Life is unfolding in a predestined way. There is no one riding the emotional rollercoaster; it just feels like there is. You see, life itself is impersonal. It has
never heard of anything but what is happening now. It is we that personalize it.

Go to a mountain brook and watch it burbling and tumbling over rocks. It doesn’t know itself; it just happens.

Go to a hospital and watch those in suffering. That, too, is just happening. Oh, the emotions are running over, but they are not in charge. The Charge Nurse is not even in charge; she just seems to be.

What is the point in witnessing what you cannot change? The point is that witnessing is not part of the human scene. It is above and beyond it.

Nothing is impaired; how could the witness do anything but witness?

The crutches may pile up in wartime, but there is no one fighting. Of course, the witness sees fighting, but it is not a part of it.

The moment you enter any kind of so-called battle, you lose your witness-consciousness and become lost in the worldly fray.

Governments all over the world are turning to autocracy and freedoms are rapidly being lost. But the witness just witnesses.

The ego will react to what I just wrote. That’s okay, because the ego is a phantom self. That is all it has ever been. Amen.

Vicki Woodyard