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Beauty in Everything

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“Loving this world, seeing the beauty in everything, appreciating every moment as a beautiful, wholly contained, pearl of eternal nature, this is the world to me. A never ending string of pearls, every moment is in and of it’s self a life time, and when we have affection and let ourselves experience life without expectation, that is when the majesty of the world opens her petals to us and welcomes us home.”
~ Carlos Castaneda

Peace in Acceptance

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Change—I have written about it many times, and experienced it even more. A couple of times in the recent past I have even written about change on Facebook by special request.

Sometimes our lives are changing and we are not aware of it—ombre-toned shades of life’s colors and patterns where one part gradually morphs into another. We don’t realize change has occurred until one day we look back on w…hat used to be, and say, “Ah, so that’s what that was about”. Sometimes change is forced on us by situations and circumstances totally beyond our control. We deal with it or not. Either way, it is change. Accept it and live, or don’t accept it and true living stops at the point of the event itself.

With all the change that has transpired in my lifetime, the most interesting one occurred with submittal of my book proposal.

First of all, it took courage beyond what I ever anticipated to do that. Yet, it was almost like the opportunity was driven by some force beyond me. It was not a feeling of obsession to write; it was more like I was destined to do this and I couldn’t stop that eventuality. Then, I realized I had become someone else in the process. That realization during this past week was astonishing, a calm knowing that life will never be the same.

What occurred with the actual submittal of the proposal was that I had walked through that door of change without realizing that was where the whole writing thing was headed from the beginning.  Whether the proposal is accepted for publication or not has little or nothing to do with what happened within my heart and soul.

There is no turning back, no going back through that door I just walked through.  I am forever changed by the experience itself. There is peace in acceptance.