Lighten up
Incense burning, a gentle breeze blowing in the window, rain pattering on the roof and a peaceful mind. For now......can never be sure how long that last one will last so better enjoy it while it is here. About to launch in to a second article in the vein of the much admired Stephanie Dowrick and her column in the Good Weekend. Hope to show a little of her wisdom and humility while I try to gather a few stories together to send to the paper in the hope of being published. Can only keep trying.
I wrote the heading above off the top of my head but it is probably a message to myself and all of us to take ourselves a little less seriously. To keep on trying with whatever it is that we want to achieve but to know that it may not come out the way we had planned and then to accept what is. Not much of what we chase after or worry about really matters anyway so we may as well have a giggle as we go about our business and watch what unfolds before us. To be gentle with ourselves and others knowing that we all try our best with what we have got and that life is too short to get caught up in the details.
My darling Nan who died a few weeks short of 93 years old said, as most do, that life goes very fast. I think all that really matters is that we love as best we can and as wide as we can. Love does not run out, we can spread our net as wide as we like and even love people we don't know simply through our wish to do so. As my Buddhist teacher says, don't go hugging the bus driver or people will think you are weird. But we can hold the thought and awareness of everyone's preciousness in our minds and probably find that it makes us very happy to do so.
Anyway, I've got work to and the incense stick is almost burnt out. Later, love K.xx
I wrote the heading above off the top of my head but it is probably a message to myself and all of us to take ourselves a little less seriously. To keep on trying with whatever it is that we want to achieve but to know that it may not come out the way we had planned and then to accept what is. Not much of what we chase after or worry about really matters anyway so we may as well have a giggle as we go about our business and watch what unfolds before us. To be gentle with ourselves and others knowing that we all try our best with what we have got and that life is too short to get caught up in the details.
My darling Nan who died a few weeks short of 93 years old said, as most do, that life goes very fast. I think all that really matters is that we love as best we can and as wide as we can. Love does not run out, we can spread our net as wide as we like and even love people we don't know simply through our wish to do so. As my Buddhist teacher says, don't go hugging the bus driver or people will think you are weird. But we can hold the thought and awareness of everyone's preciousness in our minds and probably find that it makes us very happy to do so.
Anyway, I've got work to and the incense stick is almost burnt out. Later, love K.xx
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