Days 31-37

Day 31

You are the universe experiencing itself.

If you consider an experience, it requires an experiencer.

There must be a separate agent having the experience.

This is you, the experiencer.

You. The human.

The human through which conscious awareness flows.

The human with the ego that considers itself separate from everything else.

The separation was necessary for the reconnection.

The discovery of Source.

The revelation of who you truly are.

The ability for consciousness to experience itself.

How blessed we are, to consider ourselves separate, and realize we’re not.

Day 32

The light within you, it shines in front of you.

It illuminates the path before you.

And we follow it. And we follow it.

And at some point we recognize that the source of the light that illuminates the path before us—the path we are following—is within us.

It is us.

And we turn inward.

We stop chasing the light,
because we realize the light is who we are.

We turn inward, and we come home.

Day 33

I enjoy paying creatives for their creations.

I love paying artists for their art.

Money is an exchange of value,
and I value art and those who make it.

It doesn’t matter if it’s in a gallery or on a street corner.

Art brings meaning to suffering.
Art speaks what can’t be said otherwise.
Art expresses truth.

Artists bare their soul.

And that takes courage.

And I want to live in a world where people courageously share their souls.

And so I pay artists for their art.

Day 34

This morning on the porch overlooking the trees a hummingbird came and hovered in front of me.

And I sipped my coffee and looked at it, and it looked at me.

And it looked so innocent and sweet.

And it made me wonder why I so easily see the innocence and sweetness in this hummingbird, but not in the bear or the snake or my closest friends.

Imagine if I could experience all living creatures like I experience this hummingbird.

Is this how Jesus saw others?
Is this how Buddha saw others?

Maybe.
Maybe.

Day 35

On my left wrist, where I wear my watch, I have a tattoo: Sin Prisa.

Without haste.

Unhurried.

This is how I like to live: unhurried.

And the more I trust in the timing of the universe, the less hurried I am.

Everything is in perfect timing.

Who are we to say otherwise?

The ego creates its own suffering by resisting the pace of life’s perfection.

Hurrying is a form of disconnection.

Rushing is a delusion, a product of the human mind.

I check the time and I’m reminded.

Sin prisa.

And I join the rest of the universe in being unhurried.

Day 36

Everything can be a ritual.

The way we make our coffee.

The way we shower.

The way we cook,
and the way we eat what we cook.

The way we dress.

The way we make our bed.

The way we greet someone.

The way we choose a candle to light,
and the way we light it.

The way we write and seal and send a letter.

Everything is a portal to presence,
a gateway to the divine.

Everything is holy.

Everything is holy.

Everything is the body and the blood.

Day 37

Today I went to a place that’s been making cheese for hundreds of years.

I bought so much cheese they gave me a bag, and it reminded me of how my mother used to get so much makeup at those department stores that she would get a free gift with it.

This cheese place, they’ve upgraded their equipment, but they’re using the same processes.

And the people there?

They do the same thing. Every day.

Making cheese.

And it’s delicious.

And I learn about this cheesemaking and I think about who discovered this, and how it was discovered.

The milk, the steam, the heat, the enzymes, the bacteria.

Who? How?

And I think about how many things we enjoy today that are the result of thousands of years of accidents, and mistakes, and trials and errors.

Processes refined through thousands of years of trying and finding out.

Trying and finding out.

And how many people lost their lives trying things and finding out.

And how many people discovered things like wine and cheese and mushrooms through trying things and finding out.

And how here I am, benefitting from all of those peoples’ discoveries.

And here I am, doing the same.