The ego likes to "inch" along - because it feels it's "doing" something.
Why have an interest at all in tomorrow? Tomorrow never comes. Tomorrow doesn't exist. The opportunity for work and growth is only in today. And today is just an unfolding series of moments. The ego will kick and scream and do everything it can to take our focus off the moment. It will put our focus on the past, on the future, on imaginary problems we're creating - on anything - to remove us from focusing on this moment. Because here - in this moment - is a level of power that scares the pants off the ego. And it's also a place where the ego can not enter.
Sometimes doing no-thing is exactly what's needed towards making a better today. We can all get busy busy in a flurry of activities, and "inch" towards improvement. Or we can allow things to be as they are, and then, from that place, move from a deeper understanding, and then actually by "doing" less we stop "inching" towards our own actualization - and begin moving at rates in terms of light-year speeds.
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