Gorgeous post and reminder. A keeper to revisit. "But preference is a terrible spiritual director. It keeps the soul shallow while convincing us we are being honest." I can relate so much to how this instruction relates to emptiness that so many experience right now, and not sacred emptiness, but absence of meaning, connection, and guidance.
I find myself wandering off when folding laundry. Usually multitasking more than fantasizing, though. Traffic jams (until I started workmen remote full time) were often useful for solving coding problems too. ("If I must be here -- and apparently I must -- increasing my carbon footprint, is it not more productive to do this than sit here swearing at people I don't know about something they have no more control over than I do?") At least two intractable problems got resolved this way after spending the entire day (or more) chasing my tail at my desk. I suppose the question is "what did I miss while I was extending my workday?"
The one that got me thoguh was "listening to someone rather than preparing your rebuttal". I'm aware of it when I['m on the other end, the body language gives it away. The shaking head the waving hands, the crossed arms... but turning that around and seeing it in myself can be a challenge. Especially when most of my meetings are via Teams or Zoom. I *do* find that when I can catch myself and stop doing it, I very often learn something I hadn't considered before. I find a lot of that here on Substack as well.
This is so very good.
Great article. The What This Looks In Ordinary Life, made me chuckle. So, true though.
Wise.
Gorgeous post and reminder. A keeper to revisit. "But preference is a terrible spiritual director. It keeps the soul shallow while convincing us we are being honest." I can relate so much to how this instruction relates to emptiness that so many experience right now, and not sacred emptiness, but absence of meaning, connection, and guidance.
I find myself wandering off when folding laundry. Usually multitasking more than fantasizing, though. Traffic jams (until I started workmen remote full time) were often useful for solving coding problems too. ("If I must be here -- and apparently I must -- increasing my carbon footprint, is it not more productive to do this than sit here swearing at people I don't know about something they have no more control over than I do?") At least two intractable problems got resolved this way after spending the entire day (or more) chasing my tail at my desk. I suppose the question is "what did I miss while I was extending my workday?"
The one that got me thoguh was "listening to someone rather than preparing your rebuttal". I'm aware of it when I['m on the other end, the body language gives it away. The shaking head the waving hands, the crossed arms... but turning that around and seeing it in myself can be a challenge. Especially when most of my meetings are via Teams or Zoom. I *do* find that when I can catch myself and stop doing it, I very often learn something I hadn't considered before. I find a lot of that here on Substack as well.
“Being fully here has its own nourishment”
I can feed on that forever