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Have you ever felt that something you needed to hear was calling to you from your bookshelf?  It’s a fairly common experience, and it happened to me tonight.

I was feeling vaguely restless, as if there were something I should be doing that I couldn’t name, or something I was looking for, but couldn’t figure out what.

Finally, just to shake off the feeling, I decided I would see if I could get any clues by looking through my books for some bit of inspiration.  I let my eyes drift over a shelf full of titles until one book seemed to stand out, as if it wanted me to notice it.

I picked it up, opened it “randomly,” let my finger go to a place on the open page and found this excellent piece of advice:

“Go directly to joy.  Do exactly what you enjoy right now.  No preparation, no goal, no specific purpose, just do what you enjoy.  RIGHT NOW.”  (That’s from a little volume by Gregory James called The Way Home: Release Limiting Beliefs and Uncover the Real You.)

So I played with a group of photos I had recently taken and got lost in a world of beauty.

What’s your intuition telling you to do?  Maybe it wants you to follow the same advice that worked for me so well tonight: Whatever you enjoy, do it right now.

Why not?

The phenomenon goes by many names:  synchronicity, coincidence, the guiding hands, luck, answered prayer.  It seems to be one of those quantum thingies, a thought-driven other-dimensional operation.

But on the practical level, it sort of boils down to “seek and ye shall find.”  When you’re clear about the things you want–what you’re aiming for, what you desire—some Cosmic Agency lines up circumstances to bring you golden opportunities.

The trick is to answer the phone when the Agency calls you.  Its ring tone is subtle, more of a vibration than a sound.  It comes as a nudge, or a hunch or a whim, and you have to be in a free and flexible frame of mind to pick it up and follow its direction.

Maybe you were planning to lunch on lasagna at Gino’s Old World Café.  Then, at the last minute, you notice that you’re really hungry for some of Captain Bill’s oyster stew and decide to go there instead.  You get in a conversation with a stranger while you’re waiting in line for a table, and it turns out he has a close cousin in management at the very outfit that you wanted to approach about handling your latest creation.  Bingo.  It’s the Agency at work.

I suspect the Agency often calls us numerous times before we realize the phone is buzzing.  But the cool thing is it keeps calling.  And when your desire is crystal clear and in the best interest of all concerned, it will magically turn up the decibels on the ringer to get you to hear it.

Still, it’s wise to learn to listen for the subtle buzz of intuition and to follow where it leads.  Play with it.  Learn to trust it.  You may have far more golden opportunities calling than you suspect.

Meanwhile, keep clarifying what it is you truly want.  Know its essence.  It may not come in the shape or size or color you expected.  But if you know the essential nature of your desire, you will recognize it, even when you are surprised by the appearance it ultimately assumes.

The Agency is far better at matching you up with the perfect answer to your needs than you, with your limited perspective, will ever be.  It’s cosmic, after all, and connected to everything.  Listen for it.  Trust it.  Go where it leads.

A blanket of soft clouds covered the day, muting its colors and sounds.  Now and then the sky sprinkled little showers of rain that stirred the first scents of autumn.   I felt the quiet stirrings of the season’s change within myself, its call to contemplation.

The happiness of contemplation that autumn brings wafts into awareness with a special note of its own.  Its song is a nostalgic one, of saying farewell to one season of our lives and welcoming in a new one.  It’s a kind of peaceful yearning to let pieces float into place, to harvest the abundance of seeds sown and cultivated in the season that went before.

It’s a pulling inward, a settling.  It’s a time for taking stock of where we are after all our activities, for savoring how they enlarged and enriched us.  It lets us look, too, at the places where we can do better in the months ahead, where we can alter our outlooks, our relationships, our ways of being in the world that will bring us greater satisfaction and joy.

One of the qualities of the happiness of contemplation is its tendency to open us to our intuition, to the voice of inner guidance.  It whispers of new possibilities, of new ways to express and develop our strengths and talents as we step into the season ahead.  It hints of capabilities we can explore and nudges us to probe more deeply into the potentials within us, just waiting to be recognized and claimed.

When the next quiet hour appears in your life, cozy yourself somewhere private and indulge in some reverie of your own.  Let your thoughts drift over all the past season has added to you, the wisdom it’s brought, the memories you created.  Take some time to lose yourself in the very special happiness of contemplation this autumn, and see what riches it will bring.