“Got a dirty eye, see a dirty world. So often, we suffer the mood of a dirty window, believing the brilliant world gray. The purpose of authentic relationship is to help each other keep our minds and hearts clear. Perhaps inner work is the ordinary art of window washing, so that the day is fully the day.”
From: THE BOOK OF AWAKENING: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have By Mark Nepo
How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races – the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are only princesses waiting for us to act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us in, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
REFLECTION:
What dragons are you facing now?
How can you act with beauty and courage to face this dragon?
What shifts if you see fear as something that wants love? Act on it!
Life is made up of moments; small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to unsummoned, but in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.