Tuesday, January 27, 2015

1.27.15 I Keep Forgetting, and Then Remembering



I keep forgetting, and then remembering, that in our lives, our present moment of time involves so many things, coming together, just like this,
      the way a winter storm and the stream billowing beneath snow and ice down a mountain ravine ,and the circumstance of a neighborhood crow or possum or coyote or human, all weave a moment together into a tapestry of what becomes.
      Always, the interesting thing is that there are so many possible vantage points for each circumstance, and within all that,
     we DO have a choice to hone our capacity to affirm the reality our self knows as true-
     That we have all this connectedness right now.
     That if we pause in awareness, we learn to observe ourselves, in our circumstances. It's tough, and the tougher the day, the tougher it is to observe. But it is one of the only alternatives to suffering, and an abiding sense of isolation.

     Somehow with dogged persistence, and a generalized hope that this helps, a peaceful way of being slowly becomes interwoven with the difficult radical acceptance of what is painful in our day.

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