“Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.” – Boris Pasternak
We have done nothing if we have not spent our lives allowing life, that constantly self-renewing principle, to find new and amplified expression. Life is one of the few givens in the world that we as a species are privileged to steward. The forms it takes in the animal and vegetable kingdoms come and go, providing an echo as it were of the underlying reality they clothe, but life, eternal life, is one of the few constants.
As custodians of this blessed place, our central responsibility is to give form to the invisible currents of life which animate all things biotic. We needn’t struggle to create a world in the image and likeness of our vain imaginations, in fact, as I mentioned yesterday, the necessity more relates to letting than trying.
As you learn to relax and let life gestate in the womb of creation that you are, you begin to create as you are designed to create. Rather than rushing frantically to and fro in the world you center to try and make something of yourself, for yourself or for others, the first step, and in many ways the most important step, is to come to a state of active rest. The rest of which I speak comes not from withdrawing, disengaging or idling, instead, it comes as you actively abide in appreciation for what now is.
The human mind can be a terrible trap if used incorrectly. Used rightly, it is part of a mechanism that gives dynamic, relevant and apposite form to self-renewing principle we call life.
Gregory Hake 
What life there is now as we acknowledge and appreciate it for its currents are constantly looking to enliven our heart’s, mind’s and body’s out into the expression of our lives. Here is a charming experience.
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Most people spend their lives in crushing mediocrity, at best. Yet even those who attempt to overcome this must have a reason to do so. Becoming a better person or becoming “enlightened” are not reasons in and of themselves. They will certainly happen if we are treading the paths we are meant to tread, but they are a byproduct and not the main goal.
If our minds tell us that we are doing to much, we cannot go on, and we are not made of stern enough stuff to overcome our obstacles, we should ignore the mind. If our minds are telling us that we are so important that we cannot remain humble, we should also ignore the mind.
Our mind should be able to help us in our goals, but we cannot let it frame how we interpret the world.
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Your words here open a door to the awareness of the constant pulse of being and achieving. So often people become stuck on one or the other, often obsessed with doing, gaining, increasing, expanding or, on the other hand, watching it all go by helplessly and impotently.
The truth is that we have much to learn about both of these equally vital phases, because achievement springs from being, and being depends upons achievement. They are not opposites in the way so many assume, but they are essential to one another. In the realm of fundamentals, this gets pretty close to the core of things.
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Interesting how human beings struggle to force life to conform to what is felt to be appropriate. Almost like we’re trying to make it in our image and likeness. This subject is a crucial one to face if we intend on living the life that our Creator intended for us. To do less is to condemn myself to a lifetime of futile endeavors, continually searching for fullfillment while simultaneously blocking it’s possibility. Letting and trying have clear distinctions which give way to nuance and sublty that ultimatky shape the largest part of our individual life experience. Wonderful post, thank you.
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Thank you for constantly revealing the simple truth of living righteously. Personally, my heart yearns for this and finds peace in the words you present daily, your efforts make an amazing difference in the world and your writings are like a lighted path. Future generations will benefit from the commitment you are making. A great example of letting to us all.
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And so it is that any struggle that you continously engage in, anything you are constantly fighting, any war you are forever waging, leads you away from allowing this life current to flow through which otherwise would create a purposeful, valuable, unique and meaningful existence. Understanding the cause behind the blinding need to fight, few have come to know for themselves.
May judgement be known for the precipice that it really is, the distorting prism that destroys both the glorious potential of life and the life worth living.
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I really like your point about abiding in appreciation for what now is and if we’re ever looking for a starting point for change, this is it!
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