5 Notes To Living

Salvation is your only purpose. I read this once in an Eckhart Tolle book, and then had a dream where someone I knew told me those exact words. The phrase has popped up here and there since then and I can't help but feel there is a reason for it. What does it mean? I can't remember exactly how Tolle explained it, but for me it means that, in the end, salvation is getting to the end, surviving and having learned at least a little something. Living is in and of itself Life's purpose. Experience.

Something in the universe loves me. Let's forget tagging it with a moniker as limiting as "God." SOMETHING loves me. I feel it in my core. Something wants me to keep going. To make it just one more day past all the hurtles and hate. Something has nested in my soul. Or maybe my body has evolved around it. If SOMETHING is god and god is inside all of us, then we are all god. And I heard once that god is love. When you pray, you are not reaching out into the sky but inward.

God is Being, not a being. That tingling in your fingertips. That is god.

Rethink everything you've ever been taught. Research. Never follow someone blindly, no matter how wise they seem. There is no Truth. No really. The world and all its history is a matter of perspective. The rest is illusion, right? I firmly believe that no human can know everything. No person has ever hit on precisely what happens after we die, be they preacher, pope, or politician. If someone knew exactly what happened after death, why, that person would be amazing. And here in our world we have people running around like birds squawking "Heaven and Hell!" or "alien abduction" or "nothing at all." What gall to think we know anything about what happens after death. Every idea of the After anyone has ever thought of is impossible because our minds are too limited. Heaven or Nothing. Neither can exist. But then, in saying that, I've made a philosophical loop, haven't I? If anything anyone has ever thought of the After cannot be, then neither can what I've just postulated.

Forgiveness is giving up hope that you can ever change the past. This one hit me just recently. I really needed to hear it. For a while - for years, in fact - I have been thinking to myself, "Damn! If only I had listened to my inner voice and not gone out that night. Then I wouldn't have been tackled and gotten sick. If only...If only..." But thinking like that is a waste of time and energy. In this universe I did fall, I did get sick. What ifs are useless exercises and serve only to bring one down.

So say-ith the Arvin!