March 27-A, 2023

Living with integrity,
sincerity
and spontaneity,
transcends
the contriving,
willful,
pursuit of the acquisition 
of wealth and power,
and opens the way
to following the flow 
of life energy
through circumstances
and situations as they arise.

In so doing, we create a path
that can only be recognized
as a path
in hindsight
by those who are living as if
it matters that they do right
by the moment,
from moment to moment,
with no sense of the bigger picture
anywhere in sight.

"As if" and "as though"
do not get enough press.

Assume for the time being 
that there is no absolute reality,
that everything is only apparently real,
and we all are living "as if," "as though"
what appears to be real
is actually real.

We do not need anything 
to be actually real
if we are all in agreement
with one another in acting
"as if," "as though" 
things are real whether they are 
or not.

This is the flip side of R.D. Laing's 
observation, "They are playing the game
of not playing a game."

We, on the other hand, are playing the game
of playing as though the game we are playing
is real, even though it is only real
because we say it is.

We play religion as though it is real.
We take everything on faith
as though it is factual,
and, like that, it becomes so
on the strength of saying it is.

Just so, when we live with integrity,
sincerity and spontaneity,
intent on following the flow of life energy,
through circumstances
and situations as they arise,
we create a path
that can only be recognized
as a path
in hindsight
by those who are living as if
it matters that they do right
by the moment,
from moment to moment,
with no sense of the bigger picture
anywhere in sight.

Yet, when we look back from any point
in the future,
it is plainly evident that circumstances
and situations have fallen into place
as if (That term again) by magic
and leading us straight away
to right here, right now.

"As if," "as though," are the golden keys
to life with direction and purpose,
foundation and validation
in the most adamantine and unshakeable 
kind of way.

When we give ourselves over to "as if," "as though,"
we put ourselves on a track
that validates itself 
and our trust in it,
with a life of examples proving
the absolute reality
of what is only apparently and ostensibly actual.

Try it for yourself,
and see if it isn't so! 

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