WHERE are you rushing to…………….?
Really.
What is the rush? WHERE are you going . . . ? What will happen when you get there??
WHERE is it that you are so frantically, so busily hurrying towards…………?
Really? Really? Really?????
PAUSE.
How often have each of us stood with another being, seemingly speaking, seemingly sharing…… and yet we can ‘see’, almost literally, the race of ‘doing‘ taking place behind their eyes. We see the to-do list as if it were projected for all, and for you, as you stand there, it feels absolutely as though something else, someone else, is more important then this Now. As though something else, someone else, is more important then you.
Flip this around, and you know that you too have been the vacant presence for another at some point.
There are no excuses. And there is no sense in guilt. Everyone feels overwhelmed at times. Everyone feels as though there are a billion, trillion, quintillion things that are urgently calling for attention. Urgently calling, like a hungry gaggle of insatiable geese. And this is just it . . . the rush is insatiable. The ‘hungry rush’ is not real, it is simply an insatiable momentum, your momentum, that only you have invested in. It chases for chasing. It rushes for rushing. It is incomplete for incompleteness. And it never allows you permission to pause, be still, and arrive.
Blame not what is seemingly around you, the seemingly external whirlwind. It is YOUR responsibility how you choose to place your very valuable attention. It is YOUR responsibility to bring yourself back home, again and again and again, to the stillness and peace within. And it is YOUR responsibility to pause and ask, really, really, WHERE am I rushing to? Really, really, what is it I am rushing FROM? Really, really, WHERE is more important then this Now??
Quiet a moment.
The race is in your mind. The race is not real. The race is only never-ending until you step off the ride and see that it was only you running. There is no-one chasing your tail, there is no-one ramping up your internal frequency to vibrate at this frenetic extreme. There is no-one else, but you.
These words are not here to reprimand. These words are not here to suggest ‘you are bad’. They are not here to pretend that it is easy either — Though it IS strikingly simple. These words are here to re-Mind you kindly of your choices. To re-Mind you kindly of the great freedom you have to choose how and where you place your attention in every moment. To re-Mind you kindly to come back to Now, again and again, for here IS MORE IMPORTANT. For HERE is the ‘more important‘ that you have been seeking for all along as you rush and rush and rush towards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . nowhere.
So pause. Take it one Now at a time. Allow your brain to rest away from the front of your skull with the willingness to BE the clear, still, aware presence in each moment, in full recognition that here is where you have been looking for, all along.