There is an apparent paradox when I say to myself
“This, here, now, is OK”.
What then is my motivation to move forward at all, to do anything, if what is here, right now, is just fine.
It’s not really a paradox at all though. Because the biggest part of what is here, now, is simply my inherent life. The drive to move forward and Live that we were all born with. We can’t escape it even if we try.
Even the couchiest, couch potato has The Urge To Get To The Fridge now and then.
To me - ”This is OK” - simply means that every urge to be somewhere else, doing something else (often surfacing in a form of subtle, or not so subtle, restlessness) should be as much subject to the gaze of my present awareness as anything else I’m seeing, doing, thinking, or feeling.
In less wordy terms, it’s become a case of simply slowing down and looking at whatever turns up in life, including my thoughts and urges. Not to judge. Simply to notice.
Life is, at the very least, a lot more peaceful this way. And meaningful too, I would say. It’s a better place from which to move forward.
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