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There is always a before and an after. The attraction to either ensures we miss and waste our now. The recognition of an insight, a new thought, is not a thought.
"Only suckers put hope in the future." Alan Watts
Recently, Michael Neill's daily inspiration ended with a request, "allow the universal Mind to harness your will." When I was seven years old, I read Matthew 7:21. I wanted to know how and nobody told me, at least in a way I could hear. We are halfway through 2023, and forty years ago, I reached the pinnacle, the top of the mountain, and I didn't know how it happened. I was struck by; this is it? This is all there is? I had not done anything for it to happen, and it was the culmination of years of success without effort or struggle. I wanted to know how. I wanted to figure out how to explain it. I wanted to know what I was doing for fortune to bless me constantly. Lucky horseshoes, good fortune, and born smart didn't sit well with me.
"You have no complaint
You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't
So listen up buster, and listen up good
Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood" - John Prine
The way I am, put me into the est training. After enjoying a decade or so of participating fully, I didn't find my answers at Landmark. Maria Nemeth was my first jump-off from Landmark, then Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. I still live an idyllic life. My darling wife suggests I won the lottery. I do, daily, and I never have to buy a ticket!
There is a theory about how we experience certain incidents, self-defining, traumatic events, where we make decisions, actually becoming decisions based on our thoughts of what we perceive happened. The moment is framed with something is WRONG, with me, with NOW, and we SURVIVE! In the instant creating machinery, a formula we win with that is our unthinking unnoticed way of operating, out of that experience. And so begins chasing the meaning we make up.
"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." - Franz Kafka
Chasing what I wanted into a field at age two, I got lost. I found a way out, and I got what I wanted too. What's new is I see that event differently today. When I didn't know what to do, I learned to wait like Franz Kafka waiting. I waited for and discovered and listened to the still, small voice. I called It following the Breadcrumbs, and I forgot how I learned to listen until much later. It has taken until now for me to see waiting in now is not procrastination.
I will learn how to share the Three Principles in the years ahead. 3P is missing for anyone running up the down escalator, trudging up or down the stairs, or fearful of the elevator door. Finding the up escalator by accident differs from having an elevator appear whenever you want one. I am exploring every floor. What a home to come home to.
"Why has the web been woven? Why do we die so many deaths?" - Thomas Wolfe