The most difficult for me is to disengage from life. Life in its vibrancy surrounds me. I see possibility and beauty in every dawn, every despairing patient, every obstacle and certainly in the eyes of my four year old lab.
To disengage from those sacred opportunities that this world has to offer is most difficult. And while it is with ease and a longing that I move into the solitary, still world, the practice of not engaging with the outside world is quite difficult.
I have been a student of equanimity, balance between inner and outer worlds, for quite some time. To be on a path of inner world only is difficult.
If I live with your eyes and heart open, what I see can be exquisitely, almost overwhelmingly, beautiful. That same capacity makes all sadness and suffering of others, unbearable at times. I sometimes have to make myself sit with it, theirs or mine, stay and hold it with the same acceptance as the former.
The most difficult one for me is to stop and take breaks. I am probably been too much on the 'difficult' side and need to start taking things from the easier side.
My trials are mine to weather and from which to grow. They are part of what makes me ME!
I am reminded to
Be yourself. All the other jobs are taken.
-Oscar Wilde
So many lessons that bring growth there 🙏
The most difficult for me is to disengage from life. Life in its vibrancy surrounds me. I see possibility and beauty in every dawn, every despairing patient, every obstacle and certainly in the eyes of my four year old lab.
To disengage from those sacred opportunities that this world has to offer is most difficult. And while it is with ease and a longing that I move into the solitary, still world, the practice of not engaging with the outside world is quite difficult.
I have been a student of equanimity, balance between inner and outer worlds, for quite some time. To be on a path of inner world only is difficult.
If I live with your eyes and heart open, what I see can be exquisitely, almost overwhelmingly, beautiful. That same capacity makes all sadness and suffering of others, unbearable at times. I sometimes have to make myself sit with it, theirs or mine, stay and hold it with the same acceptance as the former.
I journal my way through the difficult!
As I recall Rilke also advised us to "live the questions" of our lives.
The most difficult one for me is to stop and take breaks. I am probably been too much on the 'difficult' side and need to start taking things from the easier side.