Truth can be found anywhere, but only when one chooses to take notice...
T - Trust
R - Realization
U - Understanding
T - Teaching
H - Honor
With each new day comes a new opportunity to see through the illusion of life and see people and scenarios for what they truly are: chances to experience truth.
Most see or hear the word Truth and jump to the conclusion that truth is limited to their own understanding of a situation based on what their religion has told them the proper response should be.
My idea of truth is the absence of a pre-determined thought process based off of thousands of years of protocol, but a more practical application of experience and personal questioning of "does this help or hinder my ability to love my fellow man?"
Truth comes in the form of any form, any conversation, any walk along life's highway. Babies exude truth through their need for a parent's protection and affection. Billboards speak of higher ideals at times, sportscasters, street-walkers, books of faith, sunsets, a warm breeze brushing across your face, and even certain commercials can boast a degree of poignant, practicality.
Music as well as art, play huge roles in one's journey to experience realness. Words of a sonnet, poem or oration often have interwoven within them the very fabric to create, sustain, and fulfill one's need for experienced truth.
Use experience as your guide, let experience be the major player in deciding what works for you. Learn to trust your lived experience as the main ingredient for proof of some-things validity.
A nation of unquestioning souls is a crime against the minority and a crime against our God-given potential we all possess to be whole and complete humans be-ing part of our higher purpose - Realizing truth is everywhere, in everything, and amongst even the illusion of untruth.
Every moment of our lives we as people are actually 3 distinct yet unified beings: what we were, what we are, and who we choose to be relative to our surroundings and our desired environment... Thus, every moment of life is a moment of definition and creation through experience.
Embrace the "down," knowing full and well that the "up" would not be possible without its counterpart.
Desire choice, desire experiences both good and bad, desire to be part of something beneath and above you - If you live for the purpose of experiencing these things in your everyday life, your steps towards enlightenment will transform into a path towards the experience of a lifetime!
Peace and ongoing love,
Mason
Friday, January 28, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
From Dreams to Reality.
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
- Henry David Thoreau
The night is the time our brains are allowed to slow down from the fast pace of daily life, it’s in these slumbering hours that our minds are set free to think and process the day’s information and where it will lead us upon our predestined awakening. When we dream we’re actually subconsciously processing all the entertained energy from the day we just passed on from. In a sense: at night we’re evolving the way we thought throughout the day even while not purposely thinking.
The dream is what interests me, what’s in a dream that leaves an imprint that lasts into conscious movement?
We all have had indelible dreams over our lifetime, whether they were while sleeping or during the process of daydreaming, these dreams leave us convinced with the notion that anything is possible. So why when we as people “wake up” do we think that awakening means distrusting the awesome opportunity we all have, to not only realize the power of our dreams, but also their incredible truth-promoting essence? Why do we spend most of our day disproving our dreams and their chance of happening? Why is there so much doubt in the alert hours and so much trusted promise during the hours of our slumber?
There’s power in our dreams, the power to be who we truly want to be accompanied with the tools necessary to accomplish the process of creation. I often awake in the midst of deep-sleep feeling energized and inspired because before my eyes opened I was soaring with the eagles or sailing within the confines of an open and limitless wind. I awake knowing anything is possible, any dream is attainable, any goal warranted, and any summit climbable. As the day moves along at the pace of life I often stop entertaining the power of the promise that my dreams contained and instead I substitute thoughts of inadequacy and limited production. How can we be so sure of our potential when we wake but so scared of a confining world when we close our eyes at the end of the day’s wakening thought?
It’s in our dreams that we come the closest to who we were created to be, it’s when our soul is at its freest. The trick is carrying on the dreams throughout our everyday walk and incorporating their energy from step to step. Those who dare to continue dreaming throughout the day are the only people who will ever believe that their human potential is limitless.
If you dream something, whatever it is, the act of believing it’s possible is the same creative power that your God used to create the world we find ourselves in. Anything accomplished in life started as someone’s dream, from a dream spawned thought, from thought spawned action; this is the creation process for anything we hold true, for now and everything to come in the future- dream, thought, action!
