Significant Truths/Discoveries

11. Glorious things occur when you let them. It’s not about passivity. I sometimes find myself waiting around for something to happen. I have to remember that I am not only the protagonist in my own life, but I am also the author.

12. Happiness is sometimes fashionably late, but it is always the life of the party when it arrives.

^A pretty sky after a torrential downpour in NYC last summer

9. The people I love and need to be around are the ones that love themselves and want the same for themselves. These people also love, value, and bring out highest/truest/most real version of me.

10. I must make time to listen to my own breath and heartbeat and to observe without judgement. Meditation may not lead me to some great understanding of life’s overall meaning, but it does take me to a place of calm and peace that lies deep within myself. Below all of the layers of emotion, knowledge, and doubt there is a me that just is.

One of my yoga instructors compared this to an ocean. She said that we are all drops of water in this vast ocean, and that sometimes our drop of water rises to the top where the waves are. Sometimes we get to the crest, and it can be pretty tumultuous at times, but we just have to ride it out. But eventually, our water drop finds its way back to the deep water again- the still and quiet water. She told us that whenever we are being tossed on a giant wave, we can always sit and breathe and take ourselves back to that deep water. I thought this was so beautiful-knowing that there is a safe place that I can access when I need it.

So there’s that. =]

I guess what I mean by the first truth is that experiences cannot be measured against one another. I think we can aspire to achieve certain things and live through certain events but the experience one person has is still unique to that person. I especially don’t mean to say that I am any better than those who say they have achieved some higher level of consciousness through hallucinogens. I just don’t think that this path toward enlightenment has to be the only one for every person. I have in the past felt a sort of attitude from some who have (and this is certainly not all who have nor was it intentional, I’m sure) like, “One day when the time is right for you, you will see what I mean.” No- I am okay with where I am. Yes- maybe one day I will try it, but I know that my path has not lead me there yet, and I am okay with what it is showing me right now.

This is leading me to the next truth discovered today over a cup of coffee and french toast:

4. Any time I judge others, I am judging them against me, meaning that I’ve already passed some sort of positive or negative judgement against myself. I think that we just need to try hardest to see ourselves where we are. Right now. (For me, this is maybe the hardest one to accomplish.)

Hey and that is leading to 5-8…

5. I  AM (YOU ARE) IMPORTANT.

6. Everyone is capable of fantastic things.

7. It is okay not to be perfect.

8.I like who I am, and want to be the highest/truest/most real version of myself always.

1.       I do not need any sort of hallucinogenic drug to achieve a state of higher self-awareness. I can achieve this consciousness as I grow and learn to look inside myself to find ultimate reality. Those who have had this experience are not on a “higher” plane than I am, and are not better than I. Each person has a collection of his or her own experiences that have created or masked reality for himself or herself, and each collection is unique and cannot be compared with one another.

2.       Pursuing one’s art or craft is the best way to glorify and give thanks for this experience of life that we are given in the first place.

3.       ART IS IMPORTANT.

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