Listen to disruptions.
Celebrate small successes.
Exchange words in your vernacular like working, building, and producing with crafting, cooking, writing, gardening, or painting. The results will taste better.
Hold your truth with humility.
Embrace paradox.
Spy for beauty and then tell us when and where you found it.
Obey your body.
Center yourself often in gratitude.
Keep learning and sharing what you’re learning.
Enjoy.
Solidarity > Solutions.
The power we all possess is universal.
This power is gentle, wide, and unlike most things we’ve been schooled into thinking and knowing as powerful.
It isn’t so much about your work as it is about your awakening.
It is well learned in the roots and layers of things.
It knows that a lot of instruments, timing, and tuning must take place for the music to happen.
And then there’s force.
Force isn’t our friend, even though it will do everything it can to make us think so.
Force knows nothing of possibility.
Force can’t imagine a place of paradox to be true.
Force wins the match of the day but loses at the game of life.
Force is the opposite of flow.
But power…
Power loves the process of all things.
Power pursues compassion.
Power includes, transcends, enlarges, and enlivens everything it touches.
Power knows the possibility that is packed into the unity that comes with both individual the and the collective whole.
Power is married to patience.
Power is vulnerable.
And your practice with this power that you behold is the gateway to unlimited joy and open-handed ease with your days.
Smile.
You just flexed the most powerful muscle you have…your soul.
…is a Japanese concept that essentially underlines the grace and beauty of things that one would typically consider asymmetrical, incomplete, or imperfect.
Wikipedia notes, “Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes.”
What a great word to waltz with for the next seven days.
When we’re off the hook of perfection, we can then be held and hold the rest of the world with a hope that rests outside the lines of superficiality, perfection, and the status-quo.
Say it with me…wabi-sabi.
Better yet…see it with me.
Sending grace and peace your way today.
Ashton
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