Experience is a river that never stops coming.
Often we need to empty ourselves of conclusions, judgments and
preconceptions in order to meet whatever comes our way...
The early monastic vow of poverty was based on the need to empty,
as a way to involve a deeper form of listening.
In its original intent we find that poverty of mind reflects a quietude
that can restore an inner emptiness. Poverty in an inner sense means
a divestment of all the distractions that occupy the mind. It means an
emptying of the interior belongings that keep us from the essential
experience of being that waits beneath all our human noise.
[We] must carry less - must put down the wounds that clog
and weigh the heart. We must risk being touched [by life].
Often we need to empty ourselves of conclusions, judgments and
preconceptions in order to meet whatever comes our way...
The early monastic vow of poverty was based on the need to empty,
as a way to involve a deeper form of listening.
In its original intent we find that poverty of mind reflects a quietude
that can restore an inner emptiness. Poverty in an inner sense means
a divestment of all the distractions that occupy the mind. It means an
emptying of the interior belongings that keep us from the essential
experience of being that waits beneath all our human noise.
[We] must carry less - must put down the wounds that clog
and weigh the heart. We must risk being touched [by life].
[But] letting go is not just about putting things down.
On a deeper plane, letting go is about letting your heart crumble,
about letting yourself be rearranged by the journey of being alive.
To soften and crumble is not to die. It simply allows us to change.
It is a call to enter the unknown.
On a deeper plane, letting go is about letting your heart crumble,
about letting yourself be rearranged by the journey of being alive.
To soften and crumble is not to die. It simply allows us to change.
It is a call to enter the unknown.
When we can admit who we are, and give voice to what lives inside us,
[all that we feel and experience], that very act opens us like an inlet
and lets the depths of being rush in. For in admitting who we are lets
the mysteries of life enter us.
We are talking about the authenticity of being.
[all that we feel and experience], that very act opens us like an inlet
and lets the depths of being rush in. For in admitting who we are lets
the mysteries of life enter us.
We are talking about the authenticity of being.
From - The Exquisite Risk: Daring To Live An Authentic Life
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