Thoughts & Experiences - September 3, 2008 (Live Life)

These past few days it feels as if the filter that controls my thoughts has been stripped away. Something like a control valve on the water hose that has broken and the water is pouring out, actually spraying all over the place. The more I try to control my thoughts the more they rush out. Forget about a patch these thoughts cannot be controlled. No dam can block this flow, it is best to allow the flow to happen. ‘Love yourself for that is the key’, ‘you are light and love’, and ‘you are beautiful as you are’. So many more pass through me but it seems that only these can be salvaged from the rapid flow of thoughts. The others have passed through me and I am sure that they will sooner or later slow down for me to realize them, eventually I hope. I must be very dense because the thoughts that I do hold onto don’t let up until I truly absorb them. They pound me over and over again and I suppose it’s for my own good seeing that I am a slow learner!

Just as these thoughts storm around in my heart and I mean storm I am reading a blissful book, ‘The Four Agreements’ by Don Miguel Ruiz. Coincidence, no, synchronicity, you better believe it. If you haven’t read it you definitely need to pick it up. It is truly a simple message that really packs a serious blow. He lists the four agreements and they truly are amazing, ‘Be impeccable with your word’, ‘Don’t take anything personally’, ‘Don’t make assumptions’, ‘Always do your best’! As I was reading these agreements I truly realized/remembered how simple life was intended to be and how life is truly a magnificent gift. All we really need to do is to live, to truly live. For one moment forget about everything you have read, heard or watched about life, try to empty your cup and allow the flow of life to absorb you. We want so much more out of life only to forget what life is truly about, ‘living’. How do you live, by living in the present not in the past or the future, in the present! We want so much more out of ourselves that we forget to live our own lives. Chasing after so much when all we need is within us. I have always believed that love is no mystery it is us that choose to make love so elusive.

‘Love yourself for that is the key’, ‘You are light and love’, and ‘You are beautiful as you are’. These thoughts I would like to add to dear Don Miguel Ruiz’s wonderful thoughts. The more information I try to soak up the more I firmly believe that this life was intended to be lived and not to be read or watched. Just by living we are being the light and love. By truly loving ourselves we love everything. By loving ourselves we love unconditionally, I cannot love anyone less then I love myself for we are all connected, we are all one. Do not go chasing after what you already are, you are light and love and nothing can take that away from you. Your experiences are what make you so beautiful and they are a part of your journey. We are all part of a stunning garden, filled with so many dazzling flowers. We are those flowers, individually spectacular. As the saying goes, "Life is not the amount of breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away!” This is your journey to live, live it with love and live it from your heart.

Namaste, Peace and Love!