"Every relationship, every thought, every gesture is blessed with meaning through the wholehearted attention we bring to it. In the complexities of our minds and lives we easily forget the power of attention, yet without attention we live only on the surface of existence.
"It is just simple attention that allows us truly to listen to the song of a bird, to see deeply the glory of an autumn leaf, to touch the heart of another and be touched. We need to be fully present in order to love a single thing wholeheartedly. We need to be fully awake in this moment if we are to receive and respond to the learning inherent in it."
- Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield, Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart
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I read this particular blog post several times over because it holds a very special meaning. Indeed, it is the wholehearted attention which will cause one to realize the beauty of song, the sound of leaves rustling...a voice,a good morning kiss and I love you.
Never to be taken for granted.
Thank you for this blog YaYa
YaYa, this was an excellent blog. It made me think about "time" in general and something I read once, which I would like to share.
"You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tommorrow is today's dream.
And that which sings and conteplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
And is not itme even as love is, undivided and spaceless?
But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, and let today embrace the past with rememberance and the future with longing."
From "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
Peace & Blessings.
Mimi
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