Live the Dream

Ask someone who is living a dream what it feels like.  The person tells you that the description has the less momentum, intensity and realness about it than the experience itself.  Its inevitable.  When you step outside awareness of the moment, it loses something for you are no longer here.

Notice when you love what you are doing, time collapses or you lose a sense of time.  When you do not even like what you are doing, time seems to drag out and the experience lasts far too long.  Time is a gauge.  How much you spend on something reveals an unconscious priority.  Whether you notice time or not also tells you a lot about how real something it for you.  A dream is often viewed as something surreal, something to work toward.  Yet, it is also a feeling or state of being. 

Stop and smell the flowers

Notice what revs you up and gets you excited. You may be someone who is conditioned to do, do, do and go, go, go.  You may pride yourself on your planning and strategies to make yourself feel you live life to the fullest.  As fun as it is to experience different places and activities, what if you could be happy and find something worthwhile smelling the flowers right where you are?

Listen to words you use in conversation. It is easy to allow yourself to focus on what you are doing later today, tomorrow or on the horizon, or what you have already done.  In doing so, notice the unseen and unmentioned is here and now. If you feel anything other than appreciation about where you are and all that is unfolding in life, then get ready for another way of seeing.   You can do something, everything or nothing and it all smells of the same love in the heart. 

Find the perfect way

Every moment offers opportunities to make the most of where you are and what is unfolding.  Discover works of art within yourself you never knew existed.  Imagine you are a potter or a painter with a store of masterpieces.  Each inner quality is like a masterpiece that wants to get noticed.  Yet, the moment it exerts effort to be noticed, the recognition received holds no value.

As you begin to realize everything and everyone has innate value, you can sit next to anyone and be loyal to what is lost and what is found within yourself.  This can be a colleague, a friend, a co-worker or even a stranger at a bus-stop.  Listen with respect to what the person says.  Be aware of pointers to what is left unsaid.  Say what the person wishes to hear in a way that conveys what you wish to say.  You both get what you need out of the interaction. When mutual understanding exists, people do not impose ideas.  Rather, each person finds the perfect way along the path.

Experience this timeless moment

Pay attention. Notice how time controls you and how you can experience timelessness. Some people stop wearing a watch or consciously shift focus of attention. Know time does not have to control or define you. Notice time only shapes and limits your life, if you allow it. You are not at the end of a process. You are the process, the original force of cosmic explosions, unfolding and expanding forever. You are the energy of the universe beyond definition.

To truly start to see things as they are, go into them. Be them. Feel what vision is as Soul. See the brilliant light of the cosmos in everything.  You evoke light in it all. BEing who you are, you call into being the light of everything. Be the timeless light.

Get the message

Every person you encounter is drawing your attention to something you are not yet noticing about yourself.  You may be in a plane, train, taxi, bus or some other mode of transport. You may meet in passing at the local library or bookstore, be sitting in a park, or you may be out walking your pet. Revelations arise as you stand in line waiting to be served and you chat with strangers. You may be sitting next to another parent at your child's sports event. Nothing is ever random. Everything and everyone is a pointer. Notice what is emerging through each encounter. You create them all to help yourself. Notice what you see, feel and experience.

Be aware each encounter is a guide and mirror. See the appropriateness of them. Every choice you make has a purpose. You decide what matters. You decide how the guidance unfolds in your life; in passing, triggering eureka moments, evolving into intimacy, friendships or connecting with temporary or lifelong mentors. Each one is a window. Retreat into your own natural stillness. Get the message you reach for right now.