Do you know the joy of spending time with your eyes closed—without thinking, without feeling the need to think?
As human beings, we are constantly reaching outward, absorbing information the moment our eyes are open.
We live in a state of perpetual outward focus. This may be seen as a sign of being alive, but our hearts are constantly busy, moving, reacting.
For beings who are wired to think, feel, and act, it may not be easy to simply "not think" or "not feel."
Even when we try, the mind often drifts toward planning the next step or wondering about something.
To "not think" or "not feel" might appear unproductive on the surface, but once a shift in consciousness begins to take root within you, you will come to realize this quiet act—closing your eyes and directing your thoughts inward toward the world of truth—is, in fact, one of the most productive things you can do.
True productivity means sending out energy that acts positively upon yourself and others.
When your inner compass is aligned with the direction of truth, even the negative energy you've cultivated over time will begin to dissolve into the energy of truth—and transform into positive flow.
In this way, even while remaining still, you are doing the work of the heart.
That, by any measure, is a form of high productivity.
How much have we truly produced with all the frenzied movement of our minds and bodies—like spinning wheels on a mouse's treadmill?
And what kind of quality have we generated in all that effort?
We who have taken the visible world as everything would do well to reflect deeply on this.
Only when humanity encounters energy powerful enough to destroy everything we've built—both tangible and intangible—will we begin to awaken.
And it will only be then that human beings, in the truest sense, will begin to think and feel from the heart.
This collapse will not be partial.
It will be total.
And when that happens, we will come to realize—clearly and deeply—that superficial, quick-fix measures are completely ineffective.
Eventually, we will come to see:
There is nothing we can do.
That is, there is nothing we can do as physical beings.
Because the physical form simply doesn't have that kind of power.
Yet, at the same time, we will come to know there is a power—
A power that animates the physical body.
And we will come to feel, in our hearts, that we were given this form for the sole purpose of discovering that hidden, inner power within ourselves.
We will come to understand—naturally—that the source of this power cannot be known while still bound by physical form.
It is through the process of closing our eyes, shutting off the five senses, and encountering the existence of our true selves that we are, in truth, being called forward.