Apple has started creating it's own chips and they are incredibly powerful in terms of speed and battery life. This felt like the perfect opportunity to upgrade my laptop. With its 64gb of Ram, it's lightning fast. I'm so happy with it. I gave my old Macbook Pro that I bought in 2015 to Chris. He was delighted.
I am unremitting joy. I am utter despair.
I am languid peace. I am chaotic turmoil.
I am abundant generosity. I am insatiable greed.
I am adoring love. I am heartless indifference.
I am pure innocence. I am vulgar sleaze.
I am cocksure swagger. I am fearful doubt.
I am a shy smile. I am a vicious snarl.
I am a soaring symphony. I am a fearful din.
I am a scurrying ant. I am a motionless sloth.
I am a soaring eagle. I am a crawling worm.
I am a gargantuan tree. I am a tiny flower.
I am an omnipotent king. I am a cowering subject.
I am an athletic champion. I am a lazy slob.
I am a holy saint. I am an atrocious tyrant.
I am an impenetrable jungle. I am a withered land.
I am a mountain peak. I am a gaping abyss.
I am a blazing sun. I am a planet of ice.
I am an endless galaxy. I am a grain of sand.
I am a radiant light. I am the darkest night.
I am this. I am that.
I am here. I am there.
I am him. I am her.
I am you. I am me.
I am the collective experience of all these things
and many, many more;
a kaleidoscope of a quintillion different perceptions
and I am that which makes experiencing possible.
I am the Eternal Subject
yet I also take the form of every object.
I Am All That Is.
I Am all Knowing.
I Am all Being.
I Am.
I Am.
I Am.
Written: 2021
Right now I Am…
soaring high on outstretched wings
opening my petals to the morning sun
scurrying through a termite cathedral
spinning an intricate web of silk
trumpeting through an upturned trunk
laying eggs in a little pond
picking nits from my lover’s fur
probing the damp soil with my spindly roots
singing a duet through a twittering beak
galloping along on mud-spattered hooves
surfing waves with gleeful squeaks
gazing out meditatively with large, luminous eyes
stretching my branches up and out into the vast, open sky
smelling for truffles with my sensitive, pink snout
probing a hole in the rocks with a nimble tentacle
paddling along a stream with powerful kicks
hungrily sucking warm milk from my mother’s teat
searching the ocean bed in search of a larger shell to call home
charging headlong into the horns of another with a mighty clash
licking my paws with a raspy tongue
wriggling this way and that to shed my scaly skin
breathing in air through my damp, permeable membrane
bobbing up and down in an intricate dance with my life-long mate
cutting the water with my dorsal fin
rising up on thrusting haunches in orgasmic release
stalking stealthily in pursuit of unsuspecting prey
enclosing my young one in a protective embrace of flippers and feet
staring patiently at the water with my rapier like bill ready to strike
wagging my tail in unrestrained welcome
sharing a belly-laugh with a beloved friend
staring in wonder at a crimson sunset
shedding grief-stricken tears at an untimely loss
typing this poem with clumsy fingers and an open heart
All these things I, the Cosmic Mind, experience in the timeless Now
and a quintillion quintillion more things
across countless different worlds and dimensions.
All experiences past, present, and future
exploding forth as pure perception from the Singularity I Am,
the Infinite Awareness I Am,
in a great, exultant cosmic bang,
creating the ultimate immersive, experiential work of art,
wondrous and beautiful,
epic and profound,
beyond all imagination.
Written: 2021
Gaze at beauty like tomorrow you’ll suddenly find yourself blind.
Listen to music and birds singing like tomorrow you’ll be deaf.
Eat a meal like tomorrow your taste buds will dissolve and be gone.
Smell a flower like tomorrow your nose will be eternally blocked.
Make love like tomorrow you’ll lose all sense of touch.
Express love like tomorrow like you’ll be struck dumb and illiterate.
Reminisce like tomorrow all your memories will be lost.
Written: 2021
Beautifully said Graeme. You are being of enormous help to me. Thank🙏 you!!
Notice that you’re noticing. Resting deeply in the awareness of being aware. Resting knowingly as the presence of awareness (Rupert Spira).
All is exactly as it is meant to be at this moment. This includes anxiety. I don’t care what happens - (Krishnamurti). God/Life is running the show. God, universal intelligence, is having a human experience through me. Yogi is just a character in the movie. Trust that all is well. Be welcoming. Sit back in the seat of awareness & enjoy the show. Be curious as to what will happen next. Enjoy every twist in the plot, & the synchronicities. You are in the world but not of the world. Don’t take it so seriously. No self, no problem.
AA - God, I turn my will & my life over to your care.
AA. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake.
VRE - God is well, & so are you, if you would but know it.
VRE - The awareness of the presence of a higher & friendly Power.
NM - You see yourself as in the world. I see the world as in me.
Remaining relaxed & open to events, emotions - not closing. Not rushing.
Yogi. Do one thing at a time. Take your time. Pause between activities. Do everything for its own sake, not as a means to an end.
Wow, Yogi, that's a superb synopsis. I love it. Really great. It really sums up the philosophy that has brought me a great deal of freedom and peace over the past year or two.
As you said in your follow up text, the "I don't care what happens." has absolutely nothing to do with apathy or indifference - and everything to do with surrender and acceptance. When you know that there is an Infinite Intelligence unfolding all experiences and events, you surrender to that power and let it run your life. You thus allow these unfolding experiences and events to be as they are, trusting that all that arises is for the ultimate Good of the All. All is as it's meant to be even if it doesn't feel like it at the time. In my experience, the good of what the mind labels as bad is often revealed much later in hindsight.
It is very much in this sense that Krishnamurti said "The difference between you and me is that I don't care what happens." As Eckhart says, he is totally aligned with life and with what is unfolding in the present moment. He is fully surrendered to God and to Life's unfolding.
In this state of consciousness, paradoxically, the choices that get made and actions that get taken in order to deal with life's challenges are so much more inspired and intelligent. You have access to universal intelligence. In a sense, God is choosing and acting through you.
In an even deeper sense, there is no you. Only God experiencing being you and everyone else. In this sense, the life of Yogi really is like a movie and Yogi exists as a character in it. And who would want to experience a movie where nothing ever seems to go wrong? It would be dull and there would be no character development or profundity. The "movie of life", I believe, is all about the experience of limitation and the experience of transcending that limitation in order to increasingly discover our true limitless nature.
I so loved our discussion yesterday and the brilliant quotes you shared. It brought a beautiful sense of clarity.
G
