46. Truth is the Ultimate optimist: You shape your reality.

Enlightenment with Rishi Atma Bodha

"Realists" are pessimists in disguise.

What is real? If you take drugs to get high, you found a crutch, not the Crux.

Science tels us that everything you experience is a result of neurons and synapses in your brain firing off to one other. In other words, your life experience is entirely composed of electric signals. If you can master these signals, you can recreate reality itself into the image of what you want it to be. At bare minimum, you should be able to create for yourself any kind of high without needing to take the actual drug. This is the ultimate kind of hacking; hacking into your own consciousness. Once you go down this path, you realize life is not merely mechanical. Consciousness exceeds the limits that science attempts to place upon it.

Many people don't realize that the mind has the capacity to visualize things in incredible detail, and even it's possible to rotate intricately detailed objects in your head in 3d. This is why many people claim that books are often better than the movie. Your imagination can exceed the visuals produced by even the most expensive Hollywood blockbuster.

And yet, when you silence the mind for an extended period of time, something else happens that is beyond your imagination. A brilliant flash of inspiration occurs, or perhaps the velvety blanket of tranquility envelopes you. Ultimately, the Crown is besieged by a torrent of Bliss.

This is why it is so amazing that you can be liberated by never surrendering to anyone or anything. Your individuality is precious and sacred. The Truth is One because One is not nothing. Don't be nothing. Be One.