How to Embrace and Experience the Ever Newness Of Life

Let go of theories of life and open your heart to start living.

Remember the time when you were a virgin? The hidden magazines, hushed talks, and secret fantasies of s*x seemed exciting. But after some time, you lost interest in stories and wanted to experience what it really is.

Life is like s*x.

Until you experience it, you never know what it is. The stories of adventure, love, success, heartbreak, and failure are exciting. But until you experience them, you never know what they are. They are just stories to you.

Words can never do justice to experience.

The lame reality TV shows, movies/novels/blogs can not make you rich in experiences. They only feed your brain with ideas of what life should be compared to right now.

But your lazy ideas act like rodents. They eat up your creativity and open-mindedness. Their sh*t stinks and decays your so-called secure life.

Don't be afraid to jump into the ocean of life. Get wet, play, and enjoy. A heartbreak, pain, and scratches are natural. But closing yourself due to fear of getting scraped is nonsense.

Security is important. But so is letting loose your hair and dancing in the breeze.

The Journey of a Daredevil From Night Sleepwalking to the Dawn of Awakening

Everybody is running for fulfillment. Some find it in money, others in relationships. Only a few seek the real meaning of life.

Society often terms these daredevils as idiots.

'Why did he leave his secure job? What if he did not earn well in his passion? Why did she settle in the countryside after living her whole life in the central city? Why he/she won't have a partner?'

People understand the logic. Anything contradicting the reason is scary.

Humans have created a fake sense of security. Most are running in circles to fulfill it. But when you see the futilities of running in an endless loop, you drop out from the illusion.

The judgments don't scare you. Logic doesn't bind you. Constant introspection of life runs in the background, even if you work in a cubicle or kitchen.

'What is it I really want? Where am I heading? What can I do to make myself close to living my ideal life?'

For some, introspection is natural. For others, life jerks them awake from sleeping patterns. It can happen after a traumatic event, loss of someone, or just because of life's maturity.

The dawn of light breaks the illusion of safety. The rat race gradually dissolves. When the outside situations stop stimulating you, the deep existential questions start to bubble.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ― C.G. Jung

Living an Authentic Life Does Not Come Cheap

People want quick fixes. Our brain has become addicted to this 'One-click world.' Click to get food, a cab, appointments, or anything.

As you dive deep within life, more confusion and questions arise. Thus, most people never get to the destination. They slip.

Nobody wants to get confused. But the irony is that clarity only dawns once you have queries.

Life is a journey starting from ignorance to confusion and then to clarity.

A joyful life does not come cheap. Only brutal truthfulness leads the path of authentic life. Being fake with self never works.

You can show off your knowledge and hide behind wise words.

But self-fulfillment will still be miles away. Society is all about showing your prowess. But 'fake till you make' is a trap. You can not fake honest living. Either you know you are trapped, or you ignore it?

The blaze to live an authentic life comes from within. Nobody can kick-start it for you. Not even God!

Being thirsty for the nectar of authentic living is a blessing. It is the start of experiencing what true life is. But once you become thirsty, only the destination will satisfy you.

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. — Ravi Zacharias

Knowledge and Implementation Are Two Different Things

You don't become Buddha by reading every book or talking about him. Implementation is a different game.

You can entertain the mind by reading books or attending seminars. But fundamental transformation comes by implementing knowledge.

The helpless loop of momentary satisfaction and misery pushes you forward. The thirst for experiencing an ever joyful life increases. The false satisfaction of knowing rips apart.

The useless theory eats you like a termite. Making you hollow from inside till light enters.

The stories of sex don't satisfy you anymore. Now you want to see, hold, and experience it for yourself.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering

The Greatest Irony Is That 'You' Only Prevents Yourself From Experiencing Life In Totality

Life is unpredictable. Nobody wants to let go of security. All of our lives, we have been trained to protect ourselves.

The false securities are a trap. You build a wall of prison to live securely. But life is happening beyond the borders.

Until you let go of control, ever-joyful life evades you. You can not stick to the protection plan and still enjoy the vulnerability game of life.

New territories are a threat. The accustomed mind slips into the old patterns. Comfort is a priority for the mind, even if the comfort is in knowing misery.

Birds don't worry about the weak branch it sits on. It relies on its wings to fly away if something happens. Let go of even the tiniest thread that binds you if you want to fly. Rely on your authentic higher self.

Without letting go, you remain stuck. This security prevents you from jumping into the unknown.

Nobody but you clutch the fake guarantees tightly. Remember, everybody has the same destination — the grave. The limited-time between birth and death is where you can live fully. Only you have the power to do that.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.― Edna St. Vincent Millay

Words Can Never Satisfy a Genuine Seeker of Life — Those Who Get Satisfied by the Words Are Not Yet True Seekers

If your friend had bungee jumping or scuba diving, will the description satisfy you? No, you had to be in action to know what it is. Life is not about stories, but experiences — good or bad, it doesn't matter.

Stop categorizing it. Otherwise, the mind will again stop you from exploring life.

Clever people have packaged the fancy words to sell religion or spirituality. But the experience can not come from mere words. Authentic seeker questions everything until he experiences life in totality.

Life should make you rich in experiences and not an expert hiding behind texts or logic.

An intelligent person becomes disillusioned by this fake living—maturity dawns. Wisdom forces you to see beyond the mundane life.

You then break free from all the barriers of mind and patterns to enhance the perception of reality.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. — Osho

Stop Controlling Life, Learn to Flow With It

Life is ever-flowing. It is you who is resisting its flow. You want to control life. You want to manage life in the name of plans, stability, fears, and anxiety.

But when did life flow, according to you?

Life is like a gushing river, making its way, thrashing us up and down. Learn to flow with it. There is no point in struggling with it. Be like a river, ever open to twist and turn wherever life takes you.

Yes, make a plan.

But be flexible to change the plan as life moves ahead. Maybe situations changed, a better opportunity came, be ready to mold.

Let go of your definition of how life should be. Instead embrace its newness each day.

Pour out all your past learnings as you learn new. Emptying your cup is an arduous task. It is easy to make a baby learn the way of true living compared to an adult who has their own way and beliefs about living.

Be empty. Life is giving you every chance to re-learn. But the rigid patterns stop you from taking lessons.

Let go of all the words like happiness, sadness, guilt, joy, success, etc. Treat them as mere words. You can not dance in life when your mind is full of the weight of opinions, stories, and judgments.

Your main aim is to live your life totally through your heart.

Accept life as it is. Life is not separate from you. Instead, you are separate from life. Drop all the veils of words and analyses. The mind makes us separate, different, and conditioned. Let go of all the words.

Only remember one word — LIFE.

Life is all there it is. If you truly live, you uncover the godliness. Stop adjusting to others' criteria. Start living yourself. Start experiencing yourself.

Not everybody can afford vulnerability. Letting go of identities is scary. Of course, this is not for everyone. But only for those who are satisfied by non-other than the experience itself.

Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become. — Osho

Takeaways

Life is not a burden to live. Being a thirsty seeker is a blessing from life itself. It is an excellent opportunity to get rid of the burdens you have been carrying all the time.

This thirst will take you from theory to experience. You may suffer right now. But life will guide you towards experience.

Life is not someplace far. Instead, it is breathing through you right now.

Question your rigid beliefs and judgments. Get close to your heart. Recognize life is all there is and nothing else.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it. — Osho

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