If there’s something you want in life, someone you wish to be like, any goal you desire, start by allowing yourself to entertain the thoughts of your previous night’s or day’s dream. Meditate on it, visualize what it would be like to have that thing or to be that person, imagine how it would feel or smell or what it would taste like. Make your dream an everyday, conscious exercise of awareness, and your dreams will have no choice but to become your reality.
Anything in life is yours for the creating, who is it you want to be? What is it you wish to have? Who do you desire to affect? Where do you want to be standing? All things are possible if you first believe in your created worth. Next, allow yourself to dream dreams of greatness, then prepare yourself to fully entertain those dreams throughout your daily walk of life. *If you believe in this creation process, life is anything but mundane.
I believe in everyone of you because I know we all came from the same place of ultimate potential and all we’re doing on this Earth is trying to re-member with this realization. We are all great when we believe in our greatness, until then we are left wondering “when” and “why” instead of knowing “who” and “because of what.”
As always, I have trust in your ability to be great!
Mason
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Free to Walk as we Choose
Seek help with patience and prayer: A hard duty indeed is this, but not to the humble, Who bear in mind that they shall meet their Lord, and that unto Him shall they return.
- The Koran 42-43
Is not the God of many religions one in the same? Is not the message of most faith practices the innate need for love and faith and happiness? Is not the goal of religion to bring people together under a common banner of inclusion and worship in order to better serve the world they live in?
Upon coming to the answers to these questions I remain with a final question among much wondering: Why exclude the thought that many paths can converge upon the same inevitable and faith-filled road home?
The goal of religion should be to foster a feeling of "being home", not the otherwise dominant mindset of many, that one route or another reigns supreme over the rest.
In the beginning we were ALL among each other uncreated in bodily form, equal and just. So why during the walk of life down Faith's Highway do we choose to police the boundaries?
If I leave on foot from Virginia today with a goal of reaching my childhood home in California, are there not many routes available to choose from, with only the equal intent of travel being my motivator?
Regardless of my choice of roads, any could prove very worthwhile for a vast number of unforseen reasons. Any route I choose will have its ups and downs, but it will be the route that best fits my perceived wants and needs at the onslaught.
In any event, the path that I walk down will lead towards my end goal of reaching my birthplace.
Religion can be a beautiful and helpful tool in finding my way back to the beginning, but freedom of religion and an environment that fosters that is where the unity and true beauty comes from.
Inspiration is found even under the smallest rock along the most forgotten foot-path. Where we choose to place our steps is our individual right to choose, it's this beautiful and godly choice to create our own path that gives the human race the benefit over the other created species.
The goal of my faith and my religion is to be someone who welcomes all with open arms in an attempt to have someone to walk home with; what is the goal of yours?
As always I encourage you to love life and live a life of love.
Peace, love, and blessings...
Mason
- The Koran 42-43
Is not the God of many religions one in the same? Is not the message of most faith practices the innate need for love and faith and happiness? Is not the goal of religion to bring people together under a common banner of inclusion and worship in order to better serve the world they live in?
Upon coming to the answers to these questions I remain with a final question among much wondering: Why exclude the thought that many paths can converge upon the same inevitable and faith-filled road home?
The goal of religion should be to foster a feeling of "being home", not the otherwise dominant mindset of many, that one route or another reigns supreme over the rest.
In the beginning we were ALL among each other uncreated in bodily form, equal and just. So why during the walk of life down Faith's Highway do we choose to police the boundaries?
If I leave on foot from Virginia today with a goal of reaching my childhood home in California, are there not many routes available to choose from, with only the equal intent of travel being my motivator?
Regardless of my choice of roads, any could prove very worthwhile for a vast number of unforseen reasons. Any route I choose will have its ups and downs, but it will be the route that best fits my perceived wants and needs at the onslaught.
