Spiritual teachings are smudges on a perfectly clear glass.
Your life is unfolding just one choice.
“The singular seed of your intention to be human blossoms into the flower that is all your choices.”
Words are merely words. A map cannot encompass the territory it represents. Discussions about freedom, free will, self-determination, and predetermination remain just that — discussions.
Spiritual teachings are mere smudges on a perfectly clear glass.
To truly see the vessel, the glass must be smudged. As spiritual seekers, we seek the unseen, so we need a layer of dust to reveal its outline. Yet, these smudges and dust do not define the glass; they only hint at its essence. The true glass remains invisible and indescribable. Spiritual teachings can only ever point you towards what you seek; no spiritual teaching is what you are seeking.
The territory we long for does not reside on any map.
The thing that we seek does not lie in any possession. The truth we seek cannot be encapsulated in spiritual teachings — they can only ever motivate you to love and be yourself as you are.
Across my spoken and written teachings, I’ve done my best to smudge the glass and dust it with diverse viewpoints. Now, let me attempt to blow away as much of that dust as possible and polish the glass. Only then will you discover if you can hold onto it.
We are the infinite expression of a single consciousness manifested in many forms. At the heart of anything identified as ‘many’ lies the singular ‘one.’ Every choice you will ever make ultimately converges into one core choice: the choice for life — the choice to live. This singular choice embodies all your decisions within its multidimensional essence.
A singular seed of your intention to be human, over time, blossoms into the flower that represents all your choices.
When infinite consciousness chooses a life, it embraces every decision within that life because, in essence, without the constraints of time, it is all just one choice.
Beneath the various masks of mortality lies one consciousness.
We are each the unfolding of a multidimensional choice expressed over linear time. You are one choice, experienced through a sequential series of interconnected decisions. Every choice you make is linked, allowing you to glimpse the essence of the one choice that is you.
Every choice exists within every choice.
Just as every decision contained within your linear life represents one multidimensional choice, so too does the choice for every human life reside within the singular choice for human life itself. The decision to create humanity includes every individual. There is one infinite choice, and one shared human experience expressed as countless linear lives spanning millennia.
As we are each a unique expression of one consciousness, we are also the singular expression of humanity.
This principle applies universally. There exists one choice to experience life / awareness. There was one choice to experience creation. There is one creation. To decide how you perceive is to shape what you see. We are living a dream called life. We are alive. We are realizing our choice. This, right in front of you, is the choice. This is the choice.
Text adapted from my recent book “Human by Design: The Power and Artistry of Choice” which is available on Amazon.
