Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. - Rumi
However you love, it's perfect. Just...love. Love is big, and it makes us bigger, makes what we do stronger. It doesn't mean it makes everything easier--true love might be the hardest thing of all to live with, because it demands so much of us. It makes us bigger and stronger, and then demands that we do something with all that strength. When you love, you realize there's a difference between a zen state of allowing, and copping out. Love and zen take focus.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Intention: Joy
Danielle LaPorte, blogger and thinker extraordinaire (whitehottruth.com) is a big part of the inspiration behind this blog. Yesterday, she posted on the subject of happiness, titled "Unfetter your happiness."
Today's consciously sane intention: allow happiness, allow joy.
To me, 'joy' and 'happiness' are changing depths in the same pool. Happiness claims the surface, reflecting back, sometimes rippling with the movement of whatever else is going on. And like currents (hey, my pool is connected to a spring and a river and stuff; work with me), happiness doesn't just stay at the surface, it dips down, it swirls, it picks up the interesting bits as well.
Joy stakes the depths. Joy nurtures happiness from deep under, giving happiness something to feed off of, something to spin out of so that happiness doesn't rest on having a "good" day. Makes it deeper, more lasting, keeping it going through the dry spells.
Last thought: if we let ourselves be happy, what's the worst that can happen?
Today's consciously sane intention: allow happiness, allow joy.
To me, 'joy' and 'happiness' are changing depths in the same pool. Happiness claims the surface, reflecting back, sometimes rippling with the movement of whatever else is going on. And like currents (hey, my pool is connected to a spring and a river and stuff; work with me), happiness doesn't just stay at the surface, it dips down, it swirls, it picks up the interesting bits as well.
Joy stakes the depths. Joy nurtures happiness from deep under, giving happiness something to feed off of, something to spin out of so that happiness doesn't rest on having a "good" day. Makes it deeper, more lasting, keeping it going through the dry spells.
Last thought: if we let ourselves be happy, what's the worst that can happen?
Intention: Conscious Sanity
What is conscious sanity?
Living with intention, doing my/your/our best to step out of the conga line instead of following the guy in front of us (who may be us on an earlier path). Digging out what's important, not what's easy, although important = easy more often than you'd think. Emulating people who inspire us, not simply admiring from afar and then continuing our circus act.
Conscious wholeness: conscious mind, conscious body, conscious spirit.
I've been flipping the idea of a new blog back and forth--do I have time, do I have anything to say (!), isn't there enough out there already. Perhaps...but someone (my mother, I think) suggested I do a repeat of my affirmation project from a few years back, and this is easier -- and more flexible -- than email.
So send me your thoughts, your comments, your moments of grace. I intend to post--at a minimum--one affirmation/conscious intention each day. If the post sparks an answering thought in you, let it fly.
Blessings,
Lorena
Living with intention, doing my/your/our best to step out of the conga line instead of following the guy in front of us (who may be us on an earlier path). Digging out what's important, not what's easy, although important = easy more often than you'd think. Emulating people who inspire us, not simply admiring from afar and then continuing our circus act.
Conscious wholeness: conscious mind, conscious body, conscious spirit.
I've been flipping the idea of a new blog back and forth--do I have time, do I have anything to say (!), isn't there enough out there already. Perhaps...but someone (my mother, I think) suggested I do a repeat of my affirmation project from a few years back, and this is easier -- and more flexible -- than email.
So send me your thoughts, your comments, your moments of grace. I intend to post--at a minimum--one affirmation/conscious intention each day. If the post sparks an answering thought in you, let it fly.
Blessings,
Lorena
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