Category: Footsteps on the Path of Awakening

A commitment to Life

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July 5, 2024

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JANU:   Encompassing possibilities in awakening, in engagement, in outcomes at many times feels like wondering about not only potential but today. Let us assume, then, that as potentials they are real and Life is the source of them all. So, how does one then engage any one of these and bring about a clear understanding as to their nature, availability, and status?

It is done so by a commitment to Life and to its fulfillment. The chips will fall and be fertilized by these commitments. And, of course, opportunities engaged in sprout new ones and life goes on. But its portrait evolves as Life renews and the opportunities flow. Committing to Life dissipates fears, distrust, anxieties, doubts. The focus is commitment to Life’s unfoldment and enrichment. It fills the empty spaces.

So, make a commitment to knowing, to discovering, to overcoming, to growing, to expanding, to succeeding, and to wisdom. Love it all into your life, now.  Namaste.
May 15, 2024                                                                        Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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More on the purpose of life

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July 3, 2024

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JANU:   Hearing the call, no matter where it seems to come from, to return to, to know, to understand, to remember your own True Nature is not always understood for what it is, what it means, and who you are. A confusing journey of what to let go of and what to embrace. Identity is in one instance an obstacle, and another an open door. The weight of verification is based upon experimentation, trust, the integrity of experience, and wisdom.

Life seems to have so many faces, each calling in different directions. Determining each one’s source is a challenge. How do you recognize what you are and what you are not, in the midst of all this clamor? It comes to choices, commitments, and discernment. The phrase “love into your life”  is Truth, which your True Nature will reveal. A process of discernment and awakening, verified through application and direct knowing.

We have explored the purpose of life, which is to be. And that is evolving as well, always in motion. Life is not an end point but a journey of being. One miracle of Light among many. Philosophy is one thing. Realization, understanding and wisdom, and creativity is another. Everyone has a friend they can trust: their own True Nature, which is Life in motion. Allow your beingness. Awaken to the truth. Create in harmony with Life. Fulfill its reason for being. Namaste.
May 12, 2024                                                                                               Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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The expression of Truth

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July 1, 2024

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JANU:   The Truth comes out, is revealed, manifests, creates along the lines of natural expression. By this we mean: Life is, we are, but the diversity of existence includes relationships that seem otherwise. When making choices in one’s own creativity, imagination and desires at times seem to conflict with observable existence. How does one, then, determine, perceive, understand these diversities in any light available? The successes of creativity, in the form of motion that flows with the ongoingness of Life’s reality, is observable as well and brings about revelations of deeper understanding and creativity.

Life in motion is constantly changing. The experience is a great revealer. Different realities have different paths of existence and revelation. The veil serves a purpose through focus. The existence of diversity with focus is through identity. All of Life realities coexist but their path of evolution and motion can overwhelm the consciousness of each identity’s reality of perception; therefore, the existence of time, relativity, space.

The experience brings understanding but there are processes of assimilation. Impatience is not easy to rein in. Thinking only in terms of one sojourn, one can misunderstand these processes and become impatient. Wisdom breeds patience. A worthy goal, you see, to not only understand Life but gain wisdom of its unfoldment. Namaste.
May 3, 2024                                                                                            Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

This relates directly to the previous journey and may make more sense if they are read together.

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What is discarnate life like?

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June 28, 2024

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JANU:   We are remembering when the discarnate life was the dominant consciousness, focus. Freedom to travel, so to speak, in simultaneous directions, so to speak. We had an entourage of like-minded, who began each journey with collective consciousness of experience and wisdom, to be opened to a more complete consciousness of the reality explored. Time and distance not realities to impede the duration of these journeys reaching into the duration of interest.

Personal identity was unlike the incarnate life. Not easy to describe in incarnate terms. Identity was based upon collective experience, understanding, perceptions. Identity with and is the depth and nature of life patterns matched and created. Vitality varied with involvement. Contributions to life were through connections. They still are. Shared consciousness, understanding, and life patterns formed relationships and still do. The veil has focused, and limited in some ways, involvements on a conscious level, but only temporarily, for the duration of the journey.

The sense of time and distance has limited patience and the drive to accomplish quickly. Productivity becomes imperative.  Timelessness  is seen as laziness but can be more productive, so to speak, in expansion of engagement and understanding. Sense of purpose has more depth and scope, but all of this is acceptable and in harmony with the Nature of Life. Namaste.
May 1, 2024                                                                                           Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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Enrichment

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June 26, 2024

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JANU: Numerous events in time and space beckon the call of the survivors of life. Mutual enrichment is the theme. Be enriched by enriching life, not just entities as yourself but beings of consciousness no matter the degree or nature. The purpose of enrichment, as you ask, is the continuation of existence on all levels of reality, the potential for life, which is beyond understanding at this time for most.

Now, enrichment covers a lot of diversity, meaning, and purpose. Allow your consciousness, your senses, your perceptions to touch and experience and understand, little by little, reality beyond reality—the vastness, the nature, the content, including time/space and beyond. Allow sensitivity to flower, your own Nature included. It’s there. It has its own existence. And all existence, whether physical or not, coexists.

Become conscious as  universal life to a growing degree, becoming one with the nature of reality. Perspective and purpose, meaning, understanding, contribution, benefit is all one. Being conscious as a physical being is only part of it. Being conscious as more and more of Life, and its True Nature, is another. The limits of physical life are not the limits of your True Nature.

What is timelessness? Sense its reality as you once journeyed through a singularity. Explore coexistence as life in motion. That is part of your Nature. Be One—an  expanding, exploring Being. Namaste.
April 26, 2024                                                                                              Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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Recovery

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June 24, 2024

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JANU: Recovery begins our journey. Life recovers its momentum with each surge of change. Individual life journeys can be seen the same way, recovering momentum from change. One might see change as recovering newness, freshness, beginnings, inspiration, and insight into outcome and possibilities. Change is an exciting time. One is recovered as more of Life.