In any event, the path that I walk down will lead towards my end goal of reaching my birthplace.
Religion can be a beautiful and helpful tool in finding my way back to the beginning, but freedom of religion and an environment that fosters that is where the unity and true beauty comes from.
Inspiration is found even under the smallest rock along the most forgotten foot-path. Where we choose to place our steps is our individual right to choose, it's this beautiful and godly choice to create our own path that gives the human race the benefit over the other created species.
The goal of my faith and my religion is to be someone who welcomes all with open arms in an attempt to have someone to walk home with; what is the goal of yours?
As always I encourage you to love life and live a life of love.
Peace, love, and blessings...
Mason
Thursday, January 13, 2011
I'm very interested in the desire that people have to attack life with such a voracity that nothing stands in their way to get everything they want. What is it that remains constant between the excellence in people that holds their efforts more worthwhile than the rest? Is it their unyielding pursuit of perfection, or their unwillingness to believe the doubt that most people entertain and remain locked within? I think that some people choose not to believe or adhere to negativity; the people who enjoy the fruits of hard fought efforts are the same who allow no one or no-thing to deter their youngest and fondest dreams held most dear. If we are to be great in whatever field or venture we decide to tackle, the one constant is one's knowing that they are doing exactly what they were created to do. Whether it be a comedian who knew from childhood that laughter was their key to the hearts and minds of change, or the teacher who realized late in life that the world could be a better place because of the passing of knowledge, the decision made to listen to their heart's desire is the key to unlocking their human potential. I was talking with a successful friend in her perspective field the other day who rose from the underground to the forefront of prosperity in her profession, and her words are best left unchanged to finish out my thought for this first writing: "I always knew what I was here to do, in school I was the girl who made all my friends laugh, so it was easy for me to follow my path."
Life is best lived and most optimal for success when we chose to walk down the path of success that our hearts have laid before us since the beginning of our time and the pronouncement of our birth.
Live to pursue excellence in your desired field, or choose not to, the choice as always and forever is yours to make. Be the best you were made to be or live in fear of perfect success; choose now or later, but at some point the question of whether to act will creep up on us all.
Peace and love,
mason
Life is best lived and most optimal for success when we chose to walk down the path of success that our hearts have laid before us since the beginning of our time and the pronouncement of our birth.
Live to pursue excellence in your desired field, or choose not to, the choice as always and forever is yours to make. Be the best you were made to be or live in fear of perfect success; choose now or later, but at some point the question of whether to act will creep up on us all.
Peace and love,
mason
Monday, May 17, 2010
Passion is What Inspires
"If a man's faith is unsteady, if he does not know the true law, if his peace of mind is troubled, his knowledge will never be perfect."
-The Buddha
I went to a local orchestra performance last week where some of the finest music of all time was played. For the first time in my life I was able to experience the power and majesty of someone who had maximized their ability within the confines of their passion. Not only was the music beautiful to the ear but inspiring to the soul. I left the concert hall a changed man in some ways, a better man in one particular way - I experienced passion at its purest, it was written all over the faces of those pronouncing to the world their love for music.
I was particularly moved by the cellist, and the way she made her instrument sing with such beauty that I hoped it would never end. It put me in a trance, a state where recognition of my own passion and desire came to the forefront of my conscious thought. It was then that I realized life is not about perfecting a craft or mastering a trade; true inspiration and the ability to inspire others comes from uninhibited passion we allow to freely flow towards whatever calling we're on this earth to be part of.
It made me think about those people in my life who are one with their destiny, and those who have full-heartedly embraced their reason for living. For those people life is easy, the road clear of debris, almost effortlessly they walk alongside their desires and achieve their dreams.
One of the keys to happiness is finding what you're passionate about and stopping at nothing to not only embrace it, but indulging in your passion. Life becomes hazy and chaotic when we veer off course and settle for something less than our highest vision of ourselves and what we're here to do.
