Imagining

Imagine the most excruciating pain possible. Imagine the volts of electicity that pain is generating. Imagine that electricity being used expressing joy instead. Imagine being so overcome with joy that you are spilling over all around you. You are like a fountain. A fountain thinks not about where the water will land after being shot out into the air. The very next wave will land in the very same place. The fountain is only engaged with the water shooting through it. It is so preoccupied with that it can only see and feel that aspect of the trajectory. It is all it can do to maintain that opening.

How in tune are you with your opening? How in tune are you with the energy gushing through it? Are you tapping that energy? Are you receiving the messages attached to it? Are you even aware of that energy gushing through you?

Stop and take a step back. Look at the beauteous scene before you. How many parts of it are you actively engaged in? Can you see the whole picture? Can you feel the whole picture?

Can you be the whole picture? Can you embrace and let go of that which quickly turns into the past? While simultaneously embracing each new turn of the kaleidoscope? Can you find and maintain the equilibrium in the music you are dancing to? Are you constantly moving?

How emphatically can you embrace each new landscape as it comes into view? How easily are you there? How easily do you move into new feeling-tones? How easily do you weep at new vistas of beauty? How eagerly do you embrace them? How much joy slaps up against you as you move through the undergrowth? How much joy wells up inside you as you turn each new bend? How much joy keeps you moving and yearning for the next bend?

The universe is so unlimited that we could experience joy every minute from now through the next billion years. And nothing but joy. We could be so overcome with joy that we would merge with our essence and become that which we've always wanted to become: Gods of Joy. We would then be able to create entire universes all by ourselves. Because we will have learned how to build universes; with joy. Every single moment of joy is an entire universe. We can create as many as we want. They all last forever. And each and every one of them can only be found in the NOW.

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There are many ways to cross a valley. If traveling by foot, the journey will require a descent followed by an inevitable ascent. Once you've made it to the other side you can look back across the depths you had overcome back to where you started. You can see that starting point and all your memories of it are triggered. But having crossed the valley you are now a different person.

We can change in numerous ways. While the change is inevitable how we change is still up to us. Every moment of metamorphosis can be an epiphany of grand proportions. Every journey may have a destination. The best journeys have multiple destinations. Journeying towards that destination is where all the opportunities and possibilities lie. We have plenty of time to explore. As we move through our journey the destination changes as we do.

Turning a corner we embark on a whole new quest. Around every corner we find our selves; another part of ourselves to incorporate into the self making the journey. You cannot make a wrong turn because every turn leads to more of us.

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When there are no more elephants then you will know that everything has changed. When the sky is different, too, will our lives be different? Can you imgine such extreme differences? Can you imgine a whole new world?

Can you imagine having different bodies? Can you imagine a life so drastically different that it hardly even resembles life as we know it today? Can you imagine a life that is not centered around working and making money? Where will your attention go? Can you imagine a life centered around having fun? Can you imagine a life filled with joy all day, every day? What would be your reaction to this? Are we so conditioned to life the way we currently live it that change to a new way of life seems impossible?

How do we let go of our conditioning? How do we embrace a new way of life?

The first step is imagining. The next step is surrender. The next step is making movement. The next step is walking off a precipice into the unknown. The unknown is the canvas upon which we imagine. Without imagining we step off into air.

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