Pausing can feel uncomfortable when the day is full and your mind is already racing ahead. You might notice restlessness, sadness, or the urge to keep moving.
Try staying for one breath. Feel the ground beneath you and ask, “What matters to me in this moment?” You don’t need to feel calm to begin. The pause gives you a chance to listen before choosing your next step.
~Tara Brach
when the way is awkward…
inquiry for today~ take the long way to know each way…
Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river- small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
~Bertrand Russell
