Life is not what will happen to you sometime later. Nor
is it what once happened to you. Life’s not in the future, nor is it in your
past. This is it. Life is not a
dress rehearsal, as someone has said. It IS
what is happening to you now. Our tendency to forget this simple but
unputdownable piece of wisdom is what robs us of the opportunity to LIVE!
Know that Life is benevolent. It will take care of you,
no matter what, just as it has been taking care of all creation down the ages. To
incessantly worry about what will happen to you, or to those around you, is the
most unintelligent response to Life. You haven’t been created for worrying. You
are here, on this planet, to live – and to live fully!
So, let go of your worries, drop all your guilt – be free.
Live in the moment, however painful it may be at times, and experience Life
fully. Your agony comes from your expectation that Life must be a bed of roses,
a cakewalk – that Life must happen the way you want it to. Know for sure that
your expectations may, well, never be met. Life’s intrinsic nature is to be
unpredictable, inscrutable. So, as long as you are alive, and you know it, live each moment – by being fully present
in it!
It is when you are not fully present in the moment that
you struggle. And none of us has been created to struggle. It is only the human
mind that broods, that worries, that remains hostage to a dead past or is a victim
of an unborn future. No other aspect of creation has this problem. It is only
we humans who invite suffering into our lives by expecting Life to be different
from what it is. Think about this deeply. If it makes sense, dive deeper. Your
Life is beautiful as it IS. You too will feel it is so ONLY when you stop
wanting and start living!
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