What are you waiting for?
Now is the time of presence. Now is the time of rest. Now is the time of working. Now is the time of some bright thing of your choosing. Take up the banner of your longing and march. Curl up into your weariness and slumber. There is nothing you cannot do…once you give up your wish to control the future. Be present with this moment. Drop deep into your center. Open your feet to the earth and your skin to the sky. What is next? What is now?
We can plan three steps beyond. We can dream the grand vision. We can seek the guiding star. None of this takes us away from the reality that we are drinking this glass of water, or standing next to that tree, or engaging in this conversation, or doing that piece of work. The world is alive, and every moment we can recognize this is a moment that connection opens to us once again.
The world is built by these connections. Our attempts to control outcome are a big disconnect. Wish, plan, move, act, and know that the only thing possible is relationship. Who knows exactly how this coming together will turn out? Isn’t that part of what is great about our lives?
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“Wish, plan, move, act” – what are these but “attempts to control (or at least influence) outcome”?
Where is the balance between being so obsessed with a specific outcome we can’t see the myriad of good our work has brought and being so concerned with process we work for months or years without realizing we haven’t really changed anything?
How do we effectively live in the moment without becoming aimless and stagnant? How do we “keep our eyes on the prize” without forgetting that change can only start here and now?
There is a balance. I’m still searching for it.
Wishing, planning or acting are not attempts to control the future, they are us playing our part in co-creating the future. We cannot control outcome, but we can be part of the process that brings the outcome about.
We can’t know what the future will look like, but we can help shape it. Neither micromanaging or apathy will bring this satisfaction.
Now! Yes, now. Yes; am I fully present to what I am doing right now? The nurturing of a connection, of a particular relationship, is more important than – and feeds – any particular outcome. I think what I mean is that attentiveness to the relationships ensures that the outcomes are as they should be.
“Be present with this moment.” Yes. Thank you.
@john, what if the prize is to just be?
Years ago, I put a bumper sticker on a car that I now no longer have. The bumper sticker changed my life. It read: “There is Only Now”. I placed it there at the beginning of my conscious journey (ha! a pun
into Shamanic Work.
I have recently moved into another phase of what I have begun to think of as “reincarnation within the present Life”. In reading your work, Thorn, I realized suddenly that this is what I came here ~into THIS life~ for… to Deepen and strengthen this Connection to Presence.
Thank you for the reminders; this blog entry has only been one of them.
Namaste’…