Dump it Out

Modern life is so full of everything: we are so busy. If you expect your glass is always going to be full, you will be disappointed or stressed and busy juggling too much. I want full, but as in complete, not full as in I have no time for myself; no space to think.

Money, work, health, relationships, really all aspects of my life I see this. There is a desire in my soul to carving out the extra: making it simpler, less. Admiral Byrd, who spent 7 months alone in an 800 square foot cube buried beneath the arctic surface, said: "Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need".

Sometimes the glass needs to get turned over. We have to right it, and fill it again, not until we are full but until we are satisfied, complete, whole.

Fill what's empty: we all do. Fill it up fill it up. I say Dump it out dump it out: we also need to empty what's too full. Dump it over, spill it, and start again. Simplify. Create space. Add back whats needed. Its hard. Its about letting things go too, and that can be especially hard.

Getting dumped over is part of life. Sometimes its a bigger slosh than others. It only leaves opportunity to fill it again. A Buddhist might say that pain and suffering only opens a hole in you that you can then fill again.

What are you doing to continually fill yourself up? What are you doing to spill yourself, so you can fill it again?