So this month I will be a “weaver of threads” and …”connect to my North pole or my True North….what I value”. I will practice W.E.A.K… “welcome energy …allow kindness”.
*I would give to special thanks Elizabeth Winkler a very talented psychologist and spiritual teacher and co-podcast person with davidji in the podcast the Shadow and the Light” for her short pithy acronyms which helped me this rumination.
As January come to a close, I wanted to write again about shifting from the “ego perspective” to the “soul perspective”. I will use the “gift of contrast “to illustrate what this means to me. The “Ego Perspective “is brilliantly set forth in the classic country song, Noise” by Kenny Chesney:
24 hour television, get so loud that no one listens
Sex and money and politicians talk, talk, talk
But there really ain’t no conversation
Ain’t nothing left to the imagination
Trapped in our phones and we can’t make it stop, stop this noise
Yeah we scream, yeah we shout ’til we don’t have a voice
In the streets, in the crowds, it ain’t nothing but noise
Drowning out all the dreams of this Tennessee boy
Just tryin’ to be heard in all this noise
Every room, every house, every shade of noise
All the floors, all the walls, they all shake with noise
We can’t sleep, we can’t think, can’t escape the noise
We can’t take the noise, so we just make noise.
The Soul Perspective eloquently expressed Thich Nhat Hanh’s beautiful poem “Walking Meditation”:
Take my hand. We will walk.
We will only walk.
We will enjoy our walk, without thinking of arriving anywhere.
Walk peacefully. Walk happily.
Our walk is a peace walk. Our walk is a happiness walk.
Then we learn that there is no peace walk; that peace is the walk;
that there is no happiness walk; that happiness is the walk.
We walk for ourselves. We walk for everyone always hand in hand.
Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze. Each step makes a flower bloom under our feet.
Kiss the Earth with your feet. Print on Earth your love and happiness.
Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety.
Thich Nhat Hanh Book Call Me by My True Names
