Don’t Ask Why
Dear Friends,
Life does not always go as planned. Imagine it would. Imagine you could always foretell and control what happens. How terribly uninteresting your life would be! You’d only have to follow and finish the predetermined program.
Luckily that is not how it works. Life is constantly going off track. It unexpectedly blocks the road we wanted to take, and it pushes us to go where we didn’t plan to go. And that is where the adventure takes place, where we feel most alive. All we need to enjoy this adventure, is an empty mind and an open heart.
I am on my way back from Piemonte (I) where I spent a few days with my friend Valérie and her family. Valérie has a body that is ill and that determines the way she lives. She cannot work as most people do and needs to live in a warmer and dryer place than Belgium. She tells me how she is really in peace with her health. She likes the choices she must make, the simple life in nature that suits her.
My youngest son just let me know how yesterday while skiing in Austria he went off track and got lost for an hour. He was scared and frustrated, and at the same time he felt so very much alive.
Don’t Ask Why
Lately many things didn’t go as planned for me neither, and instead of being confused, I feel very much alive. My mind marvels and my heart feels light. There is one very simple secret to this ease with which I take things: I don’t ask why. I don’t ask why some doors close and others open. I just witness and choose to live in the moment. In the moment is the only place I can possibly live anyhow.
It is so simple and yet so powerful. The moment you stop asking why, you stop your mind from taking you away from the present moment. It is also an act of trust. A spiritual life is a life in which you trust that you are guided by something more powerful than your very limited and often troubled mind. It’s of course what a life like a Nobody’s Dance is about.
Nobody’s Dance Summer Celebration
Yesterday, we also visited the place where we are going to spend a week in the summer. A wonderful place in nature. Remote and magical, peaceful and inspiring. During the Nobody’s Dance Summer Celebration, we are going to practice emptying our minds and opening our hearts. Mostly, we are going to celebrate life, to connect, to climb mountains, to play, to bathe in the river, to just be together. It will be a life transforming week. There is room for ten people. Don’t hesitate to reply to this email to preregister or ask your questions. You are very welcome to join us!
More about the Nobody’s Dance Summer Celebration
With an empty mind, an open heart and deep gratitude,
and much love,
Zoë
