#presence — Public Fediverse posts

I've been sitting with something all week: the self-improvement industry has trained us to treat ourselves like projects. Always optimizing, always behind, always one more goal away from being enough. But inner peace isn't something you achieve. It's what's left when you stop chasing and start noticing. You are not a project. You are a person. That distinction changes everything.
#InnerPeace #Mindfulness #Presence #Wellbeing

Worrywart

I am a worrier.

Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.

I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.

That way I won’t be surprised.

It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.

Or faith in God.

Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.

I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…

Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.

I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.

Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.

An old song comes to mind . . .  “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”

Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …

It is time once again to release the reins.

September 11, 2014

Worrywart

I am a worrier.

Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.

I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.

That way I won’t be surprised.

It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.

Or faith in God.

Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.

I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…

Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.

I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.

Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.

An old song comes to mind . . .  “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”

Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …

It is time once again to release the reins.

September 11, 2014

Worrywart

I am a worrier.

Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.

I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.

That way I won’t be surprised.

It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.

Or faith in God.

Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.

I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…

Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.

I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.

Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.

An old song comes to mind . . .  “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”

Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …

It is time once again to release the reins.

September 11, 2014

Worrywart

I am a worrier.

Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.

I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.

That way I won’t be surprised.

It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.

Or faith in God.

Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.

I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…

Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.

I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.

Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.

An old song comes to mind . . .  “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”

Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …

It is time once again to release the reins.

September 11, 2014

Worrywart

I am a worrier.

Somehow I think that worrying gives me a measure of control over uncontrollable situations.

I have this idea that if I constantly imagine the worst-case scenario, then it won’t happen. A prediction of a morbid future somehow keeps it at bay.

That way I won’t be surprised.

It might be true or not, but it doesn’t leave much room for positive thoughts.

Or faith in God.

Worrying is just another side of fear, fear running roughshod over trusting the freedom of choice.

I worry a loved one may hurt herself. It would hurt deeply, but what can my worrying do? Except exacerbate the situation by keeping me from being centered, present, prayerful, and hopeful…

Trust is not the answer to worry. Prayer is.

I cannot begin to count the number of years accumulated from the hundreds of sleepless nights I have spent in fretful worry or rage.

Anger is simply another side of the restless coin. I do not believe that God can handle the situation, conversation, conflict, relationship . . . so I must carry on endless conversations in my head rather than simply releasing everything in prayer.

An old song comes to mind . . .  “bigger than all my problems, bigger than all my fears, God is bigger than any mountain that I can or cannot see.”

Let go and let God. Trite perhaps. But in essence quite correct. My hands have become arthritic talons from holding on to so many regrets, slights, grudges, dreams, hurts, wishes …

It is time once again to release the reins.

September 11, 2014

Watching people today talk about choosing peace over achievement, and I feel it in my bones. Not because ambition is wrong — but because I've sat across from too many people who got everything they chased and still felt empty. Peace isn't the reward at the end of the race. It's the ground you stand on while you run. You can choose it right now. This moment. This breath.
#InnerPeace #Mindfulness #Presence #WellBeing #SelfCare

THE NOW
How Eckhart Tolle’s Teachings Helped Me See the Present Moment Differently

What began as something I read during a difficult period of my life gradually became something I learned to experience through breath, awareness, and simply being here.

Link below 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/the-now-6065ac3e1d67?sk=186c2fd45e0bdc7891c7cee87715c4f2

#Mindfulness #Presence #PersonalGrowth

THE NOW
How Eckhart Tolle’s Teachings Helped Me See the Present Moment Differently

What began as something I read during a difficult period of my life gradually became something I learned to experience through breath, awareness, and simply being here.

Link below 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/the-now-6065ac3e1d67?sk=186c2fd45e0bdc7891c7cee87715c4f2

#Mindfulness #Presence #PersonalGrowth

THE NOW
How Eckhart Tolle’s Teachings Helped Me See the Present Moment Differently

What began as something I read during a difficult period of my life gradually became something I learned to experience through breath, awareness, and simply being here.

