Start close in, don’t take the second step
or the third, start with the first
thing close in,
the step you don’t want to take.
Start with the ground you know,
the pale ground
beneath your feet,
your own way of starting
the conversation.
Start with your own
question, give up on other
people’s questions,
don’t let them smother something
simple.
To find another’s voice
follow your own voice,
wait until that voice
becomes a private ear
listening to another.
Start right now, take a small step
you can call your own
don’t follow someone else’s
heroics, be humble
and focused, start close in,
don’t mistake that other
for your own.
Start close in,don’t take the second step
or the third, start with the first
thing close in,
the step you don’t want to take.
David Whyte, Start Close in
When we learn to be where we are, we gain perspective on life. Yesterday loses its hold on us and tomorrow loses its allure. Where we are becomes the ground of our salvation, the reason for our joy and the acme of our salvation…..Mindfulness calms the storms of life and gives them meaning. [It] makes the present, present and gives us back the energy that endless worry and countless calculation drain. It concentrates what has become scattered and brings us home to ourselves. 
In the deepest moments of insight we see that things change so quickly that we can’t hold onto anything, and eventually the mind lets go of clinging. 
The important thing is not
Mindfulbalance 