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What is the most magical thing you will see, hear, touch, or experience today?
Can you see that there is no possible way to know what that will be other than to stay as present as you can be in this moment?
Loving Kindness or Other
Want
Capacity
Goodness
Within You, AND the Person Next to You!
Personally
Confusion; Really?
Conundrum
Allow
Simplicity
From the heart of Grace M. Smith
Have you ever noticed when your friends or children are overworked, up too late with homework, sleepy or achy, thirsty,hungry or in need of a truly loving presence or listening ear, you respond with either an offer of a glass of water, some food, a walk or a pillow to ease the physical ache, a kind suggestion to get some sleep, finish stuff up tomorrow or a loving listening ear regarding their situation?
How would it be if you treated yourself with the same wonderful degree of loving-kindness?
Loving Kindness or Other
Want
Capacity
Goodness
Within You, AND the Person Next to You!
Personally
Confusion; Really?
Conundrum
Allow
Simplicity
“When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”
~ Ram Dass
How about spending next week turning trees into people?