Even in spite of myself sometimes, I don't want to be any different
than I am. I'm complete and OK now. Being complete and OK
now (and the way I say now implies the
eternal now, the always now) shifts how I am with regard
to both the past and the future. When I'm incomplete and not OK
now, I have one kind of relationship with the past and with the
future. When I'm complete and OK now, I have another kind of
relationship with the past and with the future.
It's not being complete and OK with the past which gives me being
complete and OK now. It's not being complete and OK with the future
which gives me being complete and OK now. It's being complete and OK
now which gives me being complete and OK now. And there's
nothing to do
to be complete and OK now.
I don't always live in the now. Neither do I aspire to. Sometimes I
live in the past. Rather, said more
rigorously,
sometimes I look to the past. If I look to the past, it's
a matter of being complete. As soon as looking to the past becomes a
matter of attempting to fix something to make a better now, it's
fundamentally flawed. It's
deadly.
Sometimes I live in the future. Rather, said more
rigorously,
sometimes I look to the future. If I look to the future,
it's a matter of being inventive. As soon as looking to the
future becomes a matter of attempting to see something great to look
forward to which will make a better now, it's also fundamentally
flawed. And it's just as
deadly.
Both looking to the past and looking to the future are powerful rip
currents. They're both treacherous undertows to swim
through. The one tells you you'll be complete and OK now only
if you fix what happened in the past. The other one tells you
you'll be complete and OK now only if there's something
great for you to look forward to.
Be careful. There's nothing wrong with looking to the past to fix what
happened in the past. In fact not fixing (in the sense of
not completing) what happened in the past is tantamount to
accepting a ball and chain around the ankle for Life. There's nothing
wrong with looking to the future to have something great to look
forward to. In fact inventing
a future worth living
into
is pivotal to living a life you love and living it powerfully.
The inquiry to be in is this: do you calibrate your life to the past?
Or do you calibrate your life to the future?
I don't calibrate my life to the past. Neither do I calibrate my life
to the future. And in case you're second guessing me, sorry but I don't
calibrate my life to the now either. What intrigues me is the
possibility of calibrating my life to zero. What captures my
imagination like nothing else is coming back to zero ie
the possibility of re-calibrating my life to zero, the
possibility of coming back to
nothing.
Coming back to
nothing
seems in hindsight (and hindsight is always 20/20 vision)
to be so ... well ... obvious. When I come back to
nothing,
then
who I am,
right here, right now, is obviously whole and complete and
OK and perfect.
Even if I'm going to look to the past to complete the
past, I'm going to do it from calibration zero ... which is to say I'm
going to look to the past coming from this, right here,
right now, and the way I am right here and right now, is whole and
complete and OK and perfect. I can create one kind of completion with
the past when I'm not coming from the way I am right here and right
now, is whole and complete and perfect. I can create another kind of
completion with the past when I'm coming from the way I am right here
and right now, is whole and complete and OK and perfect.
Even if I'm going to invent
a future worth living
into,
I'm going to invent it from calibration zero ... which is to say I'm
going to invent
a future worth living
intocoming from this, right here, right now, and the way I am
right here and and right now, is whole and complete and OK and perfect.
I can invent one kind of future when I'm not coming from the way I am
right here and right now, is whole and complete and perfect. I can
invent another kind of future when I'm coming from the way I am right
here and right now, is whole and complete and OK and perfect.
Calibration zero: the possibility of having whatever's
happening now be whole and complete and OK and perfect. That's a given
ie it's axiomatic. What's awesome is the possibility this gives
of standing at calibration zero, and having the past (ie
whatever happened in the past) be whole and complete and
OK and perfect. What's really awesome is the possibility
this gives of standing at calibration zero, and having the future (ie
whatever will happen in the future including
whatever I invent as a possibility for the future) be whole and
complete and OK and perfect.