When we were born, we didn't come with an operating manual showing us how to live from our natural state of wisdom, love and happiness. All the parts were in the box, but the directions were left out. Since most around us haven't figured out how to put it all together, confusion and suffering is often the result. What we perceive, we receive - and what we live, we teach. Fortunately, in each moment, life invites us to 'crack the code' and live from our natural state of being and perceive reality as it is, not as we'd like it to be. There is an immense difference in the two perceptions, and in that difference our release is found. But first, we need to challenge what we hold as true.

Assuredly, it is not what you 'know' that holds the key to a radical transformation. The 'answer' isn't found in the accumulation of all that you've come to know and believe, but in what you presently aren't aware of. All your spiritual ideas and beliefs about what is real and true haven't brought about the peace and contentment you've been seeking, has it? It's like facing west if we want to enjoy the sunset. If we are facing east, as much as we want to enjoy the sunset, it just won't happen. And yet, if we turn and face the proper direction, we get to experience the wonder and magnificence that was there all along.

In order to see how we create our experience, we need to notice what we think is true. What we think is true determines how we see the world, and how we see the world shapes our moment-to-moment experience. Can you suspend all that you think you know for the time being, including all your beliefs and opinions for the sake of discovering a whole new possibility? Can you temporarily put aside reluctance and fear for the chance of another possibility that can transform everything? Can you meet this moment innocent and pure, and without any expectation or demand? It is in this open state of discovery where your true freedom lies - in that space of awareness that is free of fear, doubt and worry.

"The Alex P. Keats Trilogy On Wisdom, Love and Happiness" is an invitation to step into the Unknown with openness and curiosity. It's an opportunity to deeply inquire into how our experience unfolds, with the aim of seeing as wisdom sees. It consists of three separate books ("Born To Be Happy," "When Wisdom Blooms" and "The Dance of Imperfection") that can be read in succession and digested as one, or if you desire, you can skip around and read in no particular order. In the end, if you give up the need to seek for the 'answers', you may begin to sense that which is beyond answers - and your life may be transformed in ways you only imagined.

Conventional wisdom would have us believe perception is reality, and that if we perceive something about ourselves, it must be true. However, for anything to be real and true, it must be present and observable. In other words, we must have the ability to validate its existence in our experience - and not just solely in our minds. Just because we perceive something to be real doesn't make it real, does it? If we perceive ourselves to be inadequate, what tells us this? The fact is we give all kinds of concepts reality - and we suffer. The antidote is simple and profound, and it takes literally no effort on our part. The antidote is to question whether there is, or has ever been such as thing as "defects" or "flaws" in our character and personality. Aside from in our perceptual interpretations, where is it? If we cannot find it upon the closest examination, why do we insist on giving life to something that has no existence in reality, especially if it hurts? Because everyone else does? Once the idea of "imperfection" was believed in, we've spent so much energy towards masking or strengthening our deficiencies we assume to be real. We've wasted so much energy entertaining and believing in the mind's assertions like, "I'm not good enough," "I'm not worthy enough," "Others have it, but I don't" and "If only I could get rid of my faults, then I'd be happy and secure." Like a house of cards, it all collapses when the plug is pulled on the notion there's actually a valid reason to feel insecure and unworthy. It all deconstructs when we root out and sever the main belief that says, "Imperfection is a fact of existence that we simply must cope with " Is that so? Only when we re-examine all that we've been told, only when we investigate and see it's NOT just a matter of semantics, do we give ourselves the ability to fully embrace all that we are. No longer do we engage in mind supported strategies that continue to reinforce the basic error. Free from the need to compensate for or run from our once-perceived flaws, the desire to bolster or cultivate anything drops away. We're left simply enjoying life, spontaneously from being - living in perfect harmony with life.

Wisdom is the power to see what is always and already right and true. It's that aspect of ourselves that innately possesses the ability to discern truth from falsehood. Nevertheless, when we're born, we didn't come with an operating manual showing us how to live from our natural state of wisdom. All the parts were in the box, but the directions were left out. And since most around us haven't awakened their inner sage, it's no wonder we experience so many challenges in life. And yet if wisdom really is fully present and available within each one of us, why does it seem so difficult to access and live from? If wisdom is a flower that only blossoms under the proper conditions, we are wise to know what those conditions are. Conversely, we are wise to notice what suppresses our innate wisdom so that it's opposite quality, ignorance, doesn't blossom. After all, wouldn't the quality of our lives then, ultimately be dependent upon which half blooms? What might happen if we put aside everything we've accumulated up to this point, and suspend all that we think we know for a time, for the very real possibility of experiencing a different reality, right now? What might happen if we approach concepts we may have been exposed to before in a very different manner - a manner without expectations, conclusions, agreements or disagreements - and without any reference to the mind to tell us what's real and true? When Wisdom Blooms - Awaken the Sage Within explores these questions and more in depth, with the intent of discovering what awakens our inner sage who patiently waits to be discovered.

If we really are born to be happy, then why is it so elusive to so many of us? Is happiness really dependent upon the circumstances in our lives - or is there more to it than that? How do our beliefs and our past affect our ability to be truly happy? "Born To Be Happy - How to Uncover Your Natural State of Happiness" by Alex P. Keats, explores these questions in depth and will help you discover how to live in harmony with the happiness that's already your natural state. Tapping into both ancient wisdom and your inner wisdom that already knows what's true, you'll understand why so many methods and strategies for happiness are short-lived and fleeting. As a result, you'll be armed with the knowledge that opens the floodgates to your natural state of happiness ... and your life will never be the same.