Impermanence

                                                        

All Is Mind

The Universe Is Mental  

As we live 
Within integral mentalities 

  Emotional sensations are intertwined 

Which are you?

"Are you what you have done

Or what you'd like to believe that you would not do

But have done.

You are what you do

And what you do frequently

Is coming from your conditioned self.

With all the best intentions

And with all the best input

People frequently make very poor choices

And then master that choice

Because at some point 

It worked for them.

When you lie and get away with it

It works

When you steal and get away with it

It works

I never find people

Who just 

Lie once

Steal once

Betray once

It becomes a pattern"

~*Gary Null

In the prism 

of behaviors

Repeat occurrences 

Throughout the course of a day
People undergo
An array of transformations

Many elect
To haphazardly
Cloak themselves in

Camouflage Of Concealment

Sensationalism 

Overpowers 

The minds capacity

Repeated

Sensibility 

Conveys:

"A feeling is just that -- a feeling. It has no true independent existence. When a feeling is pleasurable you want it to go on, because you have mistakenly identified with it's pleasant sensations. You think you are that feeling. This misplaced sense of self wouldn't present any problems, except that as your pleasurable feelings fade, which all feelings must do, so does the you that was feeling pleased. Now all you can do is feel displeased and so you start the pleasure-seeking cycle all over again.


You think that what you are looking for is pleasure, but what you are really seeking is permanence.


There is the pleasure of permanence which is not a feeling but a level of being. This elevated state of awareness may include all of the various feelings as they come and go, pleasant or not, but it remains effortlessly undisturbed and undiminished by either emotional ebb or swell. Your pleasure is that you are -- not what you feel "


~* Guy Finley


Wherever you decide to look
You can see Individuals
Who feel the need to hold onto
What cannot be grasped

Spiritually, Physically, Introspectively

Torturing themselves

Through remembrance

Forgone

Enacting 

Prolongation  

Of what can never again exist

 In the same formation

I am not a stranger
To these words
I've lived what's written
First hand

Over the past 2-3 years
I've placed myself under a microscope
Absorbing analysis
 Emotions divulge

Without the pretentiousness of a mask
Without concerning myself with who's watching
Without explaining myself

Simply be...

It is a disservice to your mental state
Of being an awareness
Attempting to cement feelings/emotions
That are congruous

More times than not
 Abominable experiences are held onto
In the form of a grudge
Personifying the statement:


Unhappiness 
Doesn't Come At You;
It Comes From You


Robbing
Oneself
Of Peace


"Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively."

The seems of undesirables

Assemble

Discernment  

Characteristics and situations
May appear to have levels
Of the sameness

But as individuals
We inhabit immeasurable
 Strengths and weaknesses

Our endurances
Are the equivalence
Of the uniqueness of a fingerprint


Illustrating:

Life Is A Succession Of Lessons
Which Must Be Lived
To Be Understood


On emotional roller coasters
Unknowns

Are prone 

Teaching us
How to spot commonalities
In others
Or differences to avert

Going through the motions

Is what many people fear

And seldom voice

Silence turns to misery 

Hardening 

Dissimulation 

When you believe

You've mastered self
And all there is to know

You're tested on the material
Then greeted with something
You've yet to learn


The process can be overwhelming
But:

You Cannot Find Peace

By Avoiding Life

Amid
Trial and error
Gain and loss

Defeat and things conquered

Looking back
Will no longer be painful
But an honor

Letting go of
What may have once worked
But is no longer needed


Embrace
All that you experience
 Recognizing the preciousness of :

Time waits for nothing.....
Age finds us all

 "Nothing in life is permanent or intrinsically yours. The passages in our life are meant to help us. Use the passages the best you can, but realize every single thing we do will have an expiration date. If you try to make things forever you're setting yourself up for an emotional crisis. 


If instead; 
Take nothing for granted
And appreciate everything"