Yielding to the natural rhythms of life

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At its heart, patience is giving up our fight with time. ‘Patience is developed much like awareness. Through an acceptance of what is. Impatience is an argument with reality. The desire for something to be different from what we are experiencing in the here and now. A wish for time to speed up, tomorrow to … Read more

Life is being beautifully formed

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Is it that time already? Clumps of early daffodils stake their claim to the path’s edge, as they always do. Yet I am always surprised by their appearance. And astonished that everything necessary for their flowering is there in the bulb. Just waiting to emerge. SURPRISED BY LIFE Autumn receivesthe yielding.Cradling thesoft tissue oflife, and … Read more

States of being in time

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Is there a difference between waiting and being patient? I think there may be, depending on our orientation. For many of us, waiting has a sense of being static and outward focussed. Who or what are we waiting for? Whereas being patient may be about our inner attitude. Holding something until it’s ripe or ready … Read more

Seeing beyond the first glance

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”  + variously attributed to Viktor Frankl, Stephen Covey and others Compared with previous generations, we live in the fast lane. And the frenetic pace of virtually everything trains … Read more