The Game of Life

Take this, knowing in your heart it is yours to keep and treasure always: I refer to an instant of happiness that came from loving connection with the source of all things. In that moment came heart-felt release from the chains imposed by life’s struggles. In that instant, it all mattered not one bit, for you were free and able to see true reality for what it is, a game; a game of sometimes extreme challenges but a game all the same.

In this game you win or lose according to how hard you play, yet take it too seriously and you lose anyway. There is a lightness to successful play, born of the realisation that without fun there is no joy. To play a heady game will lose you everything, as in order to play you must allow for mistakes and relish them as an opportunity for growth, forgive yourself and move on. Such is the key to a successful game, never straying far from the path yet accepting, when you do, that there are no perfect games or players, just you and the road ahead, stony at times, pothole ridden at others, yet a road all the same when all is said and done.

To engage in this committed yet easy way is to profit in growth and strategy; to let go of concerns and relax into every stage; willing yet not forceful; open to learning yet free of the burden of knowledge beyond one’s reach, just one step at a time. It requires great patience and trust in the process to achieve outstanding results.

That the game is won or lost is not important, only that you played with a full heart, to the best of your ability. No-one will judge you for your failure, yet there is much to gain through success. A modest progression is nearly always achieved in the end but more is available to those who choose a righteous path and dedicate themselves and their lives to its fulfilment. It is a choice, an easy one to make at first, yet it calls for so much from you to give to your pursuit that it drains every last bit of you and more besides, until “you” fall away and there is joy and peace beyond the “you” you once knew. Therein lies the reward: no medals, no awards, just happiness beyond belief and expectation: heaven on earth, indeed!