To Eat Life Whole
On softening, slowing down, and melting into the visceral truth of being.
“…To be in intimate relationship with life is to be intimately close with ourselves—which means directly tending to this mutually held flame.”
Hello dear reader,
How are you this week? What do you see in a corner of your heart?
“More and more the path is just simply being here and now, being with the way things are. There’s nowhere to go, nothing to do, nothing to become, nothing to get rid of”.
— Ajahn Sumedho
The task is simple in its nature, yet enormous in execution. To give oneself to stillness: to hold space for the wild unfurling of life’s expressions, to grant them all impartial recognition, and in doing so, to be softened, opened, and quietly undone. In the corner of my heart, a formidable face of fear peeks out, its teeth bare. It looks at me, I look back, and we acknowledge each other's presence.
Walking in the forest the other day, the swell of life suddenly became…
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