I can hardly believe it. Something good has happened. Something I was dreaming of happening for a long time.
Beyond expectation, really.
Have you ever had that experience?
You’ve been working towards something, running, stepping back, carrying on….and something wonderful happens.
A dream, come true.
You say while shaking your head and tearing up with the sheer joy of it….“wow, this is amazing, I can hardly believe it!”
One of my dreams is gathering many together in community, growing a practice, creating things that help people….
….and it’s happening.
I’m almost full for the Year of Inquiry program starting next week, like bursting full of truly incredible people.
I should probably replace the word “people” with “women” because we are all women. Women flying from several parts of the country for the retreats, women from Seattle. Women from England, Germany, Spain, Canada, some enrolled in the teleclass portion only.
Women who are already certified facilitators in The Work, many women who have attended The School for The Work, and women brand new to The Work.
I feel like my peeps are showing up, ready to practice deeply looking.
Together.
That’s what we’re doing….and it has strength and wonder in it.
I’ve worked with many people who have dreams for their future, secret wishes (or not so secret), visions.
They’d truly love to find a mate, to end the Not Enough story, to feel close with their teens, to be entirely healthy, to run a thriving business, to publish a book, to stop obsessing, to visit that other country, to loose all their extra weight, to love themselves, to make a decent living, to become enlightened.
They might feel like months, years go by but little or not enough “progress”.
Not there yet. Lots of effort. Not making it fast enough. Gotta figure this out.
But who would you be without the belief that you could never achieve that thing, or have what you desire or picture?
Without the belief that you can’t, or it’s too hard, or you don’t have enough time, or money, or you’re just too tired, or too old, or missing something?
Without those thoughts I notice how I keep living, dreaming, creating, trying different paths, without the belief that movement towards something is futile.
Today.
I keep discovering ideas. I keep writing. I keep working, I keep loving all the people I connect with, I keep going.
I keep refining, joyfully, myself…..as service.
Sometimes people think they shouldn’t want stuff, like cars, or fame, or being the creator of something helpful, or awakening.
“I just won’t want that, ever again…I’ll give up having desire!”
Who would you be without that story?
I’d be noticing that I am not the one running things around here. I move, life moves, everything unfolding in perfect order. A deep knowing in my heart that if I died tomorrow, I’m doing just what I most love to do today.
Only today.
If you have dreams of achieving, getting there, finding that, arriving, accomplishing….
….who would you be without any belief at all about having to get there, about needing to be THERE (in the future) in order to be truly happy?
“I say, skip the middleman, and be happy and free from where you are right now….The whole world is simply MY story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.” ~ Byron Katie
When I question my thinking, investigate what is really true, break apart and look with a flashlight inside these stressful thoughts….
….it is sincerely not necessary to have or gain that thing in the future.
And then, oh weird, that thing I wanted comes forth, or something even better.
“Spirituality begins when you decide that you’ll never stop trying. Spirituality is the commitment to go beyond yourself every minute of every day for the rest of your life….Eventually you will realize that it cannot actually hurt you to go beyond your psychological limits. If you are willing to just stand at the edge and keep walking, you will go beyond….Go beyond where you were a minute ago by handling what’s happening now.”~ Michael Singer
Feel your great desires today. Love them with all your heart, in this moment right now. Question your stressful thinking about what feels scary, or difficult.
I know you can do it, because I’m doing it.
And I am no different from you.
And although it is totally unnecessary, if you’re drawn because you love this investigation, there are two spots left in Year of Inquiry. We start next week.
A collective group of people who are conscious of living in the soup of conditioned beliefs passed along from generation to generation…..and who want to question them and find out the truth.
Question your thinking, change your world.
Much love, Grace