[blockquote source=”Osho”]Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.[/blockquote]

I have been struggling lately with a bit of unsettledness – and, prompting this overwhelming sense of ‘it must be fixed.’

My goodness, we humans can be such peculiar beings – so full up with pretentiousness, that we assume this to be our place.

But, not everything requires a fix, my dears…as sometimes, the fix is the experience.

And, so you see….in my haste, I had taken on the burden of my very own foolishness.

I have to laugh now, in writing this. As if that spiritual ‘pile’ wasn’t yet deep enough, there I was adding more and more to that ‘hill.’

And, thanks to ego – I didn’t know when to stop. Piling scoop upon scoop, until hill became mountain.

sigh… our vision is often keenest looking backwards, into the settling dust of all that’s been. Perhaps, serving as testimony to ego’s intrusion into our present moments.

So, there I was locked in heated debate – when, suddenly it came upon me to love, no matter what and anyway. 

And, oh my dears…what a most profound sense of peace came over me. To have finally let go of that one very thing, that was keeping me tethered to my ‘sticking place.’

“love, no matter what and anyway.”

And just like that, the burden of being right… of being heard…of being understood…was gone.

My dears, even inside our most painful moments…there exists something sublime. A reminder, that all and everything we ever wanted or needed…has been right here, within us, this whole time.

And, waiting for a moment…just like this…to finally be freed from Ego’s sharp talons.

Put a rather different spin on things, now doesn’t it? A nearly overwhelming sense of appreciation – for all these experiences that may come to pass.

My dears, our connection to happiness…to bliss…to spiritual fulfillment…begins with one, most simple step:

That is to love….no matter what, and anyway.

To love in such a way, that it passes easily through the calloused scars of our past wounds;

Beyond memory…beyond ego…beyond these imperfect human cells;

To love purely, and without any sense of what the “I” may get in return;

And, without all this need for the ‘having been rights’…nor, those silly checklists of what love should be;

No my dears, the only thing ever holding us back…is when we forget to love…to matter what…and anyway.

And, sometimes we need to stand, waist-deep, in Ego’s mess and muck…to understand what that really means.

That the truest gift is in the loving, and not in the ‘what’ we may get in return…

My dears, no matter how great the pain…love has the capacity to change it all in a blink.

And all we ever really have to do, is remember to share it freely…no matter what…and anyway…