Evolving or Dying

Are you growing or dying?

Are you resisting change?

Change is good. Change is fun. Change is progress.

The resistance wants you the same.

"Everything is going to be alright" is not the same as "Everything is going to stay the same."

Humility is always the answer. What you see in others, you have in yourself. What you love, admire, behold in others, you have in yourself. What you resent, what disturbs you, what angers you, you have in yourself.

Work on the self. Grow. Change. Evolve.

Every moment we are either evolving or dying. Every moment is a chance to become or a chance to wither.

Every moment we always have the choice, a chance, an opportunity.

The question is not how to do this thing, what to do, or even where are we going.

The question is always, who am I? By putting attention on this question, you offer yourself a chance to awaken. Simply by noticing, you have an opportunity to blossom.

Fly

I'm going forth, renegade style

I'm letting go, to the great unknown

I'm marching on, to the light of something new

I'm going to be good at it

I'm going to fly

I see a power, fierce, intense, strong as the sun

I see a cliff, I'm about to jump off

I see a path, that's never been forged

I walk fearless through the darkest night

I walk fearless through the thorny patch

I'm emerging

I'm following the feeling

I'm doing it today

Everything has led up to this point

Enough despair

Let's talk about excitement

Let's talk about beauty

Let's talk about doing it regardless of limitations

Let's do it well

with all we have

Let's do it again and again and again

Until we die a sweet and willing death

I don't care what you've been through

I don't care how hard it was

It was hard for a lot of people

It was hard for a long time

I'm talking about hope now

I'm talking about feeling deeply

Even if it hurts

then letting it go

Just let it go

Believe in dreams come true

Believe in angels singing to you

Believe in love

It's time now to be silent

and hear the great calling of your heart

Listen

It rings clear

It always has

And it wants to give so badly

It wants to awaken

What is joy? Delighting in a child's spirit, connecting with a loved one, understanding something for the first time.

What about a bigger feeling? What about a greater awareness? What about an inner knowing that will support you, as far as you're willing to go?

Delight vs. Contentment. Delighting in the simple things in life, having a good time, sharing stories, memories, feelings.

Then there is you. There is what you create. There is something only you know, feel and understanding. That is what will bring you peace. That is what will bring you deep satisfaction. That is what will bring you ease.

You should always look for the people that reflect this greater self, the greater understanding, the greater destiny. Seek these people, and simply walk away from the rest. No need to be distracted. No need to lesson yourself to make others feels better. No need to deny yourself all the things you already know.

As Marrianne Williamson says, "It is not that we fear we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure..."

What makes you feel powerful beyond measure? Perhaps this is what will bring you joy. Perhaps this is what will bring you deep inner peace. The idea is to be who you are.

Escaping from what? Your pain, or your power?

Escaping from what? Your pain, or your power?

Conversations Outside of the Fish Bowl

Within the fish bowl are all the things in life that are insignificant. The traffic, the divorce, the paper work, the parking tickets, the fees, the bullshit...

For lack of a better word, let's call it bullshit. I'm not afraid to say bullshit, and I don't think you should be either.

Somehow, I got outside of the fish bowl. Once you are outside of the fish bowl, you can't ever go back. There's no possible way.

Within the fish bowl are the "silly things", the "illusions", the stuff that doesn't matter.

Outside of the fish bowl is truth, laughter, love, passion, integrity, power, stuff that matters.

I'm interested in talking to you outside of the fishbowl. I'm interested in knowing how you feel, what you have to say, what enlivens you. I'm interested in laughing with you, outside of the fishbowl.

Life is moving too fast for anything else. I don't think there's time, for anything else.

It's time to make a decision. What are you going to pay attention to? Who are you going to listen to? Your voice, or the little fish swimming around the same tree. The same tree. The same tree. The same tree.

The water is stale, in the fish bowl. The trees are plastic. Little goldfish, float to the top.

Outside the air is clear, and the trees so big, the sun bright and you and I are laughing.

Dreams vs. Decisions

What matters is that you make a decision. Dreams don't count. They are as good as excuses. Meet the power of resistance in your big dreams. Meet the chains of procrastination in your big dreams. Meet death, in your big dreams.

It's kind of like death. It really is.

The truth is, we have no idea what's going to happen. We never will. That will never change. All we can do is start something today, not tomorrow, not next week, not if and when [X], [Y], and [Z] happen.

Today. Just today. No matter what's going on around you, no matter what resources you have, no matter how you feel.

Now is the only time you have. Yes right now. Life is in the doing, in the figuring out, in the mystery of failing and experimenting and risking... something, for the love of God, anything.

It's about making a decision, putting your attention on it, breathing life into it, feeling yourself in it. It's not about your wishes for the future, your alibis, your grand tales...

Spin the tales in your mind and that's what you'll always be, an illusion, a great escapade of nothing...

Do something. Do anything. For the love of God, make a decision.

Watch the paint splatter. Let it go who knows where. Watch the words form, saying, what? Watch the chords stream together, isolated notes finding each other like lovers from ancient times, some future that may or may not happen, but my God it sounds good now, today, this moment...

It sounds good.

It looks good.

It makes sense.

It's working.

You're creating. You're making something out of nothing and that's all that matters.

Don't Make Plans

Don't make plans.

Why make plans? So you can break them?

Plans don't work. No matter how figured out you think you've got it, the future will never be like what you expect. Making plans limits your experience of what's going on all around you right here and right now.

Set intentions. Set clear intentions. Act on your intentions. Deliver your best with the resources you have in the present moment. But don't make plans.

Plans will create expectation that can hold you back if you cling to them. Plans will set you up for failure if you put too much pressure on meeting them. Plans will kill your joy.

Intentions vs. Plans. I think it's important to know the difference.

What if you only got one shot at life? What if what will happen next will be nothing like what's in front of you right now? What if you wake up one day and realized that you've lived your entire life by rules and assumptions and plans and expectations and you don't know why, or what happened, or what it all meant? What if you could have been more alive, more present, more radiant?

I say kick the plans. Claim your life, live in the present moment, and enjoy your experience.

Trust some cosmic flow and allow it to reveal to you. It's an active engagement, a dance with the unknown, a chance like nothing else.

The universe is cunning if I've learned anything. Plans might deceive you into believing something else. Don't bother. Enjoy the dance.