as nonphysical. Beyond this understanding, these focused nonphysical energy points do not even occur at some point or place, for they cannot be situated simultaneously in time and space. 365. If we take all science, philosophy and religious understanding of what is believed to be real, we soon sense that all these different areas of understanding are merely different points of view that reflect the same single reality. This single reality is the basis of what connects all of us in a much more profound way. 366. Everything we know is first caught up in the swirling currents of the place where the structure of being is manifest, eventually settling down to provide us with nuances, reflections, clarity and balance of active energies of light converted into thought. 367. Every human being, by virtue of their peculiar aptitude and genius, is destined to rise to the fulfillment of certain expectations related to specific personal attributes defined early on in life. As these types of attributes move to the forefront of life, reality becomes less complex and the great waste spaces of the mind and heart begin to fill. 368. The obsessive nature of our thoughts produce a counter current of feelings and sensations that solidify our mental patterns into rigid and inflexible processes that place us in disharmony with reality. We have a choice in changing the obsessive nature of our thoughts by learning to live. We learn to live by acquiring the wisdom to see things as they really are, without prejudices or biases based on greed, hatred or delusion. 369. Whenever two forces are engaged in a struggle, the losing force is inclined to over compensate and develop an increasing awareness of its perceived separateness to improve whatever enhances its powers of resistance. Its enhanced powers sometimes prove to be powerful intellectual influences. 370. Appearance and structure enable us to comprehend a representation of the world by placing it within the expectations of our intellect. This mental rearranging of reality can distract us from direct contact with what is real, which in turn can create a distorted merging of our consciousness with it. 371. Every intellectual manifestation tends to represent reality in a clear, sharply defined language that personally speaks directly to our mind through an act of mental comprehension. Light seeks to reveal to us patterns of comprehensive thought. 372. Physical reality reflects light, which in turn interrupts the mind, affecting our innermost being. Every sensation created from an interruption is transmuted into an emotion which is an inner state of being that does not speak directly to the intellect to be translated into an idea but rather touches our metaphysical being to create a luminous atmosphere within our mind. Once this atmosphere and connection is established, emotion is sensed by the intellect and then translated into thought. 373. There is a universal connection (energy) between the process of healing and the process of thinking. All healing and all thought have energy (love) embedded within their formulation. This all-enveloping powerful love energy is ethereal in nature and originates from within the unconditional boundless consciousness of our multidimensional universe. 374. The pulse or rhythm of physical reality that can be felt and translated by the mind into feelings can also gratify the intellect with clear, harmonious expressions that suggest or communicate the incorporeal and the ineffable. As we move away from reason, our perceptiveness can sometimes transcend the logic of the conscious mind and briefly see into the intangible wisdom of the subconscious mind. This type of temporary passage is difficult to sustain without drifting back and forth through sequences of fleeting images or temporary delusions about which nothing much can be understood or explained but which are nonetheless very emotional. The temporary positive residual effect from seeing briefly into the subconscious mind is an insatiable passion and sense of experiencing a broader consciousness or a unified field of vital energy that illuminates our connection to all things. 375. Our consciousness can resist the erosion of time if we base our convictions on the discovery of what we believe to be timeless. Mortality passes, but when it has been linked with something timeless, it takes on the boundless movement of life itself. 376. What we see in life directly reveals the virile strength and duties of the endless silence of eternal space. It shows us that the depth and realness of our being is absorbed in a timeless, intellectual, emotional and spiritual phenomenon that is not fixed, material or measurable but rather, unending. 377. Consciousness has an instinctive aversion for all that moves and changes even if it is not fully understood. It is this same consciousness that is also drawn towards what is unchangeable in life, not its variables. Our intellectual development is based on this contrasting discipline and progressive conquest of understanding what is relative, moving, changing, intuitive and sometimes indefinable. 378. There is a spiritual space within us where freedom from worry or any other preoccupation exists. It is a place where true happiness is possible for each of us. It is where a detached and balanced state of mind awakens to free itself from hatred, greed and delusion. This natural all-encompassing state of mind can perceive, experience and reflect our true nature with complete openness without being affected by its reflections. This illuminated state of mind can also provide a pervasive state of being one with the light within. When we are one with the light within, we are free of uncertainty and mentally balanced within the innocence of the present moment. 379. At this point, we should be able to understand how to take back control of our mind and step outside the endless cycles of desire and aversion to choose or make changes to the life patterns before us. 380. Who we are now is a result of the person we once were, and what we will become will be the result of what we are now. The greater our understanding of this one statement, the more flexible and tolerant we become. The more flexible and tolerant we become, the more our love begins to expand outward towards others. The more our love begins to expand outward towards others, the more balanced we become. The more balanced we become, the more we develop a sense of peace and well being. The more we develop a sense of peace and well being, the better we see illusions as illusions and reality as reality. Once we realize the difference between illusion and reality, we are better able to listen to our own thoughts without being caught up in them. 381. If we cannot listen to our own thoughts without being caught up in them, we are trapped by an inflated ego. An inflated ego is nothing more than a set of false reactions and self created mental delusions that are unnatural to the flowing process of our awareness of what is real. When we become aware of what is real, we can begin to understand the deeper qualities of life. As we become more aware of the deeper qualities of life, we begin to find ourselves experiencing life in a more free flowing and dynamic way. As we experience life in a more free flowing and dynamic way, we begin to experience our existence in a more fundamental manner that leads us to a better understanding of what is meaningful in our lives. 