From my current morning meditation book: "Tonight we may feel we failed in some way today. Even though we may have done our best, we may now believe we could have done more, done it better, or tried harder. But there are things out of our control. One of them is the outcome of any circumstance. Though we strive to do our best and to make everything better, we need to remember the outcomes are not in our control."
Another of the constant reminders that basic spiritual principles are eternal and unchanging. What do we say in Alcoholics Anonymous again? "Do the legwork and leave the results up to God." I know what I want, what I think is best, but I don't know what is best in the long run. Disasters turn into blessings and earthly pleasures can complicate things. Sometimes, anyway. Not always, but sometimes, so could I please stop putting labels on what is happening?
I like the image of roots growing from the bottoms of my feet when I'm meditating, roots that go deep into the earth, that fill every space in the entire earth, mingling with the roots growing from every other human and plant and animal on earth, all of us communicating with each other and helping each other. I like the fact that plant life competes with other plant life but also lives in harmony and synchronicity with all the other plant life. A tree will grow tall to get as much of the sunlight as it can, potentially starving other plants from that nourishment, but if a damaging insect arrives or a fungus, the tree can send out chemical signals to the other trees warning of the dangers.
I was in the lobby with an engineer from our corporate headquarters when our main competitor walked in. Our contact was nonplussed until my colleague said: "We're competitors - not enemies."
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