Spiritual Organic 34
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By Mark Golding
Published on 03/18/2010
Amidst the sandstorm that is life - Can you hold just one grain of sand?
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Standing, sitting, being... What is
our experience? From within arises a desire for calm order, that can
seem at odds with events that happen within our lives, and the
turbulence of life, the events, experiences and effects, can gather,
storm like, at a moments notice.
I know this feeling of being overwhelmed by circumstance, when troubles, difficulties and trials arrive in their hordes, and life can feel like standing at the centre of a vast sandstorm, where each grain, in its chaotic arrival, brings a sting, a painful distraction, and a yearning for stillness, ease and peace.
But they cannot be avoided or brushed aside, as instantly they are replaced by the next ferocious attack, offering no peace, no rest... The storm is too great, too powerful, things are out of our control.
This is the time to stop resisting and fighting the storm, and draw our attention inwards, and gain an insight into one single grain within, reducing our task of failing to control 100,000 grains of sand, to that of holding just one, invisibly and internally, still.
And from this point of inner silence and stillness the effect of the storm shall subside, for all we need to do is hold one part, one grain, and be aware of our ability to to so, and the real possibility of creating an abatement to the storm may arise.
Simply by holding one grain of sand in a sandstorm, and be very aware and certain of your capacity to do so. I think I can do that, and I think you can too.
Written and published by Mark Golding - Spiritual Organic - The Organic Home
I know this feeling of being overwhelmed by circumstance, when troubles, difficulties and trials arrive in their hordes, and life can feel like standing at the centre of a vast sandstorm, where each grain, in its chaotic arrival, brings a sting, a painful distraction, and a yearning for stillness, ease and peace.
But they cannot be avoided or brushed aside, as instantly they are replaced by the next ferocious attack, offering no peace, no rest... The storm is too great, too powerful, things are out of our control.
This is the time to stop resisting and fighting the storm, and draw our attention inwards, and gain an insight into one single grain within, reducing our task of failing to control 100,000 grains of sand, to that of holding just one, invisibly and internally, still.
And from this point of inner silence and stillness the effect of the storm shall subside, for all we need to do is hold one part, one grain, and be aware of our ability to to so, and the real possibility of creating an abatement to the storm may arise.
Simply by holding one grain of sand in a sandstorm, and be very aware and certain of your capacity to do so. I think I can do that, and I think you can too.
Written and published by Mark Golding - Spiritual Organic - The Organic Home