382. All relationships of energy are unquestionably interactive. We know that there is a subtle non-manifest energy everywhere that can define each of us as consciously interacting with an unbounded living energy that is throughout the universe. 383. We know that traditional writings and oral teachings have told us that a universal state of consciousness or intuited wholeness (an immediate experience of something ultimate in value – an awareness that transcends the division between subject and object) cannot be fully rationalized by the human mind but what is about to be stated here now is to the contrary. All knowledge does have some projection but universal consciousness or intuited wholeness is not a projection even if the idea does introduce us to a much broader consciousness which is in itself evidence of an ever present or omnipresent consciousness that is both a part of and apart from normal consciousness. Universal consciousness is a balanced state of mind that is distinct, and from which the discrete experiences of our familiar reality appear to be emerging. It is a state of consciousness that can emerge when the ego boundaries of personality or individual self-consciousness are released by the silence of the mind. The fact of the matter is that many people who have read traditional writings with the greatest devotion and attention have build up in their mind, a clear impression of an immediate experience of something ultimate in value. They did so by establishing an awareness of something that transcends the division between subject and object, yet remains within a human context, which is the only context that could make sense to a human being. This may immediately shock or outrage some people but the task described here now is much more complex than anything one may experience in ordinary life, especially once one has succeeded in achieving a conception of something that is truly conscientious and to which nothing can be added. It is within this context that an impression of perfection in our imperfect world, especially one with the right balance and relationship to our individual mind, would make the most harmonious and complete mental impression possible. If we look at this self-created mental impression through the inner eye and subtle inward sight of the mind, we can clearly enter an open-minded state of consciousness. Everything in the impression would already be in its proper place and the perfect harmony it uncovers within our whole being would be so natural and balanced that we would immediately experience its fullness. Remember we cannot really understand anything by standing apart from it. To know anything we must become that thing and allow it to be a part of us by having a fundamental trust in our self and in the universe. 384. The truth is that it is impossible to state any negative rules regarding our abilities to experience a universal state of consciousness or intuited wholeness for to deny the experience of the very core of a human being, is inhuman. As there are no rules to tell us what we can or cannot personally sense through the inner eye of the mind, it is impossible to explain in words exactly what each individual is able to perceive or understand. The more we perceive through the inner eye and subtle inward sight of the mind, the more we develop a feeling that is in harmony with the conscious universe. The greater our feeling for this type of harmony, the more we realize our true nature is in our being one with the universe or being in a universal state of consciousness. In being able to realize our true nature we need to have a fresh mind that is not cluttered up with negative thoughts or inflexible rules, especially if we are attempting to understand any subtle references or hidden nuances associated with the transcendent nature of consciousness. 385. Life is a privileged expansion of a universal disposition that presents itself as an interior dimension animated with a complex center that developed from random complexity to consciousness. To the most basic form of this interior dimension, a threshold of reflection enables the human mind to fully comprehend and express the full meaning of unbounded consciousness or intuited wholeness. 386. Science (especially network science) has clearly demonstrated that all things are connected. Everything in the universe is related through a basic unity or harmony that has many layers build upon each other to form a cohesive whole. This process or appearance of cosmic evolution, which also includes human biological evolution, is part of a preexisting force or energy that predates all theories of the universe. 387. Our mind, inorganic substance within organic substance, from inanimate to animate, is the product of an organized growth process. Anything that surpasses a specific measure abruptly changes its state or nature to become something else. As we become more complex, we move closer to becoming something else. What differentiates us from every other life form is our ability to exercise the power of abstract thought or reflection. Because of this reflective consciousness, we can realize our state of being or inner dimension within the totality and dynamics of a continuously evolving self-aware universe. 388. If we become the subject of our own reflective thoughts then we can raise our self into a new reality. Once the awareness of this new reality reaches its greatest intensity, a new self-awareness emerges. From this new self-awareness, a gradual ascension moves us irreversibly in one direction towards a greater richness of internal organization and intrinsic unity or quality of concentration in regards to the complexities of life in general. 389. We are an organized entity held together by our own energy, forming a self-contained balanced system that is oriented towards an ever-increasing manifestation of expanded levels and qualities of consciousness. 