On pain, pleasure, & puking (the ultimate letting go!)
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.” Pema Chödron
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.” Pema Chödron
Updated on Monday, September 2, 2013 at 6:13 PM by Kayce S Hughlett
Adrift – "floating without control". I’ve been called to the sea… beckoned to be adrift… delighted for a glorious time spent with loved ones... floating, sailing, discovering.
Here I sit now in this in-between space between pilgrimage and home… Can I be here now and not there? ‘There’ has followed me home. Doesn't that make it ‘here now’? So sweet. So curious… this dancing between worlds within space and time.
It's hard to believe yesterday morning I awoke in Vienna and today I am tucked safely inside my Seattle home. True, the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, but... I never cease to be amazed at the wonders that unfold when I choose to open my heart and let a foreign land enter my soul.
"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse." Charlotte Bronte from "Jane Eyre"