‘Nothing happens next, this is it.’
“Where are you going, what are you doing? Then what happens, and then, and then? Moment by moment, our lives pass us by as we move onto the next thing, missing the miracle, which is our ability to experience life. Instead we choose to live in the fantasy of hope, grounded in a fundamental dissatisfaction of our lives. Often subtle but always there, a pervasive belief that life will be better once……. of course it never is, but still we play this game. A Catch 22 that often consumes entire lifetimes. Playing the game is not the problem, it is the belief that the game is real that feeds our suffering.”
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I think we need to remind ourselves of that sometimes. I think about the line in the title a lot. It’s what I think I want tattooed around my wrist. A permanent reminder that, this, right here and right now is all that really matters. There are times when it helps to focus on what happens next, of course and there are times when you just need to let it be.
Let this right now, be enough.
See also “If this isn’t nice I don’t know what is”
December 6, 2009