Grateful for it ALL?!?! Yes, it ALL.

Real gratitude is unconditional acceptance, which is true unconditional love. 

It is grace for being in every way that you are. It is the grace and compassion you reflect out to everyone else being accepted and embodied within you.

It is seeing the ALL in each person or event, and allowing the infinite potential to radiate through your perception. To allow part in whole is to see the forest and the trees, the crystals and the bees, and to know they each are infinitely significant. 

Every bug, every plant, every rock affects our dimensional spectrum of reality as the spectrum also affects it.

So grateful for the terrible as well as the transcendent, for each reveals another piece in our eternal puzzle of now that we breathe through with each step towards our goal of full embodiment of the light. 

Unconditional gratitude frees our now completely from the trappings and indulgences of ego. 

The physical illusions blind us to the whole of what is and bind us to our shame and fears and doubts and sadness as much as to our love, joys, and compassion. The ALL is beyond those limitations, it is the field where all is contained, it is the entirety of now, each instant experiencing itself through us.

How do we free up our whole gratitude??

How do we make peace with our now to access it's infinite power/potential?

We must unpack ourselves until our suitcases are empty, drain out the limits and extents of our mental potentials like a faucet, to rebuild our selves with the Self.

The little s self, or ego, is always searching for the big S Self, or infinite soul, that point of oneness and complete understanding of the All. It finds it and attempts to consume it with repetition, absorption, adaptations, always reaching for that first hit of eternity, that glimpse which fades endlessly...

The key is where we find it, and it is everywhere.

That core, new car smell is so much more than that. It is the transcendental object at the end of time, waiting for us to notice that it was always there, the cosmic joke you have to open your eye to see.

Why do we always talk around it, instead of just saying God? Maybe the word changes the meaning in our souls, and almost dirties it with our cultural self. It loses is luminosity with a clear label... 

Maybe we can't process it if it is said directly, for then we don't "discover" it for ourselves and all learning is self-instruction.

We engage in the lifelong search only to find the glasses were always on our head.

Open your mind. Allow infinite gratitude for your life, in all of its parts, the shiny, and the shit. Embrace your wholeness with infinite compassion and watch the petals of your inner mystery unfurl. You deserve it.

This is all we have.

All is mind. 

Just be and allow your life to glow.

#koansofbrien

Always

Open your eyes this instant. 

All the way open.

See yourself, all of you, every bit, even that stuff you don't like, or hold shame with.

Every.single.part.of.you.

Now here comes the hard part.

Look at yourself, really look. 

See you. 

See your story, for you are the only one who knows it, all the parts.

Allow yourself grace, true grace, no conditions, just acceptance of all that you are, compassionate understanding, because you know the whole story.

See each endeavor, each pain, each fear, each worry, each sadness, each hindrance, each accomplishment, each triumph, each defeat, each joy, each instant from this clear and accepting state. Allow you to see yourself as a character in the movie, we'll just call, "your life." 

See yourself whole as a being from a distance.

You deserve forgiveness for your transgressions against yourself as much as everyone else does, and we all do, because we are all one. Root for the character in your movie to win. They need your help to succeed.

So what grudges do you still hold against you? 

Do you really deserve to suffer for your whole life?

Why?

Is that what you really want?

Did you even know that you have a choice in the matter?

You do.

Accept your love. You need it most.

Manage your attention towards your intentions with every breath and every step.

Attention and intention are locked in a spiral of growth and death patterning one after the other based on what we are focused on.

What is your focus?

Now, What time is it?  Do you remember?

It is still now. It is not too late.

It never is, for it is always now.

Everything is now.

Allow yourself the ability to blossom and unfurl your petals towards the infinite with acceptance, forgiveness and gratitude.

Just be.

Allow your now.

Become your light.

Thank you for you.

Brien Egan

#koansofbrien

Infinitely now

Just as light and sound, time and space hold our now in place.

It is always now, you are always here. There is nowhere else.  Nowhere is in itself a conundrum, for how can we be anywhere but now and here.  We are never nowhere, unless we unpack the word itself, now-here, and realize that it is and was always also the answer, written in simplest terms. To be nowhere is to be here now, depending on your perspective.

Logic binds and holds the self in our infinite soup of creation. We sit in our Self soup and ladle parts of our selves out to the masses in clicks, symbols, memes, shares, and likes, disseminating our psyches across the web of Indra's illusion via the ethereal ethernet of eternity ever connected, ever exposed wires frayed at the edges...

To the edge of now, out here on the horizon of tomorrow, we ponder our yesterdays and miss the moment.

This is it.

What are you waiting for? Superman?

We are the heroes, we are the hope, no one else will come to save us... 

Now is our time.

If we could only find the moment, remember that we are nowhere, yet now here, and live from that place. 

How do we even get there?

Love, for it is all there is. Each moment an infinite amount of love is condensed into a fine sliver of conception, a slice of the eternal packed into now, containing all of it's potential, all of its power, and each moment we get another chance to claim it. Each moment we are face to face with the All, God, your highest power, Infinity, Oneness, Allah, Pravanabrahma, Yah Weh, Tao, and any other name that you choose to define it as. Each moment it is completely surrounding you, every breath takes it in, every step aligns you with it, you can never be a part from it, for it is God.

"Thou art God." 

-R. Heinlein 

(Stranger in a Strange Land)

Breathe in the eternal, go ahead. Take the deepest breath you've ever taken. Hold it in and let yourself ruminate on the now, let yourself soak in the infinite power there contained in each atom of air you are drinking in and just be with it. It is you. You are that eternity in this moment, in every moment. Let yourself recognize your own divinity, as a reflection of that all pervasive spark of the All.

Always in all ways do we embody this. If we could recognize our infinite nature, we would have no choice but to treat one another differently, for we would see everyone and everything as God.

"Treat everyone you meet as God in drag."

-Ram Dass

We are the angels, clothed in meat to pretend a life where we forget our infinite truth.  The answer is always right now, just beyond our illusions and held pains. To understand the now while remaining here can help you to hold two worlds in this plane. It can help you to free yourself from the suffering and holding of old broken patterns of past perceptions pernicious picking away at your psyche as triggers and traumas of your past try to pause your transformation. 

All it takes is full recognition of this moment, here and now. Seeing through illusions to know our core, to accept our infinite connection is to embrace it in our lives. To embrace the all with unbounded love and compassion is to embody empathy for every entity in our existence, eternally enmeshed in the now, accepting the All with understanding and awareness of the delicate dance and balance of nature.

To know the All is to know love for everything at every moment. To be free from the illusions of separation and to understand the mystery we must fully unlock our now. 

Start now. Take a deep breath in...

Hold it, and allow the now to grow inside of you.

This is it.

We are the heroes in the story.

Let's do it.

No time like the present...

Just be.

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