The following writing comes from Rob Brezsny, syndicated horoscope writer, whatever they are called, and a writer.
I am re-publishing this piece that arrived to my email box this morning, because you need to look at the stuff that happens to you with different eyes.
One of my students had a run-in with some deer and a tree… her car badly damaged. This, in addition to a lot of inner turmoil, could wake her up. But instead she is busy worrying about fixing the car, feeling guilty, you know the “drill”, being in her head. The whole drama.
If she could consider this as Life’s healing shock, using Rob Brezsny’s expression, she could be sent into all directions: all revealing a bigger picture than her puny two dimensional view of life.
We, you and me, are all guilty of that. We all “pray” for life to either be smooth, meaning stay the same, or something better. Our actions are consistent with stalling…