The Value of Simply Being

The Value of Simply Being

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by | Apr 30, 2007 | Blog | 0 comments

How can it possibly be the last day of April already?! I committed to myself to make a monthly entry in these blog pages, and…..well….obviously, I’m one of those people who work well with deadlines. Today’s the last day. So here I am.

I will tell you honestly I had to wrestle with a bit of resistance to get my overtired body up from lying on the couch, where I’d been watching the birds circle and land on top of the giant redwood tree in the front yard, and come back into my office and open my laptop. (OK, full transparency, I had to wrestle with a LOT of resistance to get up and make this entry!)

But because I believe there is great value in keeping one’s commitments, I am now tapping away on the keyboard.

And because there is also great value in lying on the couch watching the birds circle at sunset, (which I rarely take time to do) I will now return to that very lack-of-activity, and leave you with these wise words:

Sometimes, on a summer morning, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumacs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller’s wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time.  I grew in those seasons like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the hands would have been.
—–Henry David Thoreau in Walden Pond

Thank-you, Henry, for the reminder that sometimes being can be far more valuable that doing.

Namaste.

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Your efforts to increase compassion and understanding are so needed and so appreciated. This is my third time to see [“Now, I Am Your Neighbor/We Are Neighbors”] Thank you.
Darcy DuRuz, Professor of Music at NWCU