Your true Fortune … ( 04 / 30 / 2012 )
Your true Fortune … ( 04 / 30 / 2012 )
One year ago today , while I was waiting for the start of a Chi Gong conference to which I had been invited , some friends and I decided to check out our horoscopes . One after another my companions each picked up the daily paper and read aloud the bland , overly-general advice that pretty much applied to every human being in the room , if not to every person on the planet . Still , it was lots of fun and we all shared a laugh or two . When it got to be my turn I wasn ’ t really expecting anything even remotely relevant . After all , what would a horoscope have to say to someone in the middle of a 900 + mile Peace Pilgrimage — to someone with no home , no money , very few possessions & very few desires ? As the paper was handed to me , after glancing to my companions and rolling my eyes a bit , I looked down and read the following :
“ If you can , walk home .”
I guess there are many points to this story -- and I ’ ll leave each of you to discover the ones that are most relevant to you , and yet for me , I was reminded that day that there is Good Advice being “ spoken ” to us in every second of our lives , if only we have the Humility to open up and Hear It … And to do so , we must first choose to set aside our judgments of others & our preconceptions about life — We must loosen the taloned grip we have on our personal beliefs long enough to perceive what is truly right there in front of us ( as opposed to what we already know is “ actually there ”).
Of course , to truly SEE what we are being “ told ”, we have do more than simply open up and Look — We must also have the Courage to take the second (& far more important ) step on this two-step journey : WE MUST ALSO ACT on what we have allowed ourselves to See …
Indeed , if we don ’ t make such a Leap of Faith when presented with these special “ messages ”, then a horoscope remains just an “ amusing phrase ”; a chance meeting with a friend remains simply an “ unusual coincidence ”; that direct eyecontact with a stranger becomes just a “ random glance ”; and that beggar on the street remains “ just a bum ”.
Now I didn ’ t put much faith in horoscopes back then , and frankly I still don ’ t today ( something about them de-emphasizing the importance of Free Will & the power of choice just bugs me ). And yet one year ago today , I chose to act on what my horoscope “ told ” me …
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