Like the cellist, it's not about the music you play but instead it's with how much love you play the notes. Find your calling by looking inside yourself through prayer, meditation or whatever means necessary, then embrace your destiny and your soul will have no choice but to sing and cause others to harmonize.
It matters not whether you reach perfection, for it's not the music that you play that inspires people, but the passion with which it's played. Finding passion in life is the link between dreaming and turning dreams into reality, as well as steadying your faith.
-The Buddha
I went to a local orchestra performance last week where some of the finest music of all time was played. For the first time in my life I was able to experience the power and majesty of someone who had maximized their ability within the confines of their passion. Not only was the music beautiful to the ear but inspiring to the soul. I left the concert hall a changed man in some ways, a better man in one particular way - I experienced passion at its purest, it was written all over the faces of those pronouncing to the world their love for music.
I was particularly moved by the cellist, and the way she made her instrument sing with such beauty that I hoped it would never end. It put me in a trance, a state where recognition of my own passion and desire came to the forefront of my conscious thought. It was then that I realized life is not about perfecting a craft or mastering a trade; true inspiration and the ability to inspire others comes from uninhibited passion we allow to freely flow towards whatever calling we're on this earth to be part of.
It made me think about those people in my life who are one with their destiny, and those who have full-heartedly embraced their reason for living. For those people life is easy, the road clear of debris, almost effortlessly they walk alongside their desires and achieve their dreams.
One of the keys to happiness is finding what you're passionate about and stopping at nothing to not only embrace it, but indulging in your passion. Life becomes hazy and chaotic when we veer off course and settle for something less than our highest vision of ourselves and what we're here to do.
Like the cellist, it's not about the music you play but instead it's with how much love you play the notes. Find your calling by looking inside yourself through prayer, meditation or whatever means necessary, then embrace your destiny and your soul will have no choice but to sing and cause others to harmonize.
It matters not whether you reach perfection, for it's not the music that you play that inspires people, but the passion with which it's played. Finding passion in life is the link between dreaming and turning dreams into reality, as well as steadying your faith.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Seperate Yourself from the Rest
Whatever a great man does ordinary people will follow;
Whatever standard he sets everyone else will follow.
- Bhagavad Gita 3.21
Recently a friend of mine presented me with a radically simple idea that changed my entire outlook on life and my own personal potential for living it. My view on human potential is straight forward for all people - we all have unlimited ability to be, and to create anything we choose. The power behind the choice comes from the choice itself, and the belief that whatever we choose for ourselves we deserve to experience. The only thing that limits our potential is the beliefs we carry about the particular thing we desire. If you want something bad enough, envision yourself having that thing or being that which you desire, what it would feel like to possess it, what it would taste like or smell like etc... Once you have envisioned having that thing or being that person, simply choose to be that which you envisioned from this point on - live out that idea every second of every minute of every hour of every day. If you decide to BE what it is you desire most, you'll eventually have what you wanted most to start with. Life is nothing but the experience of creation, bending over backwards to give us our deepest and most inspiring desires! To get back to my original idea that changed my outlook... I realized the disconnect in my life between what I wanted and what I was getting could be found in the effort I had been giving my entire life towards achieving whatever goal I was pursuing. My friend asked me point blank, "Mason, do you give 100% effort to achieving success in whatever aspect of life you are going after?" My immediate response was a resounding YES, but as I internalized what her question really meant, I realized I hadn't been, and going back as far as I could remember my effort was never really exhausted. The major breakdown for me came in the form of never really knowing what my personal best was and what that looked like when represented. My entire life I based my effort off of those who surrounded me and off of what was acceptable for the situation at hand. I had been living a life based on what was seen as good by others, not what I saw as my 100%
A teacher I had in High School used to say, "It's not that I'm any better than anyone else, I just do what's expected of me given the specific task, which naturally separates me from everyone else involved." That is the attitude I had been using my entire life, that attitude served only enough to keep my living, not thriving. That attitude will serve the masses in this increasingly mediocre world and job force, but what I want for my life is not to be sufficient but magnificent! If you want more from life and you can't understand why the breaks just aren't falling your way, maybe you aren't giving YOUR personal best. If you're like I was, you based your effort off of what others put forth.
