I was on a walk on my own earlier this week (which is very rare because I almost always have my son with me), and so my mind started wandering. It stumbled upon a decision I’d made years ago. It was one of those very big, very clear you can go this way or you can go that way moments, and the two signs pointed in completely opposite directions and the two paths could not have appeared any more different. I chose to go this way.
For some reason, like our minds sometimes do, I started fantasizing about what my life might be like if I had chosen to go that way instead. How it might be “more,” how it might be better. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I snapped back to the present moment (which included breathtaking scenery and sweet, serene sounds), and I remembered that I have it all already. There is no “more” or better.
“Contentment asks for only one thing: that you truly live in the experience of the moment. With contentment comes a lessening of fear. and with this comes the ability to share the most important thing that you have been given: your love, your wholeness” — Judith Hanson Lasater, Living Your Yoga
We are each complete. We are missing nothing. Everything has happened, is happening exactly as it’s meant to. Without that decision of choosing to go this way over that, and hundreds of others, I wouldn’t be right here, right now, with all its present blessings and challenges, all of which are absolutely perfect.
The truth is it makes absolutely no difference whether I chose this way or that way. Our pre-existing wholeness and capacity for happiness and fulfillment are exactly the same, and no external circumstances, no person, no location, nothing can add to or subtract from your inherent completeness.
“It was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.” — Rupi Kaur
You were born whole. You were born complete.
Krystal Barschig 