I want to live deliberately, to remember that I’m alive and that life is sacred, to live patiently, according to the earth’s own rhythms, and not be defined by craving and worry.
I want to remember how to just sit quietly and listen to my heart, to immerse myself in life and to treat other people as ends not means. I hope that enough traces of light remain, so I can find a way to get where I belong and leave all this uncertainty behind. I want to learn those things that can be taught in no other way than through silence; to not always seek what I want from the world, but ask what the world might need from me. Stop trying, let go and leave yourself behind, let time slip, the way it did in childhood summers before we started chasing reasons and tastes. I need to learn how to be serious without being stern, urgent without being rushed, jovial without being facetious, congruent and true without being self-absorbed etc. All each of us really needs in life is a humble heart, a quiet mind, and a hand to hold each night.
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