Patience Is A Form Of

Just Stopping, Is A Radical Act Of Sanity And Love.

Nourishing The Soul Is The Process Of Drinking At The Life Stream, Coming Back To One's True Self, Embracing The Whole Of One's Experience - Good, Bad, Or Ugly; Painful Or Exalted; Dull Or Boring.

In Its Outward Manifestation, Meditation Appears To Involve Either Stopping, By Parking The Body In A Stillness That Suspends Activity, Or Giving Oneself Over To Flowing Movement. In Either Case, It Is An Embodiment Of Wise Attention, An Inward Gesture Undertaken For The Most Part In Silence, A Shift From Doing To Simply Being. It Is An Act That May At First Seem Artificial But That We Soon Discover, If We Keep At It, Is Ultimately One Of Pure Love For The Life Unfolding Within Us And Around Us.

From The Point Of View Of The Meditative Traditions The Entire Society Is Suffering From Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

I Thought It Was A Stroke Of Genius That Hans Selye Used The Word Stress, Because It's True That If You Don't Know How To Be In Wise Relationship To Life, Certain Health Consequences Are Bound To Happen. If You Stand Up 12 Hours A Day On An Assembly Line, Or Constantly Tell Yourself Life Is Not Worth Living, The Body Will Respond In Certain Somewhat Predictable Ways.