Mindy finished the last blog post by including the lyrics to a favourite song of hers, and I will start this week's with some words from a song dear to my heart, “This must be the place” by The Talking Heads:
Home, is where I want to be But I guess I'm already there I come home, she lifted up her wings I guess that this must be the place ******** I’m sitting at my favourite coffee shop, which I like to call my “office’, because I tend to much of my school and job related work there. I’m eavesdropping on a conversation: two young gentlemen chatting about new year’s resolution. They're trying to find balance, cut things out, be more productive. And I love New Year’s resolutions. I’m into goal setting. The way we’ve delineated how we measure time is arbitrary, sure, but we need the New Year, don’t we? The promise of fresh starts. Change. Making commitments. My gemini nature LOVES change. I dig stimulation, activity, novelty, trying new things. I don’t fight my nature, mostly. However, as Mindy mused about in the previous blog post, it’s so essential for us to continually come back to presence, to move away from our constant desire for external things. What good are all these fresh experiences if I’m not present within them? How do I discern between that which I do need to change or shift, and then realizing what’s fine just as it is? So. If we come back to breath, presence, to the moment (which is all we ever really have), then: what are the questions that our hearts ask? Sit down. Put your hand on your heart. Feel your breath. You are here. In this moment. What questions come to you, what longings? Might they be linked to our communal and eternal desire for wholeness and connection? What does connection look like to you? How can you connect more deeply with yourself? How can you remember that you are, so very much, enough? You always have been, and you always will be. How can that connection be fostered with those around you? How can a stranger become a friend, in just moments? How can you have moments, connected moments, with the person who makes a coffee for you? With your neighbour, the one you’d really like to get to know, but you feel a little shy around? How about that co-worker who aggravates you? How can you you show them you understand that life is painful at times, and perhaps particularly difficult for them, but that we’re all in this together? And what, in those encounters, are you learning about yourself and the universe? I say you, but of course I mean we. Ram Dass says: "We’re all just walking each other home”. When I’m having one of those days in which I feel as if nothing makes sense, and my heart hurts, I try to return to that idea. How can I nurture that feeling of ‘home’ within myself? How can I take it out into the world? Home is where the heart is.
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