Meditation at 7 today

Calm, Confidence, Compassion, Creativity, Courage, Clarity, Connectedness, Curiousity

Dr Richard Schwartz's 8 C's

an old Irish folk tale. One day a monk was sitting in his cell when he heard the sound of the chapel bell. He said to himself, that is the sweetest sound in all the world, calling me as it does to stillness and depth and time with my Lord. Before he had time to rise and make his way to the chapel, he heard the sound of a blackbird, calling from beyond the cloister wall. He said to himself that is the sweetest sound in the world, calling me as it does to the world and all its majesty and beauty. The story ends there. No one knows which call the monk followed.

THE BELL AND THE BLACKBIRD

The sound
of a bell
still reverberating,
or a blackbird
calling
from a corner
of a
field.
Asking you
to wake
into this life
or inviting you
deeper
to one that waits.
Either way
takes courage,
either way wants you
to be nothing
but that self that
is no self at all,
wants you to walk
to the place
where you find
you already know
how to give
every last thing
away.
The approach
that is also
the meeting itself,
without any
meeting
at all.
That radiance
you have always
carried with you
as you walk
both alone
and completely
accompanied
in friendship
by every corner
of the world
crying
Allelujah.

-David Whyte

It was beautiful ! We watched it last Sunday. Thank you so much for recommending it !

Divertimento is the French film that’s well worth seeing