This is beautiful. I find so much solace in walking too, but I particularly love the insight about stillness. And more specifically, our fear of it. Even with all the inner work, and meditation, and practice I've done with stillness... I still get uncomfortable and struggle with it. :-) This was a good reminder to use this season as an opportunity to keep working with it.
I have been focusing so much of this current year on stillness and silence, and hope to continue exploring what this may mean in practice. Thanks for sharing.
The advice to walk is always solid Jeffrey. I enjoy seeing holiday light displays that help with the darkness. I agree that December seems to make us more contemplative and if we give ourselves space to take it all in, it can set us up for a great new year.
Thanks, Melanie. I think December invites us to be more contemplative, and holiday lights and feasts and shows and the like does everything possible to distance us from our internal silence. Perhaps out of fear of what we may find.
Such a poetic way to state it, and perhaps one of the reasons I like lighting a candle during daily dinners even more during the darkness of the winter. Thanks!
I love this - walking in the dark to let the light in, the next insight appears...
Sorta like that door that closes and another always somehow opens!
This is beautiful. I find so much solace in walking too, but I particularly love the insight about stillness. And more specifically, our fear of it. Even with all the inner work, and meditation, and practice I've done with stillness... I still get uncomfortable and struggle with it. :-) This was a good reminder to use this season as an opportunity to keep working with it.
I have been focusing so much of this current year on stillness and silence, and hope to continue exploring what this may mean in practice. Thanks for sharing.
The advice to walk is always solid Jeffrey. I enjoy seeing holiday light displays that help with the darkness. I agree that December seems to make us more contemplative and if we give ourselves space to take it all in, it can set us up for a great new year.
Thanks, Melanie. I think December invites us to be more contemplative, and holiday lights and feasts and shows and the like does everything possible to distance us from our internal silence. Perhaps out of fear of what we may find.
I find comfort in the candle light of December's dark nights. The spark is the hope that carries me forward.
Such a poetic way to state it, and perhaps one of the reasons I like lighting a candle during daily dinners even more during the darkness of the winter. Thanks!