How do you stop a planet's natural rotation through the universe?!
There is something uniquely amazing about the universe we live in. The way it operates in such perfect randomness, simultaneously creating and destroying itself without any regard to it's very existence...it just IS. Entire planets and, indeed, entire galaxies are forever hurling around, through and within each other. Days & seasons come & go. Even the atoms and molecules that make up our physical being are always moving in a pattern of natural rotation.
Occasionally, a planet (or being) will find itself hurling through it's space on a path of direct collision with another planet (or being). What is either of these planets to do?! Does an asteroid see a moon in it's path & decide to go around it to avoid destruction? Of course not..it goes hurling on it's path of natural flow and smashes into the moon, being shattered into millions of pieces.
And what of the moon? It just spins along on it's path and gets struck.
This collision inevitably creates a shift in not only the form of the two masses, but also the path they were on..an instantaneous transformation on all levels.
The asteroid is now torn apart and the moon is scarred and jilted, but both continue in their altered existence as if it were nothing. The collision was somehow 'meant' to happen in order for the natural progression of the universe to take place.
At one point in time, the planet we live on was once a dark and empty place with no life...until another mass collided with it, smashing it into pieces. Some of these pieces may have spun off and formed the moon and what was left became the Earth we live on today. Our very existence would not be, had this collision not taken place.
In our lives most people seem to do just the opposite. We don't want to destroy ourselves or others by causing collisions, so we go through life trying to navigate around others and plan our path to what we perceive is the easiest way to go forward. The problem with this is that we end up losing ourselves from our natural path, creating chaos, confusion, and imbalance.
We have become so afraid of the destruction that comes from such collisions that we detract ourselves from our natural path to avoid them, but it is sometimes out of those same collisions that new and beautiful things are created.
I'm thinking about "natural path". I've often thought about not going after things that don't come naturally but I've never thought about not avoiding things that come naturally. Hmmm..
ReplyDeleteI will share my favorite poem with you. It's by Rumi, a 13th century Persian poet.
"There was an old dervish that lived high in the hills.
He made a vow.
He would not pick the fruit from the trees.
He would not shake the tree to make the fruit fall.
Nor would he ask anyone to pick the fruit for him.
Rather...
He would take only that which the wind made fall"
Rumi teaches us not to try to force our dreams into existence but to be such a force that our dreams come to us effortlessly, that what you want, also wants you.
If we stop putting up blocks with expectations about the vehicle in which those dreams will arrive, we will have them!
Conversely now I see that it's just as important not to try to dodge things that come our way that we didn't necessarily ask for...we may be dodging the ingredients of a dream we haven't even dreamed yet!
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Bebe
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