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Experience
Mar. 21st, 2011 11:15 pmFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Experience covers us over, and the expressive journey lets us come clean to the table of light. Again.
Morning sunshine, the first day of spring. It was actually warm enough to be without a coat... and yet, still in this state of being covered by experience, even walking in it this morning, which usually cheers me, did little to reach me in my contemplation.
It wasn't that it was exactly negative or dark, just... contemplative.
I've made no secret of the fact that I've been frustrated with myself of late, both in a spiritual sense, and in a sense of other areas of myself which, while better than they used to be, are still not as I would want them. I've come some way toward returning to the 'table of light' in a clean and restored state, but I've still a way to come.
I am most grateful for those in my life whom I love, and who love me... who are in my mind and my heart the whole of the day.
It continues to surprise me, and sadly not in a good way, the way we treat each other as humans... and as for my rest, my dreams and thought through the night must wait for another day.
How can you follow the course of your life if you do not let it flow?
-Lao-tzu
Experience covers us over, and the expressive journey lets us come clean to the table of light. Again.
Morning sunshine, the first day of spring. It was actually warm enough to be without a coat... and yet, still in this state of being covered by experience, even walking in it this morning, which usually cheers me, did little to reach me in my contemplation.
It wasn't that it was exactly negative or dark, just... contemplative.
I've made no secret of the fact that I've been frustrated with myself of late, both in a spiritual sense, and in a sense of other areas of myself which, while better than they used to be, are still not as I would want them. I've come some way toward returning to the 'table of light' in a clean and restored state, but I've still a way to come.
I am most grateful for those in my life whom I love, and who love me... who are in my mind and my heart the whole of the day.
It continues to surprise me, and sadly not in a good way, the way we treat each other as humans... and as for my rest, my dreams and thought through the night must wait for another day.
