Find Your Middle Ground
Life is a series of highs and lows. Be grateful in the highs. Be graceful in the lows. Find contentment in your Middle Ground
Tao Inspiration – The Path to Serenity
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.
Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
~ Mitchell, Stephen. Tao Te Ching (Perennial Classics) . Harper Perennial. Kindle Edition.
“Do your work, then step back”. So simple, yet not easy to do when we are caught up in demanding jobs and the chaotic busyness of our techno driven lives.
We all need time to pause, reflect and replenish.Only then will we find true balance and the serenity in life.
Namaste
Silent Celebration
A catbird tries to fly
against the wind only
to be blown backward.
I know that feeling –
setting out with certainty
and arriving somewhere
entirely different. When
I respond with acceptance
to my unexpected
destination, the sun
clangs its cymbals of
light in silent celebration.
~ Danna Faulds
Stop trying to fly against the wind and fully embrace where you are in the highs of lows of life. Celebrate the unexpected… and the sunshine today!
Haiku – power down
Power down. Switch off.
Slow down to the speed of Life.
Find your Middle Ground.
Find your Middle Ground is about stepping away from the busyness of our lives and our screens. More than ever we need to take time to pause and come to our senses.
When we are mindful of the present moment and simply allow it to be, we open a door to our natural state of being – accepting, loving, peaceful, kind and content. Most of us are so distracted and moving so fast that we get caught up in the world of “doing” or worrying about what we should be doing next.
Too much doing and thinking disconnects us from our sense of “being”and who we really are.
Inspiration – The Dark and the Light
“The dark does not destroy the light;
it defines it.
Its our fear of the dark that casts our
joy into the shadows.”
Brene Brown
Take a moment to reflect on how this appears in your life.
Instead of wishing the dark away, how can you embrace it and shine through?
Your Sacred Ground
Todays insight is taken from from Brené Brown’s book “Gifts Of Imperfection”. This is the place to come to when you feel insecure, nervous and vulnerable, especially in new situations.
“Don’t shrink
Don’t puff up
Stand on your sacred ground”
This sacred ground is the place of embracing your authentic self in the moment.
No need to think you are not good enough or that you are better than others.
Simply stand in the knowing of who you are.
Most of us find it when we have experienced some struggle in the highs and lows of life.
It’s a powerful place to truly Be.
When I read this I think of Yoga and standing in Mountain Pose or Tadasana. Rooted to the ground, yet tall and strong. In this moment you become the mountain.
Namaste
Dirt time!
The sun came out and Meghan and I enjoyed some digging in the dirt!
Waiting for the Rain to Go Off
Sitting in my gardening scruffs
Ready to dig, move, plant and play
Waiting for the rain to go off
Finding time for WordPress
I know, its been a while
Yet being in nature calls me
Tending to my piece of Earth
Finding my Middle ground
With dirty hands and knees