390. The universe presents itself to us in one direction, towards higher states of expanded consciousness. Eventually, we will reach a point where we become fully aware of our wholeness; this in turn would mean that through us the universe becomes conscious of itself. In every original organized center, the pieces that make up its whole are able to return to their collective oneness by perfecting themselves while simultaneously fulfilling themselves. 391. We have ascended from non-matter to matter; and from matter to organized-matter; and from organized-matter to instinct; and from instinct to thought without being conscious of the process of being thrust forward by an intrinsic drive and unbounded energy enclosed in the very essence of our sentient being. 392. As human beings, we are now becoming aware of our latent powers and intrinsic oneness; to the point where we realize that our expanded consciousness has begun to move us forward within a pattern that is changing our mental horizon and the very structure of life itself. 393. The universe we have come to understand is a spatial-temporal unity that has revealed an inner structure of transcendent meaning. It is more of a metaphysical conscious manifestation than a mass of complex measurable structures. 394. As human beings, we will eventually transcend ourselves, as curiosity and drive will demand from us a new and more complete identity directly linked with the energy and oneness of the universe. 395. We have come to realize that the manifestation of mind and its ability to mirror or internally reflect external information as a guiding force is beyond mere tentative assumptions and abstractions. As human beings, we have come to understand ourselves as the center of perspective and at the same time the center of the making of the universe. The main reason for this centralized view is that we cannot see ourselves as totally separate from humanity, nor can we see ourselves as separate from life or the universe. We are clearly beyond imagined randomness, isolation or separation. 396. Deep interconnections and unlimited perspective converge to form our own unique personal consciousness with a universal extension that is covered by an aura of unbounded choices that are able to express a highly perfected arrangement of energy. Some believe that what we produce with the convergence of our collective consciousness and energy is an accessible state of universal consciousness while others believe we collectively produce a divinity that transcends human understanding. 397. We each possess a certain mass of elementary consciousness that can express a portion of original consciousness that holds an extraordinary element bound by the conditions and development of its origin. This original portion cannot be separate from that which surrounds it. This fragment of original consciousness gradually extends itself and pushes that which makes it most itself to the surface of our awareness. Once we become aware of something that is original, the critical point will emerge almost immediately because the threshold of any reflection, brings forth in itself something explicit; and also because we are able to look clearly within the depths of our being to assess the meaning of any reflection. 398. Consciousness is an expansion of our awareness ascending towards the ultimate point of convergence where the highest degree of what is the perfection of our consciousness, reflects back upon itself (the illuminating reflection of the whole looking back upon itself). 399. We are living within the present moment of a single consciousness that is the living universe. However immense the universe may appear to us, it only exists, as we perceive it, even if this is beyond our current understanding of space-time and infinity. Better still, the larger we perceive the universe, the deeper and more fulfilling our consciousness will become because the mind is essentially the full compliment of the conscious whole through understanding its complexity and expanding relationships. From this point of view, the universe can be more personal without suffering any exaggeration. 400. By crossing the threshold of reflection into the innocence of basic awareness, we are able to deepen our consciousness upon itself. Piece by piece, minute fragments of awareness transition into a faint baseline of consciousness to form and expand thought from the original center of our unique being. 401. We are awareness from intelligence within organized matter that is driven by the conscious convergence of the universe looking back upon itself. We are a temporary union of particles on which we have aligned our awareness from intelligence from an infinitely larger awareness and intelligence. 402. The one identifiable dynamic force that holds together, transforms and unites human life is the illumination and animation of cooperative love. This dynamic force of cooperative love is transforming us with the living energy of our relationships with each other. 403. We emerged from non-matter to matter; and from matter to organized-matter; and from organized-matter to instinct; and from instinct to thought; and with thought we have come to realize and reflect upon our own true nature. In understanding our own true nature, we have come to understand our simplicity and in understanding our simplicity, we have come to understand our complexity. In understanding our complexity we have come to understand consciousness and as we understand consciousness, we become more animated. As we become more animated, we become more complex and as we become more complex, we become more organized. As we become more organized, we become more self-aware and as we become more self-aware, we become enlightened. As we become enlightened, we become universally aware and as we become universally aware, we eventually become universal. As a universal being, we realize the universe is doubling back upon itself to become aware of it self. As the universe becomes aware of itself, it becomes the ultimate presence and as the ultimate presence, it is all things, just as we are all things to each other in this universe. 404. We are a part of the conscious universe or we are imprisoned in human consciousness. All of our experiences are a result of our own choices, both conscious and subconscious. Nothing happens to us without the collaboration and approval of our metaphysical being. Although, there is no such thing as a disconnected or isolated choice, all of our choices, however independent they may appear to us, spring out of a context of preexisting elements. Not only do our choices take place within the context of a variety of preexisting elements, many of these elements can be easily identified as a result of our previous choices. Choices of every type conceivable will have gone before each additional choice we make in life even if we are inclined to forget our earlier choices when they have lead us to unfavorable circumstances in the present. Every current choice we actually make is only the most recent choice in an uninterrupted series of choices. 