"Less and Less do you need to force things,
until finally you arrive at non-action.
when nothing is done,
nothing is left undone."
--Lao-tzu
The beauty of life comes when you are able to Wei Wu Wei-- doing not-doing.
"The game plays the game, the poem writes the poem and we can't tell the dancer from the dance. Nothing is done because the doer has wholeheartedly vanished into the deed."
--Stephen Mitchell
As I was meditating today, I reached a new level of consciousness. I felt. I breathed. I listened to my soul speak to my heart. I found answers in not-doing, because I was truly doing what I needed to do: Focus on myself.
This reasoning, this idea, this knowledge seems to be just happening to me, so to read about it today, was earth shattering amazing.
I am a great believer of coincidences, but now, more than ever, I know they aren't that. Instead, it's the soul of the Universe speaking to me, teaching me, showing me, loving me.
It can be the littlest things that turn out to be the biggest things, and that goes back to the concept of wei wu wei, doing not-doing. If you are in tune with the soul of the world, you are living in the present, doing the most, and seeing everything for what it is.
Spirituality has become my sport, my drug, my high.
I want to do not-doing with my spirituality in the world. I want to see, hear, and feel the love this universe has for me. Embracing my higher power has allowed me to want this more than ever before.
"I am a complex, fascinating human being with a wide range of emotions, experiences, and thoughts."
--Al-Anon: Courage to Change, pg. 339
"Whatever I focus on, I create in my life." --In This Moment, CoDA reader, pg. 339
"I ask God to help keep me on my course that will change me for better."--ODAT, pg.339
"Without Al-Anon, I might not have tapped into that Grace and the ability to love myself and others, EXACTLY where we are at in this moment in time." --Hope For Today, pg 339
My heart is holding onto these affirmations today, taking each in, feeling, loving, knowing--I am right where I need to be, doing what I need to be doing, and loving all that is this life, for there is no do over.
I thank the Lord, for allowing me to go through hard times, so that I can grown, and find strength through overcoming anything that I am put through.
"The only way past something is THROUGH it."
Much love, to all of you. XOXO
<3 Amelia
