Surrendering any sense of security and trusting the water itself to hold you.
You have been walking the water’s edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry.
You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper.
Love flows down.
Rumi, One-Handed Basket Weaving
What we do in meditation
is remove the obstacles
that hide and cover
our native capacity to love
Eknath Easwaren
All of us live with temporary names and temporary stories,
which allow us to breath the air of the present,
while looking into the eyes of enormous powers
that make up our immediate horizon of understanding.
David Whyte, Denial
There is not a stream of badness and a stream of goodness,
or sickness or wellness.
There is only a Stream of Well-being.
The question that you’re wanting to ask yourself is,
“In this moment, am I letting it in or not?
Am I allowing it or am I not?”
Abraham/Hicks American motivational speaker.
What if I were to allow my inner weather to become a Weather Report? Think of it this way: the tides of my life, the ebb and flow of my emotional weather, can tell me how I am at any moment – happy or desperate, discouraged, outraged or quiet. Two hours ago I was tense and anxious. Now I am pensive and relaxed. What will I be next? Everything changes, so if I have a little patience my moods and attitudes will change too.
Aha! A Weather Report! That’s the point! To see, to take stock of my inner weather, just as I would with a glance out my window as I plan my day. Not to judge or complain, not to accuse or deny. Let my inner weather tell me how I am.
Patty De Llosa, Blogpost, “I Am Always Here,” said the Sun
Maggie and I are doing our best. Our parents did their best. Everyone is doing their best.
What if we assumed that about each other?
What a gentle world it would be.
Elizabeth Lesser, Marrow: A Love Story
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