Tuesday, March 3, 2009

deep stuff

Mira is there in the neon green wig.....ha-ha


The goal is to touch the deep stuff while we’re here - beauty, love, talent, skill, sacrifice, transformation, gratitude, generosity of spirit, real friendship, and of course the “peace that surpasses understanding.” And that is what is always the same, whether we are “in the palace or the forest.” We are always somewhere and there are always things going on around us and always things to watch out for, always difficult people or situations to deal with. And we always have the opportunity to be among the many people who stay calm and choose faith, who choose love, who choose goodwill, who choose to see and touch the beautiful in life, not just be thrown by the ugly. We don’t succeed at this by denying the ugly, but by including it. And by focusing our precious energy on the choices we have of how to respond to life, not wasting our energy on what life is doing to us at any given time. This is what we’ve got. Now, how do we wish to respond to it?
-Bo Lozoff


2 comments:

seriously amused said...

What a lovely list you came up with and thank you for your kind words about my blog.

J

Michele B said...

Thank you...I hope you are having a wonderful day!!!!!
Namaste,
Michele