Both are necessary.
Look at the clock.
Notice the hands moving through time.
Participation without allowing is called force.
Participation coupled with allowing is called process.
And the law of process is beautiful.
Just ask the flowers.
Ashton.Gustafson
Pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. Be love.
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Availability
Wholeness,
flow,
love,
inspiration,
unity,
beauty,
wonder,
awe,
and connection is always available.
Are you available to such things?
Undortunarley, the same can be said for the opposing energy of everthing mentioned above.
We don’t see how things are.
We see things how we are.
Illusion and Reality.
It’s hard to know the difference between illusion and reality in the moment.
The email, the text, the look, the silence, the noise, and the emotion all become personal narrative based on our kaleidoscope of previous narratives that we have lived, experienced, or told ourselves.
Only when we can accept the moment for what it is will we be able to know the moment for what it is.
And to know a moment is to know its possibility.
This is nothing new, right? “Be still, and know….”.
It’s true.
Our stillness is the great predecessor to our knowing.
Developing this sixth sense for knowing the moment is the muscle memory of those that graciously lead us into both our present moments and our tomorrows that are pregnant with beauty.
We can’t midwife beauty for the world until we learn to penetrate illusion and touch reality.
Once you touch it you can know it.
Once you know it you can show it.
And by showing it you’ll be sharing it.
Podcast 63: A Conversation with Sister Joan Chittister
Sister Joan Chittister has beautifully become a conduit for the message of faith, hope, and love for over sixty years. Following the heritage and the order of Saint Benedict, Sister Joan has become one of today’s leading spiritual voices, bringing her energy and fiery spirit to everything she does. It’s through this voice that builds bridges across all religions that Sister Joan joins us at Let The Music Play Podcast as we discuss discovering the presence of the Divine under our very feet and how we can honor and celebrate the humanity of everyone whose path we intersect.
You can stream and download this episode and all other episodes of Let The Music Play Podcast in iTunes or at AshtonGustafson.com.
Normal, Usual, & Mundane.
Start with your breath.
Find a way to see and seize this moment by just the inhale and exhale of each breath.
Nothing special, right?
But what would the next minute be like without that breath?
Now imagine the hour with out it.
Now the day.
Now the year.
Now your life.
Once you can come to know each inhale and exhale as a gift you can then start to see the vast generosity of the world and space you’ve been entrusted.
To center in and with your breath is to become aware…and the degree to which we are cognizant of our being, electricity, and flow within us is the same degree to which we will experience and understand every minute that is being ushered into existence around us.
Notice there isn’t a right way to breathe….there isn’t a left way to breathe either….and there isn’t a female way to breathe…and there isn’t a male way to breathe…there isn’t an old way to breathe…and there isn’t a young way to breathe.
There’s simply breath and breathing.
And once the moment has become still enough for you to see that the universal playing field is level, the only appropriate reflex will be to just start doing things and gifting things so that humanity can play in the universe.
Be.
Do.
Have.
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