There's an e-mail picture I received recently that I love so much. It is of a little dog...a little cream-colored dog who looks exactly like my Ruckus...running flat-out down a road, all four paws off the ground, ears wind-carried upright. The caption: "Live like someone left the gate open."
Doesn't that say everything?
When first I saw that, I thought of the freedom of our actions in living like "someone left the gate open." Do what we want, when we want...then I realized we most of us do that today. We've learned that as long as our search is for still more spiritual growth, we will try to think of others before we think of ourselves, and that frees us to pretty much do as we wish.
Then I thought of our hearts...what about the gate of our hearts, open to all? There, too, I can believe that most of our hearts are open to all the majority of the time today. It being a given a majority is 51-49, but with the same-old-same-old goal of still more spiritual growth, our open hearts can live on the far side of 51 today.
Now I think of our thoughts, our minds. Live like someone left the gate of our minds open. Uh-oh. Blinding flash of the obvious...there is only one mind, and it cannot be closed. Which leads to the question...how can we connect with that one mind?
The answer, of course, is through our thoughts...through consciously turning our thoughts away from self toward any grateful thought. Any. Grateful. Thought.
That's how we are connected with the one mind for that's how peace of mind is born. That is truly living like someone left the gate open...because S/He did!
Thank you.
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