Meditate, Help Others, Repeat

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts. 
~ Alan Cohen

One of the wisdom teachings from the Zen tradition tells us that the “most important thing to remember, is to remember the most important thing.” Yet, what is the most important thing? 

Breathe! Be still! Just for a moment. You are more than your to-do-list. As human beings, we have the innate ability to go within and to be still. In that stillness, we can listen to that, which is most important for us and we can expand the container, that which we are, that holds all the mundane of daily life as well as our emotional, spiritual and mystical experiences.

Imagine a glass of water that is filled to its rim. Another drop of water and the glass would start to overflow. However, our inner capacity is such, that we can expand that glass that holds the water. Through stillness we can know that our to-list of most-important things might actually be different than the to-do-list of our everyday lives.

Once we expand the glass, the container, that, which we are, our own emotional triggers to situations and circumstances can simply dissolve into that larger inner space that we create, a space that is made of only one energetic field: Love.

This love allows us to be of service to us, and to help others. Whether these are our immediate loved ones, our friends or simply strangers, the energy that emerges through our own inner expansion has a healing effect on us, and the people around us. In return the gratitude, which we allow ourselves to witness and to experience, creates the space to remember the most important thing: God is all that there is!

God is love and that love is right here and right now! Smile. Repeat.

Affirmation:
My God is good and my God is Love! This love powers my thoughts and informs my actions. I meditate. I help others and I happily repeat.