My friend, you are much too selfish to find infinity.  What you have developed are but linguistic tricks to evade your fears.  You lack the playfulness of true liberation.  

The infinite jester performs a trick.  He juggles your finite elements.  He shatters them at will.  He takes your life and frees you from it.

There is only one form of infinite love.  It is a love with no conditions.

There is no part of another person, or oneself, that is static.  All can change given time.  If a component of a person is loved, that love is exposed to the currents of time.  Therefore, that love cannot be infinite, as the waves will grind it into sand.  

But time will never erode unconditional love.  If love has no conditions, such as common interests, physical appearance, and qualities of personality, then any change will have no affect upon it.

Conditional love is an effect of someone meeting our finite requirements, unconditional love is an infinite cause of love no matter what the other's thoughts or actions.

Love without conditions is the perfect expression of our infinity.  With it we take the most powerful emotion and use it to give ourselves to someone knowing that there is no right or wrong way to live, only infinite possibilities.

So what is the unconditional that this love targets?  It's hard to say, other than what is simply an attempt to put into words that which lies beyond language. Perhaps two people can find it expressed in a poem or a song, but that expression will only ever expose the peak of the mountain, not all the complexity of the peaks and crevasses that ascend up to it.

Don't shrink the universe down to the size of your mind, stretch your mind out to the size of the universe.

That which participates is represented by the body.  Blind participation limits the potential of the body and makes no use of the mind.

That which observes is found in the mind.  A mind can never truly be free if the body is caged.

The union of the body and the mind brings about an equilibrium of participation and observation.  Both are liberated, and each acts as a catalyst to broaden the freedom of the other.

There are few things in this world as mind-expanding as a metaphor.  A thought can be transformed into a reality by metaphors.  What is finite can be converted into what is infinite through the beauty of this linguistic trick.  The greatest minds, those with imaginations that extend past the furthest stars, live in a world of metaphors.  When our reality is composed of metaphors and allegories, it has no boundaries except our creativity.  

When we play games with the boundaries of language, we are playing games with the boundaries of reality.  Infinite language creates an infinite world.

If the universe is a book, it has an infinite number of pages.  And it's getting longer.  And with each passing moment the Writer types faster and faster.  Truth lies in a comprehensive understanding of every page.  The brightest minds among us may grasp a handful of pages, at most.  Though we can never know truth because we can never know the book, we can look across the most diverse page numbers.  We should skip around and choose sentences from pages no one has ever read.  We do have a choice over which page we pick and whether we allow the possibilities awaiting in each sentence we come across to enhance our lives, to infuse infinity into them.

Most will only ever blindly participate in life.  They will accept the boundaries prescribed by society and be sure not to wander outside of them, from birth until death.  

Rare individuals will actually ask questions and seek answers about those boundaries.  These observers will be the first to identify weaknesses in someone's view of reality, yet the last to leave their own cocoon of illusory safety, too disheartened to actually take the steps to make the transformations in their world.  

They are the infinite among us who both observe and participate.  They demolish boundaries they have observed, then proceed to become creators by constantly planning and constructing what they know to be temporary and ever-expanding boundaries.

I want this day and each one following it to stretch on for eons of time.  I won't fall victim to the anticipation of future events, I'll put each consecutive present moment into play within my infinite game.  

The finite run as fast as they can from the present in fear of potential boredom, willing to do anything to fritter away the time.  The infinite allow each moment in time to flow through them, knowing they are constantly a witness to the path the narrative of their lives is taking.  Boredom is unknown to them, even though the finite mind would probably reason that the infinite person was in pursuit of boredom based on their behavior.  But they who know infinity know fulfillment lies not in the future or in others, but in the present within oneself.

A series of steps are gone through when one wishes to expand a current reality tunnel:

1) An alternate view upon reality is experienced.  One now realizes that there are options, that option A isn't all there has to be.  Option B can be made to supplant, or coexist alongside, option A.

2) One goes through the steps of finding out how option B came to be, taking note of what made this experience part of their reality, even if only for that moment.

3) Once these steps for an alternate reality are defined, thoughts and actions are organized so option B is given priority over option A.  The original experience is constantly being reproduced in many forms so that it may have a lasting effect.

4) Given time, deep thought, and repetition, option B, or both options A and B, will become part of the envelope around one's infinite universe.

There are times when the original experience is so powerful that no repetition is needed.  These intense, often mystical, happenings transform one's reality in one intense explosion of infinite awareness.

Now, take a deep breath and be prepared, because option C fast approaches.

