October 04, 2023 – A

It isn't what happens to us 
that makes the difference in our life,
but how we respond to what happens to us.

The most important thing
is how we respond the moment
right here, right now,
and what it is asking of us.

The more noise, complexity,
drama, trauma
characterize our life,
the less capable we are
of exhibiting appropriate
response-ability
in the moment-to-moment world
of clashing rocks and heaving waves.

The solution to all of our problems
is living out of 
the right kind of emptiness,
stillness and silence.

Cultivating our relationship
with those things
provides us with the foundation
necessary for meeting 
what meets us in a day
and doing with it 
what needs to be done.

And that is all that can be asked
of any of us.

Though it may have nothing to do
with the accumulation
of wealth, power, success and such.

So, it helps to be clear 
about what is important.

And what is not. 

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