Get busy living, or get busy dying

"Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying"

Monday night, Scotta used the above quote from Shawshank Redemption for our yoga class.

It was funny because I had caught the tail end of Shawshank Redemption on the tele the other evening and stopped dead in my tracks when Morgan Freeman’s character said those words at the end of the movie…”Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying”.

I find that I’m either doing one or the other.

I’m either busy aligning my life with the Divine

Or

I’m aligning my life to the Self—the Selfish part of the Self.

Either I’m busy setting goals and taking steps toward them

Or

I’m wallowing in self-pity, falling a little and little more into the abysmal darkness that is procrastination.

Either I am spreading the message of hope and and love

Or

I’m spreading negativity with sarcasm and belittlement.

I’m either running toward the light

Or

Away from the light.

I spent almost a decade staying busy destroying myself; Self-sabotaging myself; moving farther and farther away from my true self. I spent that decade staying very busy dying.

Today I am so grateful that there is a solution and that I’m living in it right this second.

I’m so glad that today I’m busying LIVING. Making my dreams come true, Taking the higher path, Opening more and more to Grace and less and less to Despair.

I find that I’m either moving forward or backward. There is no middle ground with me. Complacency is not middle ground, complacency is moving backward.

On this Tuesday, I can say with confidence that I am moving forward.

What about you?

Are you busy living

Or

Are you busy dying

?

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw