"The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard" - Abraham Maslow
Searching for the sacred almost seems like a paradox. It sometimes seems that the more you search for it, the more quickly it disappears. Searching for It brings you back to the ordinary, or that which seems ordinary. Is it only that we search for such superlatives, or that we search for such extraordinariness that we don't notice what's in front of our face?
There are so many people who are in our court, who are on our side. There are so many people just waiting for us to do something with them. So many people right in front of our faces who are there, who are willing, who like us. Yet we want something greater.
What is this... greater? There is no greater. Sometimes even the fan blowing on you is sacred. If something so small can be sacred, imagine all the small things that are there. There are so many. It seems absurd to count them, it seems absurd to list them because there are so many.
Just looking at my dog can make me happy. But my mind brings forward something that doesn't make me happy, something that irritates me. Or it brings forward times when things aren't so right. Just because there are times when things aren't so right doesn't mean that there aren't times when things ARE right.
It's OK for things to NOT be OK, but we mustn't make that huge generalization that things are always one way or the other, because they aren't. They simply aren't.
Things are OK much of the time and sometimes that just isn't good enough for us. Our striving for something better doesn't let us appreciate how good OK is.
OK stands for all correct. If things are OK they really are all correct. And what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with OK?
When things go very badly, when we face some huge crisis in our lives, only then do we realize how good OK can be. The only reason we don't always realize how good OK is, is because we are always searching for the superlative.
Let us look at what we have. Let us enjoy what is. Let us realize that the ordinary is packed with goodness, and where there is goodness, there is not badness, and in that we can rejoice.
Searching for the sacred almost seems like a paradox. It sometimes seems that the more you search for it, the more quickly it disappears. Searching for It brings you back to the ordinary, or that which seems ordinary. Is it only that we search for such superlatives, or that we search for such extraordinariness that we don't notice what's in front of our face?
There are so many people who are in our court, who are on our side. There are so many people just waiting for us to do something with them. So many people right in front of our faces who are there, who are willing, who like us. Yet we want something greater.
What is this... greater? There is no greater. Sometimes even the fan blowing on you is sacred. If something so small can be sacred, imagine all the small things that are there. There are so many. It seems absurd to count them, it seems absurd to list them because there are so many.
Just looking at my dog can make me happy. But my mind brings forward something that doesn't make me happy, something that irritates me. Or it brings forward times when things aren't so right. Just because there are times when things aren't so right doesn't mean that there aren't times when things ARE right.
It's OK for things to NOT be OK, but we mustn't make that huge generalization that things are always one way or the other, because they aren't. They simply aren't.
Things are OK much of the time and sometimes that just isn't good enough for us. Our striving for something better doesn't let us appreciate how good OK is.
OK stands for all correct. If things are OK they really are all correct. And what's wrong with that?
What's wrong with OK?
When things go very badly, when we face some huge crisis in our lives, only then do we realize how good OK can be. The only reason we don't always realize how good OK is, is because we are always searching for the superlative.
Let us look at what we have. Let us enjoy what is. Let us realize that the ordinary is packed with goodness, and where there is goodness, there is not badness, and in that we can rejoice.
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