Back to the Real World?

I'd planned to write about our vacation. It was awe-inspiring. 

Then we came home. And got what felt like being literally thrown against a wall back into "the real world".  

Flooded basement (we had expected it and planned for it as well as we could).  Cross-country practice.  Bar Mitzvah preparation.  School schedule that may not be quite right (or right at all). Illness.  As Zorba says (see blog from....)  "the full catastrophe".

But, is this the real world?  And does it have to be?  While I was on vacation, I read Wayne Dyer's "Manifest Your Life".  He, and others, believe that we human beings can affect way more in our lives than most of us believe we can do, believe we deserve to do, and know how to do.

On vacation, I started applying his meditation techniques to learn to do so.  I do believe that we are capable of more than we give ourselves credit for and more than we try to do.  We give ourselves and each other some very limiting messages such as, "We're only human".

Dyer, like others who follow Eastern and ancient ways of thought believe that God, or spirit, or whatever you wish to call it that creates life, is omnipresent - and that means within each of us. As Dyer explains it, if you think of God as the ocean, humans are a glass that contains ocean water - how much is up to us.  But if we fill our glass up, we can be more "Godlike" and affect a bit more - never as much as the whole ocean because we're only a small bit.  If we keep only a drop of water in our cup, we may not affect anything at all.  But, just as all water returns to the ocean in the form of rain or runoff, so do we keep returning to the ocean of God.

I love this explanation and I love the idea of living my life without putting limits on myself. Because once I limit myself, I cut my self off from all sorts of possibilities.  Might I be wrong?  Of course.  But, who cares?  I'd rather be wrong trying to do the most with this lifetime than be wrong assuming I can only do a little.