I’ve been thinking about Serendipity. More specifically, the optimum state that it operates within in an attempt to open myself to more and more of the magic.
I love the sentiment that what's meant for us will never pass us by and that it'll keep coming back to us in various ways until we're able to receive it. Helps to remove any anxiety around not being where we're supposed to be but in fact, exactly where we need to be at every single moment. Ram Dass's book Be Here Now is a powerful reminder of this. He also said, "I think the message is that you don’t need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking...as soon as you give it all up you can have it all."
I totally believe in Serendipity too.
But if it is a reality then surely we never actually miss any opportunities.
To use an old cliche 'everthing happens for a reason' and therefore I think that everything happens at exactly the right time in the right place.
It's when we are consciously looking and expecting that we 'think' we are missing something.
I am reminded of TS Eliot
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
This is so beautiful.
I love the sentiment that what's meant for us will never pass us by and that it'll keep coming back to us in various ways until we're able to receive it. Helps to remove any anxiety around not being where we're supposed to be but in fact, exactly where we need to be at every single moment. Ram Dass's book Be Here Now is a powerful reminder of this. He also said, "I think the message is that you don’t need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking...as soon as you give it all up you can have it all."
Yes exactly that.
Ram Dass is one of my spiritual heroes 😍
Ah I didn't know that! That's fun! I love how non-linear his book is, you can just pick up any page and meditate on it.
Are you familiar with the work of Yung Pueblo? His book Clarity and Connection is one of my favourites of all time.