Category: Footsteps on the Path of Awakening

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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More on “What is Life?”

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June 10, 2024

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JANU:   The course of evolution in any culture, whether the Earth or somewhere else, includes survival and, at times not as you might think. Life is larger in meaning, potential, purpose, and begs the question: What is Life? The expressions of it vary greatly. Its purpose is to be. Life patterns compound exponentially, moment to moment, and even beyond definite perception of time. Each plane of existence has its own consciousness, its instincts for survival, its curiosities to evolve, to connect, to communicate. One unaware of the other to varying degrees. The perception of sacrifice for the survival of another speaks to essential life.

The existence of life extends beyond any one reality. For one reality to embrace another there must be re-formation for pattern matching. Common ground for communication forms in this way, and others.

How does one pattern match another? Through insights, inspirations, or in subtler realities that exist and blossom through the evolving evolution of the species from deep within.

“And what inspires?” you ask. A love of life, which includes gratitude and the desire to awaken to something greater. Life has an affinity to awaken, to embrace itself through expression, much as the physical body takes a breath to continue.

It is revealing to explore what is natural for any existence to continue. The presence of natural conditions is a foundation for the beginning of that reality. There are other natural realities that are foundation for other life expressions. Life is aware of all of these realities even though the realities, in their natural state, are still awakening to the roots of their being, where all exists and potential is blossoming.

So beginning and ending exists in a reality of ongoingness. As pattern matching evolves, so does evolution. Find peace in this, confidence. Think and live as Life continues. Namaste.
Apr. 12, 2024                                                      Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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What is Life?

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June 6, 2024

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JANU:    Pondering the imponderable: What is Life? What is not Life? What is real? What is unreal? What is true? What is false? What is and what isn’t? Nurturing these imponderables in one’s quest for understanding inspires one to examine their foundation of understanding of everything and their commitments of exploration and purpose. Do frustrations arise from these? Is there progress to be gained? Does this cause one to question assumptions, mutual assumptions of society? Does understanding of these have the potential to resolve cycles of dysfunction and limitation?

Each one of these investigations has cause for concern, for the solutions to these inquiries, challenges, understandings of time, potential, aggression, space, materiality, beginnings and endings…cycles. One benefit is open-mindedness, open to revelation, the application and experience on the journey of wisdom and contribution to the evolution of life. These solutions come not all at once, but here and there, now and then, giving time for the development of understanding, the process of understanding into life expression.

Continuing to inquire is healthy. The patience to perceive and accumulate consciousness is life in motion. Examine revelations as they inspire further inquiry and attract opportunities to explore. It is healthy and progressive to search and discover. Life is vast and ever changing and evolving. Find peace and joy that the journey exists. And that is Life.

A relationship through perception reveals much. Decisions to be made in perspective. Employ choice and the resulting experiences on those choices. It goes on and on, you see. And that is evolution. The realization of potential, Life in motion. So, be in motion. Discover. Contribute. Become. Namaste.
Apr. 4, 2024                                                                                         Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

This is the latest in a series of similar journeys on the same theme. To investigate the progression of understanding and exploration,  see “What is Life?”  posted in 2023.

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Life exploring and evolving itself

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June 4, 2024

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JANU: “Manifesting Light” is an appropriate focus for individual and group work. Building an understanding of this concept of manifesting the Truth of Life: discovering it, understanding it, being it. And in such a way that another can achieve this in their own way and find inspiration in your journey as well. Manifesting Light has the diversity to be a product of everyone’s existence, for it is as diverse as the potential for Life itself. And the beauty of this endeavor is every aspect of it is connected, mutually supported, and evolutionary.

“Life” a word used by many with limited understanding, unconscious of true meaning of depth and breadth and potential. Good question: What is the history of Life? What has it accomplished? What can it be?

Exploration is an important aspect of evolution.  The desire to know, discover, and become is magical. Life exploring life is a reality, an understanding that opens doors unimagined yet.  Both an individual and collective pursuit.

Every journey begins with initiative and a first step. So, allow your desire to begin and Life will guide you. Namaste.
Mar. 30, 2024                                                                                               Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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Bold decisions

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May 31, 2024

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JANU:    Happier, then, being at one with understanding and the freedom to choose balance in the pursuit of solutions to challenges. Reorganizing, from time to time, perspective brings about a change from fear of challenges to the love of solutions and the richness of life. Life is filled with answers, and challenges are part of evolution. Moving forward is the result of moving to gain understanding and clarity. Bold decisions and follow through are confidence builders. Life continues, on one level or another, no matter the result. Namaste.
Mar. 28, 2024                                                                                               Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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The dynamics of living  

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May 29, 2024

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JANU:    The dynamics of life include the confusion of ignorance, the clarity of insight, the challenges—unexpected and expected, the blessings whose source is unknown and whose duration is unknown, the mis-emotions of frustration and anxiety, and others. What then enriches life? What brings about enthusiasm to explore, gratitude for what has been gained?

Being grateful for everything. Faith in the continuation of Life and its evolution. Finding joy in being and that Life is. Discovering what Life is. Witnessing its essential nature and the patience that it demonstrates, the endurance it provides, the rewards as it responds to your existence. The connection it gives you. The Truth it reveals. Namaste.
Mar. 17, 2024                                                                                               Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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Encumbered

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May 27, 2024

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JANU: Encumbered to one degree or another is a condition to be mastered. Feelings of regret, guilt, frustration, fault-finding whether with self or another, disappointment and fear best seen as results of living, engaging, exploring, discovering, overcoming challenges on the path of discoveries. Struggles in living are builders of strength and commitment. Follow through, proving to oneself, meeting them, committing to overcoming builds the framework for progression and discovering more of life and one’s own potential.

Take some time to explore a new element, a new framework for evaluation. Cherish victories of the path and each new one. Another’s approval is not as important as your own. Their approvals are based upon their own patterns of life and are their footsteps on their path of discovery. Allow them theirs. Allow you yours. Life knows the difference and cherishes them all.

Be grateful that challenges come. They tell you that you are part of Life and Life is part of you. Find peace in this, and strength. Let it build resolve that life is okay. This is how it grows, realizes potential, and moves on. Allow this perspective to deepen and broaden and reveal the True Nature of Life itself. Namaste.
Mar. 15, 2024                                                                                               Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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Redundancy

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May 23, 2024

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JANU:   Redundancy has two faces. Both are illusions. One face is repetition, duplication. The other is approximation. When in reality both are a limited perception. Every moment in life is essentially new. When perceived in this way, there is a freshness to the experience, for no two moments are identical. Life is forever in motion, changing, presenting a unique face. When life seems repetitious and ‘old hat’ so to speak, one is being not alert to the movements, to the changes. For no matter how subtle, each moment is unique.

The windows of opportunity and perception to the bored mind are invisible. The living desire to explore, to evolve, to contribute, to become is the fire within. There is wisdom to explore, evaluate one’s own foundation of the desire to embrace life. Life becomes more invigorating, more sustaining, more rejuvenating, more gratifying, more illuminating, and more facilitating, and more healing and inspiring by example to others. Your light becomes more radiant and attracts other lights. Your being unites more consciously. You communicate with life more fully, in more ways.

Become more alive with each moment. You have the capacity to be this way, whether incarnate or not. So be it.
Mar. 24, 2024                                                            Copyright © 2024 by Joshua Ross

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