One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.
Mark NepoSometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or soโjust walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.
Mark NepoAccepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
Mark NepoThe greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.
Mark Nepo