Thank you.

Like for example, I was driving around doing errands one day and suddenly a thought barged its way in my mind. What I “heard” was “Time to go to London.” While I had been in conversations with some people from London around that time, I had no compelling reason to go. It wasn’t for business or a speaking engagement. But the message was so strong that I literally dropped everything and went to London a few weeks later.

Here’s where the universe came in. Not only did everything fall into place easily and effortlessly, but I managed to secure myself very reasonable seats on Air France for far less than what most airlines were charging (try $4 to 5 thousand! I got a seat for $765 roundtrip!). All of my connecting flights, events I went to in London as well as a place to stay were all coordinated without me lifting a finger. It was incredible!

Now, we all like to know how and why everything worked out in the end. Sometimes the real reason is revealed immediately while other times you don’t find out for months or years but I can tell you any one of the following could have been the reason for this trip: meeting a future lover or maybe it was because I was supposed to meet a couple of potential business partners?

Who knows?

Loved this article!

While I can appreciate the idea that letting go is often the best way of dealing with things over which you have no control, and can give you some great adventures, sure, somehow this whole thing just doesn’t do it from me.

The reason a bird doesn’t start it’s day worrying over whether it will get enough food to eat is probably more to do with it not having a cerebral cortex, rather than it being tuned into the essential rhythyms of the universe. And often birds don’t find any food and starve, so I doubt following their mindset is really going to be helpful.

And assuming that you’re right, would this mean that cosmic forces exist to send you messages about buying birdfeeders, thereby saving you from having to make another trip to the shops?

I hope I don’t come across like too much of a cynic, as I said, I think “accept the thing you cannot change” is a great philosophy, but believing that the universe is going to actively help out with your daily chores is not.