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I Tried To Take A Picture Of The Moon
Jan. 19th, 2011 10:34 pmFrom The Book of Awakening:Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
"So what can we do? Well, it is no secret that slowness remembers and hurry forgets; that softness remembers and hardness forgets; that surrender remembers and fear forgets.
It is beautifully difficult to remember who we really are. But we help each other every time we fill the cup of truth and hold each other up after drinking from it."
I'm starting to feel that these thoughts and exercises are a message from the Universe pointed at me. I know that's not true, I'm not quite vain enough to believe that everything revolves around me, but natural guilt and paranoia can be a powerful influence… powerful and unwanted.
Why guilt? I used to be the kind of person that lived in truth and spoke it, knew it in my heart with no fear of it, because I knew the pain of denying it was worse that the pain of being a part of it. I wanted all of my relationships with others to be based on truth and no matter what, there would be arms to hold me up afterward.
I still believe that. I still want that, but I have allowed fear to make me forget… to become hard… to hurry, and sure enough I have forgotten who I really am.
Since even before beginning these daily thoughts and meditations I have begun to allow myself to admit how much, but now it is as though someone is holding up a light or a mirror and shining them into the dark places inside of me.
My affirmations: Today I slow down. Today I embrace softness, (and my own vulnerability). Today, I will surrender. Today I fill the cup of truth and drink from it now and always, trusting that those I love, and those that love me will hold me up as I will hold them up – So Mote It Be.
What can I do to always remember who I really am?
-Juan Ramon Juminez
"So what can we do? Well, it is no secret that slowness remembers and hurry forgets; that softness remembers and hardness forgets; that surrender remembers and fear forgets.
It is beautifully difficult to remember who we really are. But we help each other every time we fill the cup of truth and hold each other up after drinking from it."
I'm starting to feel that these thoughts and exercises are a message from the Universe pointed at me. I know that's not true, I'm not quite vain enough to believe that everything revolves around me, but natural guilt and paranoia can be a powerful influence… powerful and unwanted.
Why guilt? I used to be the kind of person that lived in truth and spoke it, knew it in my heart with no fear of it, because I knew the pain of denying it was worse that the pain of being a part of it. I wanted all of my relationships with others to be based on truth and no matter what, there would be arms to hold me up afterward.
I still believe that. I still want that, but I have allowed fear to make me forget… to become hard… to hurry, and sure enough I have forgotten who I really am.
Since even before beginning these daily thoughts and meditations I have begun to allow myself to admit how much, but now it is as though someone is holding up a light or a mirror and shining them into the dark places inside of me.
My affirmations: Today I slow down. Today I embrace softness, (and my own vulnerability). Today, I will surrender. Today I fill the cup of truth and drink from it now and always, trusting that those I love, and those that love me will hold me up as I will hold them up – So Mote It Be.
