Life: Is Yours What You Think It Is?

LIFE

Life is just doing what it does. When your mind tells you what you are looking for is somewhere else, you will not see it where it is. Likewise, you will not know what a thing is if you expect it to look one way when it looks another. And, yes, as I am sure most of you have come to know, it can be this way with people. Some things exist that we do not see. You cannot see what you do not know. How would you know it when you saw it? An open mind wants to know. There is never so little time that we have no time to learn.

Life and Changing Times

There are times when you may think wistfully of the past and entertain thoughts of what is going to happen in the future. This is an urge to be where it is not possible for you to be. One time has passed, and the other is yet to come. The mind is focused where it should not.

You can only get there from here, not from where the mind is. There is not a thing the mind can do without you. You should focus on that part of your life you can do something about: today is the day. What we can do for the future is face it. For the past, we have what we have done. We learn from it.

The more you think of the past and future, the less time you have to think of the present. Do not concern yourself with time you no longer have and a place you will not be. You should do what you can with the only time you have. Time for the past is no more. The future when you get there will be the present. You should not use the time you have where there is no measure. We travel with time, not past it. Nor can we go back to it. Our minds can go there, but we cannot.

The best way to reach your goals is through a step-by-step process. There are only three different steps you can take to get there: the first, next, and last. Going backward will not get you there unless you then go forward. Going sideways will only keep you on the current level.

You take the three steps to make it to where you are going, a step at a time until you get to where you want to go. This way, you know how to do it, which will serve you well to reach your next goal. When you do not do all the things you should do to do what you want to do, what you do will not be enough.

Any skipped step leaves a void, and you will not know how you got to where you are. And it is a place where you could easily fall. There is no way you would know all that it takes to get the job done. You can only get there from here. It can be done no other way. The distance to our goals is not as critical as the steps we take to get there. How we think our thoughts decide the path we take in our life.

When you think you have done all you can and know to do to be all that you can be, there is more thinking to do. I describe this as not knowing your full strength and worth. How can you ever know how much more you have to give? You cannot. It is simple, though: some of you will not see it because you are not willing to believe. You can learn if you listen. You must listen to learn and learn to listen.

Now, what do you believe? Are you listening to the words that you read? If you are not, you must learn how to listen and learn what your world is telling you. You have to listen to what you read to “think” what you read. Listen to what is said to you and listen to your Self. When we are born, we do not know how to listen. It is an acquired skill. You first hear, and then you listen. When we listen, we feel the sound of our thoughts.

ARE YOU LISTENING NOW

To hear is not to listen. It is not the same. It takes no effort to hear. This is if you want to or not. To hear is one of the senses. It is there by nature and has no on-and-off switch. To listen is not a sense. It is a skill. If you want to listen, it must be what you want to do.