Inevitable destination

I'm noticing how easy it is to slide back into the status quo....to let the steady hum of habit take over living moment-to-moment, resulting in what was becoming our only choice for what can become.

It takes effort - of body, mind and spirit - to stay awake. Why? Not because sleep is the essence of our being. On the contrary, I believe being awake is our essential nature. However, I am also mindful of how the dense mass that surrounds us applauds and rewards, encourages and welcomes that coma of habituation. Perhaps the greatest challenge to us all and the greatest leverage that the culture of coma has, is that we hate to play alone. We would prefer to play a game that is not of our choosing than to find ourselves alone and without playmates.

We are more willing to surrend ourselves to the mindless game than we are to create one for ourselves...than we are to playing alone.

We more easily slip into pretending who we are not than we are able to stay true to who we are if doing so demands that we be the only light in the perceived dark.

We are more willing to lie to be wanted by others than we are to risk standing alone in a truth that might result in solitude and copious amounts of our own company.

All that, and we are still mangificent! It just goes to prove that our inevitable destination is the truth of who we are. I guess the only real choice we have to make is how long we want it to take for us to get there.

Breathing is good.....