A Consoling Lifestyle

"You can hold the shape of a consoling lifestyle for decades. It only costs your life."

-- David Deida

Are you living the life you really want to live, the life you're really called to live, the life that best reflects the Divine Energy that pours through you? If not, why not?

I'm sure you've got alot of reasons. Some damn good excuses. And most, if not all of them, are about maintaining your "consoling lifestyle." You've got a huge mortgage, or two car payments, or a boat to fund, or kids that need all the latest new clothes and high tech gadgets, or pricey habits that you just enjoy way too much to let them go.

Fine. How much of your life are you willing to exchange for a daily venti, triple, carmel, mocha, Crappucino?

Do you know the phrase, "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space" ? My bet is that you're taking up way too much space. Most of us are. Close to the bone, close to the channel of life itself is where we need to be to live an authentic life. Otherwise all we have is a vacuous, well-appointed lifestyle.

The areas of your life you most need to examine are your job, relationships, home, use of resources, spiritual practices, and your everyday activities. All the biggies. Are they in alignment with your deepest, highest, clearest Self? Do they reflect the best of who you are and what you can do? Do each of these arenas of life support not just you and those closest to you, but life itself?

Today, make that lifestyle audit, if only informally. Look at your life. Really take a long, clear, unflinching look. What do you see? Is this really the life you want to live? How much longer can you continue to exchange life itself for a consoling lifestyle?