Find steadiness in the unsteady

Life often feels impossible when our minds dwell on the future, but in reality, the only thing that truly exists is possibility. When we experience intensity, our minds convince us we've made the wrong choice by predicting what is going wrong and gripping for what could be going better. Yet in reality, we have no idea what the “right” or "wrong" choice is, or could have been. In this intensity, our job is to remember to find awe and wonder in the mystery of how our lives are actually unfolding.

Our job isn't to choose or manage it all perfectly. It's to experience the intensity of and letting things unfold and operate from a place of trust.

The only access to peace in this process is learning to focus on what's steady. And the practice of lovingly noticing what is unsteady is what connects us to what is steady. The loving observer in us understands that everything is always changing, and this understanding connects us to the steady Truth within us.

When life feels too hard, the mind is thinking too far ahead. When intensity feels like proof you're off track, the mind is trying to know what it cannot know. You will know everything you need to know when you need to know.

What if you returned to what's steady instead?