IT'S ALL OKAY

In Zen there is a saying, "No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place," meaning that things are really unfolding in a harmonious order— even when we can't see how. Often we are trying so hard to fit things into a meaningful frame of reference that we are unable to see the perfect order already inherent in whatever is happening. There's a natural order, har-mony and the rhythm to this life. We are continually frustrated and defeated as long as we are trying to impose our own sense of order on the order that already exists. When we simply ease up and let go, we discover the beauty that was always right there in front of us. Peace discovers beauty that anxiety can never see. When we are anxious to know how it's all going to work out, we are like the person frantically looking for his glasses; when he finally calms down, he realizes the glasses are right there on the front of his nose.