We seek contact with others but don't want to either overextend, or stunt a moment. We don't want to miss out, or over-commit. We want to be in touch, but sometimes from a distance. -

We only have so much time for certain people, actually for all people, if put in context of a lifetime.

Everyone has their limits, but what about engaging with something unlimited - such as the conscious universe/God/Source? If we could speak to our Source, how much time could we budget or handle?

We are being called to use discretion, prudence, in culling disinformation from the vital; and at the same time engage the heart and mind in self-actuation - showing up to experience universal love.

We have to have the information available to give us the strength of heart to know that steps toward love unconditional, will be reciprocated at least in kind, if not magnified. In fact it is by experiencing a greater love than we can imagine, that we can release old stagnant patterns and misconceptions.

By opening one's heart to one's Higher Power sincerely, God/Source/Universe will respond.

The process is the same in all spiritual traditions; for one willing to seek, one shall find and be found.

The Supreme Lord said: My dear friend, mighty-armed Arjuna, listen again to My supreme word, which I shall impart to you for your benefit and which will give you great joy.

I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.

The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are surrendered to Me, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss enlightening one another and conversing about Me.

To those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me.

Out of compassion for them, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.

From Bhagavad Gita As It Is - Chapter 9, Verses 1,8,9,10,11

To be engaged with the Absolute, in the service of the Absolute, one can choose prayers/mediation from multiple traditions.

One highly recommended ancient Sanskrit (Vedic) mantra meditation, is to repeat the following:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

There are no hard and fast rules for chanting this prayer. It asks the divine energy of God to engage one in the divine service of the one God/Source who lives in each heart next to each individual soul.

Personal consciousness, like gravity and time, is invisible and hard to define - as to one's meaning and purpose. Yet despite eluding precise scientific consensus, such subtleties as time, gravity and consciousness are a proven part of one's personal reality, by dint of one's personal experience of them.

The quality of one's conscious experience of reality does not need an external validation as to the value of an experience for the person having it. Yet the personal paradigm of reality which many people hold, tends to be in a state of flux - the understanding of what is real and valuable to each person, and what is not.

What can be said of consciousness, gravity and time, is that each person has a certain amount of time in one's present body, to gravely consider or not, the forces which bind one to this world.

Many wonder if there is a point or purpose to the life experiences we are wrapped up in - the events and experiences which make up one's personal reality, as well as contribute to a collective reality.

Thoughtful folks have contemplated these issues over the ages, with each person's experiences and conscious conceptions factoring into the bigger landscape - of how to live and be happy.

Could there be a one-size-fits-all understanding of one's conscious reality and purpose - a paradigm that encompasses understanding one's conscious personal experiences, in relationship to all of the seen and unseen energetic forces of the universal collective?

In the marketplace of paradigms, many come from scientists asking for blind faith in their various models - models which assume unproven and unseen causes of visible reality which can't accurately  measured on a cosmic scale. Spiritual traditions basically ask for the same faith in invisible causation of the visible. A new paradigm is needed which validates the seen, the unseen, and the experiential.

Both scientific and religious paradigms have largely disappointed not only due to lack of consensus, but due to a self-serving egotism seeking power and control. When the search for life-enriching knowledge filters down as limited information co-opted by those interested in control over the masses, the search for pure self-knowledge usually becomes compromised and corrupted by the power-hungry.

The search for knowledge is one thing, how it is used is another. A nicely balanced paradigm awaits.

Times are rapidly changing, bridging theoretical understandings into a new model of personal experience, plus understanding of a multitude of energies at play in one's personal reality.

The bridge is being formed by hearing new information, most of which is eternal, but simply repackaged for the time, place and circumstance for each new hearer, in this age of information accessibility.

For anyone who has the gravity of mind to consider times are changing quickly, and for one who wants to consciously grow an understanding and experience of unconditional love in the present moment, the paradigm of constantly performing divine service to Source/God/Conscious Universe daily, is something to consider. Such service can take on many forms, starting with one's hearing.

It is the experience of such loving service in one's own daily reality, which is the perfection of both science and philosophy - as to why we are here, and why the universe itself has divinely manifested.

Service is universal; some of it forced or purchased, some of it given freely in love.

It is this quintessential activity or dharma of living being which can be meditatively, mindfully,  and lovingly directed, which evolves each persons highest good.

One constantly chooses how direct to their conscious energy minute-by-minute, according to one's conception or paradigm of reality; it is a grand meditation on life, hopefully yeilding a better life.

When's one's life-paradigm shifts to understanding a spiritual reality - a reality where all of the facilities at one's disposal are used in connection for the highest good of all, then a blissful transformation of one's personal reality automatically follows. One's purpose and identity are liberated from all doubt, when a greater reality is experienced and served.

It is by serving something greater than oneself, that one's own greatness is humbly achieved and expanded throughout time; something personally experienced.

No matter one's station or occupation in life, if one sees reality as a divine play - with each player acting their own part in a mood of loving service, the Divine will respond in very personal ways in one's own experiential reality, affirming that all is right and full of light in one's experiential universe.

In this divine of paradigm of reality, both the true self and truth Divine, are personally revealed.