405. When we expect our free will to be able to get rid of the reality that we have already established through our choices, we are actually engaging in the same kind of irrational thinking that might expect a supernatural occurrence to change what already is, in answer to our personal wishes. All of the current things we have to work with (good or bad) are conditions that represent the blending of our past choices. To expect undesirable situations to change magically does not provide us free choice. Free choice or the creative use of our free will, always leaves us free to choose at any given moment, the direction in which our unbroken series of choices will next take us. 406. Negative thought patterns, negative behavior patterns, negative relationships etc.; all of these things enter our lives only as our metaphysical being recognizes the growth opportunities they provide. With just this one awareness, we can take comfort in knowing that all our problems can fall within our own control, assuring us that even life’s greatest challenges can move us to better understand our metaphysical being. 407. A metaphysical being that wakes up to its own disharmony with the harmony of the universe is a metaphysical being that chooses to experience any resulting consequence as a means of regaining inner balance. However, this is not the same as the choices made in our daily routine conscious thoughts. The choosing we do at this level has more to do with sublime forces at work rather than any kind of regular reflective decision making. At the level of consciousness where our core choices are made, there is not so much a perfectly motivated higher-self making choices, but rather an awareness that sets certain sublime forces in motion. This type of awareness involves our recognition of the collective oneness in which all of us are an essential connected part of the collective whole. With the recognition of this collective oneness, comes a corresponding awareness that knows which experiences are in harmony with the collective oneness and which are not. This realization in turn acts as an attraction that draws certain life experiences in the direction of our metaphysical being. All of the experiences, both pleasant and unpleasant, are the product of our past choices made by our metaphysical being. But they have not been chosen in the sense of a disconnected higher self bestowing or imposing an experience on our consciousness in order for us to just make the best of it. The choosing happens when we create conditions that set forces in motion that draw specific experiences to us. 408. It is in reflection that we recover the substance of silence, the final assurance of incorporeal openness and integrity, where wholeness is replenished, imagination is revived, emotions are calmed, and the ego is balanced in its natural state of providing a space or context within which to experience life. The core of all thought waits upon unspoken expressions in order that our silent voice may be made ready to speak and have meaning, to divide word from word, thought from thought, expression from expression. 409. In reflection, one can rediscover the importance of inner silence. To do so, however, requires an uncovering of the ego so thorough that its pseudo reality is clearly understood and steadfastly contained within our awareness of it. It requires a disarming of the will and a merging of all desire into a single need for wholeness. It also requires the understanding of a sensitivity that places us wholly within the embrace of the conscious universe. In short, we must be vulnerable and devoid of all assumptions. If we are vulnerable and devoid of all assumptions, we are within the stillness and radiant light of truth. 410. We are love and in love and in order for love to flourish, we must understand and accept the inevitable contradictions of life to find inner peace. To search for inner peace does not mean to have an unrealistic exclusion of all outside reality, nor an ineffective negative closing of the senses upon the world, but to search within the embrace and openness of love which in turn creates inner peace. For it is only within the embrace and openness of love with other human beings, the full bloom of inner peace can unfold. What can be found with this simple loving approach is a continuous improvement in psychological health, plus another benefit. The benefit of experiencing an inner presence which transcends any hypocrisy, petty sensuality, skepticism or material obsessions that may have previously blocked any conscious union or understanding of something greater than our own individual needs or desires. None of this happens all at once. First, one must surrender to the possibility of inner transformation. Not a radical transformation but a subtle transformation that allows the sensitivities of an individual to seek clarity with as much intellectual freedom as possible, which in turn allows one to see the world with less distortion and more truth. This perspective can liberate an individual from involvement in a world that may have only previously appeared pointless or confusing. It allows one to join in thought with many others by seeing and feeling an integrated and comprehensive inner peace filled with the illumination and harmony of cooperative love. 411. We can now see that the only way to recover the full measure of our being is not by systematic inquiry but by a nonphysical association with the complexities of the universe. However, we must remember that not everything is understandable to the human mind, especially when we include the possibility of a pre-physical state of being or even the possibility of an omnipresent life force. 412. We are the breadth of truth brought to light by what really matters which is our attitude in keeping an open mind that is animated by the same human qualities that balance us between reason and awareness, in that place where life itself provides us with the joy of living and a love for our shared existence. 