The act of placing someone at fault can often be a defense mechanism utilized in an effort to help us deal with impermanence.  We place the blame on a person because in a seemingly unpredictable world we need to feel grounded, we need to know that someone was behind it.  It can be most damaging when this fault is put on one's own shoulders by finite people, decreasing self worth for no reason other than a collective discomfort with change.

With an infinite consciousness we see that no one is to blame.  As close as we may come to matching the rhythm of the universal drummer, the beat will always unexpectedly change and we must do so with it.  Relationships may atrophy, mistakes may be made, and human shortcomings may enter the picture, but if we realize that nature has a plan we can stop struggling and let this happen, no pointing fingers necessary.  The impermanence will no longer be permitted to distort our finite reality, only support the evolution of our infinite reality.

Infinite minds recognize that truth is not the boundary-defined science it has been credited to be.  Truth is malleable.  This is because pure objectivity is impossible within the limits of the human experience.  Once the nonexistence of its absolute state is realized, truth becomes a creative art- a sculpture constantly being restructured by those who live a life of infinite play.

I am creator of my own infinite reality.  Every passing day is an opportunity to expand, to come closer to the realization that my universe is internal.  We should each make a list of what qualities we want in our reality, then take the actions to infuse them into our world.  

I choose to create a world with an endlessly increasing amount of: optimism, imagination, intimacy, courage, humor, liberation, expression, love, beauty, connectivity, forgiveness, spontaneity, and excitement.

Make your list and set about doing what needs to be done to make those positive qualities part of your internal universe.  There are no finite boundaries here, choose what kind of world you wish to inhabit and create it.

It has been noted many times over.  The idea was stated most poignantly by Nietzsche, when he told us that "One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a shining star."  The stress of the finite is needed to make us realize the infinite.  A life with no concerns, no distractions, creates a lazy and reckless mind.  How could I create what is infinite without the finite?  The stress of a work schedule organizes my mind.  The need to learn new things causes me to read books and become inspired.  Lazy bodies generate lazy minds, so I exercise and I can concentrate better.  My relationships make me question myself, the world, and human nature.  It is most definitive when I am in nature.  I see the end result of billions of years of stressors, of the struggle for survival, and there is no getting around the awe-inspiring beauty that has come about.  Just as the dissonance in music is needed to make the highs all the more climactic, in life there must be lows for there to be highs.  Positives could only ever be interwoven in the same mesh as negatives.  Allow the seemingly finite chaos to mold you into what is infinite.

Language, in all its glorification, is often criticized for its limitations.  We live in a world of language, where no word means the exact same thing to one person as it does to the next.  No matter how well we think we get our point across, we never really do.  Another's brain will handle the sound bytes you have offered and sort them in a different fashion than your own.  Let's not look at this as a matter to be disappointed about, but to savor.  Because your words are yours and will only ever be yours, that makes them infinite.  You can write your deepest thoughts on a billboard and they will always be in your sole possession.  Others will take in the language, but their "computers" will alter it.  They only have finite access to your infinite thoughts, even if they think otherwise.  The great masters of literature are so wonderful because they never lose what is infinite in them, yet are still able to offer the reader a chance to access it.  Once the reader formulates what they have read into their own thoughts and actions, not just looking at the words but living them, they have accessed the infinite while leaving what is infinite to the author untrammeled.

The universal drummer has an interesting sense of humor.  Take the time to appreciate, and laugh at, the creativity behind the comedy.

Take the time to make a list of all the positive effects that emerged from a seemingly negative occurrence.  You'll be amazed at how long that list can get.  If something "bad" happens to you today, try to make a list, as soon as possible, of all the beneficial outcomes the future might hold.  That list, as well, will be longer than you ever expected.  Keep an eye out for those optimistic possibilities to transpire.  Once again, you'll not only be surprised to find that a good portion of them will be actualized, but caught off guard by positive ripples you had not predicted.

Perhaps this will bring you closer to the rhythm.  But remember, it can't be seen, only felt and heard.  Even then, never expect to have a grasp on where its music is taking you.

It is doubtful anyone has ever seen the source of life's energy, of its rhythm.  All we can really do is listen for its echoes, the reverberations spiraling  through our experiences, and align ourselves with the beat of the universal drummer.

Human consciousness resembles a social filter in that it takes in all the information the universe ceaselessly hurls at it, allowing to pass through only what it wants to see in the world.  The rest is caught in the filter and immediately the residue is shed.   Finite people allow only the finite to pass through in human interaction.  This is the only substance passed on to those they come across and the only material they will permit to pass through them.  Infinite individuals filter out the finite, which they know to be of little to no value, and radiate the infinite when making contact with another, although it is usually caught by the other's finite filter and not allowed to pass through.  However, every once in awhile the infinite makes its way through a finite filter and is passed on through another's consciousness. Once one's filter has allowed something infinite to pass through, it is much more likely that infinite data will be allowed through in the future.  Two individuals with infinite filters communicate effortlessly since what is shallow and finite never passes into their interactions.  They see a part of the person that no one with a finite view of the world will ever comprehend.

