Hope is in the moment.
A friend wrote to me saying:
I'm hoping 2008 will be easier and I can spend a little time on myself and our relationship. :-)
The problem is hope on its own changes nothing. The true secret of hope is based upon the moment. This is the power of living in the Now that Taoism teaches.
Just hoping changes nothing, since to reach a destination it takes a start of just the smallest of actions, the smallest of pauses to make a difference. (a difference is what we seek, so you must plant a seed for a difference to occur.)
So stop and when feeling hectic...
Take a moment and simply smile for yourself...
Take a deep breath occasionally and enjoy the breath
Surprisingly, in simply doing just do that... This becomes enough of a action to form a seed of a new and more complete life for yourself.
We make life and solutions to be complicated: since as a person, we have the ability to see into the future.. we see everything that should be happening and so... all the future sight... becomes just paralysis. Because it's impossible to apply all that action we can see happening over years of desires to be within a single moment...
- Don't look ahead,
- Don't add up all the work...
Instead take it a breath and smile at a time...
then that ends up adding up and up and up...
to become the future you actually desire to live now.
Does that make sense?
If not, then don't worry about the details and instead just take a moment to smile :) and examine the possibilities.. not in the future you see.. but rather within a moment of pause to be yourself....
It's within that pause...
that each step becomes visible for your larger life to improve and follow upon.
Smile, when needing to pick a possible next step. Since to smile is to open possibilities.
Breathe when needing a break. Since to breathe is to be at one with yourself.
Alternate the two and your path will become free and clear for an entire life time of wonder to explore.
:) swirl and live
peace
6 comments:
Thanks, Casey.
I needed that today. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed.
Lately I just think to myself "It will work out fine" when I get stressed, and later am usually amazed that it does indeed work out fine.
But I also need to learn to listen to the little voice that says, "Not right now". And not do stuff then. That one can seem harder to hear for some reason.
:) HI Donna. Happy holidaze!
Funny we are taught not to listen to little voices in our culture
Yes we are a very action centric culture... all that action creates lots of noise where it's impossible to sort out what works or doesn't work.
While little small action and doing nothing may seem not as direct... in the quietness of our soul we can more finely control where we go and in the process actually enjoy it since we have energy left over to do more, rather than putting all the energy into action and then having nothing left to enjoy life with.
Give Darwin a big hug for me :)
First of all: happy holidays, Casey!
Next: that fresh breath of air was most welcome. I felt like suffocating. :)
Happy holidays Bert :)
one holiday down one to go.
Such a blender time of the year
All those emotions running about hectically swishing about and then so many people learning again that expectations rarely measure up to the now... But there is always next year for those expectations...
:)
let's not forget the presents ... :)
:)
my philosophy is I give presents randomly over the year as the whim takes me to say "I would like to share this gift with you, because you are special, and I am thinking of you"
Rather than here is a gift because it's Christmas...The gift becomes meaningless at this point. I stopped giving x-mas presents out years ago for this and other reasons (as stated in todays post).
since the act of giving gets lost in the stress of expectations.
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