Welcome to this gentle reminder where we connect as human beings living under this blue sky and walking the sacred earth.
As always,
As you listen to this audio,
Connect to your breath,
To the felt sense of your body and all the places of contact your body is having with the surface.
The soles of your feet,
Your hips,
Your hands.
Just feel your body and your breath.
As I share with you this reflection that came from reading this wonderful novel.
In which a woman enters the library of her life,
Where it is always midnight and she can live all the lives she regretted not living.
She can say yes to all her knows and try out any life.
She shows us how we become so in love with an idea,
With an ideal,
That we become afraid of trying out a possibility,
Just in case it turns into something else or something we never imagined could have happened.
So,
Urged by the librarian,
She starts trying big regrets,
Small regrets,
Big lives,
Simple lives,
And always ends up coming back to the library unfulfilled.
She shares with the reader this wonderful lesson.
There is no perfect life and there is no perfect choice.
There is only life being life.
Meaning that life will always be doing life no matter what you choose life will always have amazing splendid moments and it will always have sorrow grief and pain We cannot hide from the wholeness of life.
No matter how much fear,
Beliefs,
And social norms keep urging us to try to make this life a contained,
Comfortable experience,
Life is beyond our control.
Again,
Life will always do life.
We don't have control over what we feel.
Have you noticed that?
It's very interesting.
We don't have control over what we feel or when we feel it.
Feelings just seem to come up.
We don't have control over what we think.
If we live or if we die we are in her mystery and the best tool I have found is not surrender but trust.
Trusting life and trusting myself as I dance in life.
Because no matter how much I resist this dance,
I,
We,
Will always be dancing with her.
So thank you for joining this reflection on this wonderful book.
This reflection that actually helped me to make the choices that were already alive and present within me.
This reminder that there is no perfect life.
There is no perfect choice.
Life will always be doing life.
No matter what we choose,
We are always going to feel the fullness of that spectrum of joy,
Of sorrow,
Of love,
Of anger,
Of pain,
Well-being.
It's going to be always there.
Sending blessings to you on your dance.
