You see, a place inside of me 'opens up' during times like this and reveals to me that the blog entry isn't being written by the part of me that has the insights that I like to share with my online readers, and others. And so once that happens I stop writing the article because it simply isn't 'flowing'. It's being thought about: it's not being written.

These unfinished articles are being created by the mind. That is, the part of 'me' that isn't having the insights in the first place. The mind is but a repository for the memory of the insight. It's not the creator of the opening which the insight occurred within.

All the mind can create are thoughts, and external creations and objects. The mind can't create insights. Insights are graced upon an individual when the mind is not being focused on.

Analogously, it's as if the mental clouds part and the light is allowed to shine down upon the ground and shower the area with brightness and clarity.

When I first started this blog five years ago, it was being written from a place of mental thought. And that quickly changed whereas now it's mainly being written from a part of me that is very quiet, silent, and full of clarity and free-flowing connection with what is.

Is this something that I'm creating? No. It's something that I'm allowing.

It's in all of us. It's in me, I know that for a fact. It's also in you, and perhaps you've known it when you've had those moments that simply caused your mind to just stop dead in its tracks. Akin to having it shut up, or as I've heard people sometimes say - "I had a brain fart".

That's a very apropos way of stating the obvious. The thought was expelled and room was made in the space previously holding the thought. Of course, the space was there all along, but now it is purely empty. Void of anything, and so simple clarity of presence is seen and experienced.

It's truly a wonderful way to approach life. Doing what one can to accumulate as many of these times of clarity and insight as one can. They are so pure. They are so full of peace, and fun to boot.

Like anything in life: what's occurring is what is meant to be occurring. It's when life comes at us from a perspective that we weren't planning on that we do all that we can to stop it from happening.

But, it's already happening. It already happened. It already occurred. And yet we want it to be different than what it is.

This is akin to my experience with my insights blog. I thought that there would be an absolute potpourri of things that I would find myself wanting to write about. Absolute hundreds and hundreds of articles and all written on such a multitude of topics that it would be a labor of love over the years.

Has it become that? No. Not by a long shot.

Instead, I've just gone with what presence wants me to write each month.

As I sit here typing away on the keyboard and keeping my eyes closed so that I can focus on allowing the words to flow out of me, it becomes clear that there hasn't been a 'me' writing this blog during almost the entire past five years, but this still, silent presence inside of me.

I know, I know, this is sounding pretty esoteric. And this is correct.

This is not something that is commonly related to during our days in the world. Even when alone. This space of presence is something that doesn't need to think to know what needs to be shared to be seen.

It just shares. It just knows. It just sees. It just is.

It doesn't need to want to figure out what it needs to write so that it is clear, because it is simple clarity itself.

It truly is a simple and amazing place to be opening up to and sharing with others. Or at least doing one's best to share, and still failing miserably, as I am prone to experiencing with these articles.

But, nevertheless, this is what is so beneficial for me. So selfishly beneficial for me. Every time I sit down and begin plinking away on the keyboard to put words to computer screen I find myself entering this place of presence that opens up to me and allows me to exist in this space of peace and wonder and absolute simplicity.

And then I open my eyes and stare at what was just revealed and expressed as best it could be. So, this really isn't 'my blog'. It's a space that one opens and another, or many, enter and a subsequent sharing occurs. An experience is created, and all are touched deeply or lightly, or not at all.

There is a space in each of us that continues to read the words of others because we think that something they share will impart something upon us that will help us understand what it is that we're seeking to understand or find out. But, when the words are such that they elicit a feeling inside of the reader, that reader knows that that resonance occurred that allowed them to not just know, but to experience that resonance.

Sometimes it's known as "What the hell was that?" or "I don't understand what the dude is writing, he's weird". They're all the same thing. They're all creating an understanding, an experiencing of sorts that is resonating with the reader, you, at some level inside. Or not. And even that is a resonance in and of itself.

This whole act of writing is truly wonderful in that it allows a world to be created via these things called letters and words and then an opening inside the reader of these things called letters and words. In my case, the particular insights that have been written about during the past five years have caused people to wonder, mostly, what the heck it is that I'm trying to impart.

But, the rare few do understand because that resonance, and maybe even a similar insight, occurs revolving around what was attempted to be imparted to cause that internal opening to occur.

It's really not that complicated, but it is something wonderful to experience. Especially when the writing and the sharing is occurring from the place of presence inside. The mind can go about and create so many amazing and wondrous descriptions of so many beautiful images and concepts. But the place in each of us that lives as presence and causes insights is truly something that is not creating what is experienced.

Rather, it's revealing what already is.

That's why it's so powerful, or scary, depending upon the ability of the person experiencing the opening to allow what is occurring to transpire.

Being able to share from this free-flowing place and doing one's best to make the sharing in such a way that it is helpful to others is something that I've found that I enjoy doing during the past five years of writing this web-log. I know that sometimes my words take a second read to understand what was attempted to be relayed, as I sometimes don't do the best effort of relaying via my writing what is being felt and experienced and living inside.

But when the feeling, the experience, the presence, and the descriptive words are synchronized with the person on the receiving end of the writing spectrum and then married as one, then the true impact and meaning of the insight is experienced and known.

And, to me, that is why I do this. That is why the title of this blog is 'insights'. That is why it is subtitled '...from material to spiritual ...and everything in-between.'

Because it is about everything. And nothing. And that's all. That's the insight.

Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'

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