We choose meaning, we don’t find it.
This is a paradox. Of course we find meaning, in life we are always finding meaning, but take away the events, people and conversations and sit alone in a quiet room and find meaning. You won’t find any, there isn’t any; there is only pure consciousness which is directly experienced.

When we are driven by needs and wants there is always a meaning because we are trying to get “that” in order to be “this”, achieve “this” in order to be “that”. In a nutshell, we are striving for something – “an end”.

When you take away the needs and wants, each moment becomes alive to what it inherently is, a “moment” and whatever you ascribe to that moment is your decision. You can take another route and experience that moment as a direct experience. The direct experience you experience can differ according to the level and state of consciousness /awareness dominant in that moment.

Life is a moment to moment existence and there is no meaning to anything apart from what you give it. Each moment in itself does not provide any meaning, so it’s useless trying to look for it. Events, conversations, books, experiences – all provide meaning, but to try and look into the glass without a reason and hope to find something, isn’t going to work.

If we remove all the needs and wants and sit in the empty room, after long enough, we may then decide to apply some meaning. We create a meaning. We decide what is important to us, what we would like to experience, what holds our interest, something we would like to encounter and so we begin our meaning and the whole process starts.
We go out into the world armed with our meaning and find an adventure.

It’s once we begin the adventure that the meaning really starts to take on meaning.

If we go to friends for advice, we may not always get what we came for.

Friends have a time and place, as do influential figures in history. There is a reason I make this comparison.

Quite often friends are mirrors of ourselves demonstrating similar beliefs, values and ideas about life. But the problem with friends is they might not always give us what we truly want, correction, need.

Friends can sometimes keep us on the status quo, not challenging the norm of our behaviour, for they too are familiar with our characteristics, even more so in some respect than our own personal awareness.

When we want to challenge the norm, expand, grow, push past boundaries and be even more of who we are, who are we going to model the changes on?

Comfort zones = friend zones.
I love my friends dearly, the value, insight and support into my life they bring is tremendous, but I am awake to the fact they won’t always provide me with the things I require in order to grow.

Sometimes you need to go outside your comfort zone when relating to people because it is there that we can feel most stretched.

Spending time with people who are not necessarily on our wavelength can push us into aspects of our personality we wouldn’t normally assume. At those times we not only learn to appreciate the intrinsic qualities we provide for others, but in return it highlights the diversity of other people and the fact that no-one is right or wrong, we are all simply human beings each muddling through on our own individual journeys.

I hate to tell you and me this, but none of this is real.

This is one of my more spiritual writings that in all honesty I am always dubious to publish due to the perceived scepticism and judgement that can surround anything that discusses “perceived” spiritualilty (it’s actually scientifically based, but I won’t go into that now) into the conversation. Nether the less, I will continue.

None of this is real; it is all one big illusion. Nothing actually means anything and anything with meaning is only derived from subjective experience.
Anything in itself holds no value, only what association we hold or give to it. Bob could receive a phone call telling him he has lost his job and Bob’s devastated, Bill on the other hand is ecstatic when he hears he’s lost his job.
Simple stuff I know, but when you really cut to the bone with this concept it’s tremendously invigorating and refreshing. It means that nothing actually has any power over you, or simply put:-
In essence, nothing can alter your state except you*

I really want to hammer this home because the more we can appreciate this stuff, so much more empowered are our lives.
I realise this is mastery of the mind and “perceived” conceptual thinking / beliefs, but the impact is tremendous.

On a spiritual front, we are all pieces of light. Like a light bulb that smashed, we are the smithereens, yet with this light bulb when you switch on the light, we all still light up (quauntum hologram). Or think of it this way, if you chopped off someone’s head, imagine a cartoon flick, the head still talks without the body, in fact, chop off the arms and legs, fingers and toes off and like the cartoon animation, the whole body is still moving and talking.

This is life. This is who we are and this is the essence of true source. Each one of us is experiencing our own personal journey through this myriad of illusion so that we get the “experience” of ourselves. Yet in this grand scheme of things it is all an illusion. The only real thing is the light inside us. The light bulb is real and the dark room we exist within is the vain imaginings of a child in a bedroom seeing all kinds of monsters in the dark.

Why do we feel so good when we are loved or love? Because it is true source, it reminds us of who we inherently are (the light bulb) and so we want to go there again and again, but we don’t always go there because we have a contender fighting for our attention, it is called the ego.

I could go on here about this whole concept but I don’t want to steer from the main idea of nothingness.
I just thought it might be good to look behind the spiritual curtain to understand a bit as to why nothing is real, or better put, everything is nothing.

*though class A drugs and electromagnetism could have an impact (esp when mixed at the same time)

Too often in life we falter around, doubting our decisions, moods and actions when in actual fact we should only accept power; for that is what we are and have.

Don’t doubt, seize your moment and move forward with certainty.

Certainty brings with it a catalyst of force, to change the status quo. Life likes us to be stuck in the moment; or rather the ego enjoys it. It enjoys us going round in circles disabling the potent force and change that we inherently are.

So don’t let the ego win.

When in doubt, move. Move someplace else, wherever, just move. In another position you will get another stance on whatever it is you are doubtful about. Stagnation occurs when we let doubt ride for too long.

I am not suggesting that we shouldn’t hesitate and doubt given important decisions that need deliberation, but everything has a context. We know when we are stuck, when you cannot make a decision and that doubt has been clouding the sky for too long. It’s a personal knowing.

Action can sometimes precipitate thought. In metaphysical and law of attraction advice, it would be common knowledge that thought precedes the action, but when the ego is trying to take charge and has a foothold on keeping you stuck to the ground, you need to throw over this advice and get the hell out of there.

I learnt this trick the hard way. I got stuck on the thought precedes action scenario and in fact remained stuck for quite a while. My decisions weren’t coming to a close and the more I tried, the more confused I became, until I realised what was going on. I realised that my actions were being halted through the fear drain game. If I could remain in this state of confusion and doubt long enough, then long enough means I do not have to take action and not taking action meant I was safe. The ego can work in very subtle, clever ways. We can be our own worst enemies and we have to know our own personal slip-up tricks in order to unearth them and make sure we don’t give them more room than is available.

There is a power in movement itself. We have to take a step forward to understand what we are stepping over. It’s a dichotomy.