Be more

The sun will not rise
any sooner
just because
you’re pushing
on the Earth.





I wrote that on December 4, 2008.

I'm still pushing on the Earth trying to get the sun to rise a little sooner.

Sometimes I manage to allow myself to live in the easy flow of life. That feels good. My life unfolds gracefully, in it's own time. I recognize that everything is happening at the perfect time, in a perfect way.

But more often I'm impatiently efforting towards some imagined destination. I'm not even sure what I'll do if I do get there. I don't think that there really is a there anyway. But I have to get there now, if not yesterday.

Do more. Something. Anything. Make things happen. Get there. Now.

And when I stop to consider just what it is I should do that would most effectively move me along toward whatever it is I am striving towards, I often find that the answer is "nothing". And so I glance at my bulletin board with phrases and passages of inspiration and read:

Do less. Be more.

Don't you think that would be great on a t-shirt?