Allowing Stillness
Our sense of selves and our connection to the Universe ground us - provide a weight to our "balloon" so our life doesn't "fly" in a million directions. If you have too many "paths" to explore, you can't go deeply into the paths. You will only get a superficial knowledge. But if you select the paths your heart really desires, you can spend your time exploring them to your hear's content. And you will start to notice the subtleties and wonders that that you never knew existed among these paths You can plant trees and flowers among these paths. You will begin to know them inside and out. You can shut your eyes and imagine every detail of the paths because you know them that well.
There comes a time when you make a choice...not about your everyday life and nuances, but a choice about how you want to live life. That is the foundation upon which everything rests. Everything else is just details.
To illustrate this: if you work on a landscape painting, you prime the canvas first. Then you set down a main theme of colors. The you can proceed with building details. But without this foundation this preparation, the painting will continue to disappoint you. You can try and fix it all you like, but it's only patch work. It doesn't reach the foundation.
It's never too late to start a new canvas, with a new foundation, or improve upon the foundation you had before. In the painting's case, use some turpentine, to take off the layers you don't care for.
I've read that peace is obtained through stillness. This is a hard concept to actually grasp, but I imagine it this way: say you have a tub of water. You run your hand through it and make waves. How do you make the waves stop? You take your hands out of the water and wait for the water to settle. No amount of interference is going to help. Your hands are not going to still the water - they will just keep creating waves.
It takes patience to observe the water and wait for it to calm down. But that's the only scientific way to do it. If that's what you desire-calm water. And I don't mean calm water in the sense of a calm, boring life with nothing going on. Instead, I am suggesting a common thread of peace that flows through everything you do.
I do not believe all people consciously desire peace. Some are unaware that it exists (especially in today's fast paced daily environments) or are afraid of it or don't understand it. I have been there! But when you've spent a lot of time watching and/or making those waves in the water, you start to wonder what the water would be like if it were still.
That's where I'm at. I've watched myself make waves and I've watched life create waves, and I've tried all sorts of methods to calm the water. At first, I had to get tired of the waves, the chaos, the drama. Then I started to think, well, if I don't want to make waves anymore, how can I stop them?
Answer: I "do" nothing. I observe. I accept. And I wait.
There comes a time when you make a choice...not about your everyday life and nuances, but a choice about how you want to live life. That is the foundation upon which everything rests. Everything else is just details.
To illustrate this: if you work on a landscape painting, you prime the canvas first. Then you set down a main theme of colors. The you can proceed with building details. But without this foundation this preparation, the painting will continue to disappoint you. You can try and fix it all you like, but it's only patch work. It doesn't reach the foundation.
It's never too late to start a new canvas, with a new foundation, or improve upon the foundation you had before. In the painting's case, use some turpentine, to take off the layers you don't care for.
I've read that peace is obtained through stillness. This is a hard concept to actually grasp, but I imagine it this way: say you have a tub of water. You run your hand through it and make waves. How do you make the waves stop? You take your hands out of the water and wait for the water to settle. No amount of interference is going to help. Your hands are not going to still the water - they will just keep creating waves.
It takes patience to observe the water and wait for it to calm down. But that's the only scientific way to do it. If that's what you desire-calm water. And I don't mean calm water in the sense of a calm, boring life with nothing going on. Instead, I am suggesting a common thread of peace that flows through everything you do.
I do not believe all people consciously desire peace. Some are unaware that it exists (especially in today's fast paced daily environments) or are afraid of it or don't understand it. I have been there! But when you've spent a lot of time watching and/or making those waves in the water, you start to wonder what the water would be like if it were still.
That's where I'm at. I've watched myself make waves and I've watched life create waves, and I've tried all sorts of methods to calm the water. At first, I had to get tired of the waves, the chaos, the drama. Then I started to think, well, if I don't want to make waves anymore, how can I stop them?
Answer: I "do" nothing. I observe. I accept. And I wait.
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