Warrior’s World

“When we’re mainly filtering our experience through the ego, constantly trying to improve or maintain our high self-esteem, we’re denying ourselves the thing we actually want most. To be accepted as we are, an integral part of something much greater than our small selves. Unbounded. Immeasurable. Free.”― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” – Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey

A day off.
Even God did that.
Surely, we can.
May you Sabbath well.
To pause, rest, renew.
Rejoicing in ordinary things.
Wide open spaces.
Unbound. Immeasurable. Free.

“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.”― Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You