“Don’t tell me how wonderful
things will be…someday. Show me you can risk being completely at peace, truly
okay with the way things are right now in this moment, and again in the next
and the next and the next… Here is the question: Are you willing to be completely
at peace with how things are right now in your life? Are you willing for just
one moment to let go of all your dissatisfaction, of all your suffering about
how things are? Are you willing to let go of all the worry and tension in your
body and simply breathe? I think of happiness as the delight I have when I am
aware of being completely at peace and fully present with myself and the world
just the way it is in this moment. It is a lack of suffering plus a
self-reflectivity that makes the peace I am feeling a conscious state of
awareness. I am not simply at peace, I am aware that I am at peace—happy. So,
are you willing to be happy?”
“If I want to live my ability
to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all—the joy and
the sorrow—I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that
support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me
feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.”
“What if the task is simply
to unfold, to become who you already are in your essential nature—gentle,
compassionate, and capable of living fully and passionately present? How would
this affect how you feel when you wake up in the morning?”
Excerpts from -The Dance: Moving to the Deep Rhythms of Your Life
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Lovely!
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