To learn how to think is to learn how to live. -- Ernest Holmes
In the movie Parenthood, one of the characters states, "Life is either a merry-go-round or a roller coaster." In the former case, it's like we're doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. But the only way that our conditions shift and change with any degree of sustainability is through a shift in consciousness.
When we bring ourselves back, over and over again, to the immediate present, to do so, we must become present with what we are feeling and thinking. We must honour what we are thinking and how we are feeling. Let us make the declaration: "Here am I". Here am I, even in the spinning, in the frustration of things breaking down.
Through meditation, we find a place to stand in the Oneness, to bring us back to that Oneness. We then become a gift to everyone when we are fully present in the moment.
