June 01, 2022

01

No expectation.
No agenda.
No opinion.
Just seeing 
and doing 
what needs to be done about it.
Whatever "it" may be.

Go about your day like this, 
and note the difference
it makes on you
as you do it.

Why live any other way?
What does living any other way
produce what you see around you
in any moment?

What is worthy about that?

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01

We withstand the complete loss of everything
in the strength of what remains
when all else has been taken away.

We have been doing it from the beginning.
It is the most outstanding quality of the species--
No! Of LIFE--
to find what it takes to go on
by refusing to take the complete loss of everything
more seriously than it deserves,
and to find a way
anyway,
nevertheless,
even so.

The inner world does not abandon us.
We find what we need
in the strength of our original nature
and the virtues that are packed into our DNA.
We are equipped from birth
to take what we are given
and make the most of it.

This is the legacy,
endowment,
heritage
of every living thing!

We all have what it takes to declare,
along with Odysseus, 
"I will persevere 
and I will endure!
And when the heaving sea
has shaken my raft to pieces,
THEN I WILL SWIM!!!"
(Homer, in The Odyssey). 

May it certainly be so!

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