Reflections On Effort, Spiritualilty and Prosperity

Happy Full Moon Friday

I woke up this morning from my dream sensing desperation and anxiety until I stopped to listen to the " story " I was telling myself .

When I think of my job, career and finances , the story I was hearing was :

" There's more money going out than is coming in
" How could you let that happen ? "
" What are you going to do about it ? " etc etc

I won't bore you with the rest of the story ......

My thoughts also took me to my friend , who has been working her herself into a frenzy , running up debts, job hunting and just turning up blanks. A wonderful talented woman , seemingly not getting anywhere but in a PANIC and I SO recognize myself in her.

Here's what has since come to me from messages on -line .. NOW I am telling myself a different story .

"Reflections On Effort"

The anxious student asked the Zen master how long to enlightenment.

The Zen Master answered a long time, at least 10 years.

The student said, "Well I will work twice as hard."

The Zen master said, "Then it will take 20 years."

"No!" said the committed student, "I will work three times as hard."

"Well then," said the Zen master, "it will take 30 years."

Do you need to work at being spiritual? No. You already are spiritual.
Do you need to work at being human? No. That's just who you are.
The spiritual path doesn't require us to get anything. It's a process of opening to new dimensions of who we already are. It's a process of awakening to our own truth. It's a process of allowing ourselves to be authentic. "It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being." -- Meister Eckhart

OCEANS OF LOVE to us ALL Mara
xxxx .. oh and this nest one is a GEM !!
An affluent industrialist said to the Master,

"What do you do for a profession?"
"Nothing," said the Master.

The industrialist laughed scornfully. "Isn't that laziness?"

"Heavens no. Laziness is mostly the vice of the very active people."
Later the Master said to his disciples, "Do nothing and all things will be done through you. Doing nothing really takes a lot of doing. Try it!"
Anthony de Mello, SJOne Minute Wisdom
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