Life is enough

Have you found yourself asking where the passion is/has gone in life?
Do you have expectations about what your job or home life, significant other or family is supposed to have brought to your sense of fulfillment or enjoyment of life?
What about if you feel as if time is passing you by and you get an urge that there is something you're supposed to be doing, but you don't know what - or that there is some grand mission you're supposed to accomplish or contribute to, but again, you don't really know what that is?

You could always:  

• Go on an expensive spiritual retreat in some beautiful location, fast, eat healthily, meditate
• Visit a tarot card reader, clairvoyant, angel guidance practitioner
• Mope about at home, withdraw from family and friends and feel dissatisfied
• Immerse yourself more deeply into work, housework, gardening, some hobby or pastime you have and wait for the urging and restlessness to subside
• Consume one spirituality/new age bestselling book after another
• Talk, talk and talk again to one friend after another, anyone who will listen really

Have you tried any or all of these?

I've done some of these things too. Did they work for you?
Well, they didn't for me. But this did:

I stopped trying so hard to have a good life and just let be. My sense of anxiety began to diminish. My mind became open and attentive.

It has taken me more than half a lifetime, but I do know this now: life happens through us and isn't created because of what we do or don't do, so much as it is revealed through how we allow ourselves to be open to an experience of life's fullness in each moment.

When you ask where your passion has gone, or how you should find it, consider that through the confusion and distractions, what you may really be asking is, how have I shut myself off from or narrowed my perspective of life and how can I open that up again?

Have you wondered why it is that a person with seemingly everything in terms of what we have been taught to see as wealth, power and success perhaps might not feel complete, blessed, compassionate and generous of heart, whilst another, perhaps one who has lived a very modest life, may be house-bound or isolated, has the wisdom of the ages and a heart as large as life?

Whilst there might not be a road map of a joyful and fulfilled life that we can purchase or have another provide for us, we can always become mindful of the experience we are having in each moment as a tool of navigation, meaning that we can never fail at or be lost in life unless we choose to have an experience of such.

You could try this next time you feel a sense of despair or as if something's missing in life - to make a choice to look at the world anew, with an air of curiosity and wonder. Rather than allowing your mind to be certain of how things are or should be, allow what you see to be like a jigsaw piece in a larger vision of life, one that will be revealed to you through an abundant nature of the heart.

You will find that your awareness will shift from a sense of loss and of something missing in life to a sense of completeness, through to acceptance and even of feeling blessed.

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From Auguries of Innocence by William Blake

"To see a World in a grain of sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour."