This speaks volumes about what is around us. I have experienced a way of sensing when my gaze is soft and my ears attune differently. The glory in any moment is that close.
This beautiful story shares about different levels of listening. Over time, I have started hearing strains from the ancestors and, at times, what feels like sound waves from the bigger Universe, unbound by clock time.
This is wonderful and reminds me of the four quadrant box of urgent/important/not urgent/not important. I read it in Stephen Covey's book the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and I've seen it attributed to Eisenhower. There is that short term dopamine boost from checking off tasks -- and yet for the big issues, I've only seen change appear when we actually sit with an issue long enough to see how to align energies beyond our own.
Ah -- how beautiful: "we need to remember to bless the life around us and the life within us." Especially if you live on the 6th floor in a big city. The life energy is everywhere.
On Jun 17, 2024 Susan Clark wrote on The Game Is To Be Where You Are, by Ram Dass: