Listen to Joy!

“Jesus says if it’s outrageous, do it; you know, just prove that it’s not important one way or another. But to me, it’s interesting, that everything is involuntary. So it’s like, if that’s the case, there really is nothing to figure out, and that is very relaxing too. You know, it’s just what comes easily, with flows. It’s so given; don’t ask how, what my day will be or seems like. When the mind is split, has a split motive, and then this thing of choice arises. And seems like there’s an unconscious mind and the conscious mind. And so if you seem to say or do things, and you don’t really know how that came about, then oftentimes they’re seemingly unconscious choices or beliefs that are in motion. And the goal, you might say, which is a present goal, is to be fully conscious, where there’s nothing being pushed out of awareness. You aren’t trying to hide anything. You aren’t playing hide-and-seek with yourself; you just fully aware, fully conscious, and fully present. And you could call it a choice. But I think in the end, the state of mind is a state of being. It’s more accepting of ‘what is,’ than choosing like, choices talked about in this world, choosing between doing this or doing that.

And even in the end, thinking this or that. I feel like there’s something that’s natural in all of us. And when we tap into that, that’s where we come back into the flow, the involuntary nature. And even things that seem to be choices, like Do I go here or there? Do I accept this invitation? Or do I speak up or say something, or not? Those don’t all fit into a category of a choice in the sense it’s more of, I think it’s like a mindset. When you’re in a mindset, then everything is easy, and everything is natural. And there’s no figuring out or weighing options or all that analytical stuff. And in the end, I think analysis completely disappears. And I know that because I had ten years of university and degrees full-time, and I had to really let go of a lot of what I thought I knew. And in the end, I think we are aligned with ‘what is,’ and then it feels like then there’s no sense of choice, there’s no trying to make a choice. Like, there’s no entity that is trying to make a choice. That’s what I call pure awareness is choiceless awareness. There’s no options in oneness. Sometimes when people say ‘What’s my choice?’ I say, ‘Well, how many options are there in oneness? One is one.'”