Uradiance

      Just for an hour on a Spring morning, give up being right. The earth won't disappear. You will. Not being of the world refreshes the meadow. Just for an hour, lie fallow. Or even for a breath allow the golden swamp cabbage, the shy forest trillium to fill your absence with joy. Be irrelevant. Let snowdrops flower without you.

       See the big picture. In every type of emergency training for first responders, you begin with "situational awareness." Whatever your emergency may be, put some space around it. Before you react, stop. Look. See the big picture. The smaller the picture, the more stress, division, and polarity you feel. The bigger the picture, the more you forgive, the more you harmonize, the more your heart unfolds the fragrance of compassion. Does the very word "compassion" not also mean "encompassing"? You cannot change what is happening right now. But you can choose how you see it. And how you see what is happening now has a great deal to do with what happens in your future. See the big picture. Even bigger. Now, even bigger. Until you see that all will be well, and a vast stillness encompasses even the most furious battle. Photo: from Surfer Today

           "Savor every inch of breath in your body." ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar One inhalation is incalculable abundance. This breath, an influx of wonder, brings more revelation that the Bible, the Qur'an, or the Vedas, because it is their source. Every inspired text or prophecy springs from the silence where this breath is born, and to which it returns. To delight in this breath is the end of war. To delight in this breath is the end of consumerism and craving. When you savor this breath, your needs are few. When your needs are few, you exploit no one. You walk softly over the earth, tasting every step in the present moment, the green in the moss, the murmur of a tree frog. Walking this way, you are free. In a very innocent way, you can live simply, sustainably, without preaching, without political parties. Wherever you stand is holy ground. Remove your shoes. You do not take this breath, you receive it, and just to breathe is worship. For the span...

You are not in time. Time is in you. You are not a tick of the clock.  You are the Witness of past, present, and future.