Author: Manisha

To lock yourself in any pattern is to become unconscious, it doesn't matter how good or bad! All such dichotomies are markers of the Mind influenced by Conditioning which is a response of the past, of that which has lost touch with the present.
Awareness roots You in the present and your Actions in sensibility and appropriateness without any link back to any Identity formed out of a memory of any experience-thought-imagined self-image.
You may choose to replace narrow structures with broad structures, or you can destroy structures altogether and flow as an active response to the integrity of the Present.

“Some think that ‘existence’ is and others that ‘nothing’ is. Rare is the one who thinks neither. He is perfectly serene, free from all distractions.”

- Ashtavakra Gita

To understand this;
The lines above are not hinting at running from Life which could only take place in one's mental landscape because life as it is is already happening here and now, though you maybe here or not which is to say that Presence maybe or not.
Contrary to all misbelief, the emptier you are which you could only be of all your accumulations—Thought—ideas, beliefs, conclusions etc the more available you are to Life here and now—a point where all Life happens, a point which serves as the ground for any effective planning that might be needed. Nothing is lost with Emptiness but all is gained, if anything at all.
No thought (or an awareness of Thought) means No Mind which means No one to be free or bound. 
In other words, whatever You-Mind thinks you become as the Mind at the point it thinks, believes, or imagines is not separate from You—the identity/becoming. Beyond it, there isn't a thing and therefore there is neither one nor two, neither real nor unreal, neither whole nor part, neither united nor separate etc etc. It just it. This is it. Here and Now.

The fact that each of our conditioning is unique also points to the fact that it is not as unique as we would like to believe. 
The point is not to attach to any ideas of anything and let life act through us purely based on what's needed in the moment.
Not attaching to any models comprised of beliefs or thoughts is a prerequisite for acting as needed. No beliefs-thoughts are necessary for action.
There is a space of pure seeing, love, and passion beyond Thought. A space of undirected intelligence.

Beauty is not a 'thing' in perception, but a recognition of space in and around every 'thing'. In its purest form, beauty is the absence of a perceiver perceiving and therefore an absence of separation or distance and all the functions and forms of Thought.

Above all, embrace simplicity of heart—emptiness of Mind. Anything truly worthwhile appears foolish or impossible to the conditioned eye that takes its conditioning too seriously. All ideas and images beautiful or ugly, pious or corrupt are prisons. 
Truth is always simple but the Mind-Ego cannot accept it. 
To see it as it is without division and without label is the way of the Truth; here and now.

with clear seeing, every act becomes an act of devotion from moment to moment leading to your whole life becoming an act of devotion.

To be awake is no accomplishment. It is an open flow back to authentic simplicity and ordinariness within, contained in the moment Now not apart from you, where all ideas, concepts, and imagination of anything have lost ground,and there is only the Truth of the moment here and now as You, for you are That emptiness happening. 
Every time you lose yourself in thoughts of IT, thinking (in any form of Thought) & believing you are awake & about to be enlightened, know that you're just continuing to dream,for there's no You to awaken or be enlightened. Our real home is decorated with only Nothing. Haha.
This recognition of the Thought-Feeling movement will keep bringing you back until both movements from 'there' back to 'here' merge and there's no one travelling anymore.
You can only start where you are right Now, and when you finally come back Here, you see there's not really anywhere to go, for there couldn't be. It's always been here, and that's all there is—Infinite Now.

laughter is the most appropriate response to Existence.
enjoy the cosmic humor.
don't take yourself too seriously.
amuse and be amused.

you meet me in the quiet of dawn
rising from the fading dark breaking into the morning light
appearing as the Sun one moment 
turning into rain the next 
the wind that visits as it rains
I turn around to catch hold when you are ever here shining on me
smiling through the valley.

To make spirituality about being ‘rewarded’ with liberation or enlightenment is to completely miss the point of what it is about and only reflects our compulsive self-centric tendencies. ‘You’ must fall and surrender, for only Life has carried you all this time and only Life can.