‘Souls with dreams behind every window…’

Jennifer Rose.

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If you try to comprehend air

before breathing it,

you will die.

We can only consider things so long. After a while, all the information – – all the options and opinions – – will begin to weight us down. After our deeper eyes have seen the situation, all the well-meaning voices telling us what we should or should not do will start to feel like strings we can’t cut through.

It is natural enough to be cautious and thoughtful, especially when faced with important decisions, but often the only way to know what awaits us is to live it.

This brings to mind the revelation that came upon a Hindu sage centuries ago, One day in the middle of their morning prayers, the sage suddenly rose and ushered his students away from the monastery. He rushed about them and shooed them back into life like little ducks, proclaiming, “the day is to be experienced, not understood.”

[meditation]

° Center ourself while holding a glass of water and an empty cup.

° Consider the choices that away you while during the water from one glass to the other.

° When you tire of the pouring, breathe deeply and drink the water.

° Now enter your life.

Mark Nepo/Book of Awakening