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eks mal oor hierdie uitdrukking:
You can learn to keep yourself company,
but only by keeping yourself company —
Do you ask “how are you?” and listen
like a deer deciphering a rustling in the leaves?
Do you say “take a walk with me, and let me show you the woods?”
Do you sing yourself a song?
Now you are the one: the one to care for all the whispers inside
the one to listen to all the children,
to take them to see beautiful places and new sights.
That’s you: the woman leading the field trip,
the woman making hot chocolate for all of them,
the woman saying, “now, now, that’s enough.”
If you feel like an incomplete circle, or a wilted form
go home to silence and listen to yourself.
Give your words a hearing.
Shine each pebble and dagger to the light.
Meet each with lilac compassion.
Then feel: as your own sweet song
overtakes your life and blazes
so loud you need an earth
this listening to hold it.
Contentment springs up,
again and again, from the well
where you least expected to discover it.
-Tara Sophia Mohr
picture credit by Jessica Rose
Perhaps like you, I’ve been taught and conditioned to look for results, to see success in my work as something results-oriented. In our current paradigm, that’s how success is measured. Even streams of thought that teach us that success is not based on dollar figures still hold a sense that success is about a certain outcome.
When I read Margaret’s words, “We don’t need it to be any one thing. It is in the way we offer it, that the work transforms us.”, my mind relaxes. I can feel how its been caught up in ‘understanding’ what the ‘one thing’ is that my work must be.
When I read, “It is in the way we offer our work as a gift…”, “It is in the way we offer the work that we find fearlessness.”, I can see my focus has been on the how, on what I am getting done (or not), rather than on the way I offer it and how I hold the work itself.
I sense the how comes out of the offering, the next step comes when I am let go into the love that is there for “those I love, to those I care about, to the issues I care about…”
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