Alhamdulillahi min ash-shaytan al-rajim.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
This is Mark Silver with Heart of Business.
Welcome to the remembrance and compassionate accountability.
Hooooweee.
Sometimes there is events that just take our life over.
Obviously I'm.
.
.
I did not plan the timing,
But this somehow,
Despite our best efforts,
Is how things have gone.
Where we're launching a class,
The first live class is tomorrow,
And after the live class I go get the moving van,
We pack up,
And we move to a new city.
And so I just want to say that,
You know,
This is a.
.
.
These are positive stressors,
Some others can have really negative stressors.
But regardless,
There are events that take up all of our attention.
That just completely turn our routine,
Our grounding,
Our anchors upside down.
And this is one of the reasons why it's so important to not anchor into the physical world.
We depend deeply on the physical world.
The physical world is absolutely divine.
But you can't anchor and change.
So just take a moment,
And whether you have very small ripples in your life or really big ones,
Just noticing how changeable your days are,
Your world is,
The physical is.
So many different changes.
And notice what happens to your heart,
To your being when you try to hold on to that,
When you try to hold on to that which changes.
Like trying to anchor onto an ice cube,
And watching it melt,
And then freeze again in a different shape,
And then melt.
What if it was okay that the world changed,
That the physical was in motion?
What if it was okay that this was true?
Allah.
Allah.
Allah.
Allah.
And then bringing your attention to your heart,
Beginning to call the name of the Divine through the open doorway in your heart.
Beginning to remember the presence of the Divine,
The source of love.
That which is infinite and unchanging,
The oneness,
That which you come from,
That we all come from,
And to which we return,
And from which we are not separate in any way.
Allah.
Letting your heart rest into that.
Letting your anchor sink into that.
Allah.
Allah.
What if the change can just flow around you,
Flow around your life?
Meanwhile,
You and your heart remain anchored in the oneness,
In the source of love.
Allah.
Allah.
The physical world,
The things that we do are by nature,
Imperfect,
Incomplete.
Smallest project,
The largest project.
No matter how much attention and care we put into it,
Something will be missing,
Something will be imperfectly done.
We cannot anchor ourselves in the expectation of perfection from anyone else,
And especially from ourselves.
Allah.
Perfection is the province of the Divine.
Allah.
Our egos,
Our bellies,
Our beings,
Understandably,
Feel nervousness with change.
The ego derives comfort from control,
From predictability,
From what is known.
But because life is completely and always in change,
We can't help but have perhaps a little bit of a question about what is coming.
When our hearts are anchored in the Divine,
Facing the Divine,
Filled with the trust of the Divine,
The love and the joy of the Divine,
Then the adventure of the unfolding path can be filled with curiosity and joy and the wonder of it all.
Allah.
Allah.
Allah.
Allah.
Allah.
And the truth is that this anchoring is always present.
We're never not anchored in the Divine presence.
That is where our existence emanates from and returns to.
And we're never in any way separate from it.
It's just a matter of whether our attention and our awareness is remembering that.
Or if we're caught in the drama of the changing ocean around us,
The surface of the water and the waves,
Which are beautiful and glorious and divine and worth paying attention to,
But not worth forgetting that the waves are upon the firmament of the vastness of the Divine Reality.
Aum.
So taking a nice gentle breath,
Bringing your attention back.
