AMOY: The Tao of Dory!
3 Dec 2013 · 2 min
2:06
Finding Nemo's Dory teaches two lessons: keep swimming through hard times, and surrender to trust when you're stuck. The whale scene shows what happens when you let go instead of fighting.
Finding Nemo's Dory teaches two lessons: keep swimming through hard times, and surrender to trust when you're stuck. The whale scene shows what happens when you let go instead of fighting.
Good morning, everyone. Happy Tuesday. Here is your moment of yes for today. So there are some really, really inspiring spiritual movies out there, and I'm sure you can think of a bunch right now. But the one that comes to mind this morning, and I don't know why it came to me— this went well— as I was listening, the idea of surrendering, of letting go, of just being at peace Was resonating with me this morning. And out of nowhere came one of the most spiritual movies of all time, which is of course Finding Nemo, right? And I don't know if you're pumped as I am about the— that they're making a second one, Finding Dory, I think. But so in Finding Nemo, a couple of huge spiritual themes going on, 2 of which come from Dory throughout the movie. The first one being— Just keep swimming, right? All you can do is just keep swimming. I'm not going to sing the song. I'm not going to do it. But just keep swimming. What will we do? We swim, swim. So no matter what's going on, all we can do is just keep swimming. We just keep doing our best. We just keep moving forward. And the other one is when Dory and Marlin are in the belly of the whale, and it's time to let go. They have to let go. But Marlin is afraid of letting go and trusting. And so Dory convinces him and they let go and they get blown out of the hole of the whale. And so those 2 ideas of just keep swimming, just keep going, just keep moving, just keep taking a step forward and let go, surrender, and trust. Not needing to know what's going to happen, but just leaping and the net will appear. So those two ideas came to me this morning. I think the idea of surrendering and having to let go and having to trust seems to be showing up not only for myself but for a lot of other people right now. And those are the two ideas that came to me. So just keep swimming and let go. That's your moment of VS for today, everyone. Have a wonderful day.
