I know when things get hard or confusing I can always choose to be gentle with myself - I who just came to this world in this lifetime to experience things. I know I can let go of the pressure to become or serve or achieve anything or to 'work harder' to show my measurable worth to myself and others.
I don't have to pressure myself every day on finding the 'perfect career' that would 'fulfil my purpose' the most. I fulfil my purpose through the practice of just being. I fulfil my purpose by embracing the present moment so fully and openly and acceptingly. (My soul came here to learn after all)
Truly, I do not mind what happens. It can all be a kind of beauty in its own way, or at least, an interesting human experience. Nothing in this world or life is ever really 'mine'.
I find comfort in knowing that I can take life lightheartedly, living it as if it were a game.
I know life's blessings abound for me.
'Undesirable' things may come my way when least expected, but I can welcome and allow all to unfold in front of me, the 'good' and the 'bad', the 'exciting' and the 'boring' - I can embrace it all as it happens in the now. I do not have to look forward or wonder or worry about anything.
Appreciating the present moment is what will bring me peace. (Maybe that's what keeps me loving and gravitating towards spending time with those I love despite how much I also love solitude - the fact that when I am so engaged with them I think of nothing else that's past or future.)
Accepting things as they are. Allowing things to flow in their own genius way. The God in me (in everyone) sees and allows this.
I know that worrying is a prayer for the worst. And whatever that I do not want to experience in the future, I can hold space graciously for these possibilities and ultimately stop peering into the endless future. For happiness and contentment and peace will always follow me for as long as I anchor myself mindfully into the present moment. Peace and acceptance always come with (acknowledging, honoring) each precious present moment, and they set me oh so FREE.
I am free from my suffering when I give myself, my body, mind, spirit the chance to melt into and fully engage with the present moment.
No external change besides this choice and allowance can shift me into this amount of peace and freedom that I give myself.
So much gratitude I feel when I realize and remember this, this power.
There are not many other choices I need to make except this, and to be forgiving and compassionate towards myself and others. I do not have to tire myself with decisions.
When I DO experience wonderful and blissful, amazing things and miracles, the unexpectedness of it all would make them evermore wonderful and joyous.
This way, I can feel balanced at any time, and not thrown off by the intense polarities of my emotions and desires.
Even if I so painfully ache and long for something, I can choose to be okay with the fact that in that particular present moment, I am without this thing, and how strange but uplifting accepting that feels! At this rate, maybe I can always be okay, and maybe in some sense I never really need anything or anyone at all (to be content).
All that I DO truly need is already provided for by the Universe, who would never give me more than I can possibly handle.
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