Today,
Our lesson is Everything Matters.
You are fulfilling your destiny.
You are doing what you came here to do.
Listen if you have goals you haven't accomplished yet,
Remember that everything happens in right timing.
As you flow through life,
You will either complete that goal or you will shift to something else.
Watching the sun rise is as necessary as accomplishing a goal.
Every experience matters,
The universe.
In a lot of the meditations that I work with,
We'll take people into memory and we at first we might take them back into memory of something that they frequently remember,
Some pivotal part of their life.
But then as we keep going,
It's sort of as we go deeper and smaller both,
We go to the big memory and then we say,
Well what else is there?
We find that our awareness is really filled with all kinds of memories,
You know,
All this stuff we've forgotten.
Maybe when you were a tiny child you saw a lake for the first time ever and you were just stunned by this understanding or this thing that you saw.
Or maybe when you were in young adulthood you felt love for the first time,
Like you really felt it and this was astonishing to you.
Or maybe just today you had a chance to go outside and there were birds in your yard that you haven't seen for all year and here they are back again.
These small,
Small things,
These small memories that make up a lifetime and I sometimes call these pearls on a strand.
They're pearls on a strand and we're wearing these infinite strands of pearls around our necks and on us.
This is how our life is made up,
Not just by the big goals or the big things,
But by the tiny things,
The way that you're washing the dishes or the way that the sun looks when you're driving to pick someone up from their activity,
Whatever it is,
Everything matters.
And yet of course we always hook onto these big things,
You know,
That was when this happened,
That was when this happened.
That was the moment my life changed,
But what the universe is saying is no.
The big things we recall because they capture our attention in a unique way,
They're often these convergences of flow where time,
Space,
Person all come into play at the same time and so we notice them.
We notice that that is the marker of when things started to change.
But what the universe is saying is no,
That's the marker you notice,
That's the marker you remember,
But in fact,
Every single aspect of your life has been leading up to that moment and every single moment of your life from that moment is leading up to the next moment.
You might think of it another way,
So I like to use the metaphor of the river a lot.
You're sailing along in the river and then there's a waterfall and you sail down it and you think,
Ah,
The waterfall,
That was the marker,
That was the big deal in my life,
That was the important thing.
But the universe is saying no,
Every aspect of being on the river,
The one tiny wave,
The rock that you see as you're passing through,
The way the sun shines on your boat or whatever you're sailing on,
It's all important.
Everything matters,
Everything is a part of your experience and as you look back,
You'll probably see that not only does everything matter,
But everything is a wonder.
