January 29-B, 2023

The worst thing that ever happened to you
can be the best thing that ever happened to you.

The best thing that ever happened to you
can be the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Depending, of course, upon how you respond
to what happens to you.

How we respond to what happens to us,
for good or for ill,
determines the outcome
and the outcome beyond the outcome,
which is, of course, karma.

We create karma by the way we respond
to what happens to us.

It becomes good or ill
by the way we respond to it,
by what we do with it,
by how we apply it to our life
and live our life around it,
flowing from it
into all the world.

How we respond to what happens to us
brings us forth,
exhibits/expresses who we are,
shapes and forms our identity
for ever.

We produce the future
by the way we live with the present.

We produce ourselves
by the way we are with the moment,
this moment,
right here,
right now.

This moment,
right here,
right now,
is an extension of the last moment,
and of all the moments 
before the last moment--
and they all determine,
or strongly influence,
the next moment,
the one that is already taking shape
as I type these words
and as you read them.

Karma.

Unfolding before our eyes.

Our gift to ourselves
and all the world.

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