It comes to us
If we chase a dog it runs from us. It comes to us when we turn our back on it and walk away, knowing that it will find us.
We are conditioned in many ways to believe that we can predict the future, but we cannot.
We are influenced by the past, especially our own past, despite the fact that we cannot change anything in the past.
Commonly we base our beliefs about our future and what we believe we can predict or anticipate, on how we interpret our past and wider history.
Our past can be helpful in teaching us about ourselves, now, in the present, and this can be helpful in understanding how we can best relax in ‘the now’ and ‘the present’, given that our being, acting, thinking, feeling and sensing in the present, is all, reliably, that we can do.
Whatever, the past has gone, and cannot be changed. All we can change is our responses to the past, and we are not taught nor equipped to do this very reliably.
Like a seed that grows and is carried by nature, one way or another to become a new plant, so our understanding of our own truth, for example our own peace of mind - and whatever we seek or wish for - comes to us.
We can best find our truth and peace, whatever we seek - each moment - rather than chasing after a dog, or trying to predict how a seed will grow.
We are part of the cycle of nature because we are made of the same infinite energies of whatever is reality, and this is mostly in our heads and hearts and in our ‘gut instinct’ or microbiome.
So, if you wish, make real for yourself a peaceful now, and trust that nature best understands its own energies, far better than we might anticipate or predict the future.
Thanks and love,
Alan
So true, and yet somehow I am able to tell roughly when I’m going to have another trouble code and be forced to work on my car.