To Share With You

These past few days have felt like weeks. Information has changed minute to minute, forcing my sister and I to live in the present moment. Someone asked me yesterday if I will be back in NYC next week. I told him, "I don't know where I will be 20 minutes from now". And, that is no exaggeration. That is a fact. And, I am learning that it is becoming the key to a kind of salvation.

My type of personality likes order and control. When faced with adversity, I get anxious sitting around waiting. I like to get pro-active, search and search again for clues, solutions, and answers. But, what do you do when you've scratched every surface? Or, when you have to wait? Or, ultimately, when there may not be an answer?
These are questions I've encountered in a million facets and I don't suspect I can 'research' them with any concrete answers.

Fortunately, I was exposed to a great book. The kind of great book that you carry its treasures for the rest of your life. In last Sunday's mad dash for the airport, it found itself flung into my suitcase among dirty clothes that had no time to make it to the laundromat. Its called 'A New Earth', by Eckhart Tolle. For me, the core essence of the book points you in the direction of embracing the present moment, for it is the only moment we will ever have. Often, we are bathed in worry. Worry about the future, worry about our bills, our loved ones, our careers, our health, etc. This time does not exist. Often times, we languish in the past, another time that does not exist for it has already happened. Here, in this book, beautiful insights are shared and great pointers are presented to aid you toward living more consciously and appreciating the transience of all things.

Every experience that we experience is needed to help us elevate to our next stage of consciousness. How do you know what experience is necessary to help you to your next level? It is the one you are having right now.

I share this book's gems because I am finding myself come back and back again to its many layers as they unfold to me now throughout my experience.