It’s that time of year again. Last March we posted a Spring walk. This week we did our first ramble of 2017.
Nothing difficult, simply a round walk along The River Soar from Barrow to Mountsorrel, up the mound, and back down to The Waterside for an anniversary ale (13 years), and then there’s The Navigation for another on your return (site of our first date).
I have recently been reading, watching and listening to more stuff that reinforces Ezra Bayda’s “What happens when we slow down and pay attention? Everything! Innumerable delights are right at hand.”
It’s coming to the end of Lent and although I have not been able to focus on it this year, a few nuggets have settled in the sands of uncertainty.
I’ve forgotten all I learnt in the desert.
I didn’t, as the guide advised, create notes.
So the soothing mirages we realised have melted.
Yes, nothing held back, nothing held onto.
Nothing, only breath.
And a hope for bird song in the privet.
Your conscious experience (reality) is really just an immediate memory.
Apostle Paul was “reasoning with Jews in the synagogue and Greeks in the marketplace about {stuff}” Acts 17:17
Reason, not abstract concepts.
“the mind, like the feet, works at about 3mph … modern life is moving faster than the speed of thoughtfulness”
“You don’t perceive things as they are, you perceive things as you are…”
“Beauty is the discovery that objects are not objects; love is the discovery that others are not others.“ Rupert Spira
“Perhaps the way we do anything is the way we do everything”
“We humans prefer a managable complexity to an unmanageable simplicity” Fr Bruno Barnhart
“…and I am lucky enough to know that I am in the Midst” Barbara Brown Taylor
…there is a wholeness which lies on the other side of ego, where we can learn to rest assured … to know “for the first time” a “second innocence”… a simplicity that takes us beyond the simplistic. (Brian Draper)
“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
Words; midst, rebuke, becalm
There are some other walks we’ve done here if you’re interested: Walks
Jules P Richards 