Patient motion, the virtue
Noticing today the importance of patient working with the grain of life contours.
Whether it’s peeling garlic, weeding gardens, moving in traffic, extracting an answer from a surly service provider, cleaning a testy pan, herding the doggies, doing a final edit on a piece … going with the grain is the the opposite of trying to impose our direction or tempo; all ego, all source of endless and needless struggling against what is instead of working with it to achieve regretlessly what we can.
Joy awaits us, if patiently, in that space.
September 5th, 2005 11:58
To you list, you could add “shopping in a busy supermarket with your kids” LOL. Thanks for the reminder.
September 6th, 2005 00:02
Dear Jack, thank you for this sweet sip of a post–reading it, I suddenly feel a sense of “ahhh,” as it helps me to turn my little self-sail just enough to be with the wind, instead of across it.