Bound to the skies - On Responsibility and Inspiration

Many people read horoscopes, trying somehow to believe that the airy guidance they receive is causally related to their lives by outside forces.

I don't believe this. No surprise.

I do however believe that one makes ones own present and future, and lives within the resulting causal sphere or better, light cone, of much that one has chosen in the past while of course influenced by outside forces.

So along with whatever forces do enter into my world, I choose to add some myself.

Hence VIPThink List. Each morning before 7am, I receive a selected famous quote of the day from their bank of thousands. I read it with an open heart each morning, and let the gist of inspiration filter down inside. I allow it to effect my choices. I open up to whatever comes towards me that day that might relate.

It becomes my day's mantra.

Right now, my sailing friends are boarding their respective flights to the Caribbean via various US stopovers. Flying the skies. This afternoon, they'll meet up at a ferry to cross over to the marina where the boat is harboured. And sail away tomorrow morning, provisioned and smiling. Nervous and excited. Having fun. I was supposed be there. Tickets readied, backpacked packed. But chose yesterday to take the more responsible path when a client ran into problems. A two week trip in paradise cancelled without recourse. Unless I find that in my heart.

My mantra for today is a quote from Charles Lindbergh, Aviator. "I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them." [Reference]

I will try to find my own flight today, and though I remain bound to the ground, I also fly with them.

Damn but this is a challenging mantra. I'd sorta been hoping for something about taking pride in taking the responsible path.

LOL

Carolyn