Let Life Happen Miraculously

Today I had a gift. An encounter with someone who reminded me to Let Go. I hold on too tightly.

The suggestion was, "Try to let the universe and God let things happen as they should. Life is far more interesting and better by letting go and enjoying the moment."

As a result it can be incredible to "see how things can happen miraculously."

Miraculously? How could I forget?! That's right, I'm supposed to be living a life full of grace. I'm even writing a book about Simple Miracles. Yet I need these daily reminders.

I need people in my life to gently (or boldly) shake me to help me remember that I am not in control. Let Go. Beth, just let go. Have faith.

This advice brings my thoughts to Emmanuel: As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Now the Fall is Here Again

Listen to Norah Jones sing Shoot the Moon. Breathtaking.

Everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job,the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

LIVE BY THE CURRENTS

"At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun."

 Every man dies. Not every man really lives.  William Wallace

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs

 If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Van Gogh

 Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

My Dreamgirls

The delusion is a kind of prison

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty… The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive. (Albert Einstein, 1954)