Don't Worry

Why worry? Right now, you could be savoring God in a breath.

Five times during the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, "Don't worry" (meh phoebe in Greek). At the climax of the Bhagavad Gita, 18:66, Krishna told Arjuna, "Don't worry" (mah sucho in Sanskrit). In each case, "Don't worry" is the precise translation. Could it be any clearer? Both Christ and Krishna teach us that a surrendered heart need not be anxious.

When you're worried about something, just remember: if you weren't worried about this, you'd be applying exactly the same worry to something else. Then look deeply into the energy of worry, rather than the object of your worry, which is really on a thought, and less real than the energy worry itself... 

That feeling is just electricity in your nerves. Let it dissolve into free energy, into lively awareness, into bliss. Worry is pent up bliss.

Worry diverts converts itself into thinking before you become aware of it, and thinking creates the illusion of a past and a future, which are only thoughts. 

 To worry wastes the greatest gift ever given to you: a human nervous system. This body was created to be an instrument of delight. Every star in the heavens is one of your glittering nerve endings. Each sparkle of sensation in your skin is an infinitesimal chip containing all the information in the cosmos. Holographic filaments of your flesh, lit with galaxy-reflecting dewdrops, furl on currents of inhalation, then unfurl on the breeze of exhalation, entwined with the virtual fibers of every sentient creature. All this happens in a timeless spaceless quantum singularity, in one atom at the center of your heart. What is there to worry about when you contain all that will ever happen, like a dust mote in the sky?

The cosmic Christ took human form to remind us of our true significance. He took a crumb of bread in his hands and said, "This is my Body," so that you could hold all of creation in your heart and say, "this is one atom of my Being."

Illustration, William Blake, 'Christ as Redeemer of Humanity'