Essential aliveness

As we learn to tap into the interior of our body and inhabit it, we can sense a subtle current of aliveness that runs vertically through the core. It feels like a clear, luminous line of energy that runs upward close to the spine. It seems to well up from the ground like a pure spring and feels as if it radiates high above our head. If you imagine that your body is suspended in midair by a fine line located at the top of your head, you may get a sense of it.

I call it the current of life because it contains an essential aliveness and intelligence. The fewer filters we have – limiting beliefs, emotional reactions, and somatic contractions- the easier it is to sense this core animating luminosity.

Adyashanti

Our finest moments

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

M. Scott Peck

Sunday Quote: In all weathers

If you only walk on sunny days,

you’ll never reach your destination

Paulo Coelho

Not what happens today

What matters in life is not what happens to you,

but what you remember and how you remember it

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Believe

Every man has his own courage,

and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The nature of reality

Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Phádraig daoibh go léir!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day.

The clouds above us come together and disperse;
The breeze in the yard departs and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can keep us from celebrating?

Lu Yu, Chinese tea master, 733 – 804