We must really learn to trust our intuitions.  One of the most important reasons for this is doubt.  Life is full of new experiences constantly approaching on the horizon.  Each time some novel opportunity draws near, we experience some form of doubt.  If doubts arise due to a need to further evolve, then we must annihilate them and proceed.  If doubts come about because growth may be inhibited or not actualized through the experience, we must listen to them.  This is where intuition comes in, because we can only know which step to take if we listen to the depths of our being for the echoes of a message: to resist the pull of the stream and hold onto a branch, or to let go and allow the rocky waters to move us to our destination.  Intuition will never let one down and the few who know to listen to it will live infinite lives.

Beauty can be likened to music.  Other attractiveness out there is mass-produced, like the stuff one hears on the radio.  It's immediately catchy because it contains absolutely no substance, just the same hook in melody repeated about 3-4 times.  True beauty is like the music I discovered several years ago.  It isn't composed to be swallowed up by an ignorant populace ("Now the sound of music comes in silver pills, engineered to suit you, building cheaper thrills" Steven Wilson) but to reveal the soul of the musician.  It is filled with constant compositional shifts and transitions.  At first, true music and true beauty proceed right on past one's centers of comprehension.  Their song seems like disorganized sound and is difficult to digest.  But then comes the magic, that with each successive listen, and great songs take dozens, the beauty is made increasingly apparent and the chords flow together more smoothly.  Beauty transitions from a sight to a vision, from a sound to a song.  The jarring moments of complexity are welcomed by the ears and the vision is sought by the eyes.  True songs and true beauty retain something that is timeless, infinite, never to be overshadowed and forever to be in possession of some mystery for the beholder.

Don't get the idea that nature is in complete control, we at it's feet in submission.  You would be selling yourself short.  Nature is meant to be played with, made into an art.  It wants our feedback, for which imagination is the official currency.  An infinite life is lived with a style and grace never seen before.  It is a constant experiment of one's imaginative powers.

The future, the ever-unfolding and accelerating narrative of your life, is approaching.  Those who live in terms of the finite have life all planned out and won't stand for it transpiring in any other fashion than their crude blueprint.  They are setting themselves up for a painful encounter.  Nature is going to do with them what it wills.  They'll so desperately struggle in an attempt to keep from drowning that they won't ever realize they can float, if only they would remain calm and stop thrashing about.

The infinite-minded have a basic outline for life that they know has no chance of going according to plan.  They are relaxed, calm, allowing the waves to bob them up and down.  They realize nature's superiority in planning.  They trust it and are rewarded for their courage by being blessed with gifts from nature in the form of unpredictable and seemingly impossible events that allow one to transcend a future they once thought could not be any better than the uninformed outline in their mind.

"Happiness is a learned condition.  And since it is learned and self-generating it does not depend upon external circumstances for its perpetuation." -Tom Robbins

Dedicated to Terence McKenna: Infinite Speaker

"Because it is address, attending always on the response of the addressed, infinite speech has the form of listening."

"Infinite speech does not expect the hearer to see what is already known to the speaker, but to share a vision the speaker could not have had without the response of the listener."

"Instead of placing one body of knowledge against another, storytellers invite us to return from knowledge to thinking, from a bounded way of looking to an horizontal way of seeing."

All quotes by James P. Carse (italics added)

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Those who inhabit the finite world seek companionship from those with similar interests and belief systems.  They go around their cage in search of love from fellow "prisoners".  

Those who inhabit the universe of infinite possibilities seek to love and be loved by individuals who differ from them in nearly every possible way.  They climb out of their cages and head into the jungle in search of other "creators".

When I make an unwavering commitment to courage, nature teaches me of love.

When I make an unwavering commitment to nature, the love catalyzes courage within me.

When I make an unwavering commitment to love, the catalyzed courage brings me closer to nature.

When I make an unwavering commitment to courage, nature teaches me of love.

When I make an unwavering commitment to nature, the love.......

Today I awoke in a universe with neither a beginning nor an end, an eyewitness to the eternal birth of time that occurs somewhere deep within each second.  It was a fresh start in a universe with no starting point, where every bubble eventually floats to the surface emitting possibilities and revelations that simultaneously leave one humbled and prided for the rest of the infinite journey.

How does one know he or she has made the transition from "prisoner of boundaries" to "creator of boundaries"?

Where once appalled, they now applaud.