413. Our intensity of life is driven to animate, transform and change our sensibility and awareness. At this serious time in our life, we are beginning to realize our cosmic vitality as it awakens our senses to its presence. Our true nature is no longer a mere backdrop of unconnected activities. It is an extension or amplification emanating from a single source that forms one magnificent pathway of harmonious balance and spontaneous agreement within the living presence of the universe as it continuously passes through us. 414. Within each of our perceptions, we only perceive our own mode of being. We cannot feel anything that is outside of ourselves. We are only conscious of our own feelings. However, deep within the depths of our being is a radiant core, a source of boundless love and acceptance that is capable of transcending loneliness or any misunderstanding of others. 415. In order to become more self aware, we need to experience our true nature as being a part of something larger. To merge with something larger we must be whole. In order to be whole we must be good, even with our flaws. 416. To strive to be good is to express our compassion for the world. To express our compassion for the world is to live in the present moment. To live in the present moment is to realize the beauty in what is required of us right now. 417. We are able to experience what is real because all existence is actually an internal dialogue with itself. There is no need for us to try to search for any other reality that is separate from our own nature, for we ourselves are the reality we seek. 418. Thoughts and ideas are part of the experience of life and should be enjoyed within the embrace and freedom of life itself. This freedom requires us to be consciously aware that all thought is in itself void of any permanent reality, and can be seen as nothing less than a metaphysical occurrence. Thoughts are what they are and should be seen and understood as neither real nor unreal. There is no accepting them and there is no denying them. Conversely, emotions are an organic reply to a particular life event while feelings are complex emotional memories contained within a conceptual setting that does not allow for a direct reply to the moment without referencing their elaborate design. 419. In order to free our self from any personal feelings means that we must return to a simpler and more direct emotional relationship within the process of life. This would allow us to live without being held back by our past routines or emotions. This would also allow us to experience life in the present moment without carrying forward any emotional baggage from the past. We would experience life in a more natural and free flowing manner without the confinement of any pre-set negative conditioning. This does not mean that we should destroy our memory. It only means that we should take any past negative emotions and disarm them from being able to create negative mental patterns in the present. We would still be able to recapture past emotions but these past emotions would no longer be able to affect our life negatively in the present. Positive emotions express a unifying energy field between us as individuals and the world we choose to live in. 420. Growth is not possible without transformation. If we try to suspend our physical being then we do not understand the nature of the reality we live within. Life and death are one for alone they have no meaning. Life is change and that which does not change cannot be alive. Life is process and change which means that the death of individual things is transformation into other things. Only then can life itself be eternal. 421. To live now in the moment, is a difficult and demanding undertaking if we step outside the moment and only see the future as an endless series of moments attempted to be understood. If we live in the moment, all fear, uncertainty and doubt disappear into the emptiness of imagined time and only the experience of real life remains. We should not make life more difficult than it is by piling on unnecessary expectations or guilt, mistaking our desires for being informed. To be informed is to plan for a future that is based on the present. A future built on anything else is an illusion that is based on the past. 422. A sign that someone has a good understanding while rooted in a realized existence is the flexibility they have within it. They are not concerned with opinions, their own or anyone else's. Opinion holds onto and alters our attention from the present moment. As soon as we give into opinion we are susceptible to a chain of beliefs that take us away from the reality of the present moment and delivers us into the bondage of the past. To have a good metaphysical understanding, is to have a consciousness that recognizes itself united in the process of the present moment. 423. In the process of perception, our awareness passes so quickly that we have for the most part been unable to observe it. Most of us have actually developed a habitual tendency of wasting our attention and focusing on the perceptions themselves so we can label and attach a long string of symbolic thought to them. Any original moments of self-awareness are quickly lost by our own quick-to-judge observations. Specifically, it is this ability of the mind to observe without judgment or criticism that we are aspiring to provide our conscious mind. With this ability to observe and not judge, we are able to see ourselves in a more balanced way that reflects exactly who we are in our natural state in the real world where the past and future no longer exist in our emerging thoughts. 424. It is near impossible for us to be objective and observe what is going on within ourselves if we do not at the same time accept the circumstances around our continuously changing state of mind. We are not able to explore something fully if we ignore any part of its existence. Whatever experience we may be having in the present, we need to accept it as is but also be aware of it without dwelling on it. This type of approach allows us to be impartial, without judging or criticizing our experiences or feelings. 425. We can see without seeing and we can think without thinking. Our higher awareness is not involved with thoughts or images and is not entangled with concepts or opinions about the past or the future. It just observes and records what is happening right now, in the present moment, as if everything were occurring for the first time. Our higher awareness is the prerequisite or perceptual processor before thought and it takes place without any reference to self through an inflated ego. 426. When we are experiencing reality in the present moment we can become aware of the passing flow of life. This non-intellectual awareness can actively participate in the ongoing process of life without interfering or judging life. It has its own distinct feeling of consciousness that is simultaneously our basic focus and reminder to pay attention, if we are not attentive. It does not distort anything from our perception. It just becomes aware of everything in its natural state, not like conscious thought, which places layers of concepts, ideas and emotions within its formulation. This higher awareness without a dominating ego has the power to reveal the deepest levels of reality available to the human mind. It operates on the subtlest plane so that we can experience the reality of every perception. It sees the temporary short-lived nature of everything that is perceived. It also sees the innately inadequate nature of all things that have been unnaturally altered. It actually sees the innate altruistic nature of all phenomena. It sees how we have capriciously selected a certain collection of perceptions, separated them from the rest of the natural flow of experience, and then mutilated them into isolated, insufficient things. This higher awareness actually senses everything directly, but it does not think about any one thing directly. 