It All Just Happens

It all just happens: 

that it all just happens, everything, life, and without our effort or involvement to make it so - yet at some point we insist on taking credit for how certain things unfold, sometimes blaming others for their involvement when our plans go array, and believing ourselves to somehow have control on the circumstances and direction of our lives. We love our own success stories, and what seems like failure is absolutely unacceptable for so many of us. We're raised to believe that life responds to our demands, and that we only have to try harder, work longer, and simply force life to meet our every need.  

but how much of this is ever really true?

neuroscience and mystics seem to agree on this matter, or at least on certain details, both stating that there is no central commander present to the mind, no actual self that controls our reaction to events and situations, that life happens and there comes a response and through this manner we navigate our lives. No one is ever really in charge, nor even close to being in control. 

it all just happens. 

this seems to scares some people, and for me it was a fear that eventually eased to relief, giving me cause to relax and explore my role within this process. My realization was that life wasn't happening to me, but that I was simply life...happening, a spontaneous appearance in this beautiful expression. I'm an event of infinite motion and response within a stream of ever larger events, endless, and it all just happens. No one is in charge for the simple and only reason that not one of us exists separately from the main event of life, we're all just momentary expressions of the whole, aspects, unique in voice and beauty.  

of course we think we're in control. 

a belief of self appears. 

that's just how it happens, it's the role we play through a portion of our lives, some for a longer time than others, perhaps a lifetime even, and it's never a matter of right or wrong. It's just how life happens, perfect in the sense that it really couldn't be any other way than it is right now, and that we continue on in motion, changing, an event happening now and always now. 

happening.

~

Peace, Eric