"Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way we like to dream about. The off center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limits. It's a very tender, non aggressive, open ended state of affairs."I think it was Richard Rohr that said that. When I think about living in the "in-between state" I'm thinking of the moment. It's all that exists. Hanging onto the past...good or bad...or expecting an imagined uncertain future to materialize just sets me up to be a manipulative control freak and that's anything but a tender, non aggressive, open ended state of affairs.
I've always got an eye to the sky, especially the morning and evening sky or as storm clouds are rolling in. There is never two that are the same and this is a great reminder to me at all times that the moment I am presently in will pass and never ever happen again. Expectations keep me all knotted up and set me up to miss it.
2 comments:
Beautiful and so true. Takes time to practice, but so worth it...
could we say that the practice of the new is just an intrigal part of repentance?
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