You are not lost in darkness. This moment glows.
A soft glow of light helps you to see. The moment itself is your light. It is fed from within by an animating, natural energy. Your cells buzz with constant regeneration and movement because the energy of life continually creates you in each now.
You have the ability to blind yourself from seeing. Fear, insecurity, worry, guilt, and shame all block the light of the moment. Know that the light is still there even if you lose yourself into the shadow of your own mind.
When you do cover up your light, you stumble around in the darkness. If you aren’t listening to the moment, you might find yourself somewhere alien, unfamiliar, and unaligned with soul. You work so hard to get to where you think you want to go. The bumps and scrapes remind you that you are lost in your own thoughts. They say to you: wake up and remember the light of this moment.
You can use this light to illuminate your next step.
A candle and not a flashlight, the light of the moment can help you see only what is right in front of you. We are all spiritually nearsighted because this moment is all that really exists. The past is an energetic record, and the future an imaginative construct.
Within this moment lies the seed of possibility. This seed contains everything you need to move forward. It is your guidance system. You know you are in the moment when what you are doing makes sense. If you are present to the nature of this seed, you will know what to do next, even if you don’t know what to do after that.
The journey of an entire life can be made in this way.
Some people attempt to live like chess players. They plan twelve moves ahead, mapping out their entire lives.
Living your life twelve moves ahead is stressful because life tends to unfold in a way that is fresh and different from what we expect. “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” Mike Tyson remarked after hearing his opponent’s plans. Sometimes, life punches us in the mouth. Every journey has its twists and turns.
If you follow the moment, life will guide you to what you really want, but not what you think you want. It might feel like a long way around, but the path home is not always in the direction you think. Sometimes, getting lost is a part of finding your way.
Are you willing to trust in the glow of the moment without seeing the entire path? Ground yourself in the now in order to take your next step. Then, trust that the next step will be revealed by the light of the next moment. Here is the secret to a profoundly simple life.
This moment glows. It lights the way for your next step. The journey of an entire life can be made in this way.
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