Yesterday, I saw a moment of 60 Minutes where a military doctor was talking about the challenge of building new prosthesis for the soldiers who have lost arms and legs in the wars.  The interviewer asked him what was the most challenging aspect of inventing robotic arms that worked like a real hand with opposing thumbs and incredible complexity.  The soldier answered – ALL OF IT!

That is how I feel about the complexity of living a life to the best of my ability.  It is incredibly complex and a multi-level challenge that requires my deepest focused concentration and committed action while at the same time allowing for letting go and relaxing into the flow.

How on earth we even do it as well as we do is a constant wonder. This intricate dance of nourishing our bodies and our psyche, staying in action so that our dreams can become realities, examining our thoughts so that we might be in alignment with those dreams, and interacting with all of those other beings and moving parts is quite the juggling act.

And maybe juggling is just the right metaphor for life. Keeping the balls moving, the eyes loose to take it all in at once, the body relaxed and fluid and the trust engaged that it will all work beautifully are all necessary for the experience to succeed. And the irony is that most jugglers seem to be enjoying the heck out of the practice. So I think I will smile and just throw those balls up there and see what happens next.