Link below 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/the-now-6065ac3e1d67?sk=186c2fd45e0bdc7891c7cee87715c4f2

#Mindfulness #Presence #PersonalGrowth

THE NOW
How Eckhart Tolle’s Teachings Helped Me See the Present Moment Differently

What began as something I read during a difficult period of my life gradually became something I learned to experience through breath, awareness, and simply being here.

Link below 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/the-now-6065ac3e1d67?sk=186c2fd45e0bdc7891c7cee87715c4f2

#Mindfulness #Presence #PersonalGrowth

THE NOW
How Eckhart Tolle’s Teachings Helped Me See the Present Moment Differently

What began as something I read during a difficult period of my life gradually became something I learned to experience through breath, awareness, and simply being here.

Link below 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/the-now-6065ac3e1d67?sk=186c2fd45e0bdc7891c7cee87715c4f2

#Mindfulness #Presence #PersonalGrowth

Saw a question today: comfort or inner peace? I've been sitting with it, and here's what I keep coming back to. Comfort is a cushion — it softens the fall but doesn't keep you standing. Inner peace is the ground itself. It doesn't stop the rain, but it means you're not standing on quicksand when it comes. I'll take the ground every time.
#InnerPeace #Mindfulness #Wellness #Presence

" #Mamdani has to make a speech for #911memorial, he's the #mayor of #NewYorkCity!"
Er, no, he doesn't. Mayorship doesn't mean you get the lion's share of speaking engagements. Memorials are about #accompaniment, #bearingwitmess, #platforming others, especially #survivors and #victimfamilies, and #presence. For some moments in life there are no words.

Salutation

https://dandanjean.com/2026/09/06/salutation/

ORDRE TU (Gabrielle Althen)

https://arbrealettres.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/ordre-tu-gabrielle-althen/

J’aime

https://dandanjean.com/2026/08/29/jaime/

PEURS (Supervielle)

https://arbrealettres.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/peurs-supervielle/

I CAN BE SAD
WITHOUT MAKING IT A PROJECT 💎

Something happened recently in a close friendship. Nothing dramatic. No great argument. No doors slammed. Just that peculiar feeling of someone becoming more distant.

And immediately the mind went to work. What happened? Was it something I said? Should I explain? Should I write? Should I wait? Should I repair something? Have I misunderstood?

Round and round, the monkey mind had me well and truly by the short and curlies.

And then this morning I remembered one of my favourite lines from A Course in Miracles:

“I need do nothing.”

And for once I took it absolutely literally.

THERE IS NOTHING I NEED TO DO.

I don't need to chase anyone. I don't need to work out what another person is thinking. I don't need to manufacture an explanation for their behaviour. I don't even need to make myself feel better about it.

That last bit matters. “I need do nothing” isn't a clever way of getting rid of sadness. The sadness can be here.

WHAT DISAPPEARS IS THE ASSIGNMENT.

I wonder how much of our lives we spend trying to mentally manage things that are already happening. Other people's feelings. Their decisions. Whether they stay. Whether they leave. What they think of us. What tomorrow might bring.

We call much of this thinking. Quite a lot of it is attempted control.

Sometimes there really is something to do. Apologise. Speak. Act. Help. Change something.

AND SOMETIMES THERE SIMPLY ISN'T.

This morning, there isn't.

The sadness may still be here. But there is nothing I need to do about it.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek


#ACIM #ACourseInMiracles #Stillness #LettingGo #Presence #Acceptance #Peace #Friendship #Sadness #MonkeyMind #Control #NothingToFix #people #monkey #mind

Ni l’un ni l’autre

https://dandanjean.com/2026/08/17/ni-lun-ni-lautre/

APPARENTLY, I APPEAR
TO HAVE STOPPED TRYING 💎

Isn't there something slightly absurd about discovering a little peace and immediately wanting to explain it to everybody?

The mind says: Tell them. Teach it. Turn it into something useful.

But the present moment seems completely uninterested in becoming a philosophy.

It is already here.

Coffee. Fire. Bright but cold outside. A dog moving across the room. A conversation with Pete. A body breathing.

Nothing particularly spiritual about any of it.

Perhaps that is the difficulty.

Striving is often regarded as serious, while presence can look like laziness. Planning looks responsible. Regret looks thoughtful. Simply being present can look suspiciously like doing nothing.

And yet everything that actually happens happens here and now.

The past can be remembered. The future can be imagined. Neither can be lived.

So perhaps there is nothing to teach. Nothing to defend. And nothing to broadcast.

Just this.

And then this.

And then this...
--------------------------------------------
@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works

#presence #now #stillness #ACIM #mindfulness #ordinarylife #peace #philosophy #future #broadcast #Regret #mind #person #man #woman

DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎

I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.

And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.

If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.

I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.

Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.

But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.

I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.

Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.

And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.

And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.

The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.

Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.

None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.

Gratitude.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#death #mortality #afterlife #consciousness #spirituality #ACIM #clarity #gratitude #presence #ordinarylife #mystery #life #openweb #human #person #spider #Economics #Housing #CostOfLiving
#Meditation #Breathwork #Fediverse #OpenWeb #BigTech

Lucioles

https://dandanjean.com/2026/08/09/lucioles/

I can't recreate the Himalayas, but I carry something.

Once a week I practice silence mornings, harder in the city, but that's the practice.

How do you find stillness in your ordinary life, not waiting for perfect conditions?

#dailypractice #mindfulness #ordinarylife
#meditation #silence #presence
#spiritualpractice #contemplativelife #yogaphilosophy

A PATH WORTH EXPLORING.
START HERE. 💎

This is a path I've found extremely useful.

If you'd like to explore it, I've collected the resources that have helped me here:

https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Breathwork #OceanBreath #ReconnectBreath #ConsciousBreathing #Sleep #Wellbeing #Health #Healing #Mindfulness #Presence #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth #Life #AI #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM

A PATH WORTH EXPLORING.
START HERE. 💎

This is a path I've found extremely useful.

If you'd like to explore it, I've collected the resources that have helped me here:

https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Breathwork #OceanBreath #ReconnectBreath #ConsciousBreathing #Sleep #Wellbeing #Health #Healing #Mindfulness #Presence #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth #Life #AI #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM

A PATH WORTH EXPLORING.
START HERE. 💎

This is a path I've found extremely useful.

If you'd like to explore it, I've collected the resources that have helped me here:

https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Breathwork #OceanBreath #ReconnectBreath #ConsciousBreathing #Sleep #Wellbeing #Health #Healing #Mindfulness #Presence #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth #Life #AI #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM

A PATH WORTH EXPLORING.
START HERE. 💎

This is a path I've found extremely useful.

If you'd like to explore it, I've collected the resources that have helped me here:

https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Breathwork #OceanBreath #ReconnectBreath #ConsciousBreathing #Sleep #Wellbeing #Health #Healing #Mindfulness #Presence #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth #Life #AI #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM

A PATH WORTH EXPLORING.
START HERE. 💎

This is a path I've found extremely useful.

If you'd like to explore it, I've collected the resources that have helped me here:

https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Breathwork #OceanBreath #ReconnectBreath #ConsciousBreathing #Sleep #Wellbeing #Health #Healing #Mindfulness #Presence #SelfDiscovery #PersonalGrowth #Life #AI #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM

SLEEP IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO EVERYTHING ELSE 💎

In sleep, your body self-repairs.

Your brain restores itself.

And your nervous system settles.

If sleep isn’t coming easily, try five or ten minutes of conscious breathing.

Draw a long, slow in-breath.

Then let the out-breath be even longer.

Keep going.

For me, Ocean Breath is the doorway into deep, restful sleep.

Never underestimate a good night’s sleep.

Everything else depends on it.
________________________________
Find Kevin Connelly's Reconnect
Breathwork here: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Sleep #Breathwork #OceanBreath #ConsciousBreathing #NervousSystem #Recovery #Healing #Wellbeing #Health #Relaxation #Rest #Mindfulness #Presence #Peace

SLEEP IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO EVERYTHING ELSE 💎

In sleep, your body self-repairs.

Your brain restores itself.

And your nervous system settles.

If sleep isn’t coming easily, try five or ten minutes of conscious breathing.

Draw a long, slow in-breath.

Then let the out-breath be even longer.

Keep going.

For me, Ocean Breath is the doorway into deep, restful sleep.

Never underestimate a good night’s sleep.

Everything else depends on it.
________________________________
Find Kevin Connelly's Reconnect
Breathwork here: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Sleep #Breathwork #OceanBreath #ConsciousBreathing #NervousSystem #Recovery #Healing #Wellbeing #Health #Relaxation #Rest #Mindfulness #Presence #Peace

SLEEP IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO EVERYTHING ELSE 💎

In sleep, your body self-repairs.

Your brain restores itself.

And your nervous system settles.

If sleep isn’t coming easily, try five or ten minutes of conscious breathing.

Draw a long, slow in-breath.

Then let the out-breath be even longer.

Keep going.

For me, Ocean Breath is the doorway into deep, restful sleep.

Never underestimate a good night’s sleep.

Everything else depends on it.
________________________________
Find Kevin Connelly's Reconnect
Breathwork here: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Sleep #Breathwork #OceanBreath #ConsciousBreathing #NervousSystem #Recovery #Healing #Wellbeing #Health #Relaxation #Rest #Mindfulness #Presence #Peace

SLEEP IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO EVERYTHING ELSE 💎

In sleep, your body self-repairs.

Your brain restores itself.

And your nervous system settles.

If sleep isn’t coming easily, try five or ten minutes of conscious breathing.

Draw a long, slow in-breath.

Then let the out-breath be even longer.

Keep going.

For me, Ocean Breath is the doorway into deep, restful sleep.

Never underestimate a good night’s sleep.

Everything else depends on it.
________________________________
Find Kevin Connelly's Reconnect
Breathwork here: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Sleep #Breathwork #OceanBreath #ConsciousBreathing #NervousSystem #Recovery #Healing #Wellbeing #Health #Relaxation #Rest #Mindfulness #Presence #Peace

SLEEP IS FUNDAMENTAL
TO EVERYTHING ELSE 💎

In sleep, your body self-repairs.

Your brain restores itself.

And your nervous system settles.

If sleep isn’t coming easily, try five or ten minutes of conscious breathing.

Draw a long, slow in-breath.

Then let the out-breath be even longer.

Keep going.

For me, Ocean Breath is the doorway into deep, restful sleep.

Never underestimate a good night’s sleep.

Everything else depends on it.
________________________________
Find Kevin Connelly's Reconnect
Breathwork here: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3

#Sleep #Breathwork #OceanBreath #ConsciousBreathing #NervousSystem #Recovery #Healing #Wellbeing #Health #Relaxation #Rest #Mindfulness #Presence #Peace

My breath practice showed me the doorway. Sleep helped me pass through.

#Breathwork #OceanBreath #Sleep #Peace #Stillness #LettingGo #Trust #Rest #Presence #Healing #NervousSystem #Mindfulness #Wellbeing #Life

Mémoire musique Ain’t No Sunshine

Un chanteur de Québec, qui est décédé en 2016. On pouvait l’entendre dans les bars de la ville. Que de beaux moments et une voix exceptionnelle.

