Passing Clouds-Pain & Pleasure

Yesterday was a beautiful spring day in Chicago with bright sunshine and a cool breeze. A stop light made me pause and look at the sky while I was driving. I observed the clouds floating around in the sky. The sky being ever present and allowing the clouds to wander around, there was an engaging stillness about it. The clouds seemed weightless and moving across. Right at that point I wondered, what is it about being huma

n that makes us believe in the permanency of fear based emotions and situations? Pain and pleasure are clouds that wander around in our life i.e. the sky. They are both temporary in nature, one making way for the other..moving along. As humans, it is perhaps our failure to foster our inner stillness in this fast paced life that leads us to focus on the clouds.