Today while listening to a webinar I heard the sentence 'slowing down to the speed of life'. There seems to be a book with that title, I didn't look into it yet, but while hearing that saying it struck me - how I have this tendency to rush things. How I always want to be 'done' with everything, want every situation to be sorted out, want the lockdown to end, want a solution to this 'problem' or that... and on and on. It gave me such a sense of relief to realize: I don't have to do that. It doesn't work that way. It's not my job, to 'do' life or 'manage' life faster than it is already going. It seems to me while learning about the three principles that I become aware of more and more areas in my life, or maybe attitudes about life, where I tend to rush things and stress myself out. And again and again I have this experience that there really is nothing I need to do about it - the moment I see it, it looses its power. This is not to say that I don't have moments or days when I feel totally unable to get out of my stressful thinking... But again and again I also experience this, this sudden peace, this dropping away of anything I need to achieve, or manage. It really feels like there is no end to the depth of this understanding, I'm in awe of how this simplicity has such deep implications for every aspect of my life ❤️
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