ACCEPTANCE MONTH: DAY 20: “The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target–you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target–not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.” ― Osho
We must remain open. When we close to anything, we lose everything. In recovery, we are told to keep an open mind. It is crucial to our acceptance of life.
We go into situations and relationships, often fearful of outcomes we believe are going to harm us or be emotionally painful. This is a damning way of life, because we will often have those types of experiences as life goes on anyway.
We cannot avoid life because things might go badly at some point. We are always going to be disappointed at the end of any situation, because we are expecting that it will always go the way we want it to. This is not what life embraces, nor is it the best way to embrace life.
I cannot avoid going to work because I believe it will end like other jobs. There is something for me to learn and know in every position I have ever held. (Trust me, there have been a lot of them!) But I could not avoid going to work for fear of outcomes.
I cannot avoid love relationships based on how they have gone in the past. Like I would be able to determine that at the beginning! But we do this all the time.
The reason we do this is because we see things in judgment. There is no good or bad, right or wrong, this or that. It all just IS. In this ISNESS, perfection lives. I have been in relationships and other life situations that were powerful and dynamic in what I needed to learn.
I may not have liked what I was learning, but I can see the power of them, nonetheless. I am eternally grateful for the experiences, because they shifted me in some way to the next thing.
Therefore, I want to walk through the world with an open mind and an open heart and an open hug for whatever comes, because it will probably give me all that I need in that moment.
I will not cling to things, that has been an established form of horrible pain for me. I get it! And living with so few things has been wonderful! And I live with fewer people and with fewer things to do and with fewer ideas of how that is supposed to be anyway.
Life in the open like this is a much greater experience, because the things that come are wonderful surprises!
Learning can only happen when I open the creaky door of my mind and my heart. And that is what I want my life to be about…new, new, new life and adventures of my spirit. I want to soar and can only do that when I free myself from the burdens of believing I know what my life is supposed to look like. This quote made me happy today. Open up and dive in!
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