Category: life

The 99% of life that we skip

Posted on by philipdodson

Our lives are made up of 99% what we are conditioned to believe are just ordinary moments. We whisk through them on the race to the next big thing.

Always searching and wanting to be at the end, at the outcome…at the next ‘big thing’.

We do not want the ordinary moment, we do not want the doing we want the ending.

Yet if we saw each so called ordinary moment as a magical real-life moment where the joy of doing is far greater than the fictional mind-created future outcome we would actually enjoy the 99% of our life that we skip and do not even notice.

Don’t wish for the 1% that we never enjoy when it does comes because we are always onto the next big thing. Instead live the ordinary magical moment, after all we are only here once.

We control one thing

Posted on by philipdodson

We control one thing in life…our own journey.

Everything else is outside our control and any attempt to control someone or something else is a futility.

No one likes to be controlled by others and when we attempt it, it is simply manipulation.

We spend endless energy on attempting to control things that we cannot and the resulting suffering for ourselves and the people we try to control is a big part of the suffering in the world.

If we accept everything as it is, if we accept that we can only control our own life and if we let go of the expectation of doing so with something or someone and the manipulation we have to construct to do so, then peace comes within us and for the others that we are trying to control.

Events, the weather, actions of others, thoughts of others, others opinions of us, governments, banks, neighbours, partners, wife/husband/son/daughter…the list can go on and on, are not things that we can alter, so it’s best to just let it go, stop resisting it, stop fighting it and just be and let others be.

Once we get to this stage, we then have so much more energy and space within to concentrate on our own journey, happiness and growth. Our life is our responsibility and other people’s journeys are theirs.