take a break
December 20, 2011
Sometimes there is a hum or low rumble in our environment, like a refrigerator or heater unit. When it stops, there is a kind of open, spacious quality and a sense of relief. Meditation is like that. Basically we sit and think and think and think; then occasionally that noisy mind stops for a moment and we experience a kind of open, spacious quality and a sense of relief. We can’t manufacture it and we can’t hold onto it. In Shambhala we call it “suddenly free from fixed mind.”
~ David Nichtern
You Are IT 
December 20, 2011 at 11:34 pm
I don’t know how you find these photos that so perfectly round out the words of your post, but it manages to add the ineffable dimension every time. Amazing.
December 21, 2011 at 1:09 am
Thank you! I take all of these photos. This is a picture of my daughter from ten or eleven years ago when she was playing soccer. I love matching up my photos with favorite quotes. Sometimes they match themselves. 🙂
I really appreciate your kind comments. Thank you.