appartenir
I have traveled the world and witnessed what is happening: separation, insecurity, a deep sense of longing, a need to belong, scarcity, and sacrifice.
I taught the mudra for a time: Kalesvara, the gesture to create or dismantle habits. To clean the river, I must enter it and go straight to the bottom!
I cannot escape what I do not understand. I must accept what it is, witness and observe it, and understand the process. I may create something of Love from this level of acceptance (re: compassion).
There is always a choice: to follow the theory or the pattern that presents a new way.
Architecture is the capacity to think beyond where I am and gather data about what came before. Habits develop over time; create the tenacity today that you will build upon tomorrow. This is my mantra for the New Year.
I am cultivating an identity that is steady in its silence. I am alone each day, and I do not notice it. I agree and disagree with myself. Witnessing all my thoughts—the back-and-forth—is entertaining. I write notes to myself. I write down what I have decided and my discipline. I remember it well, though my mind wants to argue it and go back and forth! It is so boring, such a chore.
Here is the slip of paper with my five things. This is what I hold steady and silently. Do you want to read it? Here they are. Perhaps writing with markers and tissue is more permanent on the computer. Writing with markers and tissue is ephemeral, romantic, possibly.
Listen, you can agree or disagree, and here they are:
I will make a request when I am ready to communicate my intent.
Move lightly through life: carry little.
Become so comfortable inside of myself that no one can yank me out!
Consume what is needed, no more or less.
Keep physically producing and moving.
I will steer clear of opinion, admission, and dismissing ideas.
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