To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be changed
By what we hear
Mark Nepo
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Tag: Awareness
Our original Unity
We are already one.
But we imagine that we are not.
And what we have to recover is our original unity.
What we have to be is what we are.
Thomas Merton
….is to receive
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher…..
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned
Sunday Quote: Our main task….
Our task is to listen to the news
that is always arriving out of silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
photo gwen and james anderson
Touch
Being aware of subtle emotional qualities you may be embodying at various times of the day. Pay particular attention to your hands. See if you don’t become more mindful by becoming more “bodyful.” Everything from opening a door to making love involves touch. It is possible to open a door so mindlessly that your hand doesn’t know what your body is doing and you hit yourself in the head with it. Imagine the challenge of touching another person without automaticity, with no gaining idea, just presence and caring.
Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever you go, There you are
photo agustin ruiz
Security from letting go of it
The bad news is: you are falling through the air,
nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is: there’s no ground
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall, and falling, they’re given wings.
Rumi
