The Silver Effervescing
in all my reticence and doubt, this is one thing even I haven’t been able to dispute.
This beautiful moment from a novel will make up the bulk of this month’s newsletter:
I stared upwards into that band of torchlight and saw dust caught and falling in exactly the way meteors fall. Each particle of dust left a tail, and seemed to appear from nowhere as a burst of light and then dissolve. I don’t know why it should be that such small things can sometimes take up so much of our attention and imagination, but this dust is one of the sharpest memories I have so far in my life.
I suppose the world is constantly producing things of wonderment, every moment, at every scale, and one time in every million or so our minds will be such that we will be open to seeing it. To see the silver effervescing of that dust was as beautiful a sight as any mountain or waterfall; but then, when I saw it, I was in love and as happy as a human being can be. Of course this helped. The world is heavily changed by the way we perceive it; in all my reticence and doubt, this is one thing even I haven’t been able to dispute.
- Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief
The world is heavily changed by the way we perceive it. I have been trying to say a version of this in every newsletter. This is why I teach meditation. This is why I am alive, in all honesty.
Because, in the depths of darkness, many times over, different wise people taught and re-taught me this with warmth in their hearts.
The world is full of hurt people hurting more people, yes. It is also brimming with people trying to do the more complicated thing: to love, to hold space, to be better than the examples they were given. I feel humbled by all of it today. By how it is in times of fear and pain that kindness becomes absolutely priceless.
Thank you for being here, for being steady with your meditation or curious about it.
Vedic Meditation gave me a say in how I perceive even the most difficult moments; it gave my once-rickety nervous system a loving chance. If you have a practice, I’m here to support you. If you’re curious, please see below for my April offerings back in the Pacific Northwest!
Yours ever in meditation enthusiasm,
Cindy
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