Our Journey

 

     When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget; the only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

     Your billiard/pool journey or even our life journey has an outer purpose and an inner purpose. The outer purpose is to arrive at your goal or destination, to accomplish what you set out to do, to achieve this or that, which, of course, implies future. But if your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey's purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing,, but everything to do with HOW.

     It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment. Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one; the step you are taking now. As you become more deeply aware of this one step, you realize that it already contains within itself all the other steps as well as the destination. This one step then becomes transformed into an expression of perfection, an act of great beauty and quality.