You have everything going for you.

There’s not a thing on your mind you need to worry about right now. Whatever storms are raging, let them rage without your splashing in them, at least for a moment. There is a deep place inside you – a very real place – that is untouched by the horrors and sadness of life around you. It’s also untouched when excited about a promotion or a romantic prospect or positive attention. 

There are a bunch of different ways to find that place of stillness deep inside you. That place that isn’t touched by desire – wanting this or that to come into your life. And, it isn’t touched by fear – afraid of losing this or that.

It’s just there. It goes by a dozen names, but you can call it whatever you want – or let it have no name. Because, once you name something, you give it a form. And, once you give something a form, you can argue over it, and fight over it, and give yourself an excuse to be judgmental and unloving.

That never really feels good if we’re honest about it.

But, the nice thing about that still place in you, is that it’s quiet, yet it’s got everything in the world in it.

How many worries and thoughts and ideas can you hold in your head at once? I kind of think of my ego – mind/intellect/personality – all the ideas I have of my separateness – as a little box. It can hold a lot of things, but pretty much one at a time – maybe two. If I say, “I’ve got a million things coming into my head at once!” it probably means I’m stressed, and even then, it’s more a game of Whack-A-Mole, with each thought popping up in succession.

One of the great things about the still place, is that, if you remember to step behind the thoughts that might be haunting you today, is that it holds everything. Every thought imaginable. Every thing your mind can create. 

You can choose to meditate on what it is you desire. You can choose to meditate on every thing you fear. Every thought you entertain is a meditation after all. But, isn’t that a limited way to go? Isn’t it like sitting in the same cinema of a multiplex that hosts a myriad of theaters as far as the eye can see??

So, if whatever is in your mind today is causing you stress or sadness, you can choose to let it go. Tell it sincerely, “I love you, I’ll do my best. Thanks for educating me. But, I’d like to focus on something more uplifting for myself right now.” If there is someone in the world who gives you knowledge or judgment of some kind, no matter who it is, but you feel there isn’t really any love in it, only sadness, let it go. 

You could be the worst person who ever lived. That’s quite an accomplishment! You could be the greatest person who ever lived. An even harder accomplishment. But, that still place in you goes beyond mankind’s ethical judgments, which are always changing. “It’s okay to eat this animal, but not that one.” “It’s okay to love this person, but not that one.” That still place won’t judge you. If you feel judgment, know that’s coming from your thoughts. Get more and more behind the thoughts. Be in the place of observing the thoughts. 

“Every thought you entertain is a meditation after all. But, isn’t that a limited way to go? Isn’t it like sitting in the same cinema of a multiplex that hosts a myriad of theaters as far as the eye can see??”

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The still place in you loves you. It is love. It is peace. It serenity. It is gentleness. But, it is the strongest place of all, because it can’t be touched by stupidity and anger and intellect and judgment. It’s in You. So you can learn from all the experts and respected ones in the world, but you can eventually stop giving your money away or your personal power, because it’s something you were carrying all along (look at the message for the Scarecrow, Lion, and Tinman in “The Wizard of Oz”). You had it all along.

But, they have it, too. It’s in the expert. It’s in the vile one nobody respects at all. It’s in every being.

The more you can shed your worries, and work from that still place inside YOU … the more you can look through the masks of others to the still place in THEM.

Try it sometime. Just work from the heart the next time you’re in line somewhere and tensions are running high. Or wherever it is. 

Look into that place in the other person and feel warmth in your heart. Once in a while, something amazing will happen. But, like a lot of things that seem to come from this place, it will be gentle and hardly seen. But, of a power greater than a million fierce arguments. 

You don’t deserve to be in pain today. You don’t deserve to let your mind beat yourself up today. Or, the minds of others. 

None of it will matter in a hundred years. And, none of it even has to matter tomorrow. Or, in the next moment. Whenever that next moment is you allow yourself to choose your thoughts.

Every skyscraper, every smartphone, every latest fashion, all came from a thought. They are pretty powerful things.

Don’t forget to say “I love you” to You. You do deserve it, no matter what you’ve thought or what you’ve done. That still place in you will always meet you there. 

I love you.

We’re a drop of water in a pond that causes ripples all about us. But, all the properties that make up the Universe is in that drop. It’s all in You. You are powerful indeed. And, you had it all along. In You.