You Can Keep it Simple and Have it All

You Can Keep it Simple
and Have it All

Eventually, through practice, you no longer impose your thinking onto reality, and you can experience everything as it really is: as pure grace.
Byron Katie

Post written by Katarina Miletic  Join my Inner Circle

Before we can get to the essence of today’s writing, I have to gently remind you those elaborate concepts that human mind and language are capable of creating, and years of academic study – are unnecessary when comes to the ability of every human being to feel the most profound joy a human heart can hold. Quite the contrary, something else is needed, a little ray of infinite love, a little bow to the grace inside us, and an appreciation of one’s life – as is.

Yes, you read that correctly.

We have this tendency - mostly because that is the education we have been submitted to from an early age – to give away our own power of conclusion in favour of the authority. We have been trained to think that some subjects (many of them being the most natural to us!) are not within our reach of the intellectual grasp of discovering and proving for ourselves and that someone far smarter has studied this for years. We then had to accept this as truth (even if that study started only as a concept and was not based on the observation of our reality, but something abstract) – and subject by subject we have been reassured that there is no need for us to question, nor to explore and examine things for ourselves – when this is exactly our nature: wonder, discovery, observation, thinking and conclusion, finding meanings we want to apply and truly understanding what we lived - and learned from it.

One such subject is lasting happiness. Of course, we will keep returning to it until every last one of our friends interested to hang out with us and read this blog gets it – thus demonstrating love and commitment and responsibility for own happiness. If you, even for a moment, think that this is the subject you cannot master – you are mistaken. Profound happiness is not an abstract concept outside your reach – whatever your current state of being, nor it is in anyone else’s hands but your own.

One to Eliminate Right Now

If you think that happiness comes when you achieve or get something you’re wanting – I am afraid you will be forever waiting to be happy. However, if you appreciate where you are and what you have right now – in that gratitude you will discover that you are already happy. (Because, if you are not grateful/happy with what you have, what makes you think you would be grateful/happy when you get what you want?)

Real Life Happiness

I will give you just the simplest, and the most moving example back when I had an enormous privilege to visit Africa and spend time with real communities, real families, real people (not some resort). I saw people who had no more than the clothes they were wearing and the pots they cooked their meals in – on an open fire. Yet, they had a passion for life, gratitude for the straw roof over their head, and food they had – always offering to share everything they had with me and my family (my own kids were small – 4 and 6 years old back then). Several things were so stunningly simple and strikingly obvious, that they made me forever grateful for everything and everyone in my life. These people had not many physical possessions, but they had a full experience of life nonetheless – and somehow it was all the more accentuated because of the striking and real poverty behind it. But I promise you, there was no poverty in their passion for life. In fact, they were truly rich in smiles and happiness they both felt in themselves and shared with us.

Don’t Ever Wait to Be Happy When….

Not because dreams and wanted things don’t happen – they do! And with them, the desire for bigger and better things naturally follows. But if you aren’t learning to be grateful/happy with what you have – the bottom line is, you will not know how to be grateful/happy with anything that comes to you, and that is a shame, an unnecessary sadness that is robbing you of feeling happy right in this moment. Don’t waste life without feeling truly exuberantly happy right now, my friend.

Remember to keep it simple. Start with love, grace and appreciation. Everything else will follow if you allow it. (Allowing simply means not stopping what comes naturally to you! Trust it, instead!)

* * * * The Exclusive Update – 328 Days to Dream * * * * 

1.

I am so grateful to be feeling much better today. I am still taking it a bit slower than my normal speed – but it was important to acknowledge and take a break before I completely exhausted my energy – because the recovery would have taken longer then. I have made a serious point to take notice of these things before I come down to the point of no choice but to slow down – and secondly, now is the time to take on a new work schedule, one that actually accounts for taking proper breaks. Working inside your own business can also drain you if you have 12 hour days and no weekends off – no matter how passionate you are about it. So, reading a book, taking a walk, doing something with the garden and plants, editing photos, any activity like that is a proper break.

2.

Just grateful – grateful for feeling better, grateful for the sun and the new day, grateful for having these words connecting us, grateful for each moment that we spend together – you in your world, I, in mine – but together in our oneness, my friend.

3.

The next few days will see a lot of activity in this tiny place: preparations for Orthodox Easter celebrations, family conversations, love shared, cleaning, cooking and enjoying each other’s company – whether we are near or far away, but always united in our love. Also, the first official interview is booked for the podcast, so keep an eye for that. It will be my pleasure to welcome and introduce you to my newly acquired friend Marcél, who has an amazing personal story and a mission he is on. You are going to enjoy that, my friend.

Bourton on the Water, Cotswolds by Katarina Miletic 

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