Getting up over and over again

I distract myself, engaging in countless activities that bear no fruit.

Yet, one thing that will propel me forward is self-knowledge—-which needs tending. I need to read more, reflect more, write more.

Yet, I avoid it (writing this post, for example, is what I wanted to do hours ago) by filling my time with fleeting moments of stuff.

So I need to constantly create an open space for myself to act on what I know to be true, my inner truth—-of pursuing what I’m meant to do. That’s how I’m defining self-knowledge for me.

Yet, I will only feel a connection to the divine source of that truth when I become an empty vessel, ready to receive. The means pushing the distractions aside, giving my work priority.

This might sound easy, but it’s not.

I know, because I often find myself drowning in that deep well of media scrolling: a recipe here, an organizational tip there, and before I know it (or am willing to admit it), precious time has slipped away. Maybe that’s why they call it streaming. Because it takes you, oh so gently, down a stream of emptiness.

But I need to pull myself out, shake off the dirty water, and come back to shore.

It’s so much easier to avoid the difficult work that’s involved with changing things I need to change. And making things happen that I need to. It’s a struggle I encounter every so often, but it’s real.

I can, though, come back to myself and begin anew, walking on the path of elevation to a higher level of being.

I can do this. You can do this.