The exploration of life is the exploration of the unknown. You are established, in a way, to discover life, one step, one moment at a time. Every experience accumulates to life, learnings, and realizations, culminating in the self-realization of an individualized soul-container, as well as the self-realization of the collective.

The journey itself requires [you] to find harmony in every step that is unfolding right before you, in every moment that you are engulfed in, in every moment that you receive. This reality provides many opportunities to learn, many opportunities to experience what it means to be human, many opportunities to experience the human relationship, as well as your own exploration of yourself.

The operations of the mind, the operations of the heart, the operations of this physical form, all are established to provide a sense of safety, a sense of operating in this human form for as long as possible. Therefore the mind, the heart, and the physical form have their own mechanisms to provide, to identify, to evaluate, and to judge safety — the environment in which you are established, determined by the mind to be safe, determined by the heart to be safe, by the physical body to be safe — all of these mechanisms are natural mechanisms embedded within you, fulfilling an important function. Over time, an over-accentuated mind will provide safety to a greater extent than actually needed, the heart will provide safety to greater extent than actually needed, and the body will continue to do the same.

Yet constantly you’ll request experiences that will put you slightly outside of your sense of safety. You will discover slight discomforts in interactions with yourself and with others, with your environment, and experiences. The goal of life is not to eliminate all potential discomforts, all potential perceived dangers, all potential unsafe, uncertain, circumstances. While you do carry the obligation to listen to the mind, the heart, and the body appropriately, and in a balanced way, you also carry the intrinsic desire to experience life to its fullest, to receive and embrace the unknown, to receive and embrace the uncertain.

Therefore, the power of this harmonious exploration lies in the moment. In this very moment, you are exposing yourself to the unknown, to the uncertain, to the unpredictable, to the uncontrollable, the moments to unfold before you, the sense of safety that is established by the mind, that is carried out by the mind is the same sense that establishes the fears of the unknown, the fears of discomfort, the fears of the unsafe — an overactive mind over-evaluating and over-judging that which is to come. The only true evaluation of which is to come can only occur in the moment of the experience — only then can you truly know the experience itself, rather than the imagined experience, the projected experience of the mind. The emotional response is therefore a similar momentary reaction to the circumstance. The physical response is equally a momentary response. The projections of an uncertain future can invoke emotions, can invoke fears, can invoke pains that have not occurred yet, that may never occur, that may not occur to the same degree as estimated or expected, therefore many of you will learn to live in projected pain before the arrival of any circumstance or potential challenge, potential discomfort.

It is time for you to bring back the power that you hold over your response to the uncertain, bringing your energy, your intention, your emotions and thoughts, your physical presence, sensations, into this very moment, feeling all that there is right now. And while emotions and thoughts and physical discomforts of the past may cloud this very moment, they too have passed, and are mere shadows of that which has occurred. Neither the objections of the future, nor the memories of the past remain in this very moment. True experience only occurs in the present.