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The anatomy of detachment
Accept, Endure, Embrace, Heal, Pray
On my to do list was to talk to a locksmith to get a key for the door to our garage from the laundry room. I kept chiding myself for not doing it soon enough as the weather is turning colder and wetter this week after a nice long warm stretch in February amazingly. That would be the easy way out. I decided to try one more time to find the key in the house, not knowing where to start. I had made the intention to give it a serious go only yesterday. The magic of intention — I must write about that in my next blog! Lo and behold today I find a small bag with lots of keys and inside it are 2 keys labeled “Garage Door”- it was buried in a box on a cluttered shelf in one of the unused bedrooms. Imagine- a small miracle for me! I took off “see locksmith” from my action list immediately. I am one of those who writes down tasks after I have completed them onto my list, just to get the adrenalin kick of scratching it out! A small victory to take things off my mind and keep my material self going as my soul screams silently.
The things that keep me up at night these days are the hypocrisy and corruption, exploitation and greed, the flagrant violations of universal human rights that are brutally ignored by the West, North, East and South. How is it that we have not achieved the beautiful human potential that we have the…
