“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.” Pema Chödrön
We get caught up in the storms of life — our emotions, our memories and the events of the day. The turbulence of daily living often determines how we think, feel, react and how we experience our existence on this plain.
As a consequence, we take our eyes off the bigger picture. We forget who we really are aside from our thoughts, our emotions, our desires, our perceptions and the externalities of our lives.
We forget our purpose, our raison d’être — if we have in fact defined that for ourselves. We even forget to breathe.
But here’s the thing. We are not our feelings. We are not our relentless desires. We are not the upheavals of everyday life or distressing nature of world events.
We are not the storm.
There is in each of us an eternality, a constancy, a stability unlike any other if we choose to tap into it. If we remember to breathe.
Our reach extends beyond the storm when we remember our connection to that something deeper and wider and much, much more powerful. When we remember that energy, our energy, never dies. And when we remember that after death our energy lives on somewhere, somehow in this expansive space we call the Universe.
