IN THE LIVING

“Every person’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries they would put. We act it as life, before we apprehend it as truth.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each life is a language no one knows. With every heartbreak, discovery, and unexpected moment of joy, with every lift of music that touches us where we didn’t think we could be touched, with every experience, another letter in our alphabet is decoded. Take a step; learn a word. Feel a feeling; decode a sign. Accept a truth; translate a piece of the mystery written in your heart.

Before we live what’s next, it always seems like there is some answer we need to arrive at. But daring to enter, we are humbled to discover, again and again, that the act of living itself unravels both the answer and the question. When we watch, we remain riddles to be solved. When we enter, we become songs to be sung.

When life feels far off, remember that a flute is just something hard with holes until it is played. So, too, the heart. As matches are just sticks until lit, as ice is not quenching until thawed, questions and problems remain obstacles until lived. In this way, the life of every soul waits like sheet music to be played. What good are we if we never played?

~ Simply close your eyes and breathe, feeling your mouth as a hole in your being.

~ Breathe simply and evenly, knowing that only when life moves through, do hole become openings.

~ Open your eyes and breathe with your heart.

~ Feel the music of life moving through you as silence.

The Book of Awakening

~ Mark Nepo