On the ninth of each month we have been called to hold space in our communities on life, death and transformation by ObservetheNinth.org. Today’s vigil will hold space for love and compassion for all of humankind and for the planet itself. May it bring you peace and comfort.
Welcome to this weekly bonus series of brief stories designed to touch your heart and offer you comfort, joy, laughter, and inspiration as we face uncertain times together! Remember always to choose LOVE over fear!
Featured Verse from The Tao of Death by Karen Wyatt
Verse 25
There is something greater than all the laws of Nature –
greater even than the Universe itself.
It exists outside of time,
perfect in its serenity, emptiness and wholeness.
It will never change and never die.
It is the source of all creation and all creativity.
We have no name for this infinite source and so we call it
The Way of Death.
The Way of Death exists within all things,
gives Life to all things, and
returns everything back to the original source.
The ancients say that there are four great powers in existence:
the Creative Force,
the Universe,
the Earth,
and Humankind.
Humankind must yield to the laws of the Earth.
The Earth must yield to the laws of the Universe.
The Universe must yield to the laws of the Creative Force.
The Creative Force operates through the Way of Death.
Welcome to this weekly bonus series of brief stories designed to touch your heart and offer you comfort, joy, laughter, and inspiration as we face uncertain times together! Remember always to choose LOVE over fear!
Featured Verse:
by Rainer Maria Rilke
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
In this 4-part series of solo episodes I’m sharing wisdom about the intertwining of life and death in a perfect dance that spirals throughout eternity. Today I talk about rhythm, which is an essential element of any dance. Learn how the rhythm of nature and the universe includes both stillness and motion, waiting and movement, and how we can find peace and hope by surrendering to this rhythm as it unfolds in the moment. These thoughts are derived from my book: What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying.
I hope you can join me in New York City at the Open Center for this event and my workshop on September 6th and 7th!!
This episode includes:
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
-Bruce Barton
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