June 14, 2025

What floats your boat? 
Stokes your bliss?
Comforts your soul?
Warms your heart?
Brings peace to life?
Where do you go/What do you do
to take care of yourself?

I think of me as being composed of my original nature,
my innate virtues (The things I do best
and enjoy doing most),
my inherent intuition,
and my intrinsic intuition.

I drop into emptiness, stillness, silence
and listen.
I notice when something is trying to get
my attention when I am not intentionally open to that,
and am always amazed at how things break into my life
with something I need to say, or do, or tend to here, now.

And how I am guided/led from here to there every day,
so that I make few plans and always trust myself to be 
led along the way all the time.

And how things work out. How this leads to that.
How "one book opens another" (A Gnostic phrase
that did not die as the Gnostics were being wiped out
by those who knew best and had to be pleased at no matter
what the cost).

If we don't shut the guiding urges, leanings, urgencies out,
we will be carried all along the way--not to wealth and fame
and worldly success, but to being where we did not know we needed to be, doing what we did not know we needed to do, 
and being stunned by amazement and wonder and awe at the whole damned thing. And that is what life is all about. Shutting up and listening, and doing what we know needs us to do it.

We should have role models showing us how to do that from birth to death. What could be more important than that?