Rest: Sitting with Change

Musing…

“Don't go outside your house to see flowers.

My friend, don't bother with that excursion.

Inside your body there are flowers.

One flower has a thousand petals.

That will do for a place to sit.

Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty

inside the body and out of it,

before gardens and after gardens. “

-- Kabir

Charise’s Turn: My twenty three year old daughter was just promoted to a management position in her company which requires her to relocate from her hometown to Boston. After the flurry of activity to get packed, make arrangements for moving, visit with family and friends, the day to leave arrives. Departing for this major life change consists of sitting in the car, sitting in the airport, sitting in the plane. Sitting allows for a break from busyness, from doingness, to rest in the place between places, neither there nor here. This rest is rich with all the life she’s lived so far and all the life ahead of her.

It is while sitting together just in front of the security line at the airport that she puts her arms around me and says, “I feel sad to be leaving”.  This isn’t about second thoughts, or wanting to turn back or stop moving forward. This is about the absolute insistence of growth.

Get Fired Up:

Within you is the imperative for growth and creativity -- wherever you go and when you are at rest or between places, goals, destinations, certainties. 

Sit with your self, with who you are, as you are.