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Activity can be fun and is surely an important aspect of life. And, like the moon reflecting on calm water, taking time for reflection reminds us how intricately woven we are within the bigger picture. In mindful presence, Lori Let the waters settle
and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. —Rumi To withdraw is not necessarily to feel smaller or more confined. Sitting with awareness of your own body, your own self, can put you in touch with your energetic nature, connected and free-flowing with the vast energies of life all around you. In mindful presence, Lori Be empty of worrying
Think of who created thought Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open Move outside the tangle of fear thinking Live in silence Flow down and down Into always widening Rings of being. —Rumi Life seems to be full of suffering and challenge. At the same time, there is much beauty and magnificence. If life were all pleasant, we wouldn’t have much need to grow, learn, and evolve. It is challenge that helps us find strength we didn’t know we had and new ways we didn’t know existed. In mindful presence, Lori A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
—Lewis Mumford It is rather surreal to suddenly press the pause button on your active life and withdraw, sheltering in place. How strange it is to be immersed in this different reality, as though you have slipped through a portal into an alternate universe. We are adaptable creatures. Can you stand in this “new” reality with curiosity and presence? In mindful presence, Lori Oceans
I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing…Silence…Waves… —Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life? —Juan Ramon Jimenez We spend a lot of time cogitating on how things should be different, how someone or something could be better. The panel of commentators in your brain likes to have opinions and solve problems. AND the brain is also capable of opening, like a vast sky of awareness, to welcome what is already here. Is this a safe moment where action is not immediately necessary? If so, can this moment be enough for now? In mindful presence, Lori Mind Wanting More
Only a beige slat of sun above the horizon, like a shade pulled not quite down. Otherwise, clouds. Sea rippled here and there. Birds reluctant to fly. The mind wants a shaft of sun to stir the grey porridge of clouds, an osprey to stitch sea to sky with its barred wings, some dramatic music: a symphony, perhaps a Chinese gong. But the mind always wants more than it has-- one more bright day of sun, one more clear night in bed with the moon; one more hour to get the words right; one more chance for the heart in hiding to emerge from its thicket in dried grasses—as if this quiet day with its tentative light weren't enough, as if joy weren't strewn all around. —Holly Hughes |
AuthorLori Furbush teaches Qigong, Yin Yoga, & Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She weaves MINDFULNESS & RELAXATION into every moment. Archives
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