It’s very easy to get caught up in thought or ideas. Reality is outside our minds, it’s outside space, it’s outside time, and it has no bindings. It is as it is, always in the present, without any filters or concepts from us. The nature of our human consciousness is to see and accept things as they are, free from filters. In Ego, however, we no longer connect to reality with direct consciousness. In Ego, a filter is applied; the filter called self. It’s this self filter where our concepts, thoughts, and ideas are generally accessed from.
Thoughts and ideas aren’t by their nature bad, it’s when they are accessed through the self filter instead of with direct consciousness that we make mistakes. The self likes to think it knows everything, it likes to think it understands all concepts. Socrates said “Wisdom begins when we realize that we know nothing”. By this he means, when we access life from outside ego, when we make the direct connection to consciousness, only then do we begin to grow wise.
An experience of my own recently, brought about my understanding of this. I was watching the most amazing sunset, being present and watching it as it was happening. Then a thought popped up, about how nice it was to be watching the sunset, I then realised I was no longer watching the sunset and I was thinking about watching the sunset. At this point, I smiled at my mind thinking and came back to the present moment and started watching it again.
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So much could be missed if we let our minds wonder too far. It is best to be in the present. We are most connected if we are experiencing the moment at that moment while it is happening.
This moment is the only moment that has ever been, or will ever be.
Where is the past? Where is tomorrow? They’re a dream.
This moment is real. You’ve always been here.
This moment is beautiful. No matter what is going on. It is the only second were alive in.
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