What Does Love Motivate, For You?

I think I feel resourced, look at the news, and need to take a deep breath. The good news? Mindfulness is a steady rudder. The even better news, from a friend who’s worked for three decades, under the radar in the U.S., raising two glorious kids? Their youngest was just accepted into one of the crème de la crème of Ivies, on a full ride.

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So finding your posture for today, For the next few minutes, Just sitting quietly, Standing quietly, Maybe lying down, Maybe driving. One person wrote me this morning that they'd be flying, So if you're listening to the wake-up call from 30, 000 feet up, Welcome. And finding that comfortable posture that's relaxed but also dignified, Because there's so much dignity in taking a few moments of silence. And finding the breath, And just beginning to follow the breath from the bottom of the in-breath all the way to the top of the in-breath, The pause, And then as the breath flows back out, And that little pause before the next breath flows in. And that if either of those stories is still alive for you, I was thinking about the story, The Cherokee story of the two wolves, It's a parable about inner conflict, But that we all have these two wolves inside of us, And the one that is going to win is the one that we feed. So I was just thinking in terms of what you're sitting with, You know, It's kind of a tale of two countries, So where is your heart, What do you want to live to, Which story?