Wisdoms from the Journey - Vol IV (Nov 2011 thru Apr 2012)

Love’s happy Leap …
(04/14/2012)
“If you can get humor & seriousness at the same time,
then you’ve created a special little thing,
and that’s what I’m looking for,
because once you become pompous,
you lose everything.”
~ Paul Simon
Interesting word, “serious” — on the one hand it implies that we must be
earnest with our existence; that we must realize that we all only get one shot at this
dance called Life, and that we might do well to wake every day as if it were our
last — to wake every day and go forth to “Love all-out” … I think this side of
“seriousness” serves its Purpose quite well indeed.
Of course, there is another side to being “serious” — and this is the side
that tells us we can only have a Meaning-full life by struggling to be perfect; by
struggling mightily to “make the world a better place”; by fighting aggressively to
enforce “justice” &/or by putting on a dour face and persevering “to the bitter end”
… Nobly intended, these intentions are, and yet I’m not so sure they actually
honor Life (and I am quite certain that they don’t work).
You see, to truly honor the precious gift of Life we have been given, we
must indeed at some point set our selfishness aside and serve our Community —
we must indeed release the desire for “personal wealth” in order to Give to others
— we must quit building “healthy boundaries” in order to courageously Love our
enemies. AND YET, these efforts are not a dour, “serious” business … Rather, the
selfless mentality is actually a PRIVILEGE. Indeed, “caring” for others because
we “must” or because we are “supposed to” or even because it is the only way to
attain true Happiness for ourselves will actually prevent us from attaining that very
Success. Indeed, the only way to truly honor life is to choose to serve others Joyfully
– to choose to self-sacrifice Joy-fully … to choose to forgive “mean people”
Joy-fully … and to choose to have lots of fun while doing so.
In-deed, once we set aside our fears
& desires for self and happily “dive in” to
Caring for others, LOVE is actually lots of
fun.
So … got LOVE?
“Things won are done; Joy’s soul lies in
the doing.” ~ William Shakespeare
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