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Regardless of the concern, dilemma, problem, question, uncertainty... sit with it quietly, waiting, watching, to see what arises, emerges, beckons, calls, occurs, dawns, summons, demands, insists, requires... out of the silence. What you do with it is entirely up to you.
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Do not look beyond the moment. Live to be what the moment needs you to be. Do this moment right. Do this moment better than Jesus could do this moment. What is happening? What is being called for? How can you be of help? Live this moment as though this is the moment you were born for. This moment is why you are here! Listen to the moment. See the moment. This is your moment. Your time to shine. Nail it! Knock it out of the park! Do the moment exactly as it needs to be done! Moment-after-moment. Situation-by-situation. Day-by-day. That. Is. All. There. Is. To. It. Ever.
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Beauty in art, music and nature has always been restorative, grounding and centering-- enabling us to recover our balance and harmony, reorienting and renewing us for the work of being who we are, where we are, when we are, how we are within the conditions and circumstances of this here and this now, seeing, hearing, understanding, knowing what's what, what's happening and what needs to be done in response, and doing it with the gifts, genius, daemon, virtues, character, perspective, talents, and nature that came with us from the womb and are ours to offer each situation as it arises throughout our life-- enabling us to pick ourselves up and get back in the game as servants of Justice, Equality, Liberty, Truth, Compassion and Peace, integrating opposites and bearing the tension of contradiction and polarity in honoring Yin and Yang in accord with the Tao and the Mystery at the heart of life and being for the pure wonder of the entire experience and the joy of the radiance at play through it all. Mind how you go, and do not go far away from beauty in art, music and nature, at any point along the way.
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We have to make our peace with life-- with our life-- with our lot in life-- with who we are, what we are, where we are, when we are, how we are, and why this and not something else instead. In an ongoing, recurring, everlasting, never ending, way. It is always, "Now this--what?" "Now that--what?" We need a working philosophy that grounds us, and steadies us, and readies us to do the work of balance and harmony, adjustment, acquiescence, accommodation through all of the stages of our life. Letting come what's coming and letting go what's going, all along the way. Living for what? Living to do what? Living to be what? In each stage of life. What's worth having? What's worth doing? What's worth being? What's worth our time and attention? Who is to say? How do we know? What keeps us going? What do we enjoy? What do we love? What is our shtick? What revives us? Enlivens us? Restores us? Renews us? What do we do well? What do we look forward to? Where do ambition, achievement, accomplishment, acquisition, accumulation, aspiration, incentive, motivation fit in? Are they distractions? Diversions? Noise? Static? What is clutter? What is the heart of the matter? What matters most? What is a waste of time? What questions are worth asking? Who is/would be worth talking to?
