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 Lawrence Swan, what have you done today to contribute to the advancement of human evolution and for the benefit of the space-full of sentient beings?

Do you think of your life as a story that you only tell to your self that you convince yourself is true and you are the hero who has mastered the tests of life and can now approach the end with smug satisfaction, pushing your chair away from the table, and dropping dead face first on food gone to waste?

Imagine.

Imagine that now, child — of God or Universe or of oneself — now is the time to be switched OFF.

What is the nature of this OFF?

What is the nature of OFF?

The nature of OFF is not to be ON.

So, what is the nature of this ON that OFF is not?

No. It is not now time.

That was only a story.

Yes. You are ON.

And on and on and on.

Life is on, but now it is dark.

Your dark place has many mansions.

Sometimes you feel like you’re treading water in the middle of an ocean and

Sometimes you feel you are walking miraculously on the surface of the Deep.

My life includes the shaggy dog stories I tell other people, without embellishment, and I’m not necessarily the hero, and the stories don’t always have a point or a punchline, and my life includes the stories other people tell about me, making their own punchlines, or asking, What is the point?

It is getting cold but the heat has finally come on.

This morning I miraculously walked on the surface of a concrete sidewalk under oak trees that were ablaze with autumn.