You Are Enough

The Sages and Gurus talk about Emptying the Mind, and I have read about, but not given it much thought, mostly because I kept myself in a state of numbness working, attempting to start and run businesses, managing partnerships, and trying to be an Entrepreneur. All good things I guess, but they fill your life, and it is easy to start to see “all that” as part of you, part of who you are.

So when career inevitably leaves the scene, sometimes abruptly, maybe unexpectedly, there seems to be a void, and emptying of the space. What we do next could go in many directions, Father Richard Rohr talks about the First half and Second Half of life as being quite different. He delves deeply into how many folks stay stuck in the first half routines, and miss the second half wonders,.....I feel like “hearing the melody of raindrops from the trees is what Father Rohr is speaking of for the Second Half of Life.

You Are Enough

Most of us feel a sense of incompleteness no matter how much we have or accomplish in life. Yet we usually miss the fact that external accomplishment and accumulation has yet to make anyone actually feel whole and complete. Wholeness and completeness are characteristics of our natural state which is under all the layers of need and want. This release will help you peel the sense of incompletion away until you can discover this for yourself.

Allow yourself to notice how much you are trying to find completeness outside of yourself, and do your best to let go of wanting to look away from your natural inner completeness in order to find completeness outside of yourself. You can ask yourself this simple question to help with this exploration: “When is enough, enough?

Give yourself the thumbs up to have your cake and to eat it too. Start celebrating what you want to see more of, and don’t let anyone dampen your parade. As for Problems, Look Where the Problem isn’t. Stay out of the fast lane, enjoy hugs, and remember to say ’thank you’ to yourself at every turn of the day.

Take a tip from Willa Cather: “People have to snatch at happiness when they can in this world. It’s always easier to lose than to find.” Love who you are, and know that you matter.

It's tempting to think of grace as a gift. That someone or something will step in to save you. God, a lover maybe. It's taken me a LONG time to realize that grace is the chance I've been given, the opportunity to do the work to make my particular dream come true. The same goes for you. If you can allow yourself love, you can do your damndest to live it. Only you know what that might look like. Or maybe you don't even know.

Obstacles, doubt, hardship, loss, suffering? The elegant thing is to transcend being a victim of your circumstance. Begin. Just begin.

A line I love from a Marie Howe poem. - Love is an action. - Let that be our resolution, our resolve. To love for all we're worth. To sing for the sake of the song. How it all ends is anyone's guess, but you can do your part. That much you can control. The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The Journey of A Year:

"And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time."

-TS Elliott

May you fully digest the experience of these 365 days, to arrive again in this same-new starting place; reborn, again, as in each new day, each new moment.

Start Where You Are-Pema Ch?dr?n

The underlying point of all our study and practice is that the happiness we seek is here to connect with at any time. The happiness we seek is our birthright. To discover it we need to be more gentle with ourselves, more compassionate toward ourselves and our universe. The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction that we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

The process of letting go and relaxing during our lifetime is the way to live: stop struggling against the fact that things are slipping through our fingers. Stop struggling against the fact that nothing’s solid to begin with and things don’t last. Knowing that can give us a lot of space and a lot of room if we can relax with it instead of screaming and struggling against it.

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Eric is an Entrepreneur, A Published Author and Writer. Eric lives a Nomadic Lifestyle and is an OffGrid Practitioner. He is also an Instructor for Melina Emerson Small Biz Lady and an Adjunct Instructor at Drexel University. Eric is well seasoned in urban housing development. He has built and developed over 14,000 market rate apartments on a national scale. He founded Urbane Apartments in 2000 and oversaw new business, general operations, marketing and branding at the company until retiring in 2021. He was long recognized by the multi-family housing industry as a vanguard of cutting edge social media marketing. Eric’s social media marketing and branding strategy has garnered national media attention with feature articles such as Branding on a Budget in Entrepreneur Magazine. Urbane Media digital marketing innovation was also highlighted in Business Week Magazine and Eric was named as a Voice of Innovation in Social Media by Bloomberg Business and also landed in the New York Times and the Harvard Business Review.