Dying Dying Dying, Dying to Live…

Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

-Anthony de Mello

Have you ever gotten used to a person or place to the point where it loses its magic and spark and you begin taking it for granted? It often isn’t until we stop and recognize that this could all be gone tomorrow,really,  ’till we let this sink in and allow ourselves to live from this space, that we truly begin to appreciate what we have right now.

Many people fear death, and yet it’s the recognition that everything in the world is disappearing and dying literally as we speak that helps us be that much more alive! Interesting… Death, it inspires us to really be alive!

(Embedding is disabled in the official Adyashanti version, so if you prefer you can click here to watch this same video on youtube w/o hebrew subtitles.)

The other day a spectacular opportunity has literally just fallen into my lap, a culmination of many of my biggest passions and a crystal clear manifestation that makes me feel grateful for all the things that happened and all the things that didn’t. It’s like I can see WHY certain things I thought I wanted to happen didn’t (and thank goodness they didn’t!), and I am incredibly grateful for being able to see how perfectly everything has unfolded for me in my time here in Colorado. It makes me so grateful for everything that is happening now and even what is yet to come, seeing how well it’s all being so utterly mind-boggling perfectly orchestrated…

So now I am tying up loose ends here in Boulder (ie. closing down my PO box, cancelling my gym membership which allowed me to shower, picking up boxes of stuff I’d temporarily dropped off at a friend’s place, saying goodbye to friends I’ve made here, etc.) and getting ready to head west yet again, this time to California. While I don’t want to go into the details of it quite yet as there’s lots of cool stuff that’s still in the beginning stages, let’s just say that this could be huuuuuge…

Honestly Colorado has been starting to feel a little, well, dull and complete lately, strangely enough. Reminds me of a quote I really like…

“Each purpose, each mission, is meant to be fully lived to the point where it becomes empty, boring, and useless. Then it should be discarded. This is a sign of growth, but you may mistake it for a sign of failure.”

-David Deida

After being here in Colorado for two months now, it’s now starting to feel a bit stale. Wake up, do your thing, go to sleep, even if your thing is climb a mountain. A bit routine, you know? It wasn’t utill the whole “Alright, I’m moving to California in two days!” thing popped up that I stopped and allowed myself to fully sink in and appreciate where I am now.

(and it’s not the “going there” that’s the point, but the recognition of “what’s here now” that is the point.)

It’s so cool… sitting in Starbucks this morning, the girls next to me started talking about consciousness, self-actualization, and so on amongst themselves. That’s just the norm here in Boulder.

I took a stroll down Pearl Street, a nice somewhat touristy area lined with shops and tulips, and took the time to sit down and fully enjoy the street performers, even engage in conversation with them, get to know them a bit, and even offer to post some of their peformances up on youtube. Here’s some of the wonderful people I’ve come across lately:

(Be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel dedicated to traveling! It’s fun posting videos of cool stuff that I run across.)

Anyways, It’s amazing how when you know what you have right now, you’re not going to have to be able to do in a matter of hours, and you take the time to fully engage and experience what is happening right here, to quit going numb and wake up out of that routine auto-pilot zombie-mode that’s so easy to sink into.

Have you ever seen the movie The Bucket List with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson? GREAT movie.. Well it looks like someone took that song and mixed it with one of my favorite songs, “Live Like You Were Dying,” by Tim McGraw. This is definitely worth watching…