But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else...
#Murakami “The Seventh Man”
They tell us that the only thing to fear is fear itself but I don’t believe that... Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us.
As I lie in the grass and on a windless day, only the spirits tickle my impressed form. A leaf gently finds the easiest path to the Earth, twisting and turning. I arose like a scarecrow to return to my work. #vss365
Grass whistles tunes that even I can’t understand. As the moon floated through a hazy cloud, an 8 point buck told me to stick to my path. Restored, renewed I ran through the tall flora and at home I lived again. #vss365
Mindfulness promotes itself as value-neutral but it is loaded with (troubling) assumptions about the self and the cosmos. Editors’ pick: https://t.co/gRGExX54ZX