I must admit, I have been thoroughly enjoying this stay at home sheltering. My mind is more clear, my body more rested. I am listening better. My patience has expanded and I feel more loving connections than ever. My family is enjoying meals together where we have conversations without interruptions. We hang out in nature together, have meaningful conversations and discussions. We laugh a lot. We watch some good tv/films and some bad tv/films and we laugh even more. I am learning new things. I feel grounded, strong, content, open and free despite having to stay shut off from in person contact with others. Most importantly, I believe I am reconnecting more to that deep sense of knowing who I am at my core. The place where I am complete and whole. My perspective is clear and I see the whole world together sharing love & light. We are healing together. I hope enjoy this piece from Mark Nepo. Much love to you all! Stay safe. Stay at home.
Love & Light,
Kristin
“If peace comes from seeing the whole,
then misery stems from a loss of perspective.
We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we are reminded of our poor little toe.
Our vigilance becomes: Which defines our day—the pinch we feel in walking on a bruised toe, or the miracle still happening?
It is the giving over to smallness that opens us to misery. In truth, we begin taking nothing for granted, grateful that we have enough to eat, that we are well enough to eat. But somehow, through the living of our days, our focus narrows like a camera that shutters down, cropping out the horizon, and one day we’re miffed at a diner because the eggs are runny or the hash isn’t seasoned just the way we like.
When we narrow our focus, the problem seems everything. We forget when we were lonely, dreaming of a partner. We forget first beholding the beauty of another. We forget the comfort of first being seen and held and heard. When our view shuts down, we’re up in the night annoyed by the way our lover pulls the covers or leaves the dishes in the sink without soaking them first.
In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts. When feeling a splinter, we must, while trying to remove it, remember there is a body that is not splinter, and a spirit that is not splinter, and a world that is not splinter.”
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