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Do You Lead an Unpredictable Life?
Modern life is so full of pressures pushing this way and that that most of us react by trying to impose order upon it. Our society of chaotic forces is thus a society of endless laws and regulations. This isn’t surprising, because humans thrive on order and are frightened by disorder. Disorder is unpredictable and out of our control, therefore it makes us feel stressed out.
Almost always these events work themselves out; there is no real harm done to your existence, just minor inconvenience. Yet your nervous system probably reacted very strongly, expressing fear and discomfort when your plans went awry. The problem is that all this struggle, worry, planning, and controlling runs against the grain of life. Life compresses chaos and orderliness together. You cannot have one without the other.
If you want to be in the flow of life, you can’t struggle against it at the same time. Therefore the quester after perfection accepts that he is always going to be uncertain, that she is always going to feel off-balance. The role of the disciple is always to stumble but never to fall.
Despite the fact that your ego hates unpredictability, the truth is that you have benefited from it again and again. Your life is already organized within itself. Life flows from life, the bud unfolds into the flower, the child ripens into the adult. Trust in each stage, celebrate it, and allow the next one to come to you effortlessly.
Adapted from The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1995).
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add your comment »I have the most unpredictable life of anybody I ever met. I've moved 17 times. had 2 places at once and am at the point where it's all so simple and childish. What I do see is that I can't seem to be able to connect with anything of value or maturity at this age and it's shallow.
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Patrick, if I may,,,I agree, !! Oh your comment is so profound and just wanted to say Wow!! and I agree so much!! Seems people need to keep a passion for compassion, I really enjoyed your comment.
Thank You Brenda
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Try asking: Will it matter in a year from now? Five years from now?
At the same time, it helps to know that we live in times in which change is happening faster and in more ways at once than ever before in human history.
20 years ago I knew an elderly lady who was born in London in the 1890s, and she told me that she grew up above a shop where her father made tyres. It took me a minute to realise that she meant the metal bands to go around the wheels of a horse-drawn cart! In her lifetime she had seen the first car, plane, computer, TV, and so on... so much change!!, and still it is predicted that the coming years will bring even more.
What we need as humans is to hold onto the unchanging values at the core of our lives, such as humanity, care, patience, understanding, things which will endure through whatever changes come about. It is human values that remain constant in a world of change - providing we remember to keep them alive.
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I find it very difficult but when I am on the right path, I know it because everything happens in harmony, even meeting people I have been thinking of who cross my path.
Sometimes I feel really in touch as if I knew exactly what is going to happen next, but it is only faith. As though I knew not facts, but that what is going to happen is the best that could happen.
Sometimes old habit make me fight for what I think I want. And obstacles keep trying to make me understand this is the wrong path, but if I am not in tune, I misread obstacles as trials, or else if I have anger or resentment inside, I keep pushing against the wind knowing it is useless, but probably needing to air my bad energy.
Ode
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Very nice, Anne!! And God, utilizing the Human being to manifest Himself inside this separated environment need one thing done, ultimately, to 'turn on' the Human mechanism and this is clearly stated in all sacred texts, including 2 places specifically, and this is not religious fundamentalism, but is life:
Isaiah:41:1 “Keep silence before Me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.”
Zechariah 2:13 “Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for He is raised up out of his holy habitation.”
The top of the Tree of Life within a Human is the Moses fire that manifest 'Heaven on Earth'. All the rest is stealing Human attention away from the Creator. As 'God is in the fire' of Exodus 3, so does the Human's attention need to be kept on Divine in Sahasrara chakra / Kingdom of Heaven / 'Moses fire' above the head - Psalm 1:2 "and in his law he meditates day and night."
With love
Richard
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We have a nice little saying in the German language. It goes as follows: "Der Mensch denkt aber Gott lenkt". In English:" Man thinks but God controls the path we go".
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Thank you Deepak, man my computer was in the shop and so happy to be back, and reading your beautiful insights again love to all Brenda
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Ever since listening to Deepak's 7 Spiritual Laws of Success, I have been living my life with more flow and less control. As Deepak says, when you struggle against a problem, you are struggling against the whole universe. It's much easier to just go w/ the flow!!
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Where I try to be each day is in the attitude of acceptance-of events, people,feelings. From everything I can learn if I let go of control and more in the moment. When I struggle with my own attitude and start to expect or control, I loose my serenity.
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