Thank you! Your writing helps me with a perspective - I've been trying to focus on what I have been feeling inside - and your ability to write so clearly and beautifully has significantly helped me see better, to make sense of what I am feeling. I am so very grateful. Your writing matters and creates energetic ripples of change (a nod to "matter" and "energy" haha). Thanks!
Wow thanks Lindsey - your words and the time you took to respond really “filled my bucket” today (a concept I used to use with my kiddos. I’m glad my writing is touching you in a way that matters 🙏🏻
"We can remind ourselves that we matter, not because the world says so, but because we have the courage to offer our gifts, even in the face of silence."
"...even in the face of silence.... ". Ahhh...🕊️🌈😌
"The simple fact that we exist, that we’ve shared ourselves with the world, is enough."
In a very real, beautiful, and tangible way, this is true. What I find so aversive about many spiritual leaders is how "hand wavy" they can be toward such claims. This claim still can be true in a world as confusing as (for example) non-dualism seems to be.
It's also true that the people we seem to be are space for the world around us to arise in. In that way, this concept of me is co-emergent with that world. They arise together, each changed forever by the other. Arguably, and this can be investigated, there is no distance between us, what we share, and the world.
Loved this. You make sorting through these deep and ponderous life spaces so easy to understand. Beautifully written. So full of soothing hope and confirmation for one of the oldest mantras, "just be" ~~~ It's simple to say it and another thing to understand it.
"The real challenge, I think, is balancing these two forces—ambition and motivation." This is my take-away line. Thanks.
Thank you! Your writing helps me with a perspective - I've been trying to focus on what I have been feeling inside - and your ability to write so clearly and beautifully has significantly helped me see better, to make sense of what I am feeling. I am so very grateful. Your writing matters and creates energetic ripples of change (a nod to "matter" and "energy" haha). Thanks!
Wow thanks Lindsey - your words and the time you took to respond really “filled my bucket” today (a concept I used to use with my kiddos. I’m glad my writing is touching you in a way that matters 🙏🏻
"We can remind ourselves that we matter, not because the world says so, but because we have the courage to offer our gifts, even in the face of silence."
"...even in the face of silence.... ". Ahhh...🕊️🌈😌
"The simple fact that we exist, that we’ve shared ourselves with the world, is enough."
In a very real, beautiful, and tangible way, this is true. What I find so aversive about many spiritual leaders is how "hand wavy" they can be toward such claims. This claim still can be true in a world as confusing as (for example) non-dualism seems to be.
It's also true that the people we seem to be are space for the world around us to arise in. In that way, this concept of me is co-emergent with that world. They arise together, each changed forever by the other. Arguably, and this can be investigated, there is no distance between us, what we share, and the world.
Both can be held simultaneously IMHO.
Loved this. You make sorting through these deep and ponderous life spaces so easy to understand. Beautifully written. So full of soothing hope and confirmation for one of the oldest mantras, "just be" ~~~ It's simple to say it and another thing to understand it.
Thanks Charmaine 🙏🏻 the only trick is that I just searched for “just be” job listings on Indeed and I’m coming up with donuts 🤔😂
😅😅😅 Selfishly, one of your purposes in life is to make me laugh! Have you considered a job in comedy? You are flipping hilarious!