Waiting For Destiny
“Life is available only in the present moment.” This is a simple teaching of the Buddha, but very deep. If someone asked you, “Has the best moment of your life arrived yet?” many of you would probably say that the best moment of your life has not yet come. We all have a tendency to believe that the best moment of our lives has not yet come, but that it will come very soon. But if we continue to live in the same way, waiting for the best moment to arrive, the best moment will never arrive.
You may believe that your happiness is somewhere else, over there, or in the future, but in fact you can touch your happiness right now. You are alive. You can open your eyes, you can see the sunshine, the beautiful color of the sky, the wonderful vegetation, your friends and relatives around you. This is the best moment of your life!
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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“…fate ties us to the world and its limits, while destiny calls us to a divine errand set deeply within us. Whenever we brush against the limits of our fate, we’re also standing near the doors of our destiny. And avoiding fateful issues in our lives, we miss our appointments with destiny, and we build the inner zones of avoidance. When not considered as something predetermined, fate implies both an innate destiny and the hidden unity of the soul. When we face our fate and life, we also begin to move it. And when fate moves, destiny moves closer to us.”
— Michael Meade
I was out there beating the bushes looking for my life, my best, my true life. That went on too long in the view of the people who raised me. They lost patience. I myself began to wonder if I would ever find it. Suddenly, in the middle of my life, fate stepped onto the stage and changed everything in the form of an earthy woman whose aura confused and leveled me. As soon as I saw her I lost her. She was taken. It was over before it started.
Destiny had a plan, though. It was not confiding in me but it was working behind the scenes. Unbeknownst to me a drama was being played out. Evidently fate can arrange life’s details in the most unlikely ways. It doesn’t bother with logic or practicalities. It can upend what-is to transform it into what-might-be in a trice. I forgot that it possesses magic in its toolbox.
