Thank you for this, Alan. Pinkola Estés' words are very meaningful, as are Richard Rohr's and Thomas Merton's later in your post. But your own words give such important context and guidance for application in our daily lives during these difficult times. Thank you for leading us to the silence and to our presence so we can encounter life more fully and authentically.
Thank you, Johnathon. All of these quotes speak to me so deeply, and certainly Pinkola Estés' words in our current times. "Stand up and show your soul." I wrote specifically about that a while back. Yet her words stay with me. Thank you for your presence here.
Alan, your words have stayed with me since I read them early this morning. "Fully being my part instead of focusing on just fully doing my part" - that's a strong call to action - or call to awareness, if you will. Thank you for sharing your insights!
Thank you, Jane. That's such an important and powerful distinction. Because we are so conditioned to focus on the doing, yet if the being is not fully congruent or aligned or pure in intention, the doing isn't as effective as it could be. It might still be pretty good, yet there can be more. So, presence before action. Thank you for allowing this to work on you through the day. And thank you for writing about your reflection here.
Thank you, Gabriella. I'm glad the essay was helpful. And thank you for the enorous gifts you have brought from your center to the Transformational Presence community and our work in the world.
These are powerful words Alan. I am pondering and sensing into these words: "Yet when I allow myself to be inside what is happening—to be in encounter with it—I, too, am changed and maybe even transformed by what is happening." The idea is transformative: of being *inside* rather than being outside, judging, evaluating, figuring out what to do. There (on the inside), as you say, we encounter reality. We bring our center to its center. Somehow I think this is how we change the world. And this is how we come closer to the center of our own being.
Thank you, Judy. I love your words, "We bring our center to its center. Somehow I think this is how we change the world. And this is how we come closer to the center of our own being." So beautifully said! Bringing our center to its center, whatever the situation or relationship might be. Thank you again.
Thank you for this, Alan. Pinkola Estés' words are very meaningful, as are Richard Rohr's and Thomas Merton's later in your post. But your own words give such important context and guidance for application in our daily lives during these difficult times. Thank you for leading us to the silence and to our presence so we can encounter life more fully and authentically.
Thank you, Johnathon. All of these quotes speak to me so deeply, and certainly Pinkola Estés' words in our current times. "Stand up and show your soul." I wrote specifically about that a while back. Yet her words stay with me. Thank you for your presence here.
Alan, your words have stayed with me since I read them early this morning. "Fully being my part instead of focusing on just fully doing my part" - that's a strong call to action - or call to awareness, if you will. Thank you for sharing your insights!
Thank you, Jane. That's such an important and powerful distinction. Because we are so conditioned to focus on the doing, yet if the being is not fully congruent or aligned or pure in intention, the doing isn't as effective as it could be. It might still be pretty good, yet there can be more. So, presence before action. Thank you for allowing this to work on you through the day. And thank you for writing about your reflection here.
Again by your wise words, that I am led to my own center, and to the Center.
Thanks Alan.
Thank you, Gabriella. I'm glad the essay was helpful. And thank you for the enorous gifts you have brought from your center to the Transformational Presence community and our work in the world.
These are powerful words Alan. I am pondering and sensing into these words: "Yet when I allow myself to be inside what is happening—to be in encounter with it—I, too, am changed and maybe even transformed by what is happening." The idea is transformative: of being *inside* rather than being outside, judging, evaluating, figuring out what to do. There (on the inside), as you say, we encounter reality. We bring our center to its center. Somehow I think this is how we change the world. And this is how we come closer to the center of our own being.
Thank you, Judy. I love your words, "We bring our center to its center. Somehow I think this is how we change the world. And this is how we come closer to the center of our own being." So beautifully said! Bringing our center to its center, whatever the situation or relationship might be. Thank you again.