What to do is never a problem
for those firmly established
upon the Anchor Stone
of their original nature
and the innate virtues
that come with them from the womb.

When we live out of who we are
instead of out of trying to get
what we want,
what to do is always right there,
waiting to be done.

In every moment of every situation
as it arises,
there is something that needs to be done,
when, where, and how it needs to be done,
waiting especially for us,
with our particular gifts/shtick/way/etc.
to do it.

Once we are tuned into us,
living out of who we are,
looking for what is ours to do,
what to do is always before us,
waving, winking, shouting, calling out,
"Over here! Here I am! I need your help NOW!"

If I had been attuned to me,
at one with me,
aligned with me,
in sync with me,
in accord with me,
earlier in my life,
I would have read Joseph Campbell sooner,
and taken Spanish in college,
and that would have made all the difference.

I hope to do that next time.

What do you hope for
on your next trip through time and space?

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This is the way things are,
and this is what we can do about it,
and that's that--
and THAT'S the way things are.

This is the agreement we make with life
upon conception.

Some of us don't seem to understand
the terms,
and mope about sighing,
"But The Suffering! The Pain!"

Suffering and pain are clearly part
of the way things are.
And, there is clearly
very little we can do about it.
And that's that.

Our place is to say, "Oh. Okay."
And get with the program
of making the best of things,
without taking any of it personally,
and none of it with more seriousness
than it deserves,
mourning what is to be mourned,
grieving what is to be grieved,
loving what is to be loved,
enjoying what is to be enjoyed,
etc.,
all along the way.

Every living thing lives under
the same terms.
Only some humans think 
they should be exempt.

There are no exemptions.
We all have to pick ourselves up
and get in the game,
doing our best 
to make the best of our circumstances,
no matter what,
in each situation as it arises,
all the way. 

That's the way things are. 

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The trick 
is knowing/understanding/comprehending/realizing 
what it means to say,
"Thy will, not mine, be done,"
with the "Thy"
being an absolute Mystery
beyond all thought of inquiry
and investigation.

A thing apart,
about which nothing can be known
or said,
hunched,
intuited,
grasped,
thought
or considered.

The Source, Ground
and Goal of Life
is Life itself,
and we cannot mess with that.

We cannot even honor it,
much less worship it.
It IS us--we ARE it--
in the most distant,
unrelated, 
kind of way.

"It" does not allow itself
even to be thought about.
And doesn't care at all
if we think about it,
because thinking about it
is like a fart in a tornado--
something no one thinks about.

So, "Thy will, not mine be done,"
is completely meaningless
and totally essential,
and is the Source/Ground/Goal
of all we do.

Our place/role is to do 
what needs to be done
in each situation as it arises
without any idea about
why it needs to be done,
or why we need to do it,
or how we know it needs to be done,
or who/what needs it to be done...

"I have no say in the matter, Gibbs.
It's the pirate's life for me.
Savvy?" (Captain Jack Sparrow,
"On Stranger Tides").

Wanting/willing/needing/knowing/understanding/etc.
have nothing to do with it,
with It.
We belong to what,
we do not know.
But, we can know that much,
and trust ourselves to it,
and do what needs us to do
what needs to be done,
and it is all
"Darkness within darkness,
the Gateway to Mystery"
(Tao Te Ching).

Our will, then,
is to do the will,
of what, we do not know,
trusting ourselves to know it
when we know it,
without knowing any more than that
about it.

Savvy?

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