Originality

These are not original thoughts I write here, anymore than any thought is original. The seed, fruit and essence of them are timeless and limitless. They are simply the echoes of my heart and mind; and have been written and spoken by many. The echoes of my heart and mind are only harmonic reflections of the heart and mind within you. For do we not all ignore the sound of our own inner voice? We hear the same sentiments from the lips of another and give it a validity which we deny ourselves with almost passionate glee?

For what is anything that man has ever created but a collection of thoughts and feelings? Be this from a game of chance to the structure of civilization. There is only one driving force that moves mankind forward and that is love. Not the grasping, clutching love of a person who wants it for what it can provide or, put bluntly, be called "possession in disguise."

No, I mean the love of a person for the simple fact that the focus of the love exists, in itself complete, whole and divine in its entirety. The love that makes Nature bloom, a child smile, your loved ones seem more than real. The love that makes the clouds move, that makes your heart beat.

Close this love off from our minds, and we are left with cold and empty fear, malice and suspicion. The joy is gone from living. There is no sense of accomplishment, least of all within the self.

If all of man's activities are thoughts and feelings, then what is the reality of it? Again it is love. Fear, malice and suspicion do not exist as such in the universe. They are simply a human being's reaction to having a lack of love in his heart and mind.

Divine love exists in the moment of here and now. Both past and future are partners in the crime of conspiracy to rob mankind of his present moment happiness. To be happy, savor and enjoy the here and now. It's the only now we have. Where is the past? It is hidden amongst the cob webbed corners of our minds, where it allures us with memories and so robs us of the present.

What of the future, that enigma we either fear or long for its coming with impatience? It will be here soon enough, and are you sure that what you long for now will still be wanted when it arrives, for arrive it will.

Leave the past to its own devices, and question not the future. Grasp the golden moment now, live to your fullest and the questions of future will be answered. You need not ask them, even. The answers will unfold as future, unseen, unheard, turns into your golden now. Live in love, love for others, love for everything, but most of all, for yourself. [first written in 1977]

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