Day 124d: Creating a place of Calm … (August 31, 2019)
Soon thereafter I find myself a bit overcome by physical fatigue, and pull in gratefully to the entrance drive of the Oatlands Historic House & Gardens, where I lay down in surprising comfort on the smooth shaded asphalt there and enjoy a short-yet-peaceful nap …
“Be with the flow, take the flow with you, align and make a rhythm out of it, and smoothly dance thereto … As with all things in life, there is a constant need to let go of the idea of ‘trying hard.’ Indeed, there’s an oppressive heaviness in trying hard to get something or have something or be something, and as long as people keep complying with the notion of ‘trying hard’ they will constantly remain in that place of heaviness. Of course, the opposite of this is the state of allowing, the state of setting out the intentions of what you wish, making sure that intention is a humbly selfless one, and then putting in the required action and not self-sabotaging yourself by ‘trying hard’ or expecting any certain results to unfold in any particular way. Anything that’s truly worthy of actualizing in life – such as love, community, justice, or peace – by its very nature in a continuous state of flow. And as such a state of lightness is the only way to allow yourself to go with the flow of these things and thereby effectively help bring them into more fuller being. The heaviness striving or ‘trying hard’ only makes you become a jagged solid object at the bottom of life’s stream. We can all readily see the flow of things in the life of those who embody this lightness, and yet you yourself become unmovable when you choose the state of heaviness, as if you are blocking life’s greater flow from ever reaching you and carrying you onward. And so the choice must be made: will you let yourself move with the flow of efficacious harmony that ever surrounds you, or will you sink to the stream’s bottom with the heaviness of your arrogant and self-centered mindset?” ~ inspired by Kriti Twin & Virgil Iordache
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