There's so much noise,
And yet the truth is so simple.
The heart is so simple.
The heart is just what's sincere,
What's really there.
And the noise in the mind,
Oh my goodness,
It's so complicated.
There's 10,
000 things in the mind,
Right?
There's 10,
000 opinions of other people.
Isn't that hilarious?
Imagine you had 1,
000 people,
And you were concerned about how each one of them saw you,
What they thought about you.
Imagine all the noise of going through each person and figuring out how you can manipulate their perspective of you so that they see you a certain way.
That's exhausting.
And it's so much noise,
And it's irrelevant,
All for the purpose of helping you hide from what's deeply sincere,
That ultimately won't work anyway.
It's just distracting you.
It's giving you something to do,
Something to think about.
It points to the profound nature of life's conscious design that is set up to support you.
And there are many different ways to point to this.
But as far as I'm concerned,
They're all just stories that can't actually touch it.
But it's pointing to something profoundly true,
Which is to also say something like,
Life is 100% on your side.
And deeply desires to support the sincerity of your heart in everything you do in this life.
Another way of saying it,
There are 10,
000 angels all around you,
All the time,
Cheering you on.
Do you see that,
All the different ways we could describe it?
But underneath all of that,
You are so not alone.
You are a part of this.
You are a part of this conscious design that has been set up for a very intentional purpose,
Which,
As a way of pointing,
Could simply be the purpose of love's expansion,
For more love to be seen.
And this love,
This infinite supply of love that you are inseparable from,
Wants nothing more but to flow through the expression of what you are and expand into the world.
And there are infinite ways for it to do that.
But for you,
There's only one way.
And that one way is the obvious purpose of why you're here.
You get to figure that out.
And the pathway of that is simply following your deepest sincerity,
Honoring what's true.
And then it manifests itself in a particular form.
And you don't know where it's going,
Which is part of the terror.
But that's also the truth of life,
Is it not?
Tomorrow is unknown.
Embrace the truth.
Or do you want your fantasy about tomorrow?
Our stories of security.
Our stories that essentially say,
I'll give you security tomorrow if you don't be honest today.
If you do what I tell you to do,
Then I'll give you security.
But it's just an illusion.
What is security if you're living a life that's caged?
Gosh,
This really speaks to an opportunity to view life in a completely different way.
Like,
I'm here for a temporary experience called being human on planet Earth.
I have no idea how long it's going to last.
It could be another month.
It could be another year.
It could be another 30 years.
I don't know.
I'm going to just dive in.
Maybe I live shorter.
Maybe I live longer.
I don't know.
But I'm going to dive in.
What is a long life that's caged?
Doesn't sound like life at all.
What is a short life that's full of passion,
Enthusiasm,
Adventure,
Fulfilling your call?
You know,
In a worldly way,
It's kind of like saying,
What is a life where you have a job or run a business that you're not interested in,
And you make billions of dollars and have lots of stuff,
But your heart can't breathe?
What kind of life is that?
Is that life?
What is a life where you don't have much at all?
You don't have much at all,
But you have beautiful friends.
You get to sing and dance,
And there's so much love inside of you,
You can't help but share it with everyone you see.
But you don't have a lot of stuff.
And even if you did have a lot of stuff,
You just don't care that much about it.
Life isn't about stuff.
Life is about being alive.
All this stuff just helps me hide from my insecurities.
It helps me paint a picture that is an illusion of myself that I think is important.
It helps me hide.
What is this life?
What is it really,
Right?
I love these types of inquiries.
What is it really?
Yes,
There's what we've been taught.
There's what we've been told.
But what's really going on inside of you?
Because the truth being the truth,
What is real being,
What is real,
At least for me,
I cannot escape the reality of sincerity.
The reality of how I'm really doing beyond all the pretending.
That's real.
It's there.
And the pretending is the pretending.
So often this hits you in spaces of stillness or silence,
Which,
Of course,
Is why we're so quick to distract ourselves.
We don't want to sit there and actually face what's going on inside of us.
Why?
Because it's going to beg you to let go and go play,
Which means you're going to have to let go of all your stuff.
And what is the stuff?
It's so much.
I could say it's not just possessions,
But even all this other stuff in the mind is some form of possession.
Right,
Like the opinions of other people are a form of possessions,
These ideas that you collect.
It's all just ideas.
This is another thing that's wild to me.
Like all your physical stuff,
The things you think you own,
What is that other than an idea?
Right,
Say you have something nice or something fancy.
What is that other than an idea about yourself that isn't really what you are?
Do you see this?
We have all these ideas about ourselves that we hide behind,
That cover up the raw reality of our humanness.
They're like an outfit that we put on.
And we are so much more concerned about what other people think about it,
The things we have,
Because it influences their perception of us,
Which is wild.
Isn't that fascinating how we would go into debt?
Because if we get this or that,
It means other people will think X,
Y,
Z about us?
Wild.
And just as equally,
We would not be honest.
We would not show up in a way that feels true,
Because we don't know how people are going to perceive it.
The same thing.
We incur a debt.
And my goodness,
Year after year,
That debt incurs.
It grows.
It compounds.
Maybe it's time to file for bankruptcy.
I say,
OK,
I'm done with all this.
I'm going to give all my stuff back to the bank.
It's over.
This doesn't mean anything at all.
I'm going to release myself from this burden,
And I'm going to go actually live life.
Rather than building up a narrative about myself that protects a particular image,
That hopes people will see me a certain way.
We are adorable creatures.
