You can’t deny life.

You can’t bypass it.

And you can’t do it wrong.

Life is not a thing that is separate from us.

It’s not something we have to take care of.

There’s no wrong road you can take somewhere along the line because you weren’t paying attention.

There’s no guessing, or second guessing.

It’s always exactly the way it is.

And that’s hard.

It’s hard for the mind with its own agenda.

But that’s life too.

The mind is just as much life as every other thing.

You also can’t do the mind wrong.

So there’s nothing to do, and nothing not to do.

That’s the predicament.

But it’s also freedom in disguise.

—

(Photo by @anthonytran, for Unsplash)