Selah

“When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to ‘Enjoy now’. If I can enjoy the present, I don’t need to count on the happiness that is (or isn’t) waiting for me in the future”.”― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

Selah means to pause. To stop and listen.
Listen with all your senses.
With your heart especially.
We back ourselves into the corner of scarcity and smallness.
Selah to spark and fuel wonder, awe, reverence, praise, hope, delight, laughter, fullness, gratitude.
Not for what has been or for what is to come but for what is present right now.
Observe. Inquire. Experience.
Selah.

“The life of contemplation implies two levels of awareness: first, awareness of the question, and, second, awareness of the answer. Though these are two distinct and enormously different levels, yet they are in fact an awareness of the same thing. The question is, itself, the answer. And we ourselves are both. But we cannot know this until we have moved into the second kind of awareness. We awaken, not to find an answer absolutely distinct from the question, but to realize that the question is its own answer. And all is summed up in one awareness – not a proposition, but an experience: “I AM”.”― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation