Tonight I had the good fortune to be sitting in a room of aware people. It was a gathering that could have been from a thousand years ago. It was a room full of strangers whom I’ve known my whole life. It was the present looking into the future.
One of the phrases I heard that stuck with me from this night was “the heart of the unknown”. That phrase unlocked these words, these feelings inside of me that attempt to express the wonderment of playing in the unknown arena that I call LIFE.
Think about it for a minute: every moment of every day of every year of our life we are faced with the unknown. From the minute we arrive naked and crying to the last breath we inhale into what will be our final exhalation we have no idea what’s coming next. None. Zero. Not a clue whatsoever. I don’t care who you are or what you do or what strategy you employ to ensure you do know what’s next – you simply don’t know.
We can attempt to create a level of security around our existence and from my point of view if that helps us – cool. But don’t get hung up on trying to bring certainty to every aspect of being alive. It diminishes the magic. See, it’s like this.
I was walking home tonight and feeling the magnitude of every step, the freshness of putting one foot in front of the other without any idea of what might happen next during my walk. Sure I could say I would most likely make it home – but could I really be so sure of that? How do I ever know what’s next? And this is the total gift that is almost invisible to us as we strive to make our world known. This gift that is unfathomable and immense, so much so that our puny brain can’t grasp it! Therein lies the pure irony! What’s to grasp? What’s to fight against, to feel insecure about? To be afraid of? To hesitate being present with? To playing with the I am NOT! To shrink before the unbelievable Love that lives in the Unknown, that IS the Unknown! Isn’t that was God is? Krishna? Allah? Jesus? Buddha? What the sages and prophets and gurus and enlightened beings all have been teaching us? To merge and become ONE, to surrender and become victorious, to let go and BE?
What if in all the chaos and uncertainty that seems to be so prevalent right now in our world, what if we could say: “I don’t know” and by doing so know so completely. Know so securely that it’s all perfect. That with each breath we are doing our part. We are living in THIS moment. No other moment matters. And by taking the Unknown as a lover we become SO intimate with the essence of LIFE.
I look around and see the play. Humans running after assurance. It’s a fallacy.
And that’s totally OK. Sure by all means want it, and then know the Heart of the Unknown is so much more rewarding.
We only have today.
J
One of the phrases I heard that stuck with me from this night was “the heart of the unknown”. That phrase unlocked these words, these feelings inside of me that attempt to express the wonderment of playing in the unknown arena that I call LIFE.
Think about it for a minute: every moment of every day of every year of our life we are faced with the unknown. From the minute we arrive naked and crying to the last breath we inhale into what will be our final exhalation we have no idea what’s coming next. None. Zero. Not a clue whatsoever. I don’t care who you are or what you do or what strategy you employ to ensure you do know what’s next – you simply don’t know.
We can attempt to create a level of security around our existence and from my point of view if that helps us – cool. But don’t get hung up on trying to bring certainty to every aspect of being alive. It diminishes the magic. See, it’s like this.
I was walking home tonight and feeling the magnitude of every step, the freshness of putting one foot in front of the other without any idea of what might happen next during my walk. Sure I could say I would most likely make it home – but could I really be so sure of that? How do I ever know what’s next? And this is the total gift that is almost invisible to us as we strive to make our world known. This gift that is unfathomable and immense, so much so that our puny brain can’t grasp it! Therein lies the pure irony! What’s to grasp? What’s to fight against, to feel insecure about? To be afraid of? To hesitate being present with? To playing with the I am NOT! To shrink before the unbelievable Love that lives in the Unknown, that IS the Unknown! Isn’t that was God is? Krishna? Allah? Jesus? Buddha? What the sages and prophets and gurus and enlightened beings all have been teaching us? To merge and become ONE, to surrender and become victorious, to let go and BE?
What if in all the chaos and uncertainty that seems to be so prevalent right now in our world, what if we could say: “I don’t know” and by doing so know so completely. Know so securely that it’s all perfect. That with each breath we are doing our part. We are living in THIS moment. No other moment matters. And by taking the Unknown as a lover we become SO intimate with the essence of LIFE.
I look around and see the play. Humans running after assurance. It’s a fallacy.
And that’s totally OK. Sure by all means want it, and then know the Heart of the Unknown is so much more rewarding.
We only have today.
J
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