“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
After numerous lessons from life, we realize the need for balance whether it is with sleep, food, exercise, work or relationship. We understand the phrases about not appreciating light without darkness or joy without sorrow or fortune without misfortune. Over and over again we begin the walk across the tightrope hoping to use impeccable footing, and not fall, intending to create perfect balance.
Time passes and we develop a sense of when we are tipping the scales without conscious focus. We just know what we need and what we need to shed. It is as simple as breathing in and out if we but discipline our behaviors.
When we have tentatively mastered balance, we seem to experience the momentum changing. Life seems to slow down and we grow impatient, and then without any indication, life will also speed up leaving no time for real time. There can be somewhat of a whiplash effect.
So back on the tightrope, we have secured in our memory every step to perfection, but then the rope begins to contract and then expand. We find our selves desperately struggling to adjust our gait to adapt to these uncertainties.
And is this not what life is ... a series of uncertainties? Intention and deliberate organization will not hold strong against the winds of change. We must be adjustable when faced with the unpredictable and flexible with the illusion of certainty. Finding comfort when we are confined by time and peaceful when we are expanded in creation is necessary for experience with balance.
It is when we gather acceptance and compassion into our heart that we finally become authentic and discover true appreciation and gratitude. The unnecessary has been discarded through trial and error and we create anew with resilience. It is through this labor of contraction and expansion we learn to spread our wings and fly.
Very nicely written. Love the part about "finding comfort when confined by time" and peaceful when creativity brings expansion & vastness. Ahh, yes balance is so vital and necessary.
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