hide, grasp, push, shove, dominate, escape, or demonstrate other un-grounded

behaviors, we are more than likely acting out of a place of self-protection, pushing

down a weakness or limitation we have that we can’t bear for the world, or ourselves,

to see.

can create a shadow side in us, and the work we do to cover it up and protect an

image of ourselves can be exhausting and destructive. In today’s Pause, we will

identify a limitation in ourselves, see how we have acted to protect it,

embrace it with compassion, and let it get untangled from our grip. From that place

we will be able to be vulnerable, open, and at rest, live transformed, and be

guided on how to move into the world.

creations come not when we’re out in the world, gathering impressions, but when

we’re sitting still, turning those impressions into sentences. Our job, you could

say, is to turn, through stillness, a life of movement into art.” The Art of

Stillness, Pico Iyer

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