We often think of rest as something that will come to us
when everything else in our lives is complete: at the end of
the day, when we go on holiday, or get through our to-do
lists. We imagine that we can only find rest by changing our
circumstances. [But] we can find a place of rest within us,
without having to alter the conditions of our lives.
when everything else in our lives is complete: at the end of
the day, when we go on holiday, or get through our to-do
lists. We imagine that we can only find rest by changing our
circumstances. [But] we can find a place of rest within us,
without having to alter the conditions of our lives.
This place of rest is always available to us. We need only
turn toward it. It is experienced when we bring full attention,
without distraction, to this moment, to this activity. After
some time of doing this, we can come to know this
spaciousness as a regular part of our lives. It manifests
as an aspect of us that is never sick, is not born, and does
not die...
turn toward it. It is experienced when we bring full attention,
without distraction, to this moment, to this activity. After
some time of doing this, we can come to know this
spaciousness as a regular part of our lives. It manifests
as an aspect of us that is never sick, is not born, and does
not die...
When we are caught in a time driven mentality or tumbling
unconsciously from one moment to the next, we become a
prisoner of our thoughts. We get trapped in a jail of our own
construction. We want to spin plates, juggle balls, and live
two dreams at once. We end up being addicted to busy. We
confuse rest with non-productivity, and laziness. We race
from one activity to the next. Yet we do it all in a continuous
state of partial attention, imagining we are accomplishing
more, when in reality we are living less.
unconsciously from one moment to the next, we become a
prisoner of our thoughts. We get trapped in a jail of our own
construction. We want to spin plates, juggle balls, and live
two dreams at once. We end up being addicted to busy. We
confuse rest with non-productivity, and laziness. We race
from one activity to the next. Yet we do it all in a continuous
state of partial attention, imagining we are accomplishing
more, when in reality we are living less.
Rest is found when we are present instead of letting our
minds wander through the hallways of fear, worry and
anxiousness. Rest comes when we become more by doing
less, when we don't allow the urgent crowd out the important.
It is the result of a decluttering of the mind and decoupling
from fixed views.
If we drop beneath the surface of our minds, we encounter
a vast, serene calmness. We don't need to be swept away
by the surface currents. We can find a natural place of rest...
minds wander through the hallways of fear, worry and
anxiousness. Rest comes when we become more by doing
less, when we don't allow the urgent crowd out the important.
It is the result of a decluttering of the mind and decoupling
from fixed views.
If we drop beneath the surface of our minds, we encounter
a vast, serene calmness. We don't need to be swept away
by the surface currents. We can find a natural place of rest...
Surface mind reacts. When you travel into the calm depths,
the place of rest, you can act from a place of wisdom and
compassion, allowing whatever needs to happen, happen...
We surrender our strategies and resistance and open to
what is unfolding...
the place of rest, you can act from a place of wisdom and
compassion, allowing whatever needs to happen, happen...
We surrender our strategies and resistance and open to
what is unfolding...
We come to rest in the depth of our Essential Nature.
Frank Ostaseski
From: The Five Invitations
From: The Five Invitations
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Photo - Mystic Meandering
Needed to read this. As always thank you for sharing words of Wisdom.
ReplyDeleteAm glad it was helpful... I needed to read them again! So thank you for your comment which brought my attention back to this post and Frank's wise words... :)
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