Do Expectations Deliver or Disappoint?

​Do you find that the more you expect your surroundings, others, or yourself
to be a certain way the greater your discontent?

"My house and yard need to look just so and then .... I'll feel okay."
"Others need to say and do certain things and then .... I'll be at peace."
"The politicians just need to all get along and 'do the right thing' and then ....
I'll know peace."
"I need to stop doing this or start doing that and then .... all will be well."

With expectations we try and control, manipulate or fix -
and we are forever projecting into the future. 
We believe nothing now is good enough, for long anyway.
We feel strongly that we know how to fix whatever now
doesn't feel quite right and so we are then in conflict
with our house, yard, children, partner, the politician, or ourself. 
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And we feel that it is this very conflict that will somehow bring us peace. 

'The head' is adamant that nothing is as it should be and
​peace is just not possible until .... ​  
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But what of 'the Heart'? 

When the head is not hijacking the Heart we are then open to sense a peace 
that is far beyond what makes sense to the head.

When the head is not hijacking the Heart there is a 'new kind of head' that comes to the forefront and begins to clarify our understanding of 
the significance of this peace that we sense.  

Initially, glimpses of peace may seem like a fluke, 
a flash in the pan, 
nothing much at all, 
or something that may only come again in the future 
after you study or practice or pray or  meditate enough .... 

but oh wow .... 

there is so much more that will be revealed to you 
when you again and again 
'go from your head to your Heart' 
now.  

Expectations limit our view to one narrow outcome sometime in the future
and blind us to the boundlessness of what is now.