Today there will be no new knowledge or revelations or sharing of recently found pitfalls. Is there usually? Today will be about returning, renewing, remembering. Remembering that we have had the answers all along. They are all in all of us all the time.
There is no best path. How comforting. I don’t need to try to catch that traffic light green. My kid doesn’t need to get accepted to all the schools she applies to. She doesn’t even need to get into any. Maybe my 401k can go down for a while and it will open new doors. No really, there is no best path. Thousands of beautiful trees and blackberry bushes are only accessible to me when I sit in traffic on the 405.
There are no free lunches. What am I giving up when I get exactly what I (think) I want? To gain Yin we relinquish Yang. If you are not paying for something then you are the product! I should have the laws of thermodynamics tattooed on my inner arm for reference. To be given life is to accept death. To die is to be alive!
Don’t judge. Just don’t. We are not that omniscient. We can only see actions not intent. We cannot know all. And there is no best path after all! Don’t judge yourself. Strive to always be moving up, loving more not less, dreaming not planning, living freely and bravely and compassionately acknowledging that your sore left arm is also my left arm. The burning rainforests are our lungs, literally. How can I be more present today? How can I be more helpful in reducing the inevitable pain around me in the eyes of my brothers? I resolve to not judge myself as I inevitably fall short. I resolve to get back up and try again and again.
Fair does not exist. Yay! For if fair does not exist then unfair does not either. The seeds of fair are always found in any infinite pool of unfair. Stop looking for fair and just be present. Looking for fair is a fool’s errand. Cancer, taxes, remission, full or empty refrigerators, car accidents, car non-accidents are not fair or unfair. Looking for fair can lead to such anger and wrong actions.
Everything changes always. Equilibrium is such a seductive siren! As we build our lives our bodies seem infinite as does time. That tree is in constant flux (it is an illusion after all anyway, and the mental image of a tree is not a tree anyway as there is no tree!) Health is only temporary. Even God’s love is not static; she is not that cruel!
Life is really difficult at times and that’s okay. Everything is an illusion (anyway). Sometimes we go backwards (from which vantage point anyway?) If we have hope we have all we need. Everything that we will ever need is inside us right now. Everything.
Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
