Monday thoughts

"Just an unbroken dance of shadows" - a line from Tao 14. 

It seems an apt description of our lives. As we strive and struggle to discern the future - where will we go? - or make sense of our past - what does it all mean? Rarely are the answers printed in black and white. 

Instead, there are the blurred lines of recall, and the faded patterns of memory. It is hard to say - given our imperfect understanding - why our lives unfold as they do. Why this path abruptly ended - while another seems to meander forever. It is the story of our lives, and that story is unfinished. 

I foolishly ask - sometimes demand - to know the epilogue - even though I'm barely half-way through the book. But on my better days, I'm happy to follow along - intrigued by the plot lines, and fascinated with the author's development of each character in the story.

Contentment does not come easy to one schooled in the ways of performance-based living. My self-worth checklist is long and ever-changing.

But on other days, I remember. In a quiet moment I return to the place of not knowing, and rest in the chair of not doing.

And in spite of not knowing how my story ends, and not doing anything to make it happen, I rest.

And in that moment, I'm OK. Everything is. OK.

dg

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