being present
on being in the moment
Stuart Evans and
being present
The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.
∆ Rodger Kamenetz, from Terra Infirma (University of Arkansas Press, 1985)
Less fomo, more jomo
First of all, I think you’re documenting too much if there’s things that you document that you don’t go back to.
Becca Rashid • Can We Keep Time?
Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through.
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I wonder if sunflowers feel lonely; they might not even notice each other standing in a field of flowers. They are too busy trying to see and be seen by the sun. Chasing the light, not unlike how we chase visibility, failing to recognize those around us, and those absent.
