The key to life is emptiness.
The more a person empties themselves of themselves, the more that person becomes who Reality intends that person to be.
The idea of oneself, the ego—while it's a useful symbol—is not really representative of who one is. Nor of who one might become. There’s no telling who one might become.
To trap oneself in the symbol—the idea which the ego is—robs life of peace and joy. It’s the emptiness, stillness, silence of the person—which arrives when the ego is seen as a useful illusion— which causes the person to walk on water.
Once a person experiences the constructed self, fall into the nothingness which it is—entirely dependent on Reality for its existence—then the person can actually live.
The person who has experienced Experience in the morning, can die content at night.
It’s the feeling of not existing. The feeling of Nothing. A life which recognizes we are really not in control. A life which trusts. A life where one doesn’t hold themselves entirely responsible for everything.
That feeling of letting go, is the central thing which everyone seeks. Letting go of the idea of oneself. As the ego is a low-quality image. Somewhat accurate.
It’s useful to tell another person that one is a writer. But to overly use that symbol, leads both people far away from the reality.
We are more alive and relaxed, when we stop thinking of ourselves.
The best moments are moments where the self is gone. A person becomes their Experience. The person is not thinking of themselves as themselves. Seeing as the concept of the person cannot do anything.
It’s an idea. An imperfect idea. A symbol.
A person is not their ideas. Ideas are not made. Ideas arise in the mind. The person is the awareness behind those ideas, watching the ideas and deciding which are to be kept.
The ego is not the reality. The symbol is useful, but it can never capture the person. The symbol is a shortcut. The symbol is largely about the past, not the present and not the future.
Tomorrow never comes. Yesterday is gone. The past and the future are always defined by the present.
We must live from the reality of ourselves—the present. The realization that one’s idea of oneself, the ego, is largely illusory—can lead one to the awareness behind the thoughts. The emptiness.
The emptiness is a deep stillness. Interior silence. Being present.
Being in the Presence.
The stillness is a great gift. It’s hard to notice. One needs to get rid of themselves. And get rid of their idea of God. It’s the great Void—the feeling of encountering Nothingness, which is Something. God beyond God. Yet that is found by not seeking.
It’s found in the deep quiet. Emptiness. Which is often the last thing one wants. The ego will kick and scream for more effort until the ego gives up.
Where one is now going: Nowhere.
The Spirit carries the person. That’s what we really want. The experience of not doing it. Rather, being carried by the Spirit. Otherwise, a person burns themselves out. One feels they are not living right. Wasting their effort, in the wrong places. The person only breaks out of that, by letting go.
By trusting the Ocean.
Falling into the Current.
The internal emptiness is where life becomes real. It’s where a person changes the past through the present. It’s the only way to live. We need that Experience as a touchstone. Life becomes free again, and now the possibilities are endless.
Without the present as the origin point, one lacks peace. One finds it confusing to be who they are. To be who they must be. As the rapper Eyedea said: “Heaven isn’t some place that we go to when we die. It’s that split second in life where you actually feel alive.” There’s some truth to that.
The present moment is elusive, for the person who does not live there. One might try to make oneself go there. Yet one has to stop trying to live in the present, to live in the present. (But one cannot try to stop trying.) Only when effort is let go of, does one arrive. That’s where things are allowed to happen, rather than controlled.
The person flows at great speed. Not through the person’s own doing. Through the Power of the Water. As God’s weakness is greater than man’s strength.
That is the return to Paradise. The Garden of Eden where discursive reason is less powerful than Experience. Back to the Feeling—that there is no telling what life might become. Wonder.
Emptiness.