ACCEPTANCE MONTH: DAY 10: “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” ― Tony Schwartz
And, I would add, the ultimate challenge is to accept EVERYTHING exactly as it is, but never stop learning and changing along with the rest of life.
When we insist on KNOWING stuff, whatever that may be, we continue to drag yesterday’s information into today. Doesn’t work, never has, never will.
To live into the uncertainty of TODAY, I must begin each morning with wide-eyed wonder, uncertainty, excitement, joy, and curiosity about what is going to happen TODAY.
That is not possible when I wake up with the ego telling me a story and I buy into the story. There is nothing that can change in ego. It just keeps recreating what didn’t work, over and over again. No good for me, no good for you.
I want to be open to NEW adventures, new life, new people and CHANGE!!! Especially when I feel afraid. Always when I feel afraid.
So, I sit still and let Creator create. I am no good at it anyway. The ILLUSION that I know what to do or how to do it is ALL ego! Yuck!
Peace comes with the acceptance that everything I know is only good enough to take to bed with me last night. Today I am asked to learn more and do things that I do not know how to do. Sitting still with uncertainty is what every person must do, all the time.
We get into comfy little ruts and think we know what life is all about. Hahahaha! We are unhappy with the rut, but if life pulls us up and out of it, we are terrified! It was familiar and somewhat arm and/or safe. But that is all ILLUSION as well.
Life is uncertain. None of us knows what today is supposed to be. Quit reliving yesterday and recreating the same old shit. If it made you happy, it is only because you are being seduced by your ego to go into a trance.
So many of us live in a trance. Only coming to when we hit a brick wall because we are busy and not paying attention to what is really going on around us and with us. Most importantly, completely unclear about what is happening WITHIN us.
So, we must learn to sit still and listen to the quiet voice, not the screaming purple monkeys of ego and fear! We currently have a great example of what that looks like in flesh form. I see the screaming, raging face and think…wow! Now THAT is a screaming purple monkey. Great mirror!
I must make friends with acceptance of the truth; that I do not know what is in store for me today. I never have, I never will. I anticipate the opening of my heart and mind to see how amazing the next 5 minutes are going to be, and so on, and so on…
A new day is such an adventure. So many of us are blessed with this day! Let’s let it all unfold in new ways instead of living in the insanity of ego and fear and thinking we know anything…Peace!
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