The integration (embodiment) of these two puts you a) in the present moment and b) at the top of a giant mountain of potential and possibility. When you think you know what’s going on right now, where it’s going, and what’s happening next.. You are collapsing that mountain of potential into a very small pile. You turn a mountain into a molehill which, in this case, is a giant bummer because it was a mountain of something awesome.

Trust the universe means: when you’re out past where you can easily get back to the known, to ‘safety’, and you are low on resources, and then you run out… you have to surrender and trust because you have no other choice. You might die, but your best option is to let go and let God, as they say. Into your hands I commend my spirit, my life, my whole entire being. Get there, be there, live there. Memento Mori.

‘I know nothing’ means I do not know either what is going on right now, or what is going to happen next. Perhaps I am privy to some kind of meta-story, perhaps I am not. Ultimately I have no idea what is going to happen one minute in the future, one second. And as for having some kind of description of what is going on, what I am doing right now, why: it’s neither here nor there.

These two, and the resultant state could be said to be a next octave of frequency. It leads to complete spontaneity. You don’t know what’s happening next so why stress about it? When you think you know what is coming next you actually link yourself to a predicted outcome. Your choices, unconsciously, will lead you to that outcome because you think that’s what’s happening. So it will happen.

When you don’t know what is going to happen, then anything can happen and that’s exciting. You can also more easily accept what happens next because you don’t have any stories about it.

“It’s okay to plan a little bit, but your plan has to include the possibility of things going differently.” –Bashar

It leaves us open to the spontaneous inspiration that can come up instead of locked in to a particular outcome. It is when we drop all our stories about whatever it is that we happen to be doing right now that we allow ourselves to experience whatever we are doing right now fully, to reap the maximum benefit from it and also to allow it to move, to change.

It is when we stop judging our choices and actions that we are able to move and flow with life effortlessly. Instead of being concerned about a particular outcome, we are simply doing what we are doing and trusting ourselves that it is working. We don’t know how it is working, why, or what will come of it because it isn’t our job to know that. We are simply making choices, taking actions and: living life.

Who knows where life is going? Seriously. A meteor could plow into the earth tomorrow and end all life on earth in a matter of minutes or days. Any survivors could be trapped in a permanent winter so cold that the human race might barely recover.

What are you so worried about? What is happening or needs to happen that isn’t already?

Who am I? No seriously, who am I? I have no idea! No clue. You have to find yourself, go on a journey of knowing yourself so that, in the end you can finally admit that you haven’t a single clue as to your nature, destiny, or ultimate purpose or goal.

This is a state that constitutes real knowledge of self and the resultant state of being is achieved through a letting go, an unknowing rather than through something positive. And yet to get there, you must survey the territory, you must chase down some rabbit holes and go on quite an adventure. Only then do you know you don’t know.

Because really, the journey is the destination. It is a state of resistance, a state of thinking one really knows, and being afraid of what that knowledge seems to convey because knowledge always destroys whatever it touches. When one is sitting on the couch, resisting the currents of change, then one does not know oneself.

It is possible to sit on the couch and ride the current. But one must be an energetic master and, on the inside, would be quite busy, absorbed in pure focus.

The journey of “know thyself” is really just an excuse to get out of the house, out of the old rut, and go on an adventure. It’s an epic thing to call this journey because people think it implies a destination, when it doesn’t because self discovery is an infinite journey.

Really, you’re just doing stuff, and hoping it all works out, or even better: knowing it’s all working out somehow, but that there is no universal standard or goal, or that the universal standard or goal isn’t something that you know consciously, unless you are let in on some of it for some reason. Unless you have the ability to prophecy, and even prophecies are subject to change, you don’t know. Even prophets occasionally have to admit that things are too foggy, too volatile, to accurately give a useful prediction.

Even when you cross your intuition, the Divine uses it. Perhaps you buy something, or give something away, and your feel a contraction. Not to worry: you are still in the zero point of infinite possibility. The possibilities simply look different now that you made this decision. They may have narrowed temporarily, but they will re-expand in a little bit. Never fear.

Bonus Slogan! “I’m not always the good guy”

This one is both a humble admission of your own capacity for evil and a release from moral belief systems. It is often the one who knows what is right who is forced to play the devil himself amongst people who have become subject to group delusion (which is almost everybody, almost all the time). Doing what I feel is right often, in my experience, outs me in some way.

On the other hand, I am not always a saint, and I know that. Not pretending to be one is a more honest portrayal of my character.

At the end of the day it just frees up my expression. It neutralizes the polarities and I can breathe. I can act how I feel instead of tiptoeing around my own perceptions of what everyone wants to see or hear. Kindness, grace, and compassion can absolutely still be cultivated and shine through, but these are only blunted in their true essence and efficacy by me pretending.