"Whether or not you are awake or free, whether you love unconditionally or live wholeheartedly in any given moment, in this moment, is entirely up to you."
-- Scott Morrison
If you've been around the planet for awhile, even a short while, people have most likely done some pretty mean, rotten, or just plain unconscious, things to you. Hell, even if you're a new born baby reading this, just a few moments ago the doctor probably smacked you on the ass! What the hell was that all about?
But no matter what's happened to you, you are responsible for your own consciousness, for your own stance in the world. No one can make us be unaware or unloving. Those may be the dysfunctional choices we have made in response to past suffering, or anticipated future suffering, but at any point in time we can choose again to be loving, open, and aware instead.
It's all about living, really being, in the present moment. Your only point of power is in the present. The present is where you get to decide what your stance in life will be right now. Most people just unconsciously ride a train of thought that leads them to recreate the feelings and experiences of the past. They don't even realize they have a choice!
True, life isn't fair. I used to hate it when my parents would tell me that. "But it should be," I'd reply. Now I realize that shoulds don't matter. Even if we all wanted life to be fair, we could never make it so because fairness is such a subjective standard. What we can do, however, is take personal responsibility for each thought we think, each action we take, now and now and now, and on ad infinitum.
The entire spiritual path can be viewed as one long exercise in just getting up one more time than you fall down. You go unconscious in the blink of an eye. But then, just as quickly, the light of awareness snaps on again. You stand up, brush yourself off, and grin a bit sheepishly at the magnificence of the this present moment, every present moment. You are fully aware, loving and alive, and, if only for a fleeting moment, you are truly having the time of your life!
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