The Intelligence of Life Is in Charge of Your Life!

I want to invite you for a moment out of the storyteller in your mind and into the extraordinary.

At one time you were just one cell that was so tiny that it couldn’t be seen by the naked eye. And that cell developed into 70 trillion cells that are the living, breathing creation called your body. Take a moment and let that in. You live in and are a field of extraordinary intelligence! The only appropriate response is to say “thank you” to Life, for it is an incredible gift and most of us take it for granted.

And this intelligent creation functions without hardly a thought from you! When was the last time you had to digest your food, or beat your heart, or regulate your hormones? Something greater than you is in charge of keeping these 70 trillion beings all working together in the amazing community that is your body.

But it is not just your body that is a part of the highly intelligent creation called Life. Thomas Berry, Catholic priest and cosmologist, once said that we see turning water into wine as a major miracle. But we forget the even more amazing miracle that happens every day when Life takes sunlight, water, earth and air and creates grapes!

We can take this recognition of the extraordinary nature of Life all the way to the stars. Scientist Carl Sagan once said that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on every beach of the Earth! Take a moment and allow that in, too. Within the vast and awesome panorama of stars, our solar system exists on one arm of just one of hundreds of billions of galaxies. And every day and every year, its planets dance around our sun with a precision that boggles the mind.

The ordinary is so extraordinary and so intelligent, but we miss it. Over and over again we get caught in doing Life rather than being Life. We get caught in ideas about Life rather than actually being present for the miraculous creation it is. Why is that? Because we got lost in the idea that we are in charge of Life.   We believe that we have to control it or it will control us.

What if that were not true? Imagine how you would feel if you recognized that Life is in charge of your life (think of your body)? What would your life be like if, rather than always trying to make it be a particular way, you showed up for Life exactly as it is? And imagine how different your experience of life would be if you cultivated trust in the intelligence that created you and the Universe. This intelligence is not only in your body, in nature and in the stars. It also permeates the flow of your life. No matter what is happening in your life, Life is giving you the exact circumstances you need in order to evolve into a conscious human being!

This is blasphemy to the conditioned self – to your storyteller that feels that it has to be in charge. It believes that if you don’t control Life, something bad will happen or nothing will happen. I know this because I almost died trying to control Life, but then Life showed me how to open to its miraculous unfolding! I know from experience that the safest thing you will ever do is to learn how to accept and be present with whatever is showing up in your life rather than trying to control it.

This doesn’t mean you just sit on the side of the road of Life and do nothing. It means that your foundational relationship with Life is knowing that whatever is happening in your life is for you – especially your challenges. The more you live from this place that is beyond struggling with Life, the more you will respond to situations rather than reacting to them.

In order to soften the resistance of your storyteller so you can move beyond struggling with Life and be here for it, I offer you some of my favorite quotes from some of the wisest people on this planet that invite us into being open to Life.

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole Life.”  Eckhart Tolle from The Power of Now

Enlightenment is relaxing into Life.  Pema Chodron, best-selling author and Buddhist nun

Don’t try to force anything.  Let Life be a deep let-go.  See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the buds. Osho, Indian mystic

“Life happens.  You don’t make it happen.  Leave it alone.”  Michael Singer, author of Untethered Soul

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”  Eckhart Tolle

“Let Life happen to you. Believe me: Life is in the right, always.”  Rainier Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and novelist

If what is being offered here calls to you and you have one of my books, open to a random page every day and allow Life to show you your path home. If you don’t have one and are not called to get one, email me at awaken@maryomalley.com and I will send you a chapter.

May you know the joy of being fully alive!