Instead of a Fight, Life Is a Flow

 

Those who flow as life flows, know they need no other force.

Lao Tzu

All these axioms in the self help movement about the need to find our purpose needs to be looked at: "Find what you love to do and do it!"  "Keep going! Don't let anything stop you!"  "Fight until you acheive your dreams!" "Dream it and you will acheive it!" 

As you may be able to tell by now, I no longer fully adhere to those proposed suggestions for a "better life".  Though I believe it is important to do what opens us up to love simply for the sake of doing what we love...I am starting to see that this attachment to outcome and this need to struggle and fight the current to get to some "idea" up ahead  in a future that never comes...is not so wholesome. It keeps us out of our life experience here and now, and stuck in striving mind. You may have noticed by now, that mind is not the greatest place to be. It is not a heck of a lot of fun in there. lol

Living our lives fully and with so called "purpose" is not about the "doing" though we can still do.  It is not about the wanting, or the dreaming...though we can still want and dream. It is not about planning for tomorrow though we can still plan.  It is about being here and now .  It is about simply  noticing what is happening in us and outside of us at any given moment without the need for judgement, interpretation, narrative and  story building.  It is about flowing with what is instead of selecting from it and fighting against it.

Hmm! 

All is well