The Daily Love http://thedailylove.com/, is one of my preferred blogs, full of inspirational stories and loving advice. I really enjoyed today's entry and had to share. Especially since it can be applied to The Marvelous Me Project. You may ONLY be concentrating on drinking water and sleeping enough this month, but yes, it is all part of a much bigger, marvelous process!
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My name is Mastin Kipp & I am the Founder of The Daily Love.
I went to see Marianne Williamson speak last night in L.A. - Marianne, by the way, is one of the most authentic teachers I've ever met. We are going to be publishing a brand new blog by her on Sunday; it's an amazing read! Anyway, Marianne is the real deal. She and Tony Robbins are my favorite two teachers at the moment and I'm blown away that I've been able to meet and get to know both of them!
Any-hoo...last night a woman asked Marianne a question and I wanted to share it here. A woman asked how she could move past grieving after losing her mother three weeks ago. Marianne basically said that three weeks is still a fresh time and that because this woman loved so much, it wasn't realistic to think she could move past it so quickly. Marianne said that it's actually appropriate to grieve and that it's not something we want to rush.
And this got me thinking, not just about grief, but also about our spiritual growth in general.
Can you imagine planting a seed in a garden, watering it, giving it everything it needs to grow and then coming back an hour later, or a day later and being devastated that the seed hasn't turned into the plant and created fruit yet? I mean, HOW ridiculous is THAT? It's truly a crazy thought.
We, in many ways, do this all the time. We have planted the seeds of possibility and of our intention in the soil of The Uni-verse - and now we must tend to them and let them grow. Trying to rush the process will actually make it worse. Settling into the process makes things much more enjoyable.
Many of us, especially those in the West are achievers. We are going to do something and we are going to do it well and be the best. And many of us have taken this point of view and applied it to our spiritual path. But that can't fly. We cannot achieve our way towards enlightenment or spiritual growth. It's something we must allow, we must get out of the way of and we must let unfold.
One of the key tenets of The Path is patience. I remember the first time I asked The Uni-verse for patience, I thought I was actually asking The Uni-verse to SPEED THINGS UP! But instead, it slowed things down. And the JOKE was on ME!
I swear I was born in this life just to learn patience. I hate waiting. I really do. I get excited, I get happy, I get all ready to go and then things take twice as long or longer than I thought they would to happen. Heck, I've been doing TDL now for about four years and the blog has been up for about a year. In my mind that is FOREVER... but it's just a blimp in the mind of The Uni-verse.
So, today, if you have planted seeds or want to plant seeds, can you be at peace with the gentle unfolding and growing of what you've planted? Can you tend to it, can you water it, and can you help it along just a little bit day by day? You know, if you improve just 1% a day, in 100 days you'll be 100% :o) Think about that. As we step into 2012 and it starts to get rolling, can we allow things to unfold, instead of trying to achieve our way to happiness? Can we let go and let The Uni-verse arrange our life, instead of just trying to make things happen?
Instead of trying to push our life up the hill, can we allow ourselves to be gently pushed up the hill by angels? The choice is yours. Let me know what you wanna do by leaving a comment or sending me an email at: WhatImGoingThru@TheDailyLove.com
Lots of love,
Mastin
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