Interconnected and humming...

I am in love with life right now. It's not that my life doesn't have its challenges and that everything is perfect. It's merely because life fills me with such wonderment on a daily basis from the new baby leaves waving at me from the trees to the majestic mountains with the baby blue sky as their backdrop...to the generosity of people and the love that exists where I never imagined it would. I am aware of the amazing synchronicity of nature and life and my thoughts and heart that I feel humbled and lucky on a moment to moment basis. I have come to realize that all that I should ever need is right at my fingertips...and it has always been there but I've been too caught up in what I now realize doesn't matter to be ok with just that which I have.

On my way to work the other day, it occurred to me as I looked out at people driving, walking, riding their bikes, talking to their friends, walking their dogs... how each person has THEIR life...filled with their special people, their worries, their joys, their love, their disappointment, their jobs, their families, their IMPORTANCE...and everything that is important to each of us is sacred and should be honored as such. Yet, however individual each of those things are to us, the importance of it to the collective world body is so communal. We are not separate. We are in this together...so why do we fight? Why do we treat each other like the "other?" In essence, we are rejecting a part of us when we don't recognize how our lives intertwine - there is a cause and effect to our actions, our words, our thoughts. It's MIND-BLOWING but true.

Imagine how nice you would be, how UNDERSTANDING we could all be if we lived in this paradigm. How amazing it would be to experience that collective consciousness...how powerful that could be?

Ancient yogic teachings convey the idea that our physical life experience is no accident. And that humans do not come into physical form to life with a meaning...life doesn't necessarily have meaning...but it does have a purpose. How very lucky are we to have a PURPOSE...each of us as balls of energy, manifested into physical form to discover our purpose? Whether you believe in this cycle is of no consequence actually but what you do with your life - your brief period of time that you are walking on those feet of yours - is of the utmost consequence. Are you doing everything you can to make the world better?

We are also reminded in many yogic texts over that we are not our actions. Our actions, words, ideas are not who we truly are. Who we truly are is our true essence. Our minds control the rest, whether we acknowledge it or even know it (most of us have no idea really.) Imagine how people would occur to you if you could look past their actions or words and really get them...really SEE them for their true essence...and not the other stuff that is in the way?

Imagine how you would see yourself if you turned to the mirror and truly saw yourself. Your essence. Your true self.

Life is so amazingly simple, when you think about it. It is beautiful, don't 'cha think?

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky” - Buddha.

Laugh with me, won't you?