I woke up at 4:00 this morning with my brain on fire with things I need to do, hopes I hold, and just on the edge of worry over the near term fate of just about everything.Somewhere within the 90 minutes between 4 am when I woke up and 5:30 am when I fell back to sleep, I heard the voice of Dana Carvey impersonating George The First, "Stay the Course... Thousand points o' light."
The thing is... I'm thinking that's just exactly right.
WIth this morning's meditation I picked up my small labyrinth and "walked the path" that literally kept me sane during the two years immediately following Katrina. As I moved along the circuit of the labyrinth it was clear to me again that one of the beauties of this discipline for me is the sense that you are going forward, moving in toward the center or out from the center, even when you've made a 180 degree switchback. You are closer to your goal, even when it seems you are farther away. In fact, the furthest point out on the circuit is just a short distance before you reach the center.
This awareness of progress when progress seems invisible is the awareness that really matters, especially when things look bad. Even when things don't work.
Keep moving forward... keep showing up... or as Tom Waits puts it, "Always keep a diamond in your mind."
2 comments:
i meditate when i surf
of course you do... I've seen it.
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