Sep
A New Beginning as Old as Time
The moment I awakened this morning, I was greeted with the conscious awareness that I was an integral part of the perfect “nowness” of a perfect universe without any past or future.
Its completeness was my completeness. Its perfection was my perfection. Its harmony and balance was my harmony and balance. How could it be otherwise? The infinite nature of the universe rendered any implied challenge as being an absolute impossibility.
In view of these inevitable facts (“Something that has actual existence; a piece of evidence having objective reality” Webster) I need never have any concern for my well-being, which is maintained by the natural perfection of an all-inclusive, infinite universe of which I am an integral part.
Then I turned on the news. It presented pictures of a world in conflict, violence, corruption, political unrest and predictions of hard times at all levels of business and personal life. Where did this world come from?
I am reminded of a peaceful evening my wife and I were enjoying in New Orleans when it was interrupted by my spotting a giant cockroach on the floor. We experienced an immediate reaction: shock, excitement, an adrenaline rush and a sense of urgency to do something about it.
I immediately took on the role of a “great hunter” and ran to get the can of Raid. As I cautiously approached my “enemy”, I noticed that it was not a cockroach at all but was only a leaf that had been tracked in from the garden. We were immediately healed of all our traumas and anxieties. Peace was restored as soon as we recognized the truth of the situation.
Where did the cockroach go? It didn’t “go” anywhere because it wasn’t a real “something” in the first place!
When your peace, harmony and balance seem to be interrupted by any adverse situation that sends you into a defensive frame of mind and suggests that you must attack the problem, remember it has no more reality than my cockroach and will “disappear” just as readily when you recognize it for what it is…. or isn’t.
