We often wish for life to maintain a comfortable, predictable temperature. But just as nature cycles, so does our inner experience. Seasons change. Sometimes it’s winter, sometimes it’s summer. If you try to stay in the same climate, you will feel stuck, rigid, and miserable.
Maturity is Loving What’s Here
Spiritual maturity is not about gaining control; it’s about gaining acceptance. You have to learn to like what’s happening.
Immaturity is always living in the realm of “shoulds”—what you think life ought to be—and never in the “here.”
- “Here” is the present.
- “Shoulds” are just dreams—fantasies that pull your energy away from reality.
Whatever the present moment holds, it’s good. Love it, like it, and rest in it. When a period of intense emotion or activity comes, love it. When it passes, say goodbye without regret.
The Gift of Flow and Polarity
Life is defined by change: Things change, life flows. Nothing stays the same.
Sometimes you experience big, open spaces—times of peace, ease, and effortless movement. Other times, it’s impossible to even move—periods of intense pressure or stagnation.
Both are necessary. Both are gifts of existence.
If life were always the same, it would disappear. Existence is maintained by its constant polarities—the hot and the cold, the fast and the slow.
Radical Gratitude for the Now
The key to unlocking the richness of the present is radical gratitude. One should be very grateful, no matter what happens in life, one is grateful, thankful.
- Enjoy what is happening now.
- Tomorrow it may be different; then enjoy that too.
- The day after tomorrow something else may happen. Enjoy that too.
Do not compare your current reality with the useless past or future fantasies. Live in the moment.The hot and the cold are both essential; accept them as the necessary, beautiful rhythm of life.