November 12, 2023 – A

Our imagination is a mirror
reflecting us to us. 

What are the themes running through
your imagination's wanderings,
which are not actually wanderings at all,
but recurring stories
to reaffirm,
entrench,
solidify
the patterns that are ingrained
in your mind's worn path of rumination?

Sex addicts think like sex addicts.
Fascists think like fascists.
Preachers think like preachers.
...
You think like you.
I think like me.

All we have to do is think about our thinking
to realize who we are
and know what matters most to us.

Then we think about what we think about that,
and what we need to do to change
the nature of our life--
or to maintain it just as it is,
if it suits our fancy just fine.

But from now on, 
we won't be kidding ourselves
about ourselves.
We will be being ourselves,
full bore all the way.

The question then becomes
"Are we being who the situations/circumstances
of our life need us to be?

Or, are we escaping the situations/circumstances
of our life with endless fantasies
about how we wish things were
and what we want things to be?

And how we might go about aligning ourselves
with the life that needs us to live it?

Do we care about the life that needs us to live it?
About being "the obedient servants"
of the life we are built/born to live?

Aligned with the Tao, the Flow,
the Source of life and being?

Or do we just want to be left alone
with our pornographic images,
our fantasies about endless wealth
or world domination?

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