
What practice do you follow to maintain/recover your balance and harmony? How do you sustain your focus? Your direction? Your connection to the central pole, the axis mundi, of the turning/heaving/crashing/chaotic world? What brings you back to who you are-- to your original nature and the innate virtues/traits/characteristics that are yours from birth? An abiding relationship with art, music and nature is traditional with the species for providing a restorative association with the other side. Reducing the amount of noise, complexity and drama, and increasing the time spent with emptiness, stillness and silence will reestablish contact between the mover and the moved. I look out the window. Take photographs. Write these monologues with the Muse. We find our own way to what works for us in returning to the source of balance and harmony, spirit/vitality/vibrancy/life and aligning ourselves with the rhythm and flow of time and place in each situation as it arises-- which becomes our practice, and the ground of our being.
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Thank you,Jim, for writing and sharing these monologues full of wisdom and inspiration.
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To answer your question, I read you for a start.
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I read Jim first thing, too. Starts my day off right!
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To read me is to read who I read, and it is a great circle that encompasses us all–that “great cloud of witnesses,” all of whom know the same things, and are one with all others who know what they know, which is all of us, only some of us don’t know it yet. It is at once great and terrible, wonderful and sad/tragic beyond measure, not knowing what we all know…
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