The Pause, or any contemplative practices that integrate body, mind, heart, and spirit, can transcend circumstances over time. In other words, the peace that you feel during a Pause can actually occur in other circumstances of chaos.
Today we will visualize ourselves at the top of the summit, with unobstructed views of miles of beauty. We will let go of our need for control and surrender, our need for acceptance and receive authentic divine love, and our need for security and trust.
Listening:
Maybe I Am Traveling (from The Book of Hours)
Maybe I am traveling, like some secret ore,
through the hard veins of a mountain, alone.
And I'm in so deep that I see no door
and no distance: nothing but a single core
that draws in all things and changes them to stone.
I don't have much wisdom about misery.
The darkness has made me smaller, it's true.
Are you the one solid enough? Come, break through,
so that all of your touch might happen to me,
and all of my tears might happen to you.
Ranier Maria Rilke
