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Just for now.

Just for now....

Just for now

without asking how, 

let yourself sink into stillness. 

Just for now, 

lay down the weight you so patiently bear upon your shoulders.

Feel the earth receive you, and the infinite expanse of the sky grow even wider as your awareness reaches up to meet it. 

Just for now, 

allow the wave of breath to enliven your experience. 

Breathe out whatever blocks you from the truth. 

Just for now, 

Be boundless, free, with awakened energy tingling in your hands and feet. 

Drink in the possibility of being who and what you really are-

so fully alive that the world looks different, newly born and vibrant, 

Just for now...

---- (Dana Faulds)

These Few Words.

Pines at the old reservoir walking track at Langi Ghiran near Ararat , Victoria.

These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.

This opening to the life
we have refused
again and again
until now.

Until now.

David Whyte

Wonderful poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

Wonderful poem by Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
It is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
—Naomi Shihab Nye

The Five Mindfulness Trainings

The Art Of Disappearing (Naomi Shihab Nye)

The Art Of Disappearing (Naomi Shihab Nye)

When they say Don’t I know you?

say no.

When they invite you to the party

remember what parties are like

before answering.

Someone telling you in a loud voice

they once wrote a poem.

Greasy sausage balls on a paper plate.

Then reply.

If they say we should get together.

say why?

It’s not that you don’t love them any more.

You’re trying to remember something

too important to forget.

Trees. The monastery bell at twilight.

Tell them you have a new project.

It will never be finished.

When someone recognizes you in a grocery store

nod briefly and become a cabbage.

When someone you haven’t seen in ten years

appears at the door,

don’t start singing him all your new songs.

You will never catch up.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead Part 1: A Way of Life (Narration by Leonard...