Drive

By tapping into our creativity we can get a glimpse of our true inner self and a life path that is in harmony with that. I, like most people get up out of bed and before long I'm thinking about the million things I need to do to make my life work and if i let myself race off into that day after day I can begin to feel like i'm spinning my wheels and life is void of meaning, Eyor (the donkey in winnie the pooh) and I are moaning 'it doesn't matter anyway.' As much as I can I take time to quiet myself because I am not my thoughts, I am much more, I am a divine, wild thing, I am always discovering and rediscovering myself by listening to what exists in the quiet corners of me and exploring the world around me. Most every morning I drag into any one of a variety of coffee shops around town, order my espresso and reconnect with the people of the world and nature. A bluejay is announcing something from the pin oak and maybe he found what he was looking for because hes making a different call now not so urgent. In the coffee shop experience I am transformed and ready to live into what a day holds. Many times i get a little piece of quiet there, I listen to music, absorb sunshine and dont really think about my to do list until I am ready to. This little thing I have created in my life in order to respect my spiritual nature. There are days when I have to bust some ass to get things done, I finished a bathroom project i have been working on for 2 days at four this morning, but I nearly always take the time to respect myself with time in the morning and I dont jump into outer life until all of me is ready to. In that time i exist in a timelessness to remember who I really am. I wake up to color and smells and sounds and the essences of people around me and what the world feels like. My imagination awakens, I ask myself, if I were a kid and I could do anything I wanted to in a day what would I do, and the little kid in me is ecstatic about this and the voice of my child is heard and I may have to go cut out someones plumbing that day but its so I can buy a strawberry milkshake and watch bats at sundown in the park and make a an art piece called mountain drive and pay for the drive through the mountains that inspired the piece. If you think you cant do stuff,you cant have stuff in your life its because you cant imagine it, and maybe your not willing to give up less important things so that you can. Imagination has long been suppressed by reason but i tell you this... we do indeed create our worlds with our imagination and reason is the servant of what we imagine, so if your life is boring or you work too hard or its too tragic or whatever, imagine how you want your life to be everyday and then be faithful to what you imagine. Here's a universal truth; you are now living what you have imagined for yourself. If you think life happens to you, it would do you good to stretch your world view, to stretch your spiritual view, and when you do this you'll see that you need to take the wheel because... you... are the one driving.