Its all right in front of you
Saturday, July 30, 2011 at 12:27PM To awaken is to live based on what is real. It is to know unconditonal love is forever present, even when the mind would like you to focus on other emotions. It is knowing that the sun and blue sky do not disappear whenever the clouds and rain arrive.
Notice what captures the focus of your attention and what you allow to shape your mood. Notice how you are conditioned to assume the sun is present during the daytime and moon and stars are present during the night. In truth, both are always present but your focus shifts as mind tells you what to see. This draws attention to selective awareness and what you block out. Notice you tune out and back in at will.
Consider the conditioned mind tells you to see what you think is. It distracts you from what exists beneath or beyond it in this present moment. Questions and answers, problems and solutions exist in the same way. Notice the mind urges you to focus on questions and problems when answers and solutions are there as well. Notice order is present in chaos. It all comes down to what you are choosing to truly see or overlook.
"The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind."
- Denise Linn