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Today's
quotation:
One
does not need to fast for days and meditate for hours at a
time
to experience the sense of sublime mystery which constantly
envelops us. All one need do is to notice
intelligently, if even
for a brief moment, a blossoming tree, a forest flooded
with autumn colors, an infant smiling.
Simon
Greenberg
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Today's
Meditation:
Life is mysterious, but we keep wanting to rob it of
its mystery instead of enjoying it. We want to name,
to categorize, to define, to put everything into little
boxes that we understand completely rather than accept the
fact that there are many things that we do not and cannot
know, things that simply can't be understood. I see
this every time I look into another person's eyes and
recognize the spark of life, for example-- and I wonder
just how it got there and where that spark is going.
I honestly don't care about an answer. Just seeing
that life and appreciating its mystery is enough for me.
I love the mysteries in life. I could list tons of
them, but that would take too long. Rather, I simply
like to appreciate them when I come across them and allow
them to be without trying to explain them. When
we're able to accept mystery without a need for
explanation, then we're on the road to living our lives
fully, to accepting life for what it is and letting it be
just what it is without trying to control it.
Some mysteries were meant to be solved, it seems.
I'm very glad that people discovered how things like
bacteria and viruses work, and how to deal with them so
our illnesses don't kill us. But other mysteries,
like why the sunset can make me stop in my tracks and why
another person's smile can make me smile, I don't want to
know about-- I don't need to know about them. I like
them just as they are.
In a world full of people trying to explain everything to
everyone else, it's nice to allow mystery its space, to
let it be what it is. And once we start seeing
mystery and recognizing it for what it is, we start to
realize the sublime beauty of all that's around us all the
time. We start to realize that everything can't be
explained away, and this fact gives us a deeper
appreciation for and acceptance of life as it is rather
than trying to turn life into what we think it should be.
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