Brief write-up
What can I come up with
In a minute?

Well, anxiety first
But then
Why am I rushing

Not like I can control time
But do
The best I can
In the given timeframe

Done before a minute 🙂

As I sit
And wait
I am thinking
How trances feel

Liberating
In the moment
At the cost of
Temporal dissociation

What most feels right
Is transcending trances

Replacing the tendency to
Step into trances in waking life
With
Staying awake in waking life

Transcending loops
And mazes

For there, I can
Truly feel
My self

Not mere awareness
But true awakening

A heightened awareness
Who does the thinking?
I do

Who does this writing?
I do

Just a simple
I am
I am
…
I am
I am.

Many years ago, I watched Waking Life. Today, this question from the movie popped randomly into my mind 🙂

So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that’s this: Which is the most universal human characteristic – fear or laziness?

The answer is both. And neither.

What stops people from reaching their full potential is lack of will. Surely you can remember a time when you were past your fears and laziness, had the tools, but had to push really hard, and still had no will.

But where does a lack of will come from? It comes when one is not listening to their inner voice. When one doesn’t let go when they need to. Or when one doesn’t control when they need to.

So if one doesn’t listen to their inner voice, if one doesn’t listen to their spirit, they go against their will. And then they have a lack of will to do things.

Listening to oneself is hard because it means facing discomfort, and it also takes a lot of effort. And when one truly listens to oneself, this will inevitably lead them to love. And loving oneself is hard, because it means loving everybody.

So. Fear, or laziness? The answer to that can be found not in another question, not in philosophizing, but in love. Actual, experienced love, not stories or philosophies about love.

Woke up
Had a few dreams
But I was quick to dismiss
And start work right away

It’s been a busy period
Focused much on the outside
Not so much on the inside

Guilt crept in
Attention shifted to it
And then I realized

I remembered

All the insights I’d gathered
How much I have improved
As a Human being
By hanging out with my inner voice

For without it,
I am just a mirror
To the outside
An unreal self

My inner voice is my own,
My truly own gateway to God

Thank you guilt
For reminding me
That while there’s treasure outside
There’s treasure within, too