I spent the first 58 years of my life searching for fulfillment and acceptance.

“If I could just excel at something [games, projects, school, art, hobbies, sex, drugs, alcohol, karate, work, bicycling, skiing, motorcycling] MAYBE I’d be worthy of love.”

 

Notice there are no group sports or activities on that list. I don’t play well with others. I spent most of my life searching for self-validation – and failing that, some sort of immediate gratification.

No regrets but no success either – until late in 2015 when I FOUND what I was looking for!!! I had an epiphany about the nature of our consciousness.

I’d been studying and practicing Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras for thirteen years.

Patanjali’s 200-line prehistoric poem codifies and outlines the practice of Raja Yoga, the science and practice of mindfulness, which inspired the Ten Commandments and the Serenity Prayer, and fuels my faith in the existence of something omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent: God.

 

The crazy thing is – once it clicks, it’s stupid simple.

Ironically and unfortunately, I can’t simply give it to you! Believe me, I’ve tried!!

YOU have to practice incessantly first to “see” it, and then to continue “seeing” it. Living in full awareness (without ignorance of the divine nature of our own consciousness) is a full-time discipline but as with everything we do, we get better at it and the rewards are cumulative. 😉

Once you see it – after a few head smacks and several “ARE YOU F@CKING KIDDING ME?!” moments you’ll smile a LOT more.

See the miracle of life from the inside out. Meditate!

 

Love, Skip