A quiet unfolding into uncertainty, identity, and the art of becoming.
We’re not strangers to hardship.
Being born is being born into the challenges of this world.
That is natural. This wilderness, no matter how urban it gets, is designed for the survival of the fittest.
Hence, the urge to have a little bit more.
Even a coward has inherent, reserved confidence that his cowardice will let him pass.
That is the function of our function in society.
Everything is nudged by this reserved confidence.
To win, to lose, to let go, and to lose confidence — everything.
And that is the point: the things we do do things to us.
Do we ever use this reserved confidence to dive deep into the mysteries of the self?
Letting go of identity and certainty reveals that you are already whole; growth feels lonely before it feels freeing, but your path unfolds as you walk it.
Can you be, without being?
Who am I without my everything?
When you do things for yourself, who is doing things for whom?
When you talk about self-love, who is the self?
Trying to love yourself means you already do, so why the effort otherwise?
The quest is not about finding who you are.
It is the spiritual motto of this era and has been trending for long.
To know who you are, you must know who you aren’t.
What is not, and yet not lacking — this is the question we must pursue.
Without being anybody, you are omnipresent.
Without the need of being a personality, there is something in you that the world needs.
It’s not about finding the elements of your existence; it is about being lost and found in your own world.
Get lost.
Feeling lost is where the journey of finding yourself begins.
Not adding, but subtracting what you think you are.
Until you no longer think at all.
Nobody to nobody. Nobody.
Not even obligated to yourself.
Be aloof. Sit quiet.
You will recognize the quality of silence.
Growth feels lonely before it feels freeing.
Until you start to notice the evolutionary nature of change.
That is playful. Ever-changing, always there, always new.
Change is scary because it is unfamiliar, not because it’s wrong.
There is no prediction of what is going to happen.
So let go of the plans for tomorrow.
You can’t plan to live. You already are living. And this is the greatest miracle of all.
Learn to proceed with uncertainty.
This moment is surprising because it has never occurred before and will not happen again.
This moment is mythical because nothing happens in this moment.
It is unfamiliar because it is happening for the first time. It is unfamiliar because nothing is happening in this moment either.
Your path will unfold as you walk it, not before.
No one has to figure it out, and you are exactly where you are supposed to be.
You have been searching for who you are all over the place.
The search can only be over when you stop searching.
You will find yourself when you drop the expectation of being something or someone.
Be yourself so the people looking for you can find you.
That is the art of living. Just be. Present.
“Art is when you hear knocking from your soul, and you answer” — Star Richés
Be open to receive from the benevolent force of everything.
The need to do something all the time will cease to exist.
The greatest effort is no effort at all.
Very easy if you liberate the mind, difficult if it interrupts.
Looking at the stream of thought, you will only understand what water is.
Looking at the ocean of the divine source, you will sense the unfathomable vastness and depth of the water.
The water of nothingness.
It crystallises, it evaporates, it flows.
This is the realisation you were waiting for through all your births and lives.
So simple. Once you get it.
I am everything without “my” everything.
When you stop compartmentalising your existence, being flows freely.
You find beauty in sadness as much as you find it in happiness.
You can never break a person who finds beauty in everything.
Time spent in the present is time never spent.
The secret of life is to waste time in ways that you like.
For the light to be found, you have to lose the darkness of the cave we live in.
The need to become needs to disappear.
Becoming is a laboratory. Being is natural. Inevitable.
You will have a no-motion sickness.
After spending all of life sitting in a merry-go-round, you feel sick due to resistance to the moment you were in.
You always had a goal in mind and a direction to move in.
You will find discomfort in no longer chasing.
A subtle fear will arise when ambition dissolves.
What am I supposed to do? It is the first question when you stare into the blank.
The question becomes the answer. You are not supposed to do anything.
Not even trust the unknown. What you need is what you have.
You were never meant for the caves.
You were meant for the wilderness.
The wilderness is uncharted and enchanted.
To survive, you have to be brave enough to do nothing.
Not fighting, not engaging. But detaching.
This is the only practice that remains before and after realization of truth.
And with practice, you will no longer need the practice.
There is no second nature; only nature is. Is-ness is.
Remain, and you will be.
Be, and you will disappear.