Touched...

    When you have been deeply touched by another be it child, animal, nature, friend, family, stranger, art, music etc. there is a moment that holds you speechless and action less and you might say with a smile or tear "that was touching." This is when you have touched upon or become aware of your own essence, that is the same shared essence in everyone and everything. The moment of speechlessness and action less is the stillness that you are. Stay touched by each present moment, there may not be a smile or tear with each moment but you will be touched countless times and the world will be touched by you.

Broken...

   Feeling broken is a dyer straight painful experience had by the personal I and yet also an opportunity to drop all thoughts of life as you know it. That is how it happened for me. At a time of severe suffering and pain, life as I knew it suddenly made absolutely no sense whats so ever. Everything I had been taught and believed made absolutely no sense. What was the point of existence if one suffered to this degree and knowing that others suffer even more...why? How could such a creation that suffered so, be worth anything to a creator who witnessed such suffering in ones creations? Who would possibly create such abilities for one to suffer so and call it life? Why would one want to continue to live under such painful suffering and for what purpose? These were my questions that prompted the lead into Self inquiry. It was at this time that all my thoughts and beliefs as I knew and understood them, literally had no space or place within me. My panoramic view of life was shattered along with the clarity that any attempts to put things back was an unattainable goal.  While this experience was being had the natural external life around me ironically filled me with what I can only describe as joy. This delightful joy moved through me from:watching birds and listening to their songs, living plants shinning with perfection, movement was grace, smells delightful, appearances of the sky was an ever-changing masterpiece, the purity of my young children kept me quietly breathing, my physical bodies ability to move with strength, insightful visions...all and more was apparent with a deep stillness while my suffering thought system was being broken.

   Many years later the path of Self inquiry answered my questions. A solid anchored belief that I am a separate body, separate personal being simply is not so. There were countless times my mind played tricks and countless times I would navigate differently spinning my wheels in Egoville. It's OK to feel broken but know that there is another avenue present just for you that is not broken and full of joy!
 

Lift the shade...

    Life happens now... one big continual now. When our attention is with thought we cannot be with life now as thought pulls one to past or future, it is like a shade that has been pulled down over you and the now life of joy, peace and absolute love is not seen nor known.

   When the personal I has your attention the separate personal I is navigating thoughts that keeps one swinging between past and future. Life's presence is always here and now, your presence is always here and now, life and you are not separate. Trust that this is the only constant you can count on with no dependency/relationship to past and future. You are the life that is the one big continual now. Lift the shade and light the world now!

Drop thought...

    The personal I can only imagine itself as an "awakened" being.
The personal I can never know itself as an "awakened" being because the personal I is made up of thoughts and who you most deeply are is not a thought. The discovery of the true Self does not happen through thought at all, it happens when there is no thought.