If you wish to reach for the stars, learning how to fly with the eagles is essential. We all know successful people in our lives, a major similarity that all of these men and women share in common is they all give their personal best, no matter what, no matter when. Giving your absolute best in the areas of life you wish to excel in is what separates the leader from the follower, the world-changer from those beaten down by the world.
I challenge all of you to look inside yourself and ask if you're giving your very best or just enough to pass off as sufficient. If you're like I was, make the choice to live and BE differently from here on out!
I believe in you!
YOU have what it takes to change the world!
At the root of all things we are all of the same being anyway, meaning we all have the potential to be great. Those who are already great have decided to make the choice to be, they decided to be magnificent.
Until next time...
Peace and LOVE
Whatever standard he sets everyone else will follow.
- Bhagavad Gita 3.21
Recently a friend of mine presented me with a radically simple idea that changed my entire outlook on life and my own personal potential for living it. My view on human potential is straight forward for all people - we all have unlimited ability to be, and to create anything we choose. The power behind the choice comes from the choice itself, and the belief that whatever we choose for ourselves we deserve to experience. The only thing that limits our potential is the beliefs we carry about the particular thing we desire. If you want something bad enough, envision yourself having that thing or being that which you desire, what it would feel like to possess it, what it would taste like or smell like etc... Once you have envisioned having that thing or being that person, simply choose to be that which you envisioned from this point on - live out that idea every second of every minute of every hour of every day. If you decide to BE what it is you desire most, you'll eventually have what you wanted most to start with. Life is nothing but the experience of creation, bending over backwards to give us our deepest and most inspiring desires! To get back to my original idea that changed my outlook... I realized the disconnect in my life between what I wanted and what I was getting could be found in the effort I had been giving my entire life towards achieving whatever goal I was pursuing. My friend asked me point blank, "Mason, do you give 100% effort to achieving success in whatever aspect of life you are going after?" My immediate response was a resounding YES, but as I internalized what her question really meant, I realized I hadn't been, and going back as far as I could remember my effort was never really exhausted. The major breakdown for me came in the form of never really knowing what my personal best was and what that looked like when represented. My entire life I based my effort off of those who surrounded me and off of what was acceptable for the situation at hand. I had been living a life based on what was seen as good by others, not what I saw as my 100%
A teacher I had in High School used to say, "It's not that I'm any better than anyone else, I just do what's expected of me given the specific task, which naturally separates me from everyone else involved." That is the attitude I had been using my entire life, that attitude served only enough to keep my living, not thriving. That attitude will serve the masses in this increasingly mediocre world and job force, but what I want for my life is not to be sufficient but magnificent! If you want more from life and you can't understand why the breaks just aren't falling your way, maybe you aren't giving YOUR personal best. If you're like I was, you based your effort off of what others put forth.
If you wish to reach for the stars, learning how to fly with the eagles is essential. We all know successful people in our lives, a major similarity that all of these men and women share in common is they all give their personal best, no matter what, no matter when. Giving your absolute best in the areas of life you wish to excel in is what separates the leader from the follower, the world-changer from those beaten down by the world.
I challenge all of you to look inside yourself and ask if you're giving your very best or just enough to pass off as sufficient. If you're like I was, make the choice to live and BE differently from here on out!
I believe in you!
YOU have what it takes to change the world!
At the root of all things we are all of the same being anyway, meaning we all have the potential to be great. Those who are already great have decided to make the choice to be, they decided to be magnificent.
Until next time...
Peace and LOVE
Saturday, May 1, 2010
What is Love
Erich Fromm put it beautifully when he wrote - "Love is union with somebody, or something, outside of oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self."