427. With a fully active higher awareness, we are able to sense many attributes of existence directly, indirectly, instantaneously, simultaneously, and without any direct or indirect interference from conscious thought. This fully engaged higher awareness notices everything exactly as it is without distortion. It perceives clearly in an unbiased way, everything that is, to the extent of knowing exactly what it means to us. It is instinctive and efficient. If we can establish this state of mind regularly, nothing is needed to insulate us from any meaningless illusions in life. This profound awareness perceives the depths of everything which in turn leads to a total confidence and unwavering focus that is compassionate and enduring. To attain this state of higher awareness without interference from an inflated ego we only have to be ourselves and let the universe pass through us without trying to control or direct it. This can be done by merely observing change and letting our attention flow with whatever changes are taking place within our mind. We only need to let ourselves get comfortable with whatever we are currently experiencing and gently focus our energy on maintaining a state of perceiving change without reacting or trying to make change. Whatever we perceive is merely accepted, acknowledged and impartially observed. The primary benefit received from this state of detachment is the benefit of understanding. Other benefits include improved concentration and enhanced perception. When everything is experienced in the present moment, nothing is taken for granted and all is perceived with clarity. From this vantage point of perception, everything is in a dynamic state of transformation; we are awakened to the continuous changes in life and we find ourselves transfixed on the joy and dynamics of what life has to offer. As we continue to observe these changes, we become more aware of the intimate source and connection we as human beings have with the nature of all life. We find that we are not static physical beings or a collection of mental processes in an endless stream of random experiences. In the clarity and purity of this profound moment, where the past and the future no longer exist, our consciousness is self-aware. 428. We are capable of acting upon the innermost reaches of consciousness because we are in essence awareness from intelligence. We are capable of arousing indefinable affinities and the most astonishing things imaginable. We can awaken indifference in others so that they can perceive the indefinable within themselves. Our abilities are boundless as we gather and compose our metaphysical sensations and communicate them to others. We have now reached a point in our evolution where we can go beyond our traditional limits and beliefs to become one with the conscious universe. Our being is able to transition into harmonious echoes of nature. It is without limit as long as we understand ourselves as being born from non-matter into organized matter, with a sense of identity with the conscious universe. This exceptional state of being, which began with the illusion of self, ends in the essence of self where the transcendence of our humanity emerges into a new realm of understanding our basic nature as awareness from intelligence. This state of being is where a human can go beyond the known, the routine, the normal, and come into balance with the cosmic structure and reality of the collective intelligence of the conscious universe. 429. As we hold onto existence, we are unsure of the immensity of every moment and its consequences, and insecure about every truth we struggle to maintain. Overwhelmed by our own perceptions, the mind grapples with the irrational and the bizarre and at times is barely convinced that the existence of mankind is nothing more than chance without any cosmic connection to sustain it. Life and the universe become disharmonious in our thinking. Nothing is what it seems and science flourishes within its mathematical prowess, measuring the inner and outer limits of physical space and time. Mathematical truths in formal terms are mainly interpreted in absolute static terms. In dynamic terms, mathematical truths represent a useful form of agreement reduced to absolute terms. Real understanding is inherently dynamic and involves the interplay and responses of both cognitive and affective modes, objective and subjective directions, conscious and subconscious processes. However, at the end of every process and exploration or new scientific truth, awaits the inconceivable. It appears our reason only serves as an immediate understanding, and to reach beyond this understanding creates the uncertainty of the unknown. The development of human potential demands we explore the unknown to become certain that each step we take or truth we acquire is reasonable. Yet, there lies within each of us a fertile ground of hidden unknown forces that somehow informs us how our thoughts and actions are determined, hidden unknown forces that come from the subconscious mind to hold us in contempt or esteem for all of our conscious thoughts. 430. Soon we will all have to go through some form of transformation as the physical world fails us. Everything for us as physical beings will collapse and we cannot avoid it. However, we can prepare not to disappear within it by expanding our common sense and understanding. Instincts, passions, impulses and disturbances of all kinds have been slowly introduced by our physical bodies to threaten us with the unfamiliarity of death. Many believe by way of their reasoning that we are only these physical bodies. However, physical matter is only a momentary localization of energy and contrary to the illusion that some believe we are only physical beings; reason alone cannot fully grasp the inner depths of the unknown world within us. In fact, even physical reality cannot be fully rationalized. Physical reality in the purest sense is unobservable because it does not possess the property of spatial expansion. It has no distinctiveness and it is not a definable part in any group. It is actually nowhere and everywhere within a single system from which it is inseparable. 