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Roe
When you are madly in love, the most radical thing you can do is nothing. You shouldn’t care anymore. You have dropped the pen. There is no better story. There is only this, and this is enough. Let the world go on spinning. You, on the other hand, have already arrived.
What should you do when you're madly in love?
this is our place. we make the rules - @poemsandpeonies #chelseadiane
There's a lot of language around presence being a “slow” thing, to “slow down and notice”. I feel some resistance to that. I think I can run and still feel the sun on my face and legs. The rush of taking it in from a leap, rather than from a cross-legged pose
can you dance, run and still be present? can you get quicker at creating those places of acting from intent rather than impulse? does impulse connect to presence? perhaps not. is the goal to slow your internal pace always? how? meditation? repeating positive brain pathways/language?
Because life is not a movement toward or away from anything; not even from the past to the future, or from youth to old age, or from birth to death. The whole of life does not equal the sum of its parts. It equals any one of the parts; there is no sum.
Paul Bowles • Let it Come Down: A Novel
But in this process, we must remember something important: life is not meant to be rushed through. It is not a race, nor is it a problem to be solved. It is an experience to be lived, and living well requires presence. To focus on one thing deeply, to give it your full attention, is to experience it fully. And when we do this, something remarkable... See more
