The Organizing Principle

A week ago, after writing my last post about loving what you do and doing what you love (October 13,) I had an interesting night.  I kept waking up for a few seconds all night, but it wasn't a fitful sleep.  I slept well, but just woke up a number of times. 

Each time I awakened I would hear the words "the organizing principle."  That's just how long I was awake--just long enough to hear "the organizing principle." I say I heard the words, but I almost have the sense that there was a flash of light, and I'd also see the words.  But only for a split second. Then, back to sleep.

When I woke up there was a stunned silence inside me. I just lay there, mulling over this message that kept washing over me in waves.  While I wasn't sure exactly what it meant, I knew it was important.  What did it mean?  Somehow I felt like it related to love and the post I'd written, but I didn't know what.

The next night "the organizing principle" showed up again.  Not as often, but at least twice.  The next night...again.  What did this mean?

My meditations produced nothing.  "The organizing principle."  I looked it up in Wikipedia: "Having an organizing principle might help one simplify and get a handle on a particularly complicated domain. On the other hand, it might create a deceptive prism that colors one's judgment."  I am not sure what that means. 

Then yesterday, again just as I awakened and as gentle as a snowflake on a kitten's nose, it came to me.  We each have a view of the world, and our expectations, some might say intentions, create that reality.  If I expect threats, that is what I will find.  If I expect everything to be a gift, I will find gifts everywhere in my life.  If I expect to love everything I do, and do everything I love, that too is what will happen. 

I believe my message was telling me that loving what I do and doing what I love should be the organizing principle in my life...at least an organizing principle. (I don't know if we get more than one.)  If life is the "complicated domain," then even that Wikipedia definition might make sense: loving what I do and doing what I love certainly simplifies the complicated domain of life.  And it applies to everything in life.

I get it!

Being awake enough to stay alert to loving what I do will be my biggest challenge, but for now it is critically important to understand that the bright light of love at the center of my life will simplify every aspect of life.