A simple seeker was meditating on the concept of serving a sacred cause, alone, if necessary., but not necessarily alone.
“What cause?”
“I don’t know.”
“So, all that is missing is the cause?”
“The cause? Not a cause?”
“Could it be any cause?”
“No.”
“Then that narrows the field, somewhat.”
“You’re mocking me.”
“Yes.”
“But I do seem to need to do something with my life.”
“You have.”
“Wat have I done?”
‘You’ve lived.”
“So has everyone else.”
“Yes, but with a difference.”
“And the difference is?”
“Everyone else has lived his or her own life.”
“And I have lived mine?”
“Yes.”
“But that relates to the past.”
“Are you not living now?”
“In the present?”
Where else can you live now?”
“I want to do something in the future that I haven’t done in the past, or now.”
“What?”
“I don’t know.”
“Will you know in the future?”
“Yes, of course. But I want to plan to do something.”
“How you’ll do whatever you’ll do?”
“How can I know how to do what, when I don’t know what to do?”
“How have you done what you did in the past, and are doing now, in the present?
“I did what I seemed to need to do, as well as I could.”
“You can never do more than that.”
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A simple seeker’s note to herself
Thinking back on my discussion with Spirit, about planning for the future, He seemed to be reminding me that we each live our life from day to day, more or less, and that it’s just not possible to know, for sure, what will be important to us in the future. But if we work to do what is important to us now, as well as we can, then we’ll be developing skills and habits which will help us adapt to whatever the future brings our way.
“Yes. Study and practice whatever you think is important for you to do, now. In the future, perhaps you’ll be interested in something else. So what? Then you can study and practice doing that something else. The skills you’re learning now, and the study habits you’re developing now, can be adapted to whatever situation and/or opportunity that presents itself in the future. You’ll be prepared.
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Simple Seekers 