This whole idea of LOVE is so interesting to me because the more you try and wrap your mind around it the more love wraps around you. I truly believe that at the core of all things in existence, you find LOVE as the sponsoring creator. Even in the face of disaster there's a perfectness that can be seen if you look past what bias you have towards whatever seems wrong. When I speak of love in no way am I putting Hollywood quotations around the word because love and compassion and peace all have much more substance than "who finds who's soul mate for the time being." Real-love, God-love, has no weights attached and no strings left dangling to be pulled on. All of creation has been done as the ultimate act of love, and I see evolution as a tool that keeps the collective heartbeat of all people and things moving and beating. When I say God equals love, what I mean is that all things, in every way, point back towards an infinitely abundant and free life-giving source. A secret of life that most have not recognized is the fact that God wants for us what we want most for ourselves; why else would we get what we want so often? We draw near what we hold dear! What we keep our thoughts attached to becomes reality, the universe works that way and God is of, and more than the laws of the universe. A basic mantra to keep in mind is, what we hold clear, we draw near.
The very act of giving everyone of us limitless potential and complete control over our creative process without any demand of reciprocal thanks, proves that we as humans come from, and are sustained by that which is pure love. By definition found through my life, the greatest gift one can give a person is that which frees him/her from all binding, and on top of that asks for nothing in return. We are required to do nothing in this life if we so choose, but out of free will can choose to do anything, our potential is literally, LIMITLESS! We have the ability to bring Heaven to Earth and call it home if we so choose, but often we decide to do just the opposite. Because of our lack of living up to our created potential one can assert that we have perfect and unbinding freedom. Within the midst of chaos, love and perfection can be found if we choose to see life through the eyes of God. Love is constant, but also a choice; a beautiful and comforting dichotomy.
I'll leave you with one last thought - If love is a choice and we know the beautiful after-effects of any decision made out of love, why don't we choose this option more often?
The only thing that separates the enlightened man/woman from the everyday man/woman is the choices he/she makes...
until next time...
Peace and LOVE
This whole idea of LOVE is so interesting to me because the more you try and wrap your mind around it the more love wraps around you. I truly believe that at the core of all things in existence, you find LOVE as the sponsoring creator. Even in the face of disaster there's a perfectness that can be seen if you look past what bias you have towards whatever seems wrong. When I speak of love in no way am I putting Hollywood quotations around the word because love and compassion and peace all have much more substance than "who finds who's soul mate for the time being." Real-love, God-love, has no weights attached and no strings left dangling to be pulled on. All of creation has been done as the ultimate act of love, and I see evolution as a tool that keeps the collective heartbeat of all people and things moving and beating. When I say God equals love, what I mean is that all things, in every way, point back towards an infinitely abundant and free life-giving source. A secret of life that most have not recognized is the fact that God wants for us what we want most for ourselves; why else would we get what we want so often? We draw near what we hold dear! What we keep our thoughts attached to becomes reality, the universe works that way and God is of, and more than the laws of the universe. A basic mantra to keep in mind is, what we hold clear, we draw near.
The very act of giving everyone of us limitless potential and complete control over our creative process without any demand of reciprocal thanks, proves that we as humans come from, and are sustained by that which is pure love. By definition found through my life, the greatest gift one can give a person is that which frees him/her from all binding, and on top of that asks for nothing in return. We are required to do nothing in this life if we so choose, but out of free will can choose to do anything, our potential is literally, LIMITLESS! We have the ability to bring Heaven to Earth and call it home if we so choose, but often we decide to do just the opposite. Because of our lack of living up to our created potential one can assert that we have perfect and unbinding freedom. Within the midst of chaos, love and perfection can be found if we choose to see life through the eyes of God. Love is constant, but also a choice; a beautiful and comforting dichotomy.
I'll leave you with one last thought - If love is a choice and we know the beautiful after-effects of any decision made out of love, why don't we choose this option more often?
The only thing that separates the enlightened man/woman from the everyday man/woman is the choices he/she makes...
until next time...
Peace and LOVE
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