Trust yourself.
Even if you can’t find that piece of you right at this moment, it is there. Advocate for it.
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On Grief:
In time the sea calms,
but the waves still come.
The cliffs behind, rise up and decay into the foam.
Of all the this and thats
that we may be we are nothing much without love.
Standing so close to the shore my feet are soaked.
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
© 2017 Clive Austin
The American Satirist Tom Lehrer had a story about his philosopher friend Hen3ry (He spelt his name with a 3 because he was such an individualist) and the words of wisdom that he shared just before they took him away to the Massachusetts state home for the bewildered.
“Life is like a sewer:” He said.
“What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
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Student accommodation. Northern England. Gas heater on full blast. Mugs of tea. Small plates of toast on every surface.
Crammed into the tiny space were five women and me.
It was my birthday. Somewhere in my mid twenties. The room smelt only the way a room full of young women in their dressing gowns can. We had all been smiling a lot. There were two gifts remaining to be shared.
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There was a point I failed to make in the accompanying video. The point was this:
Would you benefit from getting an income from doing what you love and being financially independent as a result?
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If there is an art to showing up it is in the ‘willingness to show up’ rather than exercising the power of ones will. It is about the willingness to endure rather than forcing ourselves to endure. Relaxing into discomfort that comes with challenge has a different quality to gritting ones teeth.
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“If perfection could be attained, it would not be worth having.”
Japanese Proverb.
It’s not so much about where you start OR where you end up, but how you travel.
If there is any wisdom to be taken away from the above quote it might be drawn out from this principle.
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As well as saying that all relating is relating to life, we can make some provisional distinctions to help refine our focus into specific areas of life – as and where might benefit us. In these articles I have invited you to engage in a more intimate way with the environment you inhabit (The World), other people (Relationships) and today I would like to invite you to relate in a more intimate way with yourself.
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Connection is a deep root that taps the source from which well being is drawn.
Connection to oneself – having a healthy relationship with our experience of life – is essential in this. Also, we do not live in isolation either. For all but the hermits among us, we live in relationship to other people. Dislocation from others when not chosen can lead to much sadness, and even distress.
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How we relate, to ourselves, to the world, and to the people and creatures we share it with, informs how we adapt to life.
The better able we are to adapt to life, the better quality of life we generally end up having. Challenges are met, obstacles are overcome, and opportunities get recognised and taken.
The more our basic needs are met the more we can go about actualising our potential. Remembering that ‘actualising your potential’ could cover anything from creating a business empire, to building a house, to raising a family, to just sitting peacefully in an ancient forest.
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