Invest in Your Potential

Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. 

By flowing with life I mean acceptance - letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual. You are not what happens to you, you are to whom it happens. 

Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.  
                    - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But if I go to sleep after lunch in the room where I work, sometimes I wake up with a feeling of childish amazement — why am I myself? 

What astonishes me, just as it astonishes a child when he becomes aware of his own identity, is the fact of finding myself here, and at this moment, deep in this life and not in any other. What stroke of chance has brought this about?  
                  - Simone de Beauvoir 

Open the mind and spirit to discover an amusement, an astonishment, and an amazement. 

Get unstuck. Move into the flow.


Delve into nature to notice what happens. 

Ask questions about chance and motivation to make something happen.

Find your child's eyes and ears. Engage with aromas sent by the breeze. Explore with the fingertips.  

Invest in your potential.