Thursday, November 19, 2020

Gil Fronsdal on wholeness

When we sit, when we live, and we're mostly in our thoughts, we're not whole. And if we don't engage our mind's capacity for awareness and live mostly in the body and the energies of the body, we're not whole. But bringing mind and body together to be whole and not divided from each other within ourselves is really the wonderful way, wonderful place, for our goodwill to flow, when there's no energy division within us. When we're whole, then there's lots of room for our goodness, for our kindness. Being whole, we discover there's lots of room: lots of room to receive, to experience, to take the world in so there's time for deeper wisdom and kindness to respond. That's not possible if react and are quick and fast; it's not possible if we're divided in ourselves. 

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