A Mantra

I have a lot of questions these days:  Why is our cute, cozy house in a great neighborhood still for sale six months later?  Why has there been no serious interest in it at all?  Why have I now lost not one, but two, babies while pretty much everyone around me gets pregnant quickly and carries to term with ease?  Why do we seem to meet a new roadblock - some large, some small - around every bend in the road we're on now - starting with a rotten wall six months ago, and mostly recently including a whistling windshield at the start of our road trip out here?

In the pale yellow-pink of early dawn this morning, though, as I stretched out my sleepy body, a snippet of wisdom was sent my way by Judith Hanson Lasater's A Year of Living Your Yoga and it's a mantra I will cling to and find myself repeating regularly in the next few months of transition and adjustment and continued roadblocks and unanswered questions:  "We can know everything and still be unhappy."

Having all the answers to my questions won't change the fact that these things have happened, won't take away the pain, inconvenience, discomfort they've caused.  In fact, it would probably just make more questions.  I must accept where I am now, not how I got here, and anticipate with joy the unknown the future holds.

"Remember that your happiness lies deep within you, whether or not things on the surface are falling apart."

We can know everything and still be unhappy.