Accepting "What Is"
(This is from a recent journal entry. I was, in a way, talking to myself. I'm not really sure where the words came from, but reading it again, I find it comforting.) Practice accepting "what is". This practice is not complacency. Your ego will try to persuade you that it is, in order to perpetuate the ego's existence. If we remain in the place of "what is", we are in tune with the natural flow of life. We don't need to resist, or fear, or question. Change will happen. Every step of the journey is required, whether we can see immediately why or not. By accepting "what is", we say that we are putting our trust in the universe. We, as tiny beings with big egos, are part of a very large, well-oiled machine that is the universe. There's no need to feel scared or trapped. Feeling trapped is our own misconception. Rather than feel trapped, we should feel whole. We cannot remove ourselves from what surrounds us. We can merely participate...