And there we go, with our minds, machines, architecting, reorganizing, configuring. Not always are we together: mind and body.
The presence here, the thought there, distancing itself, getting lost.
The eyes staring and seeing nothing because the mind has long since ceased to perceive the now.
The best things go unnoticed, because the thought did not try to keep up.
We find ourselves so far away, in another setting, with other people and life slipping by, all lived in the mind and not outside it.
Exhaustion from so much thinking, calculating, deciding and doing little.
What a complex scenario!
We scatter for anything, get lost, lose ourselves.
We wear ourselves out and consume ourselves.
Why not stay in the stillness of a moment? Is real life a bit of grace? Is it fear of idleness of thought? Are we programmed to silence?
We keep turning everything over inside.
Looking for things, words, finding people, ideas, planning the present, rehearsing the future.
The mind gets restless even with what we say.
Was it the right thing? Enough? Did it please? Did it touch?
The mind asks, the heart doesn’t know, the body gets agitated.
And the soul? Oh, the soul.
She just wants peace.
The answers that come will be enough.
Things work themselves out in time.
The soul wants a journey inside itself, the mind wants to explore the world, even if it’s that controllable little world within our four walls.
It’s a paradox.
The mind wants to know about tomorrow.
We actually want to know.
We want to guess what can go wrong, avoid mistakes, decipher what others are thinking.
How much effort!
It’s a lot of thought for little action.
It’s a lot of everything for so little.
After all, what happened at the end of the day of all that we were ruminating about? So little, right?
With so many connections inside, we disconnect here outside.
We waste time, we miss the joke.
Things lose their grace.
We only find ourselves when we observe and remake ourselves.
When we leave our minds open, free from their tangles to connect with others.
It is good to see and feel life following its flow with a slowed down thought.
Without demands for not being scheming the next steps or demanding people not to be circulating in our own orbit.
We know how curious and creative this quantum computer we carry is, and we could use this creativity a little each day to try to live the present only until the next five minutes.
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