Exploring Life

2/22/20 All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something. All thoughts arise and disappear into a vast space. If you watch your mind, you’ll see that a thought simply occurs on its own—it arises without any intention on your part. In response to this, we’re taught to grab and identify with them. But if we can, just for a moment, relinquish this anxious tendency to grab our thoughts, we begin to notice something very profound: that thoughts arise and play out, spontaneously and on their own, within a vast space; the noisy mind actually occurs within a very, very deep sense of quiet.                                - Adyashanti 

2/13/20 Random Thought: Are you embarrassed? Me: The only thing I'm embarrassed about was pretending to be someone I'm not for 10 years of my life.

2/13/20 I want you to look in the mirror. Don't label yourself anything, don't judge yourself, just look at yourself. That person you are staring in the mirror has gone through a lot. You've been through some of the hardest challenges of your life, and you got through them and are standing here. Remember when you were in the midst of that trial that you thought you couldn't get through? Look at where you are now. You're through it. Remember that time when they said you couldn't do it, or they bullied you? Look where you are. Standing tall. You've experienced some of the best moments of your life, some of the worst, but nonetheless you are here. You are alive. You are still living, you are still breathing, you still have so many years to live your life to the fullest. So now I want you to focus your attention on every single moment to a T. I want you to be so focused, so mystified by life, so curious, that you give the present moment your fullest attention.

2/13/20 There's something mysterious about the present moment with all of creation... It's almost like the plants, the rocks, the trees the bugs and all of creation knows something I don't. Creation seems to be aware of something that I'm not aware of.... Yet. I think the reason why there's such a major element of mystery surrounding our existence is because maybe just maybe, we're supposed to find something out. Maybe there's more than religion. Maybe there's more than your education, where you live, who you get married to. Maybe the point isn't just about building a personal relationship with God, family and friends but of "solving the puzzle" or "winning the game of life." Maybe there's a reason why it was all set up with no one truly knowing, because that's part of the game.