What Our Deepest Selves Like

Are we having fun yet?

Where are we in our life's progression? Are we pleased with where we are? Is our trajectory taking us where we want to go?

Actually, I shouldn't be wondering about such things or sitting at the computer messing about with blogging right now. I should be outside scraping the ice and snow off my car.

To tell the truth, as I'm looking out at the car, maybe what I should really be doing is cleaning the living room windows--they're grimed from the propane heater and smudged by dog noses.

And you? What should you be doing?

You probably shouldn't be reading this blog. You slacker. 

Because...because what we really like is getting stuff done, right?

What's the balance between getting stuff done (and recovering from getting stuff done) and moving toward where we really want to be?

D. H. Lawrence wrote, "Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving."

Yes, I know, DIVING, another damned thing to get done. Except...

Except--in another way DIVING can be a profound way of not-doing.

Take 2 minutes--for not-doing.

Really, right now--take 2 minutes.

Let your mind ease down into your heart. Rest there.

Just be.

For a brief time--Just Be.

Allow your mind to be active enough to Just Rest.

This is a wonderful way to remember and remember, to discover and discover, what our deepest selves like.