I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my … - Roger Housden

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For people in neighborhoods where violence is prevalent, violence becomes a way of dealing and coping with their lives. No matter how wrong it is, violence doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people.

Roger Housden

I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

Breathing, Driving, Fall, Hands, Time, Timeless

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When we fall utterly, something gathers us up. But our falling must be without reservation, without expectation, without hope, though not hopeless. You cant plan that kind of falling. When you abandon yourself utterly to life, the river will flow, and the log jam will free. Impossible is another word for grace. Who wouldve thought it, life takes another turn, and you are gathered up into a whole different way of seeing and being.

Expectations, Fall, Falling, Plan, Rivers, Takes

Time, for example, is intimately connected with the goddess Kali, which partly accounts for her destructive nature. Energy - in Einstein's equation, E=MC2 - is personified in India as Shakti in her various guises.

Connected, Destructive, Energy, Example, India, Nature

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.

Heart, Lived, Lose, Sight, Years

Day by day, tiny specks of us float away.

Day, Float, Floats, Specks, Tiny

To keep faith with life is to experience that everything- everything that comes to us whatever it is- has its place in the puzzle of our existence.

Existence, Experience, Faith, Keep The Faith, Life, Life Is