Don't Love Your Life Too Much

 For years and years I struggled just to love my life. And then

a butterfly arose, weightless in the wind. "Don't love your life too much," it said,

and vanished into the world.

Mary Oliver https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8347391-for-years-and-years-i-struggled-just-to-love-my

I love that!

As I continue to absorb all I have learned from Michael Singer's book, the untethered soul, I question our attachment to life in this busy world.  Life is so very, very  precious but our personal experience of it in these clumps of flesh,  like everything in this world, will pass away.  It will not last.  The knowledge of its eventual end can cause great sorrow and suffering for many of us.  We have a tendency then to want to deny the reality of Life's 10, 000 sorrows. ...

Yet, we are encouraged by wise individuals like Jack Kornfield to pay attention to all the change taking place in us and around us,  to truly notice how everything is subject to loss.  This coming and going,  is the natural course of existence.  Everything that arises will pass away.  Instead of denying or running from this reality...we are encouraged to turn  around and face it, embrace it.

Hidden in impermenance is the creativity of Life; hidden in the suffering is the endless capacity to feel. (somewhat paraphrased from Episode 35- Wisdom and Characteristics of Life)

Hmmm! Something to think about.

All is well!

Be Here Now Network (October, 2017) Jack Kornfield-Episode 35-Wisdom and Characteristics of Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l97qRmdMlWE