Ordinary

How can you bring aliveness back into everyday life?

Can you live from a place of openness, receptivity and curiosity?

Can you embrace the unknown and allow life to surprise you?

Can life become a meditation, living from a place of awe, beauty, gratitude and wonder, where the ordinary becomes extra-ordinary?

If nobody ever used the words purpose, dharma, mission, potential, service, legacy, highest self again, what would you naturally want to do with this day?

Not your life.

Not the next twenty years.

Just this day.

Because sometimes the pressure of "fulfilling your destiny" is so loud that it drowns out the simple movement of life that is actually here now and flowing through you, waiting for your awareness.

And sometimes what appears mediocre to the ambitious mind is simply an ordinary human life being lived fully.

A walk by the ocean.

An intimate conversation.

A dance.

Expressing yourself creatively for the pure love of it.

Helping one person.

Growing food.

Making music.

Feeding your kids.

Taking your dogs to the beach.

Doing whatever work you do with full loving attention.

Sitting in silence.

Watching a sunset or stargazing.

A smile and deep breath.

A quick friendly chat at your local coffee shop.

Simply being present to life, to this moment.

The spiritual marketplace rarely celebrates those things.

Yet they may be closer to what many traditions pointed toward than the endless pursuit of becoming somebody important—even a spiritually important somebody.

They lean more towards the pursuit of becoming nobody. Emptying of the 'self'. Merging with the moment. Oneness. Living from loving awareness, enjoying the simple, slow pleasures of the ordinary, which when you stop, quiet, listen and pay attention, bring you into the deepest intimacy with life itself.

Creating spaciousness, allowing peace and freedom to emerge from a place of deep remembrance to what already is and ever will be available in the here and now.

What if there is no purpose other than to simply BE?