Lately I’ve felt like I am on a carousel just hopping from ‘horse’ to ‘horse’. Those horses being all the things that take me away … whether it is something I do, think, believe, the stories I tell myself … really ANYthing that gets my attention. We all ride these ‘ideas’ and we go up and down and all around. And they give an illusion of ‘going somewhere’ … of movement … when we just end up back where we started …. same stuff … same ‘landscape’ as before … leaving us wondering why nothing has changed. We can get so busy ‘riding’ all our various horses just trying to keep everything going on around us … and get so caught up in that ‘blur’ of activity that we don’t have time to really see with clarity what is truly going on around us. We get lost IN the ride.
One of my teachers used to say our emotions were like wild horses taking us away … and we need to take control of the reins, instead of allowing ourselves to be taken away into a frenzied state of being. And … another teacher said, “Those with an agenda will never hear the doorbell ring.” (j.cox) They are saying the same thing.
Take a step back from the whirl, the busy-ness (the horses) of your life. Step into the center of the carousel … the calm center of you … and watch it all go by. Take a moment and take that ‘movement’ by the reins. Step into a calm that allows you to see those horses for what they are…. and perhaps awaken some ‘fresh possibilities’ next time you saddle up. Just don’t beat a dead horse …
Bowls take you to that calm.
Such a dichotomy … all that sound … yet it brings you to a quiet …
P.S.
“The world ‘out there’ is out there! But what you think is out there isn’t — what you think is out there is in your mind.” (j.cox)
“In juggling, it’s hard to keep three balls in the air, and even more so when the balls aren’t there. In which instance you find yourself doing more explaining-of-your-act than you do doing your act. (Such is life inside the mind.)” (j.cox)