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Yes.

You heard correctly.

I quit.

And it’s about time.

I’ve decided to quit trying and just be.  However that manifests.

What’s so hard about that you might ask.

So let me offer you a challenge:  just quit being anywhere other than where you are.  Quit thinking about doing anything else other than what you are doing, or not doing, right this very moment.

Be here reading.  Turn off the music and the IMs and just read.

Dream a little about a world where you have all the time you need.

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Because the minute you quit and rest in this very moment, you do have all the time you need.  For whatever.  Including following your heart: that incessant whisperer of what you really came here to do, while your mind continues to reel off all the reasons why you can’t. 

Quit listening to your mind.  It’s run by that scared lizard thing at the base of your brain that defines safe as whatever is known.  It’s why battered women stay with their battering partner/lovers/spouses.  It’s a known hell.  The scared lizard thing says better the known hell than whatever lies over the edge of the world.

Join me.  Quit that kind of thinking. 

Walk away from what drags you down, drains your energy, deprives you of joy.  Go ahead, free your hamster.

 Discover, as Chogyam Trungpa says, “The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

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Inside us, in places the safety-seeking lizard can’t see, we already have everything we need to be who we came to be this time.

So quit listening to the lizard and discover, as Christopher Robin says,  you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Yes you are.

 And I’m here to tell you that your very own Hell YES! life is patiently waiting for you.

Can you see it?

Wylde Women’s Wisdom

When one door of happiness closes, another opens.  But often we look so long at the closed door, we do not see the door that has opened for us.  Helen Keller

14 Comments

  • Purr Power | Women, Art, Life
    August 31, 2012 at 7:35 am

    […] But my heart knows.  After years of practice and tons of experience trying to be something I am not, and chasing goals that are great for my bottom line but not so much for my spirit, my heart easily wins out. […]

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    October 18, 2011 at 2:52 pm

    […] Busy is no excuse for missing the life you came here to live.  Because, as Lily Tomlin says, if you win the rat race, you’re still a rate.  Quit. […]

  • Jana
    July 10, 2010 at 12:18 am

    In other news, I LOVE the focals… those are AMAZING. Really amazing!

  • Jana
    July 10, 2010 at 12:18 am

    For the first time in a long time I put down my crochet hooks and actually read a blog post, and was there, fully, to read. I forgot how nice it is to just stop, relax, and be.

  • Shishi
    July 6, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Love this post Tam…I have been living this way for a while now and I have to say…it works! (of course I still have my moments of “not” living in the NOW)

    It is amazing to see the little miracles that happen when we get out of the habit of worrying…and dwelling on the past. As soon as we decide what we want and are clear on it….destiny steps in and prepares it for us.
    Think Big!
    Shishi

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    July 4, 2010 at 7:32 am

    Rayna – life does interfere – but the more you practice quitting the easier it becomes to see the interference as momentary and something you can watch without getting emotionally involved in.

  • rayna
    July 4, 2010 at 7:14 am

    Easier said than done. Life interferes with LIFE.

  • linda
    June 30, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    did i need these thoughts of yours this past, ummm, shall we say 7 years? hell yes!! 🙂

    and can i use this quote:

    Discover, as Chogyam Trungpa says, “The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

    As I was a practicing Buddhist, one would think but nooooo…not that easy …. i bet you already know that, as you are living it…

    to remember each moment is a lifetime, is about all i can NOT do…anyway, thank you for this, you saved my life!
    xx

  • donna
    June 29, 2010 at 10:50 pm

    Namaste. Welcome to Tao. ;^)

  • Karoda
    June 29, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Hail yes! I dig what you’re saying!

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