https://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/10/the-quote-that-stopped-me-in-my-tracks-woke-me-up/
is the article I found this important piece in.
I've really tried to adopt the living in the present moment, well, out of necessity. To live any other way causes more suffering. I recently wrote a post on addressing the fear of letting go of living in the future....and thought I had actually posted this awhile back, but didn't find it. This to me addresses the fear of letting go of the past, that worry that if I do that, I will let go of something I should have fixed, or let go of something indeed I did fix, or that I will literally lose my sense of self, who I am. Interestingly enough the Buddhist teachings address that, don't they....that there is no self. There just is, and that is purely the present moment.
I've found myself in a place of "allowing". Allowing whatever is showing up in my life to show up. Whatever that is: fights with my daughter, struggles at work, busyness with my business, the joy of a friend reaching out, the grief of one leaving my life. I'm trying to appreciate, enjoy and embrace what I have, without looking back at what I lost or looking forward to where I think I should be. At times I find myself trapped in thinking what if?...And I have to remind myself that right here, right now, there is nothing that needs to be fixed, that what if isn't happening and ONLY if and when it does happen will it need my attention. At other times I really have to just step back and reach down to my essence and say what am I here for? And the answer is to experience....so experience it I will, and when the time comes, if it served me, it will stay.
"He asked a wise person for advice and was told to forget everything, to forget his biography and just be—to discover himself in this way, in the shining light of the present moment (my interpretation).
The thought panicked him (and me, by proxy).
How can I stay myself if I willingly forget all that I was? he asked.
And he was told: the important stuff stays."
The important stuff stays.
is the article I found this important piece in.
I've really tried to adopt the living in the present moment, well, out of necessity. To live any other way causes more suffering. I recently wrote a post on addressing the fear of letting go of living in the future....and thought I had actually posted this awhile back, but didn't find it. This to me addresses the fear of letting go of the past, that worry that if I do that, I will let go of something I should have fixed, or let go of something indeed I did fix, or that I will literally lose my sense of self, who I am. Interestingly enough the Buddhist teachings address that, don't they....that there is no self. There just is, and that is purely the present moment.
I've found myself in a place of "allowing". Allowing whatever is showing up in my life to show up. Whatever that is: fights with my daughter, struggles at work, busyness with my business, the joy of a friend reaching out, the grief of one leaving my life. I'm trying to appreciate, enjoy and embrace what I have, without looking back at what I lost or looking forward to where I think I should be. At times I find myself trapped in thinking what if?...And I have to remind myself that right here, right now, there is nothing that needs to be fixed, that what if isn't happening and ONLY if and when it does happen will it need my attention. At other times I really have to just step back and reach down to my essence and say what am I here for? And the answer is to experience....so experience it I will, and when the time comes, if it served me, it will stay.
"He asked a wise person for advice and was told to forget everything, to forget his biography and just be—to discover himself in this way, in the shining light of the present moment (my interpretation).
The thought panicked him (and me, by proxy).
How can I stay myself if I willingly forget all that I was? he asked.
And he was told: the important stuff stays."
The important stuff stays.
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