There is only one truth. And that truth is NOW. The big question is are we able to hear it, to access it, to consider and hope and believe that it exists, to live it? Some are more useful or pleasant or direct paths, but all roads lead there. Go East or go West and you return home. Did you ever leave? Have we ever not left?
Some access Truth through Eckhardt Tolle or Wayne Dwyer or Oprah Winfrey or Nietzsche or Yalom or your parents or your child or baseball games or meditation or writing or reading or giving (or even taking so that others can give). How many times have I rederived the 80/20 rule or that the body and mind are not connected, they are one? You cannot take a single mistake away from your life without changing who you are and where you are headed; and by extension, since all is connected, where I am heading. This has led us to exactly where we are right now, which of course has changed as you read this sentence. All colors are just various wavelengths of light, or various frequencies if you prefer. Red is green, just bigger and slower, less feisty.
This is the same blog post as every other one; don’t get too excited. All stories are the hero’s journey or some other flavor of that. God, nature, symmetry, balance, wu-wei, punk music or traffic noise, just different frequencies, varying caffeine levels.
But, NOW. Now is the key, the glue and also the entirety of all that is held together so lovingly by that glue. We return to NOW or maybe looking more through wavelength and less of the frequency lens, simultaneously accepting we are in NOW and always will be. We are NOW; we just need to realize it. Comforting perpetually warm soft fluffy blanket.
As a creator or sharer, this is both satisfying and upsetting. Damn, I’m just repeating myself again and again. Or, what another grand day of delicious decaf coffee and sunrises. Would I or could I ever get sick of sunrises, even if I can hear the rain softly kissing the skylight in the kitchen? Do I need the sunrises some day to be potato pancakes or drag car races? Aren’t the sunrises perfect-ish enough? Is everything sunrises? Is coffee liquid sunrises or liquid NOW? Are all wavelengths really the same one?
This is just practice. The belief that there is net movement or somewhere to go or something to do or accomplish is a mirage. It is simply either being present or not. Or really more correctly being largely in a state of presence or drifting momentarily away from or towards it. Pulsating presence, vibrating humming NOW, glowing Truth. Sometimes those momentary periods last for thousands of years or maybe just a fraction of a heartbeat.
My dark decaffeinated liquid sunrise is getting cold. Time to return it a warmer more present state of NOW, off to the microwave. False steps and misrepresentations are of course part of ALL, so part of the greater ever-expanding Truth, the same as universal laws and benevolence. The trick is seeing this or maybe simply not fighting it, and of course learning to love the bomb (thank you Stanley).
