My favorite picture is earthrise as seen from the moon. It’s perfect. A great blue and green ball floating in vast black space, hanging right there in its orbit. From that vantage point, the scene on earth is awesome. creatures being born, other ones dying; plants blooming on one side, plants withering on the other; snow snowing, winds blowing, volcanoes erupting, earthquakes shivering, people talking, music playing. From the moonview, its incredible cosmic drama. From our usual view, inside the drama, looking up at the moon, it’s a different story. It changes from the drama to my drama and gets to be a problem. If you’re far enough away, it’s not your story – its one of the six and a half billion stories.
Sylvia Boorstein: It’s Easier than you Think
Sylvia Boorstein has so much wisdom…and the ability to express it in such approachable ways… great quote…thanks
ps..one of my favorites from Sylvia…from a metta teaching at Spirit Rock http://pocketperspectives.wordpress.com/other/metta-loving-kindness/
To step back is to see and value more clearly the treasure we’ve been ‘given’.