learning to stay

i'm learning to stay with whatever arises; learning to witness my emotional weather. when fear or shame or sadness arises, i stay. i want to judge or distract, yet i eventually stay. and you know what happens when i stay with the difficult? i also stay with the joyful. i stay with the love and the happiness.

 

and i savor little things, like my backyard wildflowers blooming well into the autumn chill.

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