I was in a museum loo. Doing the things you would normally do there when a thought suddenly struck me mid-stream. Round about this time last year and a bit, I was in another museum in Sydney, Australia, situated as it is on the edge of an immense, serene botanical garden with breathtaking views of the harbour beyond.
I love botanical gardens, I always feel a sense of peace in them, as though everything is right with the world and man and nature are at peace. Yes sure Man is at it again, ordering nature around, but there is some respect and symbiosis and understanding between the two, an acknowledgement of the gifts Nature bestows upon us. Gratitude in the cultivation of the healing herbs used for both medicinal and culinary purposes.
I recall walking through the museum and later the ones in New Zealand and thinking how wonderful it would be to work in one, I suddenly remembered that I had even gone as far as looking up museum jobs -for my ticket to emigrating there was going to be a Masters Degree - which would allow me to work in NZ on a part-time basis ..then covid happened, I returned from New Zealand and life had other plans for me, or me for it? I ended up having to look for a job back in Malta and landed one quite by chance through a series of channels I wouldn't have been navigating or been exposed to if it had not been for code.
It suddenly dawned on me..here I was, a year later working for Heritage Malta the National Agency for museums, sites, and cultural heritage!!
Zipping up I went to find my colleague. eager to disclose my moment of Eureka. I had created this moment. We always get what we want, if we really want it hard enough and if it is -in some way- for our higher good. Quite often it does not come packaged in the way we might have envisoned it or at the time we may have wanted it to manifest. Quite simply we are put on this life to create, to be playful. We only are truly here in the moment when we lose sense of time and place.
This is not the first time this has happened to me in my life, where I found myself in a situation, the effect of a cause I had engineered in the distant past, solely with intention, had given it strength with the intensity of feeling and imagination then forgotten about it. For it is not enough to merely think a thought. One must give it impetus with visualisation, if one is passionate about an idea, one will live it fully in the imagination with conviction as though it were reality manifested. Think of a child at play in a toy kitchen, they really believe they are cooking up an authentic meal.
However, busyness is the antidote. For magic to happen there must be space between each molecule. Time spent in nature or by the sea, time spent daydreaming, in quiet, just not doing anything, allowing yourself to have the time to get in touch with yourself, slowing down, just enough to permit yourself to listen to the murmurings of your soul away from social media,
Let time sit still upon your wrists, do not be afraid to be alone, to be still for a little while, just with yourself. My best moments of creation have always come when I felt I was not doing anything, Those periods of idleness are necessary to lay the foundations to your future and for magic to occur. The fields lay fallow and in the winter of non-doingness, the seeds sown take root and are nurtured, ready to push forth in the spring. Each thought, each dream is like that seed that requires time to germinate.
Magic is not some school of sleight of hand or some arcane formula of alchemy. We become co-creators of our life when we live in the here and now. 'Co-creators' means you plus the life force that runs through every atom on earth. You can harness this life force with your thoughts. Our thoughts are the fundamental building blocks of the reality we design for ourselves. Go on be the architect of your life...
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