Spiritual Cosplay

What matters most in life isn’t the analysis.

It’s the living.

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I wrote something long and honest, but in the end I realized this:

We spend so much of our lives thinking, processing, looping, dissecting…

and sometimes the bravest thing we can do is step out of the mind and back into the moment.

So instead of asking the ether what the world needs to hear/know/read-

I’m asking you what makes you feel most alive?

and then begging you to GO- go and do that.

Because what the world truly needs, are more people who are fully ALIVE.

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So instead of a thousand words, I’ll leave you with this:

Remember to feel the sunlight on your skin today.

Or perhaps, taste the rain drops dripping down your chin.

Take a deep breath.

Laugh with someone.

Jump in the ocean.

Let something simple be enough.

BE HERE, right here, FULLY — because this is your real life.

This is the real you, right here in this moment.

Love it or hate it- whatever you do, at least LIVE it.

Everything else can wait.

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From Alan Watts:

“I, I think if I could get you to do one thing

I would say that when you get to the point that you

Really feel, highly motivated, to, just, towards keeping your virtue

Then you'll, you'll discover quite quickly how extraordinary a life was meant to be

Could be

And it's, it's just we get so messy, it's not that we are doing lots of wrong things

Our mind is so messy

We don't keep it simple

And we end up making the life that we are living, so in—ordinarily complicated

Completely unnecessarily, and it's such a shame to end up feeling, in a real muddle

When actually, you ought to be having the time of your lives

It doesn't actually take very much to make the deepest part of us incredibly happy

You know?

Just to be here, just to appreciate

Appreciate being here

To feel that you're alive

To be in touch with your heart

That's it

That's it

It takes mindfulness to come to a human life

And then above that, it takes mindfulness and virtue

To come to a fortunate human life

The chance to be part of this happens briefly

The invitation is not to show how inventive and imaginative you are

But how much you can notice what you're already part of

And appreciate it and share it

And care about those that are around who count for their welfare

While you are looking out for your own, that's it

And then you'll get to the end of it, having had an awesome time

Knowing, that, that is something you'd recommend to others

Ah

You all know

You already know this place inside, where it's alright

You all know that when you let the ego go, it's not this black hole that you jump into

You all know it

Why can't we do it?

And yet the world is creaking under the strain of this in—ordinarily complicated

Mass of humanity and actually you know, it's really simple

When you came here

You came here with a sense of awe and wonder, dying to just see what it's about

You know, it's like, what would it be like?

To be down there?

To be part of it?

And you came here with a sense of wonder

And somehow the wonder of it wasn't enough

And we stopped wondering and started to wonder about ourselves

And in your wondering about yourself

You forgot what you came here for, what you came to be a part of.”