Bob Walsh – Ain’t No Sunshine

Les paroles sur https://www.lacoccinelle.net/246871-bill-withers-ain-t-no-sunshine.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjaTjhMWdOU

Les bienfaits de la nature sur notre santé

Il y a mille et une façons de profiter d’un parc ou d’une forêt, mais avez-vous déjà pensé à les utiliser pour augmenter votre concentration ou réduire votre stress? Les bienfaits sur la santé mentale sont démontrés scientifiquement. Seulement 20 minutes par jour d’exposition à la nature suffisent à vous faire du bien. Adoptez le réflexe nature pour votre santé!

Les bienfaits de la nature sur notre santé physique et psychologique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUBpfALg_Q

morning chill—
I'm reminded to stay
in the present moment

#haiku #Impermanence
#presence #dailyhaikuprompt

Avec l’autre

Il arrive un moment où l’autre n’est plus interchangeable. Il ne fait plus partie d’un ensemble vague. Il prend une place précise, une place qui ne se remplit pas autrement.

Quand l’autre commence à compter, la relation à déjà fait son travail. Le lien s’est tissé sans bruit par la répétition, par l’attente, par le temps partagé.

Rien n’a changé extérieurement, mais tout a changé intérieurement. Ce n’est pas l’autre qui est devenu différent, c’est la relation qui a crée une singularité.

Compter pour quelqu’un ne signifie pas être possédé, cela signifie être reconnu, exister pour l’autre au-delà de l’utilité ou de la fonction. Ce moment est beau, mais il reste fragile, car reconnaître l’importance de l’autre, c’est accepter de devenir vulnérable. Quand l’autre commence à compter, la relation change de nature, elle n’est plus un passage, elle devient un lieu où quelque chose engage, et c’est souvent là que l’attente porte enfin son fruit.

Geoffrey Wion Florens dans S’asseoir un peu plus près

Une pièce musicale de Pat Metheny – Alfie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWaXHq33OiA

La beauté d’Akira Kurosawa

La cinématographie de l’œuvre d’Akira Kurosawa

The Beauty Of Akira Kurosawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCFU6Z0w04&list=RD_WCFU6Z0w04&start_radio=1

La beauté d’Akira Kurosawa

La cinématographie de l’œuvre d’Akira Kurosawa

The Beauty Of Akira Kurosawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCFU6Z0w04&list=RD_WCFU6Z0w04&start_radio=1

La beauté d’Akira Kurosawa

La cinématographie de l’œuvre d’Akira Kurosawa

The Beauty Of Akira Kurosawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCFU6Z0w04&list=RD_WCFU6Z0w04&start_radio=1

La beauté d’Akira Kurosawa

La cinématographie de l’œuvre d’Akira Kurosawa

The Beauty Of Akira Kurosawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCFU6Z0w04&list=RD_WCFU6Z0w04&start_radio=1

La beauté d’Akira Kurosawa

La cinématographie de l’œuvre d’Akira Kurosawa

The Beauty Of Akira Kurosawa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCFU6Z0w04&list=RD_WCFU6Z0w04&start_radio=1

Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

Storm Surge

In the end,
will you be faithful?
That is question.

When the storm has come and gone,
when what you thought was precious has been stripped away,
when you sleep in darkness wondering if the lights will ever come back on,
when your life in the flash of lightning reverts back to the everyday of your sisters and brothers in the warzone,
when your plane to those destinations is grounded by the thunder’s roar?

Will you awake to new resolve for justice?
Will you spend less time before the screen and more time present to loved ones and those in need of it?
Will you leave the ground to alight among the troubled?
Will you listen to them?

Will the power that comes on be in you,
through you,
glowing out through your eyes,
electrifying,
filling you with a compassion so compelling
you become a wire
among many
channeling
love and peace
to the world?

June 2, 2015

The physical part of running a marathon is the easy part.

The mental challenge is where you discover who you are. When doubt appeared, I didn't fight it, I returned to my breath.

When do you find it hardest to stay present?

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