The universe has been teaching me a very powerful lesson - it's always the same lesson- and I'm grateful that the one lesson can be expressed in a myriad of ways. I've been noticing how critical it is to maintain balance in my life. The idea of balance was nothing more than a vague concept to me until recently.

 

Everyone says that we should keep a "healthy balance"  or at my work they call it "work/life balance" - so often we are juggling tasks, people, events, work, and on and on an on, it's endless! So sure it seems absolutely appropriate that we should strive to balance all of the content in our lives.

 

However the powerful insight I received is not about balancing the content in my life at all! And once I realized this I was pleasantly surprised...actually relieved! I'm not saying that you can't or shouldn't try to balance all the "stuff" in your life. What am I saying then?

 

Well what I've realized is that the ultimate balance is the balance between the inner world and the outer world. Yes the same lesson with a different spin! We all know how important it is to explore the life inside of us, or the life that is "living" us. And we know how deceptive it can be to only know the world outside of us, when we put all of our attention on all the "things" in life...after a while it seems pretty empty.

 

But when you marry the two, when you keep one foot in the inner world, and the other foot in the outer world...nothing ever seems the same! If you can do all the stuff and feel your beingness at the same time...a new world emerges.

 

There is a world of space and time, and another world where time doesn't exist. It's hard to imagine a timeless world, I guess because it's not meant to be thought of, you just feel it without words or thoughts, for thoughts just can't describe it.

 

A paradox is when two seemingly opposing things are actually complimentary, and yes this is the ultimate paradox, LIFE itself.