June 13, 2022
Why do you pause? Why do you take this moment and stop, so that you can tend to your body, mind, heart, and spirit?
I know for me, although it brings peace and groundedness to my moment of chaos, it also has become the way I can help put my ego in the back seat everyday. And when I do that, I can actually see, discern, move and love in a way that does not expect anything in return. I can be transformed and that transformation can spill out over into my actions.
In today’s episode we will picture ourselves in a wide-open tent, where we feel grounded, calm, clear, and open. We will experience how it feels to be a peace. And then we will identify a situation in our lives where we are opposite of that – and imagine bringing our tent to that situation.
Our listening portion today is from Rilke’s Book of Hours:
Each thing –
Each stone, blossom, child –
Is held in place.
Only we, in our arrogance,
Push out beyond what we each belong to
For some empty freedom.
If we surrendered
To earth’s intelligence
We could rise up rooted, like trees.
Instead we entangle ourselves
In knots of our own making
And struggle, lonely and confused.
So, like children, we begin again
To learn from the things,
Because they are in God’s heart;
They have never left.
Ranier Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
