If you walk down the beach in Playa del Carmen you will see many things that are unexpected and unaccountable.   Shells are always in abundance.  After a storm you might find a huge piece of driftwood large enough to build a lovely table.  Other days you might find a diamond ring, lost perhaps from a newlywed on a cruise ship.  It would not be unusual to stumble on a kilo of cocaine or a bottle from a pirate ship.  There is absolutely no end to what gift the sea will present as an obedient puppy to its master.  It reminds me of a quote by Joseph Campbell:

 “All the time.  It is miraculous.  I even have a superstition that has grown on me as a result of invisible hands coming all the time – namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.  When you see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.  I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

 The sea is simply a metaphor for how your life turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting its abundant flow.  

 Just as the ocean can swallow you up in a hurricane or unsettling weather, so too can your fears swallow your dreams.  I prefer the exotic experience of the gifts left on the sand after the hurricane and allowing my “dreams’ to swallow me.  Goethe says it this way:

 “The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.  All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred . . . unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man (or woman) could have dreamed would have come his (her) way.”

 When you make the choice to follow your bliss, you will see those gifts you cannot account for.  Don’t be surprised, Expect the Miracles!