END THE DELUSION OF TIME

Time and mind are inseparable.
Remove time from mind and it stops – unless you choose to use it.

To be identified with your mind (believe that you are your mind) is to be trapped in time: The compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

This creates and endless pre-occupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be.

The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of happiness, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the NOW!

Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the NOW!

Nick Ugolini

This was written to a wonderful woman I met at an airport.  The words speak for themselves.

Not Easily Amazed

My life has been full of wonder and experiences.  I have seen incredible sights and been everywhere I wanted to go.  From the far east to central Asia, sailed the Bahamas, skied the Alps, traveled to the depths of the Grand Canyon.   Done everything you could imagine and then some.  Found unimaginable love only to lose it, growing from the pain.  Life’s experiences can be a demanding teacher.  I have learned well.

I am not easily amazed.

People don’t impress me.  Closed minded, no drive for the satisfaction of accomplishment, no interest in self development or expanding their experiences.   Control, personal safety, no risk, no excitement.  Standing in a crowd, they fade away part of the masses that come and go and leave nothing behind.

I am not easily amazed.

Then I met a pilot.  Intelligent, humorous, articulate, attractive, exciting.  Ideas, thoughts, drive, a curiosity few share. Theater, art, blue men flying in dark clouds to the beat of a drum.  Oshkosh, tri-motors, roasted corn, sushi.  Strange planes few have ever heard of. The thrill of IFR where only self confidence stands between you and the end.  A risk taker, living life to the fullest. One in a thousand, one in a million, one of a kind.

So many of my interests I see reflected in her.  When I thought life had no more delights to unfold, I am impressed.

This woman truly amazes me……

The storm is all around me, the white crest waves, the rain, the cold, the wind.

How I long for the warm days of spring when the wind is steady and warm.  The seas smooth.  Those days seem long and distant. 

Too long I have been at sea.  I want to go home, but I have lost the maps that lead me to the old familiar ports.  I must keep sailing on to other places.

May be tomorrow, maybe next week or maybe a year I will find that port.  Unless I keep moving forward I will never find it.  Unless I keep trying, I will never know.

Nick Ugolini