You silly thinker… you dreamer of dreams, conjurer of all that is.

Here’s a question… what if you could think anything? What would you choose to think?

What if you stopped for a moment, let go of all your hard earned “wisdom” and considered the possibility - for just a moment- that you are thinking whatever you choose?

Why do you believe what you believe? Where do your thoughts come from?

We have a tendency to open our eyes and see the world “out there”… we raise our arms, point out there and say “there - that’s where it comes from… the world puts thoughts into me”. Or - we say our parents, our culture, our DNA, our God. Or some odd combination of these *other* sources.

But how can we know any of these things without first being able to conceptualize and imagine them?

We cannot.

It’s a classic chicken and egg question… which to me, points directly to the idea of an evolving consciousness that is both within us at our core and is outside of us everywhere. We are simply localized points of consciousness - considering ourselves, exploring a realm of our collective creation.

Language is a creative extension of consciousness. In our age of scientific progress, it seems that we have developed a tendency as a culture to be overly obsessed with literal interpretations of messages, stories, and texts. We have become culturally cynical - high on our self-perceived “knowledge”. We see contradictions everywhere - despite the ringing of truth that we feel in our gut.

That is a special kind of madness, if you ask me.

To hear truth calling out - to have our inner being resonate with the sub-text of a message - and yet cry out “no” as we mock the literal words we see before us.

What is humorous about this act is that we - the Big Collective We - have called forth these messages - and then we stand there saying “bah! how silly! that cannot be”.

We are children still - crying out for love and safety in a world we fear, and when we receive the loving embrace of Spirit - we defy and test the limits and act like we know it all already.

Every physical thing that is in existence today is here because it was called forth into being. There are no accidents. There are only ideas. Ideas that come forth into being.

Before a no-thing becomes some-thing - there was first an opening for it. A space created for it. This is true of every person. Of every flower. Building. Tree. Cloud. And every single atom.

We are at play amidst an orchestration of energy and matter that is simultaneously amazingly complex and beautifully simple. This truth defies the western mind’s addiction to duality.

We want to de-construct it. Like an enterprising child - we want to tear it apart and see if we can rebuild it. We want to imitate it. We want to understand - and so we ask a million questions, and when we get answers but do not understand - we blame the source. Stupid grown ups - what do they know?

Although this is neither inherently good nor bad - it is fun and funny. It is the play of life. We are embodied Spirits at play, learning to create, learning to master the power of creation.

As a culture - we have had amazing teachers. Ascended Masters, as they have been called by some. And as individuals, we all have teachers around us ready to help us along our way.

What I am enjoying today - is simply this awe inspiring observation - that we can and do think whatever we choose, whether we realize it or not. It is all too easy to get wrapped up in justifications and rationalizations - as we try to understand why we think what we do - we loose track of the core empowering truth - that we Choose our thoughts.

When I sit with this for a while, I am then quite easily brought to the awareness that this then means that I am NOT my thoughts.

Realizing and knowing this one simple core truth can be amazingly liberating.

For some, this will be obvious. For others, it may make no sense. For me, over the course of time, I seem to “get it”, and then lose it, and then find it again.

It is but a stepping stone on the path to greater awareness. But each step is worthy of deep appreciation.

With much gratitude, I will leave you with this for today, as I step back into my work-a-day world. And if I can bring a bit of this timeless awareness with me, all the better!