One of my favorite things is my little Herons Dance, Pause for Beauty e-mails that I get. It’s like a little smidge of peace and tranquility amidst the clutter and spam..
This week, the little message that comes with it really touches home for me. Along with all my exploration of what is my life philosophy, what am I doing, and who am I really questions.. I still am clambering to figure out what the answers are because every time I get close, there is some distraction or some chaotic vortex that sweeps by a little too close and I’m sucked in.
My life seems to me involving more moments of walking into the proverbial rooms and forgetting what I was doing there… There is definitely a little something to what is said here that resonates with me, like a compass reminding me where I was headed and why. And what exactly it had to do with my dream about the Tom Petty oracle flying through space. Really. It’s connected. and has to do with being born full of music, or color, and being able to let it out to share with the world in a way that makes the whole of existence vibrate just a little bit more towards the joy, courage, deep, full and whole end of the spectrum and move away from the fear and deathly quiet empty darkness that we seem to be slipping towards when we’re not paying attention.
Just wanted to pass on the tranquility. I’m thinking the second paragraph makes an excellent Mission Statement..
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I spent Friday night and all day Saturday in quiet solitude. I paddled a few miles of river Saturday morning, and then went to a swimming hole at the base of a waterfall with my dog. The river was high and fast. It was a beautiful, glorious day.
I keep saying to myself that I want a simple life, but keep meandering off that path into complexity. Spending the day in quiet Saturday led me to this thought: re-center your life around the things you are grateful for. If you are successful at that, you will live a simple life, a life close to wild nature, a life close to good friends, healthy food and work that contributes to the Greater Good.
How difficult will it be to maintain that discipline? It won’t be easy, I suspect. For one thing, I’m attracted to complexity because it is interesting and challenging. Adventure is complicated. Simplicity can be boring.
Many of the truly powerful people I’ve known– the centered, the balanced people, the people who have affected my life with their kindness and gentleness—have been clear thinkers who had found their way to that discipline, sometimes through a life of misadventure and miscalculation. They live or lived simply, had confronted themselves, had come to peace with themselves. I noticed a kind of quiet about them.
In celebration of the Great Mystery of Life,
Roderick W. MacIver