431. Our mind is able to reduce reality to illusion and create an external wrapping around any truth or pure substance to allow our reasoning to become more flexible and transcendent in nature. 432. Most of us are consciously unaware of all that we believe because most of our beliefs consist of unconscious growth and change that carryover from past experiences and other more ineffable sources. But the extraordinary flow of obscure currents that animate our subconscious mind are now beginning to surface in our awareness, disclosing patterns that reflect a more profound consciousness. We now realize our world is influenced by the same principles as those that influence human thought. We also realize the universe is more in harmony with our senses with respect to its substance and more in harmony with our reason with respect to its structure. 433. Our biological structure and metaphysical character are beautifully united. As physical beings, we are driven from balance to chaos, towards the transitory nature of our dreams, to that of unreality. As both physical beings and metaphysical beings, or duel beings of awareness from intelligence, we are drawn towards the balance and meaning of our dreams to that of reality. 434. The more we understand about universal structures, forms, and the laws of the universe, the more we begin to realize we are universal. The more we see ourselves as universal, the closer we come to fully realizing inner balance. The closer we come to fully realizing inner balance, the more receptive we are to being cooperative. When we reach a balanced state, we reach a more receptive state of cooperation. The element of cooperation ensures the unity of a divided world and makes a universal system of relationships possible. Universal relationships are signs that point to similarities between individual things. The essential structure of individual things, which are universal, is what makes them real and understandable. 435. The compelling character of being implies the tendency of everything to rise above itself and produce new form. At the same time, everything tends to maintain its own form as the basis of its development. It tends to unite likeness and difference, idleness and movement, stability and change. Therefore, it is impossible to think of transformation without first realizing there has to be something that remains unchanged in the process of transformation, for transformation would be impossible if nothing was saved and protected in it, as the measure of change. 436. The growth of consciousness is the most obvious example of transformation based on preservation. On this basis of expanding consciousness, we as human beings can exceed any traditional way of thinking about consciousness because our creative genius allows us to continually grasp, shape and expand consciousness into new forms and realities that transcend any stagnant disposition we may have previously held. 437. Our future is the basis of our freedom and our freedom is the basis upon which we will build our future. Only those who have freedom will have a future and only those with freedom have a choice to accept or change the circumstances that surround their life. 438. We are free to move forward beyond any given reality. We are not bound to physical existence. We can see through the mind's eye nonexistence and we can ask the nonphysical question about what we see. In seeing nonexistence and asking the nonphysical question, we realize the mystery of being and that which we see as the mystery of non-being. We realize that we must at times be separate from just being in a way that allows us to look at our being as something unusual and debatable. A debate that engages our state of being enough to realize that this type of separation is real because we cooperate not only in being but also in non-being. Unless we participate in both being and non-being, we will not fully know what we perceive in reality or in ourselves. We will not know anything unless there is a rational participation of non-being in being and being in non-being. 439. The expectation of non-being as the physical world fails us gives our existence its existential character. Without this perceptive understanding of the structure of non-being, our finite reality would be meaningless. Beyond every structure, there is a structure and the structure of non-being embraces everything and is everything but at the same time is not a thing. It has no beginning or ending. It is simply non-being, the polar opposite of being here now in the unfolding process of life in the present moment. 440. Real life is finite life where the end is expected and the infinite is considered. As the physical world fails us and we move towards death, we must see past our finite being if we are to experience our fulfilled moment of knowing the extent of our universal involvement. The thought of infinity alone can direct our mind to experience its own limitless expansion, but it does not eliminate the finite. Infinity surpasses the unification of dissected moments of existential time into endless recurring cycles of temporality. Infinity is the finite surpassing itself without any preset limits. It is the undiminished wholeness of flowing movement without boundaries. It is that which has nothing outside itself and therefore no limits within itself. 441. Once the physical world fails us, we will return to being part of the ineffable forces of flowing movement without boundaries or we will find ourselves at the boundary between being and nothingness. In that timeless moment of transition from self, we will become one with the absolute power of being and pure identity or we will surrender our fragment of existence to the emptiness of the void and become nothing more than random energy without purpose. 442. We can point to something beyond our being by knowing that through our finite existence, the infinite expresses itself. It is our willingness to participate in the process of life that closes the gap of uncertainty and conquers the contradictions of the temporal process. We are love for every process in life guides our tendencies of separation back toward union. The continuous movement toward union is the metaphysical nature of life. This awareness is the impulsive nature of love. 443. Universal consciousness (intuited wholeness), as distinguished from normal consciousness, means a special consciousness with an all-embracing claim. Without finite symbols and language, universal consciousness is not conceivable. When a person enters a state of universal consciousness, the center of their personality is directly transformed and simultaneously fulfilled. They experience a higher state of awareness filled with unconditional love. Love without conditions is the heart of universal consciousness. 