When we were born, we didn't come with an operating manual showing us how to live from our natural state of wisdom, love and happiness. All the parts were in the box, but the directions were left out. Since most around us haven't figured out how to put it all together, confusion and suffering is often the result. What we perceive, we receive - and what we live, we teach. Fortunately, in each moment, life invites us to 'crack the code' and live from our natural state of being and perceive reality as it is, not as we'd like it to be. There is an immense difference in the two perceptions, and in that difference our release is found. But first, we need to challenge what we hold as true.
Assuredly, it is not what you 'know' that holds the key to a radical transformation. The 'answer' isn't found in the accumulation of all that you've come to know and believe, but in what you presently aren't aware of. All your spiritual ideas and beliefs about what is real and true haven't brought about the peace and contentment you've been seeking, has it? It's like facing west if we want to enjoy the sunset. If we are facing east, as much as we want to enjoy the sunset, it just won't happen. And yet, if we turn and face the proper direction, we get to experience the wonder and magnificence that was there all along.
In order to see how we create our experience, we need to notice what we think is true. What we think is true determines how we see the world, and how we see the world shapes our moment-to-moment experience. Can you suspend all that you think you know for the time being, including all your beliefs and opinions for the sake of discovering a whole new possibility? Can you temporarily put aside reluctance and fear for the chance of another possibility that can transform everything? Can you meet this moment innocent and pure, and without any expectation or demand? It is in this open state of discovery where your true freedom lies - in that space of awareness that is free of fear, doubt and worry.
"The Alex P. Keats Trilogy On Wisdom, Love and Happiness" is an invitation to step into the Unknown with openness and curiosity. It's an opportunity to deeply inquire into how our experience unfolds, with the aim of seeing as wisdom sees. It consists of three separate books ("Born To Be Happy", "When Wisdom Blooms" and "The Dance of Imperfection") that can be read in succession and digested as one, or if you desire, you can skip around and read in no particular order. In the end, if you give up the need to seek for the 'answers', you may begin to sense that which is beyond answers - and your life may be transformed in ways you only imagined.
