Thursday, July 14, 2011

Welcome the Delay and Enjoy the Disturbance

You are happily working on a project when suddenly all lights go out and you have to spend a few hours waiting for the computer geeks to help you out. How would you react? Would you curse your computer and the help desk in the meantime, perhaps wailing the famous " why me" chant at the same time? Well, we are human, this is what we tend to do. But what if in repeated experiments you found that these delays have meanings, that they actually propel you higher in the greater scheme, since because of the delay the timing of your project has suddenly become perfect? Wouldn't you then happily reach for a book and enjoy your well-deserved hour off? I can't say whether you have reached this stage of spiritual development that allows every delay and every disturbance to be a blessing in disguise, but I very much think that such a state exists and at that point pretty much everything that happens is perfect as is. Why don't you give this hypothesis a shot, after all, what do you have a loose, an hour or two of fuming?

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