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Mar 25

Sacrament of Ploppage

“Stillness is a brilliant teacher.”― Shannan Martin, Start with Hello

“So how do you connect with the real person inside you… You just… stop. You do what I call the “sacrament of ploppage”—you sit down, and you start to realize that everything electronic will usually work again if you just unplug it. And that includes you, too.” — Anne Lamott, Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

Stop, sit, stay
From doing and speed to being and stillness
Unplugged and undone
Sensing, observing, absorbing
Small things in ordinary
Color, detail, beauty
Simple and plentiful
Strewn and scattered throughout each day
To gather and hold
Look up and around
In awe, reverence, wonder
Sacrament of ploppage

“Sometimes we get so hung up on doing something great, we forget the best thing is often the smallest.”― Shannan Martin, The Ministry of Ordinary Places

Feb 11

The Pause…to Peace

“Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you’re about to react harshly and you’ll avoid doing and saying things you’ll later regret.”― Lori Deschene

“Regardless of our circumstances, we always have a choice. We can choose more of the same; or we can recognize this moment is different and that we can be different, too.”― Lori Deschene, Tiny Wisdom: On Mindfulness

Turn off autopilot
Disrupt habit
Resist busy
Interrupt spiraling
Ground in gratitude
Wait in wonder
Rest in stillness
Pause, peace, presence.

“If we can observe and understand how our thoughts are impacting us, we can change who we’re being and how we’re experiencing the world.”― Lori Deschene, Tiny Wisdom: On Mindfulness

Feb 6

Soft Days

“Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity”― Lao Tzu

“Soft days are not wasted days. They are how you remember your breath. Your worth was never tied to your pace.”― Ajmal, The Border of a Mind

Space, margin, blank canvas
Slow pace, no pace
Stillness to clarity, discovery
Rest spilling into restoration
Soft days, creative womb.

“Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.”― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Nov 10

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Truest Lines

“In the hush beyond hurry, beauty begins”― AshRawArt

“Peace is not found by silencing the noise, but by remembering you don’t have to answer every echo.”― Ajmal, The Border of a Mind

Enter slow
Ease the pace
Space, stillness, clarity

“In stillness, the soul sketches it’s truest lines.”― AshRawArt

Oct 7

Stand Still

“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” Deepak Chopra

Lost
by David Wagoner

“Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows Where you are.
You must let it find you.”

Stand still
To be
Present
At ease
Rooted
Joyful
Found
Stand still
Allow
Open
Anticipate
Hope
Laugh
Delight
To be rather than to do
Stand still, sit, gaze
In the pause, treasure.

“To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.” ― Max Lucado

Sep 2

Heart’s Wisdom

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” – Margaret Wheatley

“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”― S.C. Lourie

To be here
In this place and space
Reflection rather than rumination
Pause and stillness for clarity
Sensemaking and understanding
Listening, releasing, integrating
Moving forward renewed and revitalized
Fresh wings to take flight
New destinations await.

“The past influences everything and dictates nothing.”― Adam Phillips

Jul 19

Call to Stillness

“I am love. It is never lacking or able to be stolen from me. I am good enough. I trust life. Life is kind. There is no pain too great not to be fed by my love and kindness. I am strong. My worth is not to be gained. I am already all of the worth I will ever be.”― Sarah Blondin, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love

“To the dark nights, the relief of the moon. The soft earth that forms to cradle the shape of my foot. To the crickets and the birds who sing our world into harmony. To the flowers that wish to sit on my windowsill, the trees that grow to reach the most sunlight. To the grass that sways and soothes. To the webs the spider tirelessly builds overnight only to be torn down in the daylight. To the life that pulses in exaltation below my feet every day that I am alive. To the portal it offers into a remembrance of our wholeness. To our source of unconditional love.”― Sarah Blondin, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love

In nature, beauty to awaken senses and awe.
In a slow morning, to anchor, root and set course.
In relationships, to feed, foster, be present.
A call to stillness.
To discover what I think, to be changed, to return to love without condition.
Heed the call to broaden, deepen, open, wonder, wander, grow, delight.
May joy meet you today.

“I know how scary or intimidating it can be to disconnect, to walk in the opposite direction of all that bright, shiny, noisy distraction. I have faced that fear again and again as I have answered my own call to stillness. But no matter the size of aversion or fear, you must trust me when I say that all that will matter, all that will ever amount to anything, is the relationship you have with the world you carry around inside of you.”― Sarah Blondin, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love

May 21

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Gently Awakening

“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”― C.S. Lewis

“i’m glad to be alive
in a world where
his gently awakening eyes
nourish the morning sun.”
― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

Drink in the sun.
Walk in the woods.
Return to silence, again and again.
To hear the still small voice calling you home.
To beauty, joy, spring bursting.
Without and within.

“I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.” – Georg Trakl

May 13

Sit, Stay, Look

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”― E.B. White

“… with men it’s rush, rush, rush, every minute. I’m glad I’m a sedentary spider.”
“What does sedentary mean?” asked Wilbur.
“Means I sit still a good part of the time and don’t go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.”― E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web

You have time to not feel time, to witness and partake fully in the present moment.
To think, or better, to not think, overthink.
To sit without looking at the god of the screen.
To check one thing less off the list.
To feel the weight and gravity of pause to refresh and renew, reorder.
Be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
It awaits your attention, stillness, reverence.
Cease and desist.
See all the good things right in front of you.
The best place to be.
The glory of everything.
Here and now.

“It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.”― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

May 8

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See Birds

“In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.”― Robert Lynd

“I travel to lose myself in the beauties of the world and to find my lost soul within the chaos of it all.”― Dina Al-Hidiq Zebib

Slow, pause, stop.
Quiet yourself.
Peace, calm, ease amidst chaos.
Within reach, in the being, not doing.
Sit here a bit.
Part of the silence.

“The world is quiet here.”― Lemony Snicket

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