I find that for me one of the difficult lessons to keep in mind is that I can’t control the updraft in the moment I am trying to find it. I may have had some effect on it with my previous actions, but right now it is what it is. And it can be drifting or roaring, or anything in between. I struggle all the time with what I call “pushing the rope” instead of letting it pull. And I never get anywhere trying to push a rope. It seems amusingly obvious to me now, but whatever striving I do can’t ever overwhelm the updraft. It’s probably nothing compared to what’s actually going on. So I’d better give it up—the striving, fretting, and stressing, that is.

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Mary

This is a beautiful series, simple and immediate. I have only recently really realized that the stillness is not a concept to understand but a state that can not be faked! How obvious…. Amazingly, within that true state there is even the sense of infinite potential, a sense that nothing needs to be added or accomplished but that anything just might happen. While I struggled to mentally create stillness so something would reveal itself (and of course nothing did), I now wish for nothing and find so much appearing every day. The “big thing” doesn’t seem to have materialized (though I may not know it yet), but I’m excited about so many other opportunities to engage that have popped into my life. Thanks for expressing this starting point so well.

as always, with much love
Cynthia