What does that mean for you? Does that mean starting today you are walking up the stairs instead of taking the elevator, or counting to 10 (or 100) before you yell at the kids. For me it means not beating myself up for not finishing the To Do List. I started those darn lists so I wouldn’t forget about important things, or things I wanted to work on if I ever got the time. These days those lists rules my life with an iron fist. I realized in the last few days that I am truly doing this to myself. It is not that the piece of paper with some words I have scribbled on it has some superhuman power to run my life. Uh, No! That’s me. Today I am taking a stand. Not against lists, but against giving away my precious happiness to errands, chores, fix it’s and appointments. Nothing in my life is more important than my happiness and being present for my family.
Here is a quote from the journals I made for the seminars which seems to fit today:
Have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart and try to
love the questions themselves…
Don’t search for the answers, which
could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to
live them. And the point is,
to live everything. Live the question now.
Perhaps then, someday far out in the future,
you will gradually,
without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
I wish for you a day full of patience and happiness!
If you are interested in the upcoming seminar please contact me. I would love to have a few more ladies come down and join the fun!