Our son recommended watching the movie Whiplash, a story about—in his words— the Rocky Balboa of drumming. I felt sad to see so much pain for what I felt was a misguided obsession, but who am I to judge. We are all manifestors of this “body, mind, world matrix” of infinite possibilities. Each to their own!
Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson strove to be the best at their games. We can only stare in amazement at their will-power to bend the limits of the possible and their willingness to incur the pain to accomplish these feats. Can—or should—we spiritual folks likewise hunger for God?
Each to their own! One option we always have is to remind ourselves that we are of this Source of Infinite Possibilities. We can fall back to It while striving just as we can get encapsulated by It in the silence of our being. As the 13th century monk Meister Eckhart observed, God is Home—we have gone for a walk.