As I Try to Learn...

As I try to learn to live more in the movements of the heart, 

I am often surprised by the creative way my machine blocks me. 

As I take baby steps to stay present longer, 

I am often overwhelmed by the immensity of feelings

which my machine would rather control, 

and dole out bit by bit with lots of practical solutions. 

But when I am able to hold through the initial shock, 

and progress into the heart of the moment, 

(always with the gift of self-remembering close at hand, 

to allow me safe passage) 

I am surprised time and time again 

by the beauty of the terrain, 

the newness of realizations, 

the absence of anything false, the certainty of what I need to do. 

I guess this is what Rodney means 

when he says that really the emotional center is PURE; 

we do not need to make it so, 

it just IS, if we enter into it fully. 

~J

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