Accept Or Reject

Can you choose anything but this moment? Accept it or reject it, that is the only freedom. You think you decide on a future but when the future arrives it's a strange land. Of course you can always postpone the present and choose the past. People make up stories every morning about last night. But that’s a waste of tomorrow. Hug the dragon of presence. Welcome this ancient wingéd fire-breathing Now with open eyes and a wounded heart. Decline it and you suffer. Be reasonable, you can’t refuse because you're living it! So where’s the problem? Choose what Is and you're already free. This is how a flower grows. How a drop of dew dissolves on the purple clematis. How an aging gazelle offers the pulse of his throat to a hungry lioness. Don't worry. We're all evaporating into photons, whirling back into stars, yet some prodigal lightheartedness keeps creat...