In less than a week, I’ll be flying to California to go on retreat with one of my favorite all-time teachers Adyashanti. I’m so happy thinking about it, and the profound invitation and joy it brings.
And.
I also have thoughts like “I don’t have enough time!” “I have so much to do in advance!” “I can’t write during the retreat, oh horrors!” “I have a workshop the day after I return…what if people write me emails with questions, and I don’t get back to them?”
Help! Arggh! Oh no! Eeeeeek!
But if I pause, relax, notice that all is well in this moment and nothing is an emergency….it’s not so hard to see this isn’t an emergency either….
….and I do what’s next right now.
I go to the bathroom, I get a glass of water, I write this, I put on my exercise clothes and get ready to head for the gym.
I remember that what time it is does not matter.
I feel this moment, now.
“Awake awhile. It does not have to be Forever, Right now. One step upon the Sky’s soft skirt would be enough. Hafiz, Awake awhile. Just one true moment of love will last for days. Rest all your elaborate plans and tactics for Knowing Him, for they are all just frozen spring buds far, so far from summer’s divine gold. Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe. Say, ‘Love, give me back my wings. Lift me nearer.’ Say to the sun and moon, say to our dear Friend, ‘I will take you up now, beloved, on that wonderful dance you promised!” ~ Hafiz
Right now, I am not “behind” or traveling or needing to get Stuff done, or having to prepare, or too busy.
Instead, how about I take the universe up on the dance it promised, instead of postponing it until later, after tasks are done?
Yes.
Won’t you join me?
Much love, Grace