Maybe you've had one yourself and you know what I mean? Everything seems to be going along "fine", but you are also aware that you are right on the limit, and then just one small (or large) thing has to happen, and suddenly everything is definitely not "fine" and is quite the opposite; and you are left with picking up the pieces again after the "explosion". Anyway, while I have been busy with work and life and all sorts of stuff, I have also been 'attempting' to find some time to read a book given to me by a friend (Eckhart Tolle's The Power Of Now)...
and this just happens to be quite thought provoking for me right now...
"What is freedom for you? What is happiness for you? Often your mind tells you that you cannot get from here to there. Something needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. You think that something is saying that you need time to find, or sort out, or do, or achieve, or acquire, or become, or understand before you can be free and complete. Your mind sees time as the means to freedom and happiness, but in truth this is the greatest obstacle to you ever "getting there". You think you might not be able to get there from where you are now. But the truth is that here and now is the only point from which you can get there. You "get" there by realising that you are there already. Nothing you can ever do in the future, and nothing that you have ever done in the past will get you any closer. You do it now or not at all."
...ok, after that, I promise the next blog posting will not be so "sombre". :)
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