1. To become increasingly available to life by recognizing and releasing the conditioning that obscures my natural presence, love, creativity, and service.
2. My deepest nature expresses itself as loving presence, joyful engagement, and generous participation. Every practice I undertake is in service of removing whatever obscures those qualities.
This is a proper, old fashioned blog post. 😊Updated with some morning reflections on Sunday the 28th of June.
One thing I am finding interesting. Fixing up our house and embarking on all of the projects I have been putting off in it, has become a metaphor do something else. I have been searching in other places for my engament, excitement and inspiration. I have continually said yes to challenges out in the world. As a parent board leader for the school, new yoga workshops, new responsibilities on the periphery of my core areas at work. Meanwhile, the important household projects like shoring up my terrace, painting, fixing and making our beautiful home on a mountain in Norway better has fallen by the wayside. Times where we, as a family, set goals and find out how to make our environment better, seem a playground now for engaging our family in positive stuff. My wife Cecilie is really into it. It is a gift of engagement to her. The actual, real householder work is no longer a metaphor. 🤭Anyway- these things are unglamorous, a slog, a grind for me. But they are now going to be part of the practice. I will do this and say no to more seemingly exciting things. I see a real sense of moment to moment engament and ritual in this stuff.