I think most of us, in the Western cultures at least, have a sense of ourselves according to what we do. We are workers; we are artists; we are athletes, husbands, partners, parents and on and on. At the same time there are many of us who do not do, perhaps because of disability or advancing age which has taken from us some of our physical powers. What then? Who are we if we can no longer do but must view ourselves in different ways? And what of those of us who never thought of ourselves in terms of doing but more in terms of being, which has many indefinable elements to it and often seems like an ephemeral part of us that comes and goes like a firefly in the night. Can we be still and curious long enough to search out being as well as doing.
To simply be......
Sooner or later I daresay there will be times when even the most physically vigorous of us cannot enter into old, familiar ways of doing things, where we are smack in the center of figuring out what it is to simply be. We cannot push, pull, force or make things happen for whatever reason, so the alternatives involve getting angry, raging, freaking out or…investigating the being part of ourselves.
Pure gold....
There is a being place in us that is pure gold and holds more gifts than we had ever imagined, but we will need to stand in the quiet place between doing and being so that we are able to receive. If this is not how we normally operate, we will need to discover slowing and quieting, for senses of being come softly and often silently. This is our opening out into the Universe which withholds nothing from us and holds inspiration in its wings. Wisdom, then, would have us become aware of when it is time to use our energies in the vitality of doing and when to settle back into the healing, inspiring folds of being.
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