stay.

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From contraction to expansion,

we exist in living, breathing and ever moving pieces of a greater whole.

We relate through small collisions of particles and stardust only to repel and ricochet off what we have labeled as a yes or no. This enormous dust cloud called reality points fingers, denies, manipulates and is forever searching for a way out to greener pastures.

The shift

occurs not in avoiding the collision but in how we respond after the lesson is lectured.

To comprehend,

we must stop and listen. With this knowledge we have the choice to move from getting back to giving back; to seize our instinctual flight response and simply stand still.

Feet on earth, hands on heart we can nurture the situation and watch it flourish into that which we could have never fathomed.

Viktor Frankl says “...between stimulus and response there is a space, and in that space is your power and your freedom.” Those wise words are saying that within each still point is our teacher of sacred commitment; a perfect portrait of our choice of being in this body and this life. Here is where we learn what it means to touch the rawness of existence and in turn trust the way we move through it, moment by moment. We learn what it means to live the Bodhisattva path of an awakened heart and rock each experience within our loving arms.

We learn what it means to stay.

Be it with response, situation, living being, or living heart, yours or mine, the point is that you stayed. ⠀

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May we all come home to our hearts and remain.⠀⠀