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Old 13-04-2021, 05:48 PM
Mitodin Mitodin is offline
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Hey you! Take a break for a moment

Hey you. Yes, you, reading this right now.

Take a break for a moment.
Take a breath for a moment.

Whether you are diligently pursuing enlightenment
(or frantically doing so),
Looking for the meaning of life,
Looking for God,
Ways to share your light with others,
Or simply inner peace,

Take a break for a moment
And hear this
From this heart to your heart:

Know
For just this moment,
that your life's quest
Is already accomplished.

It was accomplished the very moment you were born. Before, even.
The rest, this lifetime of seeking,
Is just celebratory enactment
Of the fruit you can't possibly lose.

Thank you for living your life,
What a wonderful addition to the Great Tapestry it has been so far!
Know that the divine eyes look through and into your life
With great gratitude
For your utterly unique way of living this life.

For just this moment
Put the 'adult' demands of crossing finish lines and receiving payment for work to one side;
Take a break and enjoy the achievement;
You have have lived and are even now adding to that
With yet more life.
What richness for just this moment.
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Old 13-04-2021, 06:54 PM
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Thank you.
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Old 13-04-2021, 10:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mitodin
Know
For just this moment,
that your life's quest
Is already accomplished.

Alas. No, it isn't. There is much left to do.
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Old 13-04-2021, 10:52 PM
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Alas. No, it isn't. There is much left to do.
.
Yes! my floors need washing, my dishes are dancing all over the sink and I still haven’t made my lunch...

But I am enjoying my cacao smoothie in this moment!
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Old 14-04-2021, 07:37 AM
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But I am enjoying my cacao smoothie in this moment!

Awwww. Ok, very nice for this moment.... But I have a little more than the slightest hint of a suspicion that that doesn't represent your life's accomplishment!

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Old 17-04-2021, 07:01 PM
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Thank you.

Residing is the key. You don't have to be doing anything to do something. Just being is enough.

Reminds me of "Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water."
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Old 19-04-2021, 09:25 AM
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Beautiful and enlightenig words Mitodin are they yours
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Old 19-04-2021, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Mitodin
Hey you. Yes, you, reading this right now.

Take a break for a moment.
Take a breath for a moment.

Whether you are diligently pursuing enlightenment
(or frantically doing so),
Looking for the meaning of life,
Looking for God,
Ways to share your light with others,
Or simply inner peace,

Take a break for a moment
And hear this
From this heart to your heart:

Know
For just this moment,
that your life's quest
Is already accomplished.

It was accomplished the very moment you were born. Before, even.
The rest, this lifetime of seeking,
Is just celebratory enactment
Of the fruit you can't possibly lose.

Thank you for living your life,
What a wonderful addition to the Great Tapestry it has been so far!
Know that the divine eyes look through and into your life
With great gratitude
For your utterly unique way of living this life.

For just this moment
Put the 'adult' demands of crossing finish lines and receiving payment for work to one side;
Take a break and enjoy the achievement;
You have have lived and are even now adding to that
With yet more life.
What richness for just this moment.
Er....how did you come to that conclusion?

That sounds like determinism/fate without our ability to influence and shape our lives via freewill.

If someone is born disabled is that their life's quest i.e. limited/confined? Or does taking charge of their life e.g. becoming a paralympic athlete defy this? If it's incorporated in the theory then freewill is incorporated thus we have choice thus we may choose a multitude of possible outcomes!
Checkmate?
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Old 22-04-2021, 08:07 AM
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Beautiful and enlightenig words Mitodin are they yours
They are.

/Mitodin
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Old 22-04-2021, 08:20 AM
Mitodin Mitodin is offline
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Er....how did you come to that conclusion?

That sounds like determinism/fate without our ability to influence and shape our lives via freewill.

If someone is born disabled is that their life's quest i.e. limited/confined? Or does taking charge of their life e.g. becoming a paralympic athlete defy this? If it's incorporated in the theory then freewill is incorporated thus we have choice thus we may choose a multitude of possible outcomes!
Checkmate?

Not quite.

I would venture it's a matter of perspective - that, if you examine your life goal to its innermost profound level, you will find that it is a goal without end. There is always more to do, the quest never ends. Not in this life, nor whatever lives may come after.

This is good news, at the heart level. Because it means that your deepest aspirations are not bound by time, finalised result or finishing line. It is not something that relies on a point in the future for its completion. The undertaking of it in the first place is itself its completion. Every moment of undertaking is not an incremental move from a state of incompleteness towards completion, but an enactment of a timeless endeavour that is completed by the simple undertaking of it. By every moment of its undertaking.

As such, this post is simply a reminder, for a short time at least, to not be burdened by feelings of lack or incompleteness, imagining that once some projected finishing line is crossed, then completeness and peace shall be experienced.

The completeness is now, it is always so. As such, it is only to the good to occasionally remember this and enjoy the accomplishment of undertaking and expressing a venture without end, to celebrate. And then, as your heart stirs, go back to work on your endeavour without end. But perhaps the glow of timelessness can now inform your endeavours a bit more. It is not necessary to fix your gaze on distant horizons in order to engage wholeheartedly with your heart's innermost desires.

It is perfectly OK to have goals and desires that are bound to certain outcomes of course. It is part of our human creativity and expression to do so. But, if it is not already so for you, I encourage you to trace these back to your innermost aspirations and desires in life. In part so that you may link them together, which will result in a deeper sense of meaningfulness in life and a more grounded sense of purpose less tied to temporal outcomes, and partly because it is always good to become intimate with the innermost movements of one's own heart.

Best wishes

/Mitodin
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