Last night I read from Being Peace and the following passage jumped out at me:
There is a Zen story about a man who is riding a horse that is galloping very quickly. Another man, standing alongside the road, yells at him, “Where are you going?” And the man on the horse yells back, “I don’t know, ask the horse!” I think that is our situation. We are riding many horses that we cannot control. (Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace, Parallax Press, Berkeley, CA, 1987)I think sometimes in our lives we allow things to lead us, until we're unable to control the direction life is leading us.
It would be nice to wake up tomorrow and know where I am leading my horses rather than wondering where my horses will lead me.
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I wonder if you could identify what those horses are, which you feel are leading you and which ones you can lead. It seems to me we have both in our lives. I choose to allow God to lead me and the choices I make reign in horses that want to lead me instead. I don't think we need to get rid of all those that lead us, only those that take us where we do not need to go.
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