Does your life seem to be a never-ending round of dull activities?

You wake up, take a shower, get some coffee, and rush to work—the same pattern every day, like a never-ending movie. You then use the rewind button to play everything back.

Doesn't life seem to repeat itself?

Do you wish to leave this never-ending carousel because you feel stuck on it?

Whatever you pursue and succeed at, like a mouse chasing objects in the wheel of samsara, it never completely satisfies you and perpetually leaves you feeling like a hungry ghost.

Do you feel trapped in the dualistic world and unsure of how to escape it?

The key is to not struggle against life's cycles, its highs and lows, and its ins and outs.

But, be present with whatever is going on and see the same old activities with fresh eyes, a new perspective, and a different way of being.

The great Heraclitus once said that you should never step in the same river twice, and a great master once said that you never step in the same river even once because, by the time you enter, the change has already taken place. New water has entered and the old water has left; the change is a continuous process in which the old dies and the new is born.

Your man or woman has undergone significant change since yesterday; they are no longer the same people. Although they may appear to be the same on the outside, their attitude has evolved, and fresh ideas are constantly replacing their previous ones.

Your mind is evolving as well; it's not the same mind you had as a child or a teenager. Everything is energy, and it's continuously moving and changing. It's been said that every seven years, a whole new body develops; old cells die off, and new cells are produced.

But, there is a part of you that remains constant—the consciousness that is aware of your development as a child, adolescent, and adult—and it never changes.

If you look at this daily routine with fresh eyes, you'll notice that it appears to be the same, but it actually offers you new opportunities to develop and evolve.

Becoming the change you want to see in the world, according to Ghandi, is changing your perspective on it rather than the world itself. This is accomplished by removing your dark-colored spectacles and replacing them with ones that are clear and brilliant.

When we look out into the world through this false center we perceive people, places, and things as being separate and apart from ourselves, which creates division, competition and greed in the world.

We may unwind, let go, and recognize that a higher source is in charge of everything if we can perceive that all life is one, not separate and that all are interrelated from the source energy that goes through it all.

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