What if there is no emergency?
Posted on | January 22, 2010 | 10 Comments
From The Sound of Paper by Julia Cameron
… “Most of us live with a continual sense of emergency. We have a fear that we are too late and not enough to wrestle a happy destiny from the hands of the gods. What if there is no emergency? What if there is no need to wrestle? What if our only need is receptivity and a gentle openness to guidance? What if, like the Arabian horses grazing outside my window, we are simply able to trust.
When we trust ourselves, we become both more humble and more daring. When we trust ourselves, we move surely. There is no unnecessary strain in our grasp as we reach out to meet life. There is no snatching at people and events, trying to force them to give us what we think we want. We become what we are meant to be. It is that simple. We become what we are, and we do it by being who we are, not who we strive to be.
We are right-sized. We are who and what we are meant to be. All that we need, all that we require, is coming toward us. We need only meet life, not combat it. We need only encounter each day’s questions, not raise a fist at the heavens over the question of tomorrow.” …
(Thank you Cheryl for sending this to me.)
Also: I have a project I cannot wait to tell you about. I’m not quite ready to yet, but it is the most exciting, most daring, most bold thing I can imagine and it makes me giddy. It’s all about reaching out and taking hold of this moment. This one right now. It’s going to be awesome.
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January 22nd, 2010 @ 5:03 am
Thank you for posting this. It’s a lovely reminder.
January 22nd, 2010 @ 8:43 am
such a beautiful quote.
so simple + so difficult to follow this approach.
here’s another of those simple+difficult approaches:
11 rules of being a human being:
http://virtual-notes.blogspot.com/2009/03/11-rules-of-being-human-being.html
have a beautiful, wrestle-free weekend.
d.
January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:47 am
What a wonderful way to start my day. I’m going to send this along to others.
January 22nd, 2010 @ 2:06 pm
Oh! I can’t wait for the news!!
January 22nd, 2010 @ 9:31 pm
can’t wait to hear about it!
yay for YOU!
tara
January 22nd, 2010 @ 10:12 pm
On the edge of my seat!
January 23rd, 2010 @ 12:21 am
This quote is just what I needed today…
and I’m so looking forward to hearing your news
January 23rd, 2010 @ 5:41 am
I think I may have this tattooed inside my forearm as a reminder.
I’m so excited with you! For you! Your energy is radiating! Yippeee!
January 23rd, 2010 @ 5:38 pm
Wonderful quote! I am so curious about your news!!!
January 23rd, 2010 @ 7:08 pm
yes. these are the words i needed on this day. thank you.
(can’t wait to hear about your project!)