12.15.25

Thought

Now, there's a wonderful work of Schopenhauer's. He says when you reach a certain age and look back over your life it seems to have had an order—it seems to have been composed by someone—and those events that when they occurred seemed merely accidental and occasional and just something that happened, turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. So, he says, who composed this plot? And, he said, just as your dreams are composed by an aspect of yourself of which your consciousness is unaware, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. 

Then, he says, just as those people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been an agent in the structuring of other lives, and the whole thing gears together like one big symphony— everything influencing and structuring everything else. And, he said, it's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all the dream characters are dreaming too-and so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature. It's a beautiful idea.

— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

Quote

Ramana Maharshi on being:

“You are already that which you seek.”

Intention of the Day 

My intention today is to accept what is out of my control and trust the process.

What’s your intention today? 

Happy Monday,

Val