I follow with curiosity and enjoy the moments of my life as it keeps re-interpreting itself. It feels like walking along a familiar path that I haven’t visited in a long time, now with eyes opened wider. Everything I have experienced before is still there, yet in the expanded space much more becomes visible. Objects that once served as fixed points of orientation dissolve into the landscape, giving way to something new, something more sharply defined. In this way, my carefully guarded collection of interpretations and convictions about this world and about reality is beginning to rearrange itself in my mind.
I love it when important insights from the past return in an entirely different form, and I can marvel at them again like a child. Years ago, I wrote about how I experienced the play of consciousness—its rising, its expansion. It appeared like the mesmerizing world of “picture-within-a-picture” puzzles. When our attention is fixed in a certain way on an image, one story, one shape reveals itself. But if we are able to shift away from the obvious and habitual focus, an entirely different visual world opens up. From that moment on, we can move freely up and down the steps of our perspectives whenever we wish.
Something similar is happening with these realizations now. It is a kind of test for the apparent certainties we attach to the meanings of words, to events, to interpretations of human behavior: do they pass through the filter of this changed awareness? My experience is that in the infinite space of allowing, something is conceived that has not yet been experienced, not yet discovered. Allowing is a state, as opposed to letting go, which is a mental struggle with will. In this state of allowing, the moment becomes unguarded for the mind. The absence of control itself is enough to open cracks in the rigid defensive walls of our convictions and conditionings. Something greater in quality, something fresh, slips behind these bastions—and like a Trojan horse, expanding from within, it brings the now outdated structures to collapse.
This cannot be done by force, because the very force we would use to tear things down is the same force that defends those walls. And this is true of what is happening in the world as well.
The time has come to understand that human effort alone is not enough to transcend human resistance. The time has come not only to accept mentally, but to live the truth that we are spiritual beings having a human experience—and not the other way around. This is the culmination of the “picture within a picture” play of individual and collective consciousness. We do not write the new paradigm; by shifting the focus of consciousness, we allow what already exists to reveal itself.
With this, I wish you a New Beginning that can be lived in clarity—flowing together with the Universe, in loving awareness, in wonder at the present moment.
With love,
Your traveling companion
llow traveler
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