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There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’. Always better, and more fun, together!
Listen to Jack Johnson sing Banana Pancakes
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do or do not
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
– Miguel Angel Ruiz
Being present lets us experience each moment in our lives in a way that cannot be fully lived through memory or fantasy.
It can be easy for us to walk through the world and our lives without really being present. While dwelling on the past and living for the future are common pastimes, it is physically impossible to live anywhere but the present moment. We cannot step out our front door and take a left turn to May of last year, any more than we can take a right turn to December 2010. Nevertheless, we can easily miss the future we are waiting for as it becomes the now we are too busy to pay attention to. We then spend the rest of our time playing “catch up” to the moment that we just let pass by. During moments like these, it is important to remember that there is only Now.
In order to feel more at home in the present moment, it is important to try to stay aware, open, and receptive. Being in the present moment requires our full attention so that we are fully awake to experience it. When we are fully present, our minds do not wander. We are focused on what is going on right now, rather than thinking about what just happened or worrying about what is going to happen next. Being present lets us experience each moment in our lives in a way that cannot be fully lived through memory or fantasy.
When we begin to corral our attention into the present moment, it can be almost overwhelming to be here. There is a state of stillness that has to happen that can take some getting used to, and the mind chatter that so often gets us into our heads and out of the present moment doesn’t have as much to do. We may feel a lack of control because we aren’t busy planning our next move, assessing our current situation, or anticipating the future. Instead, being present requires that we be flexible, creative, attentive, and spontaneous. Each present moment is completely new, and nothing like it has happened or will ever happen again. As you move through your day, remember to stay present in each moment. In doing so, you will live your life without having to wait for the future or yearn for the past. Life happens to us when we happen to life in the Now.
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Daily Om
There is Only Now
Fresh and Unfixed
by Madisyn Taylor
THE SAFE PATH IS NOT ACTUALLY SAFE. Because what you might lose on the safe path is quite simply: everything. Everything that matters. Your individual essence, your treasure, your vitality, your purpose, your SELF. And that’s the most dangerous thing that can happen to you.
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From Elizabeth Gilbert
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free fall
Only when you are madly in love
can your heart rest,
only asking the scariest questions
are you at peace.
Only when you have lain in your grave
are you truly alive,
only broken open
are you truly whole.
Only on the invisible hand
can you stand safely,
only on the unpredictable grace of God
can you surely rely.
It is only in the raging sea
you are safe,
only in the deep end
you cannot be drowned.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
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inward journey Â
Courage is a word that tempts us to think outwardly, to run bravely against opposing fire, to do something under besieging circumstance, and perhaps, above all, to be seen to do it in public, to show courage; to be celebrated in story, rewarded with medals, given the accolade, but a look at its linguistic origins leads us in a more interior direction and toward its original template, the old Norman French, Coeur, or heart.
Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life, with another, with a community, a work, a future. To be courageous, is not necessarily to go anywhere or do anything except to make conscious those things we already feel deeply and then to live through the unending vulnerabilities of those consequences. To be courageous is to seat our feelings deeply in the body and in the world: to live up to and into the necessities of relationships that often already exist, with things we find we already care deeply about: with a person, a future, a possibility in society, or with an unknown that begs us on and always has begged us on. Whether we stay or whether we go – to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.
– David Whyte
trees, in general; oaks, especially;
burr oaks that survive fire, in particular;
and the generosity of apples
seeds, all of them: carrots like dust,
winged maple, doubled beet, peach kernel;
the inevitability of change
frogsong in spring; cattle
lowing on the farm across the hill;
the melodies of sad old songs
comfort of savory soup;
sweet iced fruit; the aroma of yeast;
a friend’s voice; hard work
seasons; bedrock; lilacs;
moonshadows under the ash grove;
something breaking through
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– Patricia Monaghan: Things to Believe In
higher groundÂ
It’s an interesting
custom, involving such in-
visible items as the food
that’s not on the table, the clothes
that are not on the back
the radio whose only music
is silence. Doing without
is a great protector of reputations
since all places one cannot go
are fabulous, and only the rare and
enlightened plowman in his field
or on his mountain does not overrate
what he does not or cannot have.
Saluting through their windows
of cathedral glass those restaurants
we must not enter (unless like
burglars we become subject to
arrest) we greet with our twinkling
eyes the faces of others who do
without, the lady with the
fishing pole and the man who looks
amused to have discovered on a walk
another piece of firewood.
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Doing Without by David Ray
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Listen to Sara Bareilles sing Between the Lines http://youtu.be/s8e45WHIduM
becoming one
The sojourning spirit is deep within each of us, if we’d listen, but it is not fundamentally about finding ‘the job’ or ‘the voice’ or ‘the degree’ or ‘the position’. The journey, at least as I know it, is a journey to union. It is a journey from fragmentation to wholeness, a journey from exile to home, a journey from attachment to union, a journey from hiding to “being hidden” in Christ, a journey from neurosis to theosis. – Chuck deGroat
being aliveÂ
What is this hand in me, hanging on,
grabbing for what I do not need?
The clinging hand, white knuckled, fretting,
leads me and gets stuck in narrow places.
Grasping, be done. That yearning,
die in me. That whole hand, cut it off. Let it go.
The hand to possess, the foot to be elsewhere,
the eye to colonize, let them go. I am already myself.
Away with longing forever to be otherwise.
Better to enter life—yes, come in, come all the way in—
than stay in the grave the hand holds tight,
the unquenchable fire of always needing more.
Bend my wanting of trinkets, God. Give me thirst
for what is poured into me.
Unable to add to my infinite life,
I will only be this, alive.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
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free to go…Â
Listen to Diana Ross sing Do You Know Where You’re Going To? http://youtu.be/gsA-Xc6gWDE
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giving thanks for a perfect night  Â
important time spent
precious time together.
important words spoken
raw heart truth.
important choices made
driving…driving.
laughter, sunset, baseball, hotdog, peanuts, selfies…shared
the champagne of living.
not to mention the kissing…
mums the word
of the world beyond this world
where only two hearts can belong
and become more than they were before…
together.
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AL
Listen to Todd Rundgren song Love is the Answer http://youtu.be/IjMKz0wCGmw
standing tallÂ
Erik Wahl:
The purpose of art is not to produce a product. The purpose of art is to produce thinking. The secret is not the mechanics or technical skill that create art – but the process of introspection and different levels of contemplation that generate it. Once you learn to embrace this process, your creative potential is limitless.
Artwork should be an active verb (a lens by which to view the world) not a passive noun (a painting that sits dormant in a museum). Creativity lies NOT in the done but in the doing. Art is active and incomplete. Always shifting, always becoming. Art is a sneak peak into the future of potential, of what could be. Not a past result of what has been already done. Art is a process not a product.
Art is a human act. Art is Risky. Generous. Courageous. Provocative. You can be perfect, or you can make art. You can keep track of what you will get in return for your effort, or you can make art. You can enjoy the status quo, or you can make art.
This is the purpose for why art should not be cut from education.
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