It is not life that is heavy – it is the burden of our thoughts that weighs us down. It is not life that is hard or unfair – it is our thoughts that try to make us believe in meaning and justice.

Believing in the content of our thoughts and images is what makes us suffer!

Searching for our life in our thoughts is what keeps us separate from reality. Only when we recognize that we ourselves cannot be found in our thoughts can this gap in ordinary perception allow the truth to come to light.

We dream and imagine a life that has never existed!

The fear of vulnerability, and of feeling what is here, has made us live in an imagined world. When we gather all our courage and face reality, the concept of being separate from life dissolves.

This recognition gives the burden and heaviness back to the thoughts and images, and they are allowed to appear, to rest, to dissolve and to come home – within us.

This small shift in perception is all it takes.

In this openness, the true intelligence that cannot be found in thoughts can come forth. To experience this realization of life is liberation from the imagined burden and suffering of life.

What remains then is life in all its vulnerability and infinite freedom.

Love,
Pratibha & Kareem