About Better and Worse
August 2nd, 2007 by Pete
Mankind says NOW isn’t good enough. So, he leaves it, he thinks, to go scampering around in the imaginary world of not-now. Exactly so, he says this Center-Peace is not good enough. Ecstasy and elation are bound to be so much better, he believes. Don’t believe it! They aren’t.
It is the belief of a “better” and a “worse” that has humanity bouncing back and forth like a puppet on a string, swinging between valley and mountain, life and death, sickness and health, poverty and wealth. Who can convince another to stop at the NOW? To stop at Tranquillity? To stop at the center called Sufficiency?
It happens that Now-Tranquillity and Now-Sufficiency is this Identity we are. It is time to stop desiring the positive, “good” side of the old misidentity. It is not good that we want, neither wealth nor health, not even illumination.
Ours is the Identity that is unjudged and unjudging. This instant — this NOW — Tranquillity am I! Peace am I! Sufficiency am I! Love am I! The One Identity am I; and there is no other “I” but Isness being Itself! Here Identity stands as I!
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel
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