Just be present, and let everything be.

Stop pushing against the moment,

stop resisting what already is.

You don’t need to fix it,

change it,

judge it,

or escape from it.

Let go of the striving,

the grasping,

the tightening around how life should be.

There is peace in your softness.

A deeper stillness in surrender.

Let what comes, come.

Let what goes, go.

Stand as the witness,

aware,

open,

untouched at your core.

Even if the mind races,

even if emotions swell,

you can remain here,

in this space of allowing.

No pushing.

No pulling.

Just presence.

The breath flows in,

the breath flows out.

Life moves,

and you remain still within it.

This is not giving up.

This is waking up,

to the quiet intelligence moving through all things.

You don’t have to hold the world up.

You only have to let go.

In surrender,

there is freedom.

In stillness,

clarity.

In simply being,

you return home.

~Mary Anne Byrne

measuring ways to be….

inquiry for today~ don’t try so hard today….

for the heart & soul….

Be still, my soul, and steadfast.
Earth and heaven both are still watching
though time is draining from the clock
and your walk, that was confident and quick,
has become slow.

So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
Love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience. Let God and the world
know you are grateful. That the gift has been given.

~Mary Oliver