Walk With A Child's Step
Sep. 28th, 2011 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Isn't balance, in reality, the ability to step quite naturally... without too much thought into everything larger than our fear?
Does this mean that we overthink things and that in overthinking and second guessing each and every decision, or moment in life, we cause ourselves to become unbalanced?
I think that I second guess myself too much, and at the times that I do, those are the times that I stumble and fall, or lose balance, or lose sight of what is important. Sometimes I catch myself, and manage to right my balance again before I do or say something that causes distress. Too often I don't.
It's when I surrender to doing and saying things without reservation, trusting in my footsteps to carry me onward rather than have me trip and fall on my ass that I am most at peace and most successful in my endeavours... or indeed where I learn the most, or something happens to show me something I need to see. I think it's about listening to the Universe more and imposing my own narrow view upon the Universe; living with humility rather than in arrogance.
And sometimes... sometimes it take watching a child take a first step (or watching a young child do anything) to make you see all of that.
Walker, there is no path,
you make the path as you walk.
--Antonio Machado
Isn't balance, in reality, the ability to step quite naturally... without too much thought into everything larger than our fear?
Does this mean that we overthink things and that in overthinking and second guessing each and every decision, or moment in life, we cause ourselves to become unbalanced?
I think that I second guess myself too much, and at the times that I do, those are the times that I stumble and fall, or lose balance, or lose sight of what is important. Sometimes I catch myself, and manage to right my balance again before I do or say something that causes distress. Too often I don't.
It's when I surrender to doing and saying things without reservation, trusting in my footsteps to carry me onward rather than have me trip and fall on my ass that I am most at peace and most successful in my endeavours... or indeed where I learn the most, or something happens to show me something I need to see. I think it's about listening to the Universe more and imposing my own narrow view upon the Universe; living with humility rather than in arrogance.
And sometimes... sometimes it take watching a child take a first step (or watching a young child do anything) to make you see all of that.
