The Power of Life

I have found that a way to keep in balance is to question everything, especially when it comes to my perceptions, my opinions, my preconceptions.

By questioning everything I keep breaking up the accretion of the past - the accumulation of memory that warps the perception of the present moment. I don't allow "ways of being" to get stuck to me and become a prison. I am always questioning my emotions and what I "know" to be true. The "inner" authority is just as dangerous as the "outer" authority.

There is no harm in questioning firmly held beliefs, sacred cows. The truth is always the truth, it can never be destroyed or altered by a cunning mind, and by coming to it again and again in the moment I continually can be in touch with it - rediscover it. The truth is living, alive and moving just like a wave. 

That's why I love the metaphor of surfing on a wave. It is a constant relatedness with the wave, moving with the wave and finding balance on the wave that is the experience of being in alignment with the ocean's power. I can't "know" the wave, I can only be in touch with it, be in a relatedness with it and feel it in the moment. To hold on to a memory of the wave and expect the present wave to be like the memory is to be out of balance with the wave I am surfing now. Now is a totally different wave.

So it is with life. To live in balance with the present moment is to experience and utilize the power of life.