Hello again and welcome.
Today I'd like to invite you.
Into a simple question not to answer.
But to quietly explore.
Is there a better life waiting for me?
It is a question many of us have quietly asked.
Perhaps not always in words,
But.
.
.
As a quiet longing.
Perhaps when life changes,
Things will then feel complete.
When the right relationship appears.
When there is more security.
When there is better health.
And there is more time.
When there is greater understanding,
Then life will truly begin to feel complete.
There is nothing wrong with planning,
Nothing wrong with learning,
Nothing wrong with growing.
The practical future has its place.
It helps us.
Care for this body.
Prepare wisely.
Respond to life.
Each time.
But there is another future,
A psychological future,
One imagined by thought.
A future where one finally becomes enough.
Where something longed for is finally found,
Where life is imagined to be more complete.
Than it is now.
Notice.
That this future is never experienced.
It is only imagined.
A picture,
A hope.
A projection,
A story.
All appearing.
Within thought.
The future,
When it arrives,
Is never experienced as the future.
It is only ever this moment,
As it is,
Again and again.
A separate self was built upon becoming more.
It quietly believes that fulfilment lies ahead.
That peace or happiness belongs to tomorrow.
That a fulfilled life is waiting just beyond.
This moment.
And there is nothing wrong with this movement.
I simply is how thought tries to improve,
To complete.
The story of being someone.
Somewhere else.
But awareness is nowhere to arrive.
Nothing to become as nothing is missing.
It does not wait for life to begin.
As something else?
He simply knows life as it is.
In each precious moment.
Perhaps an imagined better life that mind is waiting for can only ever appear as a thought.
While awareness knows.
Can only ever appear.
As what is here.
This breath.
This sound.
This feeling,
This quiet.
Living presence.
Life continues to unfold.
Circumstances continue to change.
There will be new beginnings and unexpected endings.
It'll be joy.
Loss,
Learning and love.
Yet throughout every change,
Awareness has never been waiting for life to begin.
Or to be anything more than what it is.
Perhaps there is not a better life waiting for you.
Perhaps there is only this life.
Already present.
Quietly unfolding.
Just as it is.
And perhaps the deepest peace is not found by reaching for the life the mind imagines.
But by recognising the life.
That has never been absent.
If this contemplation has resonated with you.
You are warmly invited.
Welcome.
To explore the rest of this growing collection.
Each one is another doorway.
To the same Self.
Recognition.