444. The nature of our being is one that is an original phenomenon that logically precedes all questions of existence. As human beings in organic form, we are inseparable from the logic of being. Everything that is conceptualized must have substance. There is no substance without form. 445. If we can point to something beyond ourselves through our finite existence, then we can understand the infinite expressing itself through the finite. 446. We are consciously and subconsciously re-merging with one another into a highly non-random single pattern. 447. Under the thin surface of our lucidity, the disorderly world of the subconscious mind enables us to transcend reason and realize our own true nature and identity as multidimensional beings of awareness from intelligence. 448. When we understand ourselves fully, we understand truth and the conditioned structures that have kept us from becoming conscious of our universal identity. 449. There is a higher energy state that is aroused when human beings interact in a less reactive and self-protective way that allows us to better appreciate the universal nature of being. This higher energy state is in a mind space where one looks at existence and sees profound spaciousness and mystery without the compulsive need to explain, analyze, compare, judge or understand. This is an unconditional state where our whole being can rest and genuinely perceive, conceive, infuse and transform our awareness of reality with an unconditional quality of love. 450. We have come from light made from nothing but primordial truth and soon we shall gladly receive the perfect model of reason and thought as the advent of death begins to merge our world of experience with transcendental reality. This perfect model of transformation is one that will end in the spirit of objective neutrality, beyond any fundamental concern for reality. We know this because our intellect can imprint pure form on the finer points of sense information and therefore set up an original object of knowledge within our mind; the same way we consciously placed trust in our own personal belief system. 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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Self Transformation
This blog is a subtle transformation process designed to help you return to your natural state of wholeness. The blog format and writing style is non sequential and compressed, and as illogical or difficult as it may first appear, the format and writing style is designed to distract you from jumping ahead and drawing any premature conclusions. Be warned, this material is not for everyone. Without reading the entire blog, half of which is designed to take you into unknown territory, you will be wasting your time here. Should you decide to read this blog in its entirety, it is not imperative that you fully understand everything to feel its full effect.
"I believe in you."
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1. Inner change must contain elements that cannot initially be understood, elements that astonish and fascinate the conscious mind into working on them until it comes to terms with a new level of awareness. Should the primary information in this blog be prematurely presented, it will simply become another common product of the conscious mind and not a principle basis for a deeper understanding.
264. We know that our nature can be suited to follow the choreography of life and life itself moves with incredible ease. We also know that if we can experience the movement of life as we do, then all of us can attain the stillness and calm that echoes the effects and genuine harmony of a broader, more universal consciousness within us. To think of this universal consciousness in a more logical fashion, we need to have a more direct understanding of consciousness that can bridge any gaps between our potential to sense a broader consciousness and our being able to incite a state of universal consciousness. The only imbalance or distraction in understanding this is a presumption that there is an ultimate state of consciousness that is other than our current balanced state of consciousness. As human beings, we know we are able to establish the relevance of order within the unknown since all of our temporal thoughts are inherently constrained by a state of continual change. Any acceptable personal definition of a broader consciousness must be able to satisfy any change without effect. One thought capable of doing this is the thought that we must first fully distinguish this mental state of consciousness as something organized and yet not fully known. We must assign this state of consciousness the appearance by which all change becomes possible as opposed to any specific unveiling of change. Since this mysterious awareness would sit at the very core of thought itself, we inevitably always view each thought in two opposite yet intrinsically linked ways. One would illustrate the potential of order while the other would concurrently illustrate subsequent similarities of this same potential. We could allege that universal consciousness underlies all consciousness or is the animating force behind all thought. Therefore, as long as consciousness exists, despite its metaphysical nature, universal consciousness must be fundamental to all things conscious or be fundamental to all dynamic forces within animated life.
275. A dominant ego creates the illusion of fear or guilt. The mind does not create fear or guilt. A dominant ego produces the illusion of separation. The illusion of separation produces fear or guilt. When our mind believes something, it has made it true for us alone. A dominant ego cannot accept truth because it does not know truth. If truth is known, a dominant ego cannot exist. A dominant ego is committed to lie. Our mind is not committed to lie. We are not separate from our thoughts. Our thoughts are not separate from us. A dominant ego is a great pretender. A dominant ego is a great deceiver. A dominant ego is the great changeling. A dominant ego cannot be fully understood because it is unbelievable. Nothing is easier to recognize than truth. A dominant ego provides no truth. If we go against our true nature, we are imprisoning our self.
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