Nothing, Infinity and You

The mind is not only memory – it is a window to consciousness. Memory is just the information you gathered. Consciousness contains the whole cosmos.

— Sadhguru

Sadhguru said that destiny is an excuse that we use when we fail. He says that if something in your life was “destined”, then there is no reason for you to continue in that path since there is nothing that you can do about it. Instead, he says that you control your own “destiny”. For example, if you play the lottery and after ten attempts you don’t win, you can come to the conclusion that it’s your destiny to be poor. So if you believe that, then you should no longer attempt to be “rich”. It is also your “excuse” for being poor. Well, I think there are exceptions.

Yesterday, I went into the liquor store to buy a bottle of sparkling moscato (I’m not fond of the taste of champagne). Besides the moscato, I also grabbed a bottle of roscato so that I can drink today with my wife’s dinner, that I was looking forward to: chicken liver and couscous (I know that a chianti would have gone better with the liver, but….<slurping sounds>). I have a policy of not buying wines that have a screw cap on. It screams “cheap”, but being that that was the only bottle of roscato, I bought it.

Carl and I waited for the ball to drop. It’s like watching paint dry, but with some animation. At the one minute mark, I proceeded to screw in the corkscrew in the moscato (oh, that bottle had a cork). At 12:01 AM today, I pulled on the cork with the screw. The corkscrew broke. I managed to open the bottle with a pair of pliers. The moscato was lovely.

After waking up at 3:30 PM to walk the dogs, I passed by the bottle of roscato on the counter and I realized that I was “destined” to buy that bottle of wine. I didn’t need a corkscrew to open it. Carl tells me that it was not destiny, but, rather, my oneness with the universe that led me to a premonition.

Okay.