ii. 3/3 Causal - becoming elders
Canadian writer, Stephen Jenkinson, and for-most grief tender wrote:
"Perhaps the most radical act in a troubled time is to proceed as if you're needed."”
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:
To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss, inevit... See more
Krista tippet on Grace in aging. Beautifully written
From Richard Rohr
—James Finley
Daily mystic
Breath as passage way to easing back or stepping forwards into infinite space and unity. Breathe in the gift of plants. Breathe out a gift back to them. Treat your body as the compost it will one day become.
—Richard Rohr
Healing the world begins with ourselves
Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River
bridging 2-3: noticing our individuality and our unity, like the wave in water.
While living the life of a wave, a wave can live a life of the water.
Ask people to sit in those different perspectives - the silence that hears your thoughts is the water. Thoughts are the wave
Thich Nhat Hanh
Building an ofrenda and staying connected to ancestors
Thich Nhat Hanh • Beyond Birth and Death
Thich Nhat Hanh
9/17/20
Lion’s Roar
Thich Nhat Hanh • Beyond Birth and Death
Thich Nhat Hanh
9/17/20
Lion’s Roar