Sometimes good fortune arrives in our lives so effortlessly that we can’t believe it. We think it can’t be this easy.
Smaller, more painful lives seem so familiar. We’re suspicious so we shrink from the beauty and magic unfolding before us.
Rumi urges us to seize life fearlessly, to let go and merge with it, and to embrace with ease the joy and opportunity as it comes to us:
The Seed Market
Can you find another market like this?
Where,
with your one rose
you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where
For one seed
you get a whole wilderness?
For one weak breath,
the divine wind?
You have been fearful
of being absorbed in the ground,
or drawn up by the air.
Now, your waterbead lets go
and drops into the ocean,
where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had,
but it’s still water.
The essence is the same.
This giving up is not a repenting.
It’s a deep honoring of yourself.
When the ocean comes to you as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly,
for God’s sake!
Don’t postpone it!
Existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching
will find this.
A perfect falcon, for no reason,
has landed on your shoulder,
and become yours.
Has a perfect falcon landed on your shoulder? What do you want to do with it? Can you welcome it wholeheartedly? Will you honor yourself, believe it, and allow it into your life?
Or are you thinking “this can’t be real if it comes so easily”? Or “this can’t be valuable if it has come so easily”? Are you believing that struggle is a necessary component of your life?
Where can you be more open to the rose gardens, the divine breezes, and the magnificent oceans which come to you?
Is there a point at which we are so sublime and confident, that we can put ourselves into new challenges and not worry, not feel any fear, not have one thought that we might look foolish or screw up or that our ideas might be rejected? Clients ask me this all the time. The answer–absolutely not.