Walk Softly Live Gently

I know it’s nine days since the New Year but I’ve been reading others posts about their New Years resolutions and I recall someone asking me if I had any of my own this year. After a brief reflection I said, no….I’ve decided to deliberately not make any specific resolutions for the new year. Instead, I said that rather than state specific goals which tend to go by the wayside all too quickly, I prefer to set my intention (heart) on moving toward the best I can imagine for life…as a way of living on a daily basis.To have before me, not a goal, but a way of seeing, a way of being in the world and knowing that as a result, whatever happens, it will be good.
Lest you think that a little too pollyana-ish, know that I am quite aware of the problem of evil in the world and that, yes, bad things do happen. But I also know that good and evil are two sides of the same coin in our dualistic universe. (We don’t know light apart from the dark, or good without bad and so on with all the seeming opposites in this worlds normal apparent reality.)
The deal is I can’t avoid the evil should it come my way and thus must face what is with equanimity and peace since the alternative is to create stress and other unwanted side-effects. (You can run {stress} but you cannot hide). I find it easier to ‘be with’ the pain, or whatever, in full awareness and acceptance and then go and take some ibuprofen. Facing the reality of what is does not mean taking no appropriate action when necessary.
Yes, I know. I get side-tracked easily. Try ’setting your heart’ (intentionality) toward the best you can imagine for your life this year and let’s see what happens!
Happy New Year