Channel: Craig Woods | Source

Everything you experience through the senses is temporary.

Every sight, sound, emotion, circumstance, relationship, possession, success and disappointment appears within your awareness, remains for a time, and eventually changes form.

When this truth is deeply understood, the experiences of life begin to fall into their rightful place.

The difficult moments no longer seem eternal. The painful chapter no longer becomes the definition of your entire story.

You begin to remember: This too shall pass. Yet this wisdom does not apply only to suffering. The beautiful experiences are temporary too.

Joy, success, recognition, comfort and even the circumstances you once dreamed of creating are also moving expressions within the Divine Flow. Enjoy them fully, appreciate them deeply, but do not cling to them.

Attachment begins when you demand that something temporary become permanent.

Suffering begins when you build your identity around something that was always meant to change.

To transcend the temporary does not mean withdrawing from life. It means participating completely while remembering that you are greater than anything you experience.

You are not the passing emotion. You are not the circumstance. You are not the victory or the loss.

You are the awareness within which all of these things arise. And that awareness is always discovered here and now.

The Divine Flow does not exist yesterday. It does not exist tomorrow. It exists within the Eternal Now — the timeless space in which life continuously appears, transforms and dissolves.

Allow experiences to come. Allow experiences to go. Love without possessing. Receive without clinging.

Release without believing that something essential has been taken from you.

When you stop asking the temporary world to tell you who you are, something profound happens.

You begin to rest within that which does not come and go. You transcend the temporary. And you remember the Eternal within yourself.