Staleness is replaced with new purpose, deepening enlightenment, with echoes of the past succumbing to movement of the future. What changes is The NOW . The Now is alive with potential, the vehicle of Life is the chariot. The directions that are possible are without limit, shaped by the echoes of the past, refined by the potential in the Now manifesting in the future.

Allow recovery by letting identity expand, change, evolve. Evolution and refinement are partners in the Dance of Life. Old acquaintances begin anew. New acquaintances evolve with a history. Discovering each other is the journey of miracles. Discover how rich life can be. Allow the time and patience to enjoy the flavors. Live confident that Life continues and its nature is indestructible, due to recovery. Allow your life as an individual to recover. Others can do the same thing. Namaste.
Apr. 24, 2024                                                                                        Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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The role of identity

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June 20, 2024

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JANU:   Identity, the exploration of, is an attachment to variations on a reality. Personal identity can expand beyond the manifestation of a singularity, life beyond that limitation. Identity reaches into the depths of the mystery of Life when it encounters borders, one thing versus another in description and purpose. The nature of which succumbs to limitation under the perception of diversity, differences, isolated existence for the purpose of exploring the depth of life patterns.

Let us reach then into the so-called mysteries of Life, understanding their nature, their coexistence, that which builds opportunities and challenges of discovery and realization. The fluid nature of reality allows for constant flow, change, combining, reconstruction, dissolution, and enrichment. Owning in consciousness in this manner reinvigorates openness to discovery, the possibility of complexities and interactions, starting over, re-examination, stirring the pot of Life, so to speak. Timelessness  when realized is reality where realizing its reality allows for deeper exploration of possibilities and existence. Re-incorporation of past journeys into new relationships and new adventures invigorates life as never before on any path of discovery.

We reach into these things to understand, to gain wisdom, to refine meanings. Why not, then, incorporate these into a scheme of life of constant evolution, depth, and new purpose? In other words, explore Life as far as it will take you into timelessness. Namaste.
Apr. 23, 2024                                                                                       Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

The question of identity and identity shifting is a recurrent one. Two other journeys most related to this one are Mastering the Many Faces of Identity (LINK) and The What and Why of Identity. A compilation of journeys on this topic is Identity within Awakening. 

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Penitence 

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June 18, 2024

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JANU:  We are looking for a fuller and larger understanding of life. Penitence is the word we begin with, due penitence. Embracing life and its potential includes its own reality. What does it mean then to give due to all you have been and are? To acknowledge it, to own it, to love it, to give it to enrich life. The magic of expansion, of ongoingness is to embrace, to engage, to desire that life fulfills itself and we are part of that.

How does one fulfill the potential of everything, whether manifest or not? Being conscious of Life is part of being conscious as Life. Identity separate from universality. Let us focus that revelation and generate life patterns. But there is more. Allow your identity to evolve, which means conscious connection as a Larger Life. This is foreign and frightening to those who are solidly identified as only a part of Life.

One senses unfinished business. The more conscious you are, the more complete the business and its nature. The Larger Life is not just other individuals but other realities and being conscious as them. Engaging, contributing, becoming, fulfilling. Identity shifting does not mean just becoming something else, but adding another part of reality to your being and being that reality. Letting go of limitation does not mean letting go of your Nature but embracing it, becoming conscious of and as more of what you already are.

Some already exhibit remarkable ability as amazing parts of Life. Discover your own and refine them. Love them into your life. Let them become enriching factors to serve how they may. Namaste.
Apr. 19, 2024                                                                                        Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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Living in the moment

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June 14, 2024

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JANU:   Many steps to wisdom, to enlightenment, to understanding. Participation in the evolution of life. Creativity. Service. Living. The intellect seeks out complexity, details, technology. The heart listens for feelings, emotions, a different kind of knowing. The True Nature allows with an intimacy into the nature of being. Coexistence. Past, present, and future and their interactions. Their mutual benefits are in understanding based on simplicity and infinite diversity.

Embracing the moment is a process of unfoldment, allows for peaceful experience. Embrace life as a continuing unfoldment of being. Living in the moment has profound depth. Many live in the past and future and miss many revelations of being. How many are conscious of the fullness of any moment ? Being of timeless consciousness is limitless and in harmony with Life in motion. Namaste.
May 8, 2024                                                                                            Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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The purpose of life

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June 12, 2024

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JANU:   The purpose of life is to be, to evolve, to realize potential, self-examination to reveal what some would call efficiency and waste. What is waste? The appearances of life expressions have superficial and deeper layers to be understood, engaged, and become what is. Observing that life that your being is one of includes associative reality.

Human consciousness is identified with its current perception. Expanding that reality includes a freedom to have a larger identity, not defined by only part of life. Realizing a larger reality of being includes awakening to the larger reality without the fear of any loss. Reaching a higher rung on the ladder of life does not mean the loss of the last rung of understanding. Life builds and builds and builds as the role of identity evolves. Survival is a function of concern for a limited identity. Allow your consciousness to expand and your sense of identity expands with it. Fears fall away, realizing that, through experience, an evolving identity transcends limitation.

Life is larger than a limited identity. Become that life. It is your destiny. Identify with continuation, evolution, expansion. Experience from this on the move.  Namaste.
Apr. 14, 2024                                                                                          Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

 Like many, I have struggled with this topic over the years, receiving similar but progressive insights. Try The Purpose of Life (2018), Life Purpose (2016),  Meaning and Purpose in Life (2015) or Meaning and Purpose of Life (2014) in whatever order pleases you. 

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