From Wikipedia: Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8
December 65 BC - 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as
Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
The more I think I am becoming more enlightened by
studying such modern day guru's such as Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer and many more,
the more I see that these new thoughts are not very new. When I see this quote
above by Horace who died in 8 BC, over two thousand years ago, it is even more
clear to me that I'm not only on the right track, but the wisdom is
ancient.
As I travel lately experiencing things within my
family I never dreamed of, starting a business at age 58 five years ago, and a
long list of other thoughts I won't bore you with, I find more reason and more
peace in learning to live right now, this minute, and allow the future to be
what it will be--but not only that, but to allow the present moments to be what
they are without any concern that they should be something different.
I know it sounds kind of airy-fairie, and it is not
anything of the sort, but living like that doesn't mean that decisions aren't
made, that preferences are not born and accepted, or that change doesn't take
place. It doesn't really change any of that. All it does is take the stress or
the unhappiness or feeling bad part out of the equation. It just means feeling
good, finding better feeling thoughts and going with that flow rather than doing
what I love to call, swimming upstream. Resisting the way things are is swimming
upstream. Feeling bad is swimming upstream. Wishing things were different is
swimming upstream.
There is no resignation in this at all. It is
acceptance as if I created it on purpose. If I find it is not to my current
liking, I can change it easily enough by finding better feeling thoughts about
it. That moves the needle and smoothes the way.
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