sometimes I play a game where I pick a book on my bookshelf at random, flip it open to a page, and read the text as thoughtfully as possible, believing that it was what the universe wants me to hear at that moment. Sometimes it’s silly and meaningless. Other times it is spot on. Now that I think about it— it is helpful if your bookshelf is like mine, mostly composed of non-fiction, self-help, autobiographical, religious, and spiritual texts. (I’m working on reading more novels.)

This is from A New Earth, by Ekhart Tolle.

“The ego doesn’t know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you may find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.
How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does to you. There are three words that convey the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is begin one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live you life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, You are the dance.”
pg. 115

This passage opens me up to see all that Life can offer. It invites me to listen to the little voice inside that veers off course. Be present to the confusion. Be present to failure. Be present to hope and success. Being anything else but present to this moment is living in a world that doesn’t exist. I hope I can move through life with less of my ego attached. Let Life move me where I am meant to go.

